Marshall the Miracle Dog

Truman 6th grade students participated in a program that featured Marshall, a dog adopted from the Humane Society of Missouri.  Marshall along with his owner, Cyndi met with the students to teach them about empathy, peer pressure and courage.  Mrs. Richards who is responsible for the character education at Lindbergh had students from the high school as well as Truman Flight Crew members present a video to the classrooms and discussed some of the issues that relate to Marshall and how it correlates to things happening in their lives.  

Fox 2 News was on hand to broadcast how this new pilot program which is a combined effort with Lindbergh and Ladue schools is working.

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Meet Marshall     Fox 2 News

Honor Flight

Today we had a speaker from the Greater St. Louis Honor Flight Organization.  Mr. Battram talked about the importance of the program and the emotional experience the Honor Flight is for the veterans who experience it.  He told the group of students how they can get involved from helping to raise funds to just spreading the word about the program.

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Little Patriots Embraced

Mrs. Badino's Flyer Time class had a representative from Little Patriots Embraced come and talk to students about their program.  Little Patriots Embraced is a program to help the families of the men and women in the military.  Mrs. Badino's also presented a check to the organization from funds they raised by selling candy.

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Ping Pong Intramurals

Truman students have fun during ping pong intramurals.  Member play each person and get a hole punch on their card for each win.  After everyone has played all their opponents the player with the most punches (points) is declared the winner.

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Science Olympiad

Our Science O team represented TMS at the regional Science Olympiad tournament at Ladue Middle School. They've been working since October to prepare for 23 events, then the day runs kind of like a track meet - everyone competing in their own events.  It requires a lot of focus, scientific knowledge and studying - all outside of the classroom!  Our team came in 6th out of 18 teams (just one spot shy of going to state!) 

Way to go!

Izzy F

Meghan B

Julie B

Ian M

Elan B

Dan B

Andrew K

Thomas H

Ben R

Tate J

Evan J

Sam S

Will V

Audrey B

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Scholastic Book Fair

Yes, it's that time again.  The week of 2/24 - 2/28 will be our spring book fair. It's a regular full-price fair, but there will be some good stuff including books for younger kiddies - elementary & pre-school.  We plan on getting copies of - Goodnight St. Louis, too.

We will also be open during Family Science Night on Thursday, 2/27

 - 5:30 - 8:30

.  Any student who brings their parents may enter to win a $10 gift certificate to spend on Friday- one for each grade level.  No purchase necessary.

 

We have an online fair available 2/16 - 3/8 with some items that are different from the fair.  If you order online, it will be delivered free to school.

http://bookfairs.scholastic.com/homepage/trumanmiddleschool1

We will have ads to send home in a few weeks.  Thanks for your help.  All the proceeds go to buy more Scholastic books for the library.

Dance Team

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