Friday February 13, 2015

Edition 11

THE TITAN TELL-ALL

Congratulations Mrs.

Helm!!

TSMS Teacher of the Year

14-15

Welcome to TSMS Ms.

AP Secretary

The Socs and Greasers are

ready to kick off The Outsiders!

CURRENT HAPPENINGS

Counselor Appreciation Week! Thank you Mrs. Johnson, Ms. Henson, Mrs. Whitmore, Mrs. Barr, and Mrs. Hosek!!

We our TSMS PTA!!

CURRENT HAPPENINGS

Titan Showcase night

Parents of incoming 7th and 8th graders were excited to meet teachers and get more information!

CURRENT HAPPENINGS BASKETBALL PEP RALLY

GO TITAN

BASKETBAL

L!

Coach Flood wins knockout! Cooper makes a

basket!

SHOWCASE CLASSROOMS

Students in Mrs. Winkley’s class learn the amendments by signing them to the tune of “The 12 Days of Christmas”

In the same class, students match nouns to verbs in their “ 2 Word Book” of vocabulary. Talk about Cross-Curricular!

SHOWCASE CLASSROOMS

Check out Mrs. Duermeyer’s T3 STAAR tutorial class! Students rotate through 7 different interactive review games and check them off in their data folder along the way!

SHOWCASE CLASSROOMS

7th grade ELA students write scripts and then record commercials using IMovie to demonstrate their understanding of persuasion.

SHOWCASE CLASSROOMSTECHNOLOGY

Mrs. Vaughn and Coach Cooperman take their classes outside to measure and draw the length of the small and large intestine. WOW! What a powerful visual!

SHOWCASE CLASSROOMS

Check out Ms. Drechsler’s “POOP” lab in chronological order! Totally disgusting but a great way to learn about digestion!

SHOWCASE CLASSROOMS

7th graders in Mrs. Jone’s math class collaborate to make predictions and justify their answers. Check out all of that hard work on the wipe-off desks!

SHOWCASE CLASSROOMS

What a cool experience Mrs. Kamenicky provided for her 8th grade ELA students. Candle light + Russian music + authentic Russian Soup = one cool setting for a Russian short story read-aloud.

Borsch soup provided and served by volunteers. Reminds me of Kim Bearden!

QUALITY TOOL OF THE MONTH

Have you tried one this month?

Need an idea or help? Let a CIT member

know!

February: Bone Diagram

Thanks to all who attended training today! Next month’s workshop will be on March 20th!!

A MATH AND SCIENCE TEACHERS VALENTINE:

Keep up the awesome instruction, and have a great weekend!