Students enjoying the trip

included Conner Cheney,

Trevor Wilson, Zaine Bailey,

Shyann Shipman, Jessie

Wooten, Mekayla McCauley,

Mackenzie Smith, Kassidy

Battaglia, James Shuler,

Alyssa Larson, Callie Cardin,

Celecia Price, Brianna Jordan,

Tana Lee Offill, Ethan Wolfe,

Charli Florence-Clark, and

Haden Heath.

For their first field trip of the

school year, 18 McLoud G-T

sixth graders participated in a

very enjoyable and informa-

tional visit to Channel 9. The

group got an up-close look at

the Bob Mills Channel 9 Heli-

copter and its pilot Jim Gard-

ner, who demonstrated all the

weather equipment aboard.

Total value of the helicopter

is $3 million.

The group toured the news

room, sales division, make-up

and finance offices before

arriving at the highlight of the

trip: the broadcast studio.

After seeing Alex Cameron

and Mike Armstrong go

through make-up, their Tele-

prompters and camera angles,

the show went live.

At the conclusion of the

show, the McLoud group was

live on Channel 9 and then

had their picture made with

Alex and Mike.

An added bonus was an

impromptu visit with David

Payne, who arrived for work

just as the McLoud group was

leaving. He stopped and

posed for pictures with some

of the group.

My name is Shelly (Thomas) Den-

nis, and I am thrilled to have the

opportunity to teach in the town

that I grew up in. I am a 1989

graduate of McLoud High School,

a NSY graduate, and an ECU

graduate. Previously coming to

McLoud, I was employed at

Okemah Middle School. Most of

my 15 years there were served

as the school counselor. My

greatest joy comes from two

amazing daughters, Raegan who

is 7 and Jordyn who is 6. Both of

them attend McLoud Elementary

as well. It feels nice for the three

of us to “be home.”

6th Grade GT Students Visit Channel 9

New Teacher Profile / Ms. Dennis

M C L O U D

I N T E R M E D I A T E

Intermediate News S E P T E M B E R 2 3 , 2 0 1 3 V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 1

Parent Confer-

ence from 3:00

to 7:00 on

Sept. 24th, and

Sept. 26th

Basketball will

be having a

Meet the

Coach Meeting

in the Elemen-

tary gym be-

ginning at 6:00

on Sept. 24th

Honor choir

will meet every

Monday from

3:00 to 4:00 at

the Multi Me-

dia Center

1st nine weeks

ends on Oct.

11th

Report Cards

go out on Oct.

21st

October 15th,

16th, 17th and

18th No

School—Fall

Break

We are taking

yearbook

Orders for

$20.00. Order

forms can be

picked up in

the office.

Homecom-

ming parade

will be October

11th at 2:00.

Fall Festival

will be held on

October 25th.

It will be from

5:30 to 7:30

Harvest Class

Parties will be

held on Oct.

31st at 2:00.

P A G E 2

Mrs. Marsh & Mrs. Perry Pod

Ms. Dennis & Mrs. Campbell Pod What a busy year we had so

far! Our classes have been

busy learning their Math Facts

and Decimal Usage in Math.

Science has been exciting as

well. We have been learning

about how we interact with

our ecosystem. In Social Stud-

ies, we learned all about the

European Settlements. We

studied and wrote about the

colonization of Jamestown,

the first permanent English

settlement in America. We

have been practicing our

“Friendly Letter” skills and

sentence development in Eng-

lish. The students have been

hard at work reading and try-

ing to reach their A.R.

(accelerated reader) and A.M.

(accelerated math) goals. The

students that met their A.R.

goals for the first six weeks,

were awarded an Ice Cream

party. It was a blast. Mr.

White said he really enjoyed

serving and eating ice cream

with the kids.

Picture day went off very

smoothly. The kids were all

dressed very nicely and ready

to strike a pose for the cam-

era.

We have all of our proce-

dures and drills down and have

settled into our routine. We

are looking forward to another

exciting month to come.

Joke of the Month

Q: How do you make

seven an even num-

ber?

A: Easy, just leave the

“s” out of it.

yard and miles, with a look at time and

weight. We are starting to classify the end of

September, and I am excited about some of

the upcoming lessons.

Spelling has us moving, especially

our hands, while refreshing our spelling

skills. We are looking forward to seeing you

at parent conferences.

In Social Studies, we started out

learning about the American landscape and

its resources. Now we are moving on to

learn about America’s colonial times.

It is great to have Mrs. Smiley back

at the Intermediate. She was truly missed

last year. This year, we have paired Mrs.

Smiley with another veteran teacher in Ms.

Anderson.

In math, we are busy refreshing our

math facts in addition, subtraction, multipli-

cation, and division, expanding our place

value skills and moving towards longer divi-

sion problems.

In science, we have been looking at

converting our measurements with ounces,

cups, pints, quarts and gallons, inches, feet,

Jamestown

Colony

Ms. Anderson & Mrs. Smiley Pod

In Language Arts, we started

out writing friendly letters to

our last year’s teacher and our

new principal, Mr. White,

while learning about subjects

and verbs. In Reading, we

began with the awesome book

Frindle, which we all enjoyed.

We are now beginning a new

book called Blood on the

River, which is all about the

settling of Jamestown.

The first nine weeks is almost over! It's gone by quickly. Our students have been making a fantastic effort to be at school every day; let's keep that momentum going! Mrs. Perry hit the road running; in Math she has reviewed place value, estimation, and order of operations. She is ready to dive into division. She’s been keepin it real in Science: last week the students candled an egg, broke it open, analyzed the different parts of the inside and learned how a chicken breathes inside it. The students are almost done reading Blood on the River in Mrs. Marsh’s class. They have been learning all about Jamestown and will be enjoying Pea’s Porridge this Friday to help bring the unit to an end. Next month we will be moving on to Colonial America. Reminder: Students continue to stay on track and are working hard at their jobs in the classroom. They are paying bills and keeping up with their check registers. We are very proud of our group! Earn that Marsh Money to figure out those Perry Finances!!!

Olds/ Kleckner/ Sanders Pod

P A G E 3 V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 1

The 2013 / 2014 school year is off

to a wonderful start. The students

in our pod have finished reading the

exciting novel, The Lightning Thief.

In Science, we have completed the

“process skills” and are excited to

begin classifying animals.

Social Studies kept us busy mapping

North America. Next week ,we

will begin looking at Common Core

Concepts for Social Studies.

In Math, we have finished the con-

cepts of order operation and multi-

plication/ division of decimals. We

have taken mastery tests over these

concepts. The students have done

fantastic. The students will need to

pass 19 tests to qualify for Mazzios

at the end of the year. Timed tests

for multiplication are currently

being taken; students are rewarded

a coke when they pass.

Please check the online gradebook

to keep track of your child’s pro-

gress. We want your student to be

at school every day unless they are

sick. Attendance is so important;

your child misses so much if they

are not in school.

Our Activities Teachers are:

P.E. Ms. Cardin and Mr. Anderson

Music Mr. Long

Art Mr. Radcliff

Band Mr. Harp and Mr. Batty

Guidance Mrs. Epperly

Library Mrs. Buzzard

G.T. Mr. Martin

After lunch, our Intermediate stu-

dents get to enjoy a break from the

school day by visiting one of the

exciting activities classes offered at

our school. The students will get

to attend classes ranging from P.E.,

Art, Music, Computers, Library,

Guidance, Basketball, and G.T. We

even offer Band for our sixth grade

students.

Computers Mrs. Weese

Basketball Mr. Christy

class, we are hard at work! Eighteen of our stu-dents have already passed their first mastery test work-ing towards going to Mazzios in the Spring. Mrs. Voyles is excited about our new Social Stud-ies/Geography books. We are learning a lot of new and interesting facts about the

world we live in. Reminder, please keep up with your child’s assign-ments and grades with our online grade book. Also, remember that any assign-ment below a 70% can be corrected and turned back in for a better grade!

We are off and going! We are looking forward to seeing parents at parent/teacher conferences this week. In Mrs. Pendley's Lan-guage Arts class, we are close to finishing up Holes by Louis Sachar. Soon, we will be able to watch the movie to compare the two. In Mrs. Fixico's Math

Voyles / Fixico /Pendley Pod

“Activities”

Mr. Anderson Joke

of the Month !

Mr. Anderson is so tough, he

can slam a revolving door!

Giraffes were invented when

Mr. Anderson uppercutted a

horse .

they could not afford to buy their

own. The school was able to pur-

chase a team set of singlets for the

wrestlers to wear, but they could

only afford three sets of head gear.

The boys would have to share.

As the season went on, the coach

began to notice that all of the boys

had their own head gear. He noticed

that they were all different colors.

The coach regretfully asked one of

the boys where they had gotten their

head gear. The boy just smiled and

said, “You don’t really want to know

coach”. Coach thought he would

leave well enough alone. Later on in

the season, one of the wrestlers

overheard coach telling a friend, while

they were wrestling at a tournament

across town, that he wished they had

their own mats so they would be able

to host home duels. The mat they

were using to practice on was unfit to

hold a match on. The wrestler went

up to coach, with all sincerity, and

said, “Coach, if you can manage to get

the lights turned off in the gym for

about 15 minutes, I think we can get

I would like to start this article out

by telling everyone how excited I am

to be serving as the educational

leader of the McLoud Intermediate

Campus. I have been blessed with a

great bunch of teachers and staff to

work with.

A little about myself: I am a former

wrestling coach of 15 years. I was

the McLoud High School Wrestling

Coach from 2006 to 2012. I spent

last year as the high school principal

at Macomb High School. I returned

home this year to be the principal at

the Intermediate campus, as well as

the district transportation director.

When I think of starting new some-

where, I am reminded of a story a

buddy of mine once told me. He was

just starting a brand new wrestling

program at an inner city school. The

school was very poor and had very

few resources to start the program.

The team practiced on an old used

hand-me-down mat that was donated

to them from another school. Most

kids shared wrestling shoes, because

you that mat”.

Coach just smiled and said, “That’s

OK, we will manage”.

I am glad to say that I am not having

to start new, such as my friend once

was. We are blessed to have a great

school board and a very supportive

Superintendant here at McLoud. The

safety and education of our children is

of our highest concerns. When we

needed books so that every student

could have their own resource to

take home, the school board and

superintendant made sure we had

them. We have been updating our

school with I-Pads, Apple TV’s, and

projectors, so that we can keep up

with the Jones’s of the world. I have

not had to turn off the lights in order

to get anything, yet. Once again,

thanks for allowing me to serve as

principal of McLoud Intermediate.

Darren White

McLoud Intermediate Principal

“New Beginnings” by Mr. White

5th Grade SONIC

Students of the Month

6th Grade SONIC

Students of the Month

Top Row: Emma Fulghum, Sierra Givins,

Victoria Sanders

Bottom Row:Alexandria Jackson, Kayla

Denton, Hunter Winn

Top Row: Averi Hudlow, Lexie Wil-

son, Makyna Higdon

Bottom Row: Megan Plumley, Zane

Walker, Jenna Bacon