Kids Vote

All students had a chance to cast their vote today during their social studies class.  They voted for President, U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress, Govenor, Lt. Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, State Senate, State Representative and Proposition B. 

 

Our Visitors from Bogor

Students and chaperones from our sister school in Bogor, Indonesia visited Truman Middle School today.  The students performed some native dances for some of our students.  They then shadowed our students to experience what our school day is like.

 Gifts were exchanged between the 2 principals.

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Red Ribbon Week~Wear Facial Hair

Scholastic Book Fair

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The Truman Scholastic Book Fair runs from Monday - Friday, 10/29 - 11/2 during school hours and 10 minutes after school. It is also open during both nights of parent conferences 5-8:30 p.m. If a student brings their parents to the book fair during parent conferences, they may enter a drawing for a free gift certificate to the book fair, to be drawn the following morning. We also have an online fair that runs through 11/10/12 located at: 
http://bookfairs.scholastic.com/homepage/trumanms.

When you order online, you can get free delivery to Truman and there are different books than at the in-school fair.  Check us out!

Red Ribbon Week~Keep a Cap on Drugs

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Taylor Swift Live Web Cast

Truman's Team 6 Green recently watched a webcast of Taylor Swift discussing her love of reading and writing while answering questions from Trey Morgan and numerous middle school students.  She shared "where reading can take you" and how great literature has inspired her writing.  In fact, Taylor discussed her first novel written when she was 12.  Taylor, who writes all of her own songs, has career record sales in excess of 22 million albums and 50 million song downloads.  She also sang her song "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” which created quite a sing along prompted by her. 

You can watch the taped version here.

Red Ribbon Week~Tacky Day

Flyers (Truman and Sperreng) Cross Country

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It was a beautiful afternoon for a cross country meet.  Jr, Flyers met at Jefferson Barracks Park for the meet which consisted of 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students from Truman and Sperreng competing against other local schools.

Red Ribbon Week~Wear Red

Flight Crew Mentors 6th Graders

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Flight Crew members met with the 6th graders today to check in to see how things are going for them so far this year.  Each mentor is assigned a group of 6th graders who they will keep track of throughout the year.  The mentors job is the be available for their 6th grade group if ththe students that they have any questions or need help with something at school.  It is modeled after the Link Crew program at the high school.  It is great for the Flight Crew members to be role models and great for the students to have someone to look up to and count on. 

1 vs 100 Social Studies Style

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6th graders played 1 vs 10 during their social studies class.  The gold team played against the green team each hour.  It was a fun way to show what they knew. 

Builders Club ~ Truckload of Warmth

Builders Club helped their sister group, the Kennerly K-Kids with a "Truckload of Warmth" drive.  They collected warm, winter clothing for military families in need.  Builders Club memebers collected 68 clothing items.

German Club's October Meeting

For the October meeting, German Club ate Gus' pretzels and drank a German soda called Mezzo Mix.  The students voted on the German T-shirt design.  The winner is a tie-dyed T-shirt with the colors of the German Flag.  Next the students created a giant German Flag in the hallway and decorated it with pictures and information about Germany.

Next month's meeting the students will be making German tutus and drinking iced mochas from Wired Coffee.

Happy 90th Birthday Ruth Shelton!

October 17th was a special day at Truman.  Ruth Shelton, who works in the cafeteria turned 90!  Ruth has worked for the district for over 34 years.  She lives on her own and still drives herself around town. 

 Ruth is a big Cardinals fan.

  Her daughters Suzanne and Debbie were on hand to help celebrate her special day at work. She also has a son, Rick.

 When Mr.Straatmann announced it was Ruth's 90th birthday the 6th graders cheered and sang Happy Birthday.