Winter Band Concert was an excellent start to the holiday season
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Upcoming Events
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December 18: Middle School Choir Concert (6th Grade at 6 pm & 7th/8th Grade at 6:45 pm)
December 23 - January 1: Winter Break
January 2, 2020: School Resumes
January 20: No School -- Teacher Inservice
January 27: District Spelling Bee at 1:00 pm
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School Improvement Plan
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Good afternoon Parents/Guardians,
One of the categories in our School Improvement Plan (SIP) is attendance. This month we are including your students’ individual attendance rate as well as the overall attendance rate and grade level specific attendance rates.
Below you fill find the current attendance rate by each grade. You will also see your student's attendance rate.
Please take the time to watch this video clip from Turner News Network to learn more about the importance of attendance. You may want to review the guidelines for when to keep your student home due to illness (linked here). We appreciate your help to get your student to school and encourage them to try and stay at school with colds, coughs, and slight headaches.
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Students who participated in the Turner Trot were put into a drawing to Pie-A-Teacher
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Students take part in the Titan Lounge
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As you know, we use Standards Based Grading (SBG) at Turner Middle School. The focus for SBG is to report on what a student knows and can do. In the transition from a traditional grading system to Standards Based Grading we made sure that behaviors did not count in the reporting of learning and grades but we still want to report these “soft skills” to parents. The Citizenship Score (recently shared) creates the perfect opportunity to report on skills such as punctuality, collaboration skills, and other skills employers find important. If you have any questions please contact Mr. Bright ([email protected]) or Mr. Everson ([email protected]).
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Lava Activity in PE. Students work together to get to safety from imaginary lava
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Every Monday students at TMS have homeroom during our normal Titan Times (2:45 pm to 3:15 pm). We feature many different lessons which include social emotional learning, team building, and Academic and Career Planning activities. We just finished an activity centered on gratitude. After a short lesson, we asked students to write a note to two adults and one peer who they felt “thankful for”. The lesson was based on evidence that people felt better themselves when they shared who and why they were grateful for with others (especially sharing with the person who inspired the gratitude). Consider talking with your student about the following:
- Sharing some things you are grateful for and asking them to share as well
- How did it make you feel when you gave the people the notes?
- How are gratitude and kindness related?
- Challenge everyone in the family to write down three things that went well that day and at the end of the week share the various notes with each other.
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Timelines from Transitions -- Students create/share timelines to highlight major life events
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