6th Grade Bill Signing

Sixth grade social studies students studied how our government works.  They created bills and 3 were signed into Truman law on December 17, 2013.  Our "President" Straatmann signed the bills during a ceremony held in Mrs. Hake's classroom.  

The bills signed were:
 #JC45 Music in Class
#SB12 The Gum Act
#JC532 TSA Approved Backpacks

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Truman Artwork

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Rollerskating

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6th Grade Frog Dissection

6th grade students dissected frogs in their science classes on December 10th.  Take a look at the process!

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Interact Club Sponsors Can Good Drive

Truman and Sperreng are holding a friendly competition to see who can collect the most canned goods.  Truman students were given an additional incentive to bring in non-perishable goods by allowing anyone who brought in an item to wear a hat throughout the day.  All items collected will benefit local families in need.

Truman App

 A student in Ms. Avery's digital literacy class made an app for Truman.  Here is a link to it.  Truman Middle School Project

Mrs. Pulliam & Mr. Jansen's Flyer Time

Mrs. Pulliam and Mr. Jansen's Flyer Time class sold hot chocolate before school on Nov. 5 to raise funds for area people in need.  They are planning on selling more before school on Nov. 7 as well.  The cost of the hot chocolate is 50¢ for plain or $1.00 with marshmallows and/or whipped cream.

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Trend's Red Ribbon Week~Thursday, Dress Up

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Trend's Red Ribbon Week~Wednesday, Hugs Not Drugs

Wednesday's Red Ribbon theme was "Hugs Not Drugs."  Students were encouraged to bring a stuffed animal to hug.  

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Trend's Red Ribbon Week~Tuesday, Red Day

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Trend's Red Ribbon Week~Monday, Put Drugs to Bed

This week Trend is sponsoring Red Ribbon Week.  Monday students decided to put drugs to bed by wearing their pajamas to school. 

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Thank You!

Thank you to MCPTO for providing the Truman staff with a delicious breakfast.  Everyone really appreciates all MCPTO does for our school.

French Class

French students in Madame Denney's class enjoy a 'pain au chocolat' while recreating the masterpieces of the Post-Impressionist Vincent Van Gogh.   All work will be on display in the hallway for Student Led Conferences.  C'est magnifique, n'est-ce pas?

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Truman Ranked #1

Truman Middle School scores ranked first in English-language arts, math and student achievement among Missouri’s traditional public middle schools.   So to celebrate, students and staff members were treated to ice cream from Culver's during their lunch periods.

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Oktoberfest

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Spirit Week~Formal Day

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Spirit Week~"ER" Day

Today was "er" day.  We had bakers, hunters, gangsters, teachers, dancers, police officers.  There were soccer players, football players, baseball players, catchers, drummers, table wipers, sweepers, cleaners, one Harlem Globetrotter, sleepers, a Christopher or two. We had 6th graders, kids with swaggers, runners dancers, and cheerleaders. 

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Environmental Club

Mr. Fee and his Environmental Club picked up trash along the school property.  The group walked up Eddie and Park and ended up down the street at Jimmy Johns for an after school treat.

Cross Country

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Spirit Week~Twin Day

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Spirit Week~Super Hero Day

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Spirit Week~Mismatch Day

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Come to Truman's Scholastic Book Fair

Scholastic Book Fair

Wed. 10/23-Wed. 10/30

Open during school hours & lunches 

7:30am-2:50pm

Open both nights of Parent Conferences

Wed. 10/23 and Tues. 10/29

All students that bring their parents to the book fair will be entered into a drawing for a free $10.00 gift certificate.  

You can also order online:

bookfairs.scholastic.com/homepage/trumanmiddleschool2

Truman Rallies for the Cardinals

Post season playoff attire~

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Magazine Top Sellers Party

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Telling Time in German

Students learn in a variety of ways.  They can search the web, read books, do experiments and have hands on learning.  Or in the case of Frau Jacob's German class they can learn by acting it out.  Here the students have become the hour and minute hands of a clock.  Frau Jacob called out a time in German and the students positioned themselves as if they were the hands on the clock. 

Can you tell what time it is?

 

                                                                                                                                                                         

Talented Artists in Mrs. Heine's Classes

The first project Mrs. Heine's art students work on is their porfolio folder.  Here are a few of the portfolios they have created.

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Flyer Time Activities

Flyer Time classes do multiple activities to incorporate the character traits in their daily lives.  

Students write letters to veterans, raise money for local charities, make bumper stickers about respect, play team building games as well as many other character building activities.

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Where's my Chair?

Ms. Frank's math classes have turned in their chairs and are using balls in their place.  She read that using the balls as chairs helped students stay focused.  It also helps students use energy (to stay on the ball) and posture.  So she got funding through DonorsChoose.org and received enough to purchase a set of stability balls for her class. I asked students how they liked the new "furniture" and they all said they really liked the balls.  One student said it helped her stay focused on her work.  

Cheerleaders

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8th Grade Football

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7th Grade Football

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6th Grade Football

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Kickball

Mrs. Hake and Ms. Frank are the sponsors of intramural sports at Truman. Kickball is being played now and students seem to enjoy themselves. The games are played like neighborhood games have been played in the past. There are no referees, instead if there is a close call they do "rock, paper, scissors" to decide if they are safe or out.

 

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6th Graders

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Truman Cares

Truman raised over $2000 for the Gapsch family.  Students who donated at least $1.00 were able to wear a hat for the day.  The Gapsch family lost 3 members of their family in a house fire.  Mia Gapsch, a student at Sperreng was the only one to survive the fire.  More fundraisers are being planned throughout the district.

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Mrs. Thomas

Mrs. Thomas was the recipient of the 2013 Herff Jones "Teacher Shout Out" Award. On Monday she was awarded her Teacher Shout Out award.  In addition, Truman Middle School benefited by receiving a matching check to use at our school which was awarded to principal Tara Sparks.

Welcome Back~First Day of School 13-14

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Congratulations Mrs. Thomas

Mrs. Thomas is the recipient of the 2013 Herff Jones "Teacher Shout Out" Award. 
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Just another example of someone in the Lindbergh Community "flying right."

Last Day Field Day

The last day of school was an example of what Flyer Time classes were all about.  Students spent the day as a whole community in special events set up by the school's character culture club.

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At the end of the day everyone met in the gym for a pep rally type event.  Dr. Sparks, Mr. Straatmann and Mrs. Pulliam gave an example of a spirit cheer.

Flyer Time classes spent the day in groups of 4 classes each.  At the end of the day they were told to break up into their individual classes and come up with a spirit cheer.  They had 10 minutes to create and practice their cheer and then gave a demonstration to their small group.  The winner of each small group performed for the student body and then 1 was selected as the winner for the Truman #1 Finger Award. 

Mrs. Nussbaum's class was the winning group.  They invited the rest of their larger group to perform with them. That is what the whole community school idea is all about.

HAVE A FUN, SAFE SUMMER!

SEE YOU IN AUGUST!

Ms. Frank's Math Class

Ms. Frank's 6th grade class spent some time outside doing some math equations. 

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Truman Welcomes 5th Graders

5th graders that will be attending Truman next school year were welcomed today by different Truman groups.  Students got a chance to visit classrooms for information on what goes on at Truman. 

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8 Gold's Science Fair Ribbon Winners

Truman was well represented at the Greater Monsanto Science Fair on May 2, 2013.  Team 8 Gold had students that won blue, red and green ribbons for their projects. 

Blue Ribbons:  Ruy Gonzalez, Kaitlyn Hoevelmann and Casey Natsch

Red Ribbons: Nate Blackwell, Anna Nickel and Cameron Spence

Green Ribbon: Nick Burns

 One of our Blue Ribbon winners and 2 of our Red Ribbon winners.

 

Blue Ribbon Winners at the Greater Monsanto Science Fair

Team 8 Green's Challenge Class had three projects entered in the Greater Monsanto Science Fair.  The judging was on May 2, 2013.  All 3 students won blue ribbons!

The winners and their projects are:

Amanda Meyer- "Musical Math Testing"
Alyssa (Aly) Vancardo- "Can One Differentiate Brands of Chocolate by Taste?"
Nathan Collins- "Falling For Faraday" which also won a special award from the American Industrial Hygiene Association.

7th Grade Egg Drop

What happens when you drop an egg from a 3rd floor window?  That's was Mrs. Nussbaum's and Mr. Fee's 7th grade classes learned as they were studying Newton's Laws of motion.  

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Task: Construct a capsule to protect an egg being dropped from a 3^rd floor window (approximately 9 meters)

Parameters:

*     Must fit in a milk crate

*      Must weigh at least 600 grams (1.3 pounds)

*      No parachute, No peanut butter

*      Must be present for testing

*Violation of any parameters will result in a 5 point deduction

Mrs. Badino's Weather Unit

Mrs. Badino's students have just completed a weather webquest in which they collected weather data, analyzed the data, learned about various aspects of weather, and learned how to forecast the weather.  Besides participating in in-class mini-lessons and demonstrations, students were responsible for some of their own learning by moving through the webquest   They used a number of resources to access information.  Although this was a new method of learning for many of them, they learned a lot as evidenced in assessments and forecasting.  They now spend a few minutes each day forecasting the day's weather and comparing their forecasts to those of local meteorologists.  They are excited that their forecasts are just as accurate!

 

Here is the link to the webquest. 

 

Our Newest American Citizen

On April 3, 2013 Ortenc became an American citizen.  Ortenc and his family moved to the USA in September 2001 from Albania.  His parents both became US citizens when he was in 4th grade.  Ortenc said he is happy to say he is an American now.

Love

The final day of Truman's Hands Together Against Bullying and Self-Harm week is Love.  Students were encouraged to write "Love" on their hands.