Friday, October 26, 2012

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!

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

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

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.

Thursday, October 18, 2012

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.