CMS students who sold ten or more Tiger Discount Cards enjoyed a picnic lunch and an afternoon at Hurricane Shoals Park today. Our students sold a total of 1670 cards this year - the most cards that CMS has ever sold! Thank you to each of our students and parents for your support of our annual fundraiser.
CMS Beta Club members treated our CCSS bus drivers to a sweet treat during afternoon busy duty on Thursday. Thank you to all of our bus drivers for getting our students to and from school safely each day. We appreciate you!
Coach Puckett’s classes have been learning about cattle trails in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. To wrap up the unit, his students did research and included it on their own cattle trails made out of index cards and yarn.
Thank you to The Howard Center for Women's Health for providing CMS faculty with a delicious lunch today! Congratulations to the winner of the purse drawing, Mrs. Akers!
Great day in the Learning Commons! 5th Grade created a book cover about a movie using Canva, Stream Team did Maker Spaces and other grade levels checked out books!
Mrs. Cruz and Mr. Cotrell’s class went on a field trip today to Washington Farms for their agriculture unit! Great start to fall! 🍂🎃
Commerce First United Methodist Church is excited to be hosting the Annual Thanksgiving Meal. First Baptist Church of Commerce, Commerce Presbyterian Church and many other community partners have once again joined with them to provide Thanksgiving meals to the community. The meal will include a variety of store bought items as well as a gift card to Quality Foods. If you have any questions please call CFUMC office @ (706) 340-8611 or CMS @ (706) 335-5594. The meals can be delivered or will be available for pickup the week of Nov. 15-17 at your student’s school. You will need to return the form to CMS by Monday, November 6th. Use this link to find the form: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p_QfkN4xN-jzvGtIkfOmUjEwJdc3P9IU/view?usp=sharing
Wes Massey was named Commerce City Schools System Teacher of the Year during last nights BOE meeting. Congratulations Wes!!
Parents & Guardians--Please take a few moments to complete the annual Georgia Parent Survey. All parents and guardians are encouraged to participate in the survey. The data will be used to calculate the School Climate Star Rating. Responses are anonymous and will be submitted directly to the Georgia Department of Education for analysis.
The survey window will close November 9, 2023. We sincerely appreciate your cooperation.
Survey Link: http://gshs.gadoe.org/parents
Attention Parents: Please use your turn signals. On Lakeview from CHS to CPS, please use your right turn signal to indicate you are going to CES. On Lakeview from CES to CPS, please use your turn signal to indicate if you need to travel toward CPS (right) or CHS (left). Thanks for your help.
Congratulations to the members of this year's CMS boys basketball team!
Join us for the Tiger Town Smackdown wrestling event in the CHS GYM @ 7pm this Saturday, October 14!
Congratulations to the members of this year's CMS girls basketball team!
There are only a few days left to participate in the Field of Flags at CMS! Purchase your flag in honor of a Veteran before it is too late.
All donations will support Disabled American Veterans (DAV) life changing services for veterans in need.
If you would like to "Fly a Flag" for Veteran's Day you can donate at the link below. Each flag is $10 and you can sponsor as many as you wish.
https://support.dav.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.personalCampaign&participantID=14213
Red Ribbon Week will be the week of 10/23-1027! Students are encouraged to participate in dressing up to celebrate this year's theme, "Be Kind to Your Mind. Live Drug Free.."
We will have two Solar Eclipses this school year!. The first is this Saturday, October 14th - only a partial eclipse here in Georgia in the early afternoon. Any student or adult purchasing a meal this Friday October 13th receives a free approved eclipse-viewing pair of glasses. We will repeat this on Monday April 8th for a much more complete eclipse experience here in Georgia (65-75% coverage of the sun) just after lunch here in Commerce. Again, anyone purchasing a lunch on that Monday will receive a free pair of eclipse-viewing glasses. Those wishing to purchase a pair may do so for $1. Happy and safe viewing from Commerce School Nutrition.
CMS FCA will meet this Friday, October 13th at 7:20 am in the CMS gym. There will be a guest speaker and breakfast will be provided.
CMS 8th grade parents,
For the 1st time ever, you have an opportunity to celebrate your 8th grader with a special yearbook ad this year! The last day to order your yearbook ad is November 1st.
Follow this link to order:
https://www.jostens.com/apps/store/ybAdDesigner/1040124/-/2023072413153162767/CATALOG_SHOP/
Wednesday, October 11th is the deadline to turn in picture money and unwanted pictures. Please have your students turn in these items to their homeroom teachers no later than Wednesday of this week.
Congratulations to our 2023-2024 Teachers of the Year.
https://www.commercecityschools.org/page/teachers-of-the-year
