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Weekly Update
Week of October 29th
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Friday, 11/3: MS Roller Skating Party
Middle School
Office Updates
From Ms. Lomax
New Middle School Principal! (Just kidding)! My husband and I celebrated our wedding last week and I’m in the process of changing my surname to Lomax. Any messages or notes you receive from that name are still from me!
Thank you to the Student Council for organizing a fantastic Spirit Week and Homecoming Dance last week. Our middle school students showed their Blue Raider pride and had a lot of fun.
Tuesday is Halloween! Students are permitted to dress up in school-appropriate Halloween costumes on Tuesday, October 31st. To keep our celebration safe and to allow for classroom learning to continue, please adhere to the following guidelines:
-Costumes must be put on at home (no dressing up at school)
-Hats are permitted, but faces must not be covered
-No masks (faces must be visible at all time)
-No gore
-No weapons (imitation or real)
Please be considerate. Classes will go on as usual, so costumes must not be overly distracting or messy: no large inflatable outfits, loose glitter, confetti, etc. If a costume does not follow the above guidelines or becomes a distraction to classes, students will be asked to change into regular school attire.
School Nutrition
We are pleased to announce that all school meals are free for Trumansburg CSD students beginning Wednesday, November 1, 2023. Our district has been granted the mid-year community eligibility provision (CEP), a federal and state grant subsidy that covers the expense of student meals. We are more than ecstatic to provide free nutritious meals to our student population, alleviating the financial burden on our families. Additional items beyond the daily meal will still be available for separate purchase should students so desire. Many thanks to our school lunch personnel who work tirelessly to provide our students with nutritious and appetizing meals. Their commitment is essential to the education and overall health of our student body. Thank you for the positive impact you make every day. We look forward to seeing all students in the lunch line next Wednesday!
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5th Grade
5th Grade Daily Planner (Please bookmark for your use).
Math: The students took their end of unit test on Friday thus wrapping up our first unit on decimal place value.. These assessments will be handed back to the students next week for them to take home. Looking ahead we will begin our second unit on multi digit whole number and decimal operations.
Social Studies: This week we built background knowledge on Ancient Mesoamerica. We took a “gallery walk,” read articles, and completed some geography mapping. Next week we will begin our study of the Mayan civilization.
Band: Mrs. Posegate’s Lesson Schedule
6th Grade
6th grade planner (please bookmark this link)
Social Studies: Students will begin looking at timelines and early civilization next week. We are getting excited about VR headsets arriving on November 9th for us to explore Ancient Greece.
Math: Students will begin writing division expressions next week. They will also be reading expressions with variables.
Science: Students continue investigations in our weather & climate unit. Our focus this week was on why clouds and storms form sometimes but not other times, as well as figuring out why the water droplets and ice crystals don’t fall from the clouds all the time? Students investigated the opposing forces of updraft and gravity to determine if objects would be sinking, rising, or floating in the air. We are working our way towards the end of figuring out the bigger question of what is happening with hailstorms.
ELA: We have begun writing short responses about the text as we explore how Percy has shown connections to water in Lightning Thief. Students are still reading and annotating every night. Please ask your student what is happening in the book.
Band: Mrs. Posegate’s Lesson Schedule
7th Grade
7th Grade Digital Planner (Please bookmark this link.)
Please remind students to bring pencils, their Chromebook charger, and a water bottle to school.
ELA 7: We have read the first 24 chapters of Hello, Universe as we continue to read 2 chapters per night. We have grown in our writing fluency as most of us have nearly doubled the number of words that we wrote on Monday. We are also writing better summary sentences and short responses about the text. We will delve into talking about how the characters are developed in the novel as well as what motivates their decisions.
Math 7 & Pre-Algebra: We spent our week working on adding and subtracting integers, while also hitting a little review with unit rates and proportions. Next week we’ll learn to multiply and divide with integers before putting things all together to solve real world problems with our new skills. In Pre-Algebra, we also worked more with scientific notation operations that involve adding and subtracting integers as well as some real world problems involving scientific notation.
Check out our Spirit Week photos! Please remind your student to bring headphones to school. We are also hitting the time in the year where it will be helpful to check in on backpacks and make sure folders are in there with materials organized.
Social Studies: This week we continued our study of the 13 American colonies, focusing on the Middle and Southern Colonies. We discussed the beginnings of representative government and religious toleration/freedom, and we also started our hard discussion on the institution of chattel slavery in the Americas - focusing on the conditions forced on enslaved people on the Middle Passage and on Plantations. Next week we will be covering the Salem Witch Trials, just in time for Halloween, and we will have our first unit test on Friday
Health: Students had a wonderful time learning about one’s natural high & the risks of vaping from Trumansburg High School students representing the Natural High club. This coming week, students will learn facts about alcohol, tobacco, & marijuana and the health risks of use by young people. Classes will also have a guest speaker from TST BOCES share survey data that reports information about substance use as well as perceptions about safety and their community.
French (Ms. Cederstrom) Get ready for National French Week, happening from November 1st-8th! During this special week, French students will celebrate the French language and culture. We hope these activities will inspire everyone to discover the amazing world of French and the francophone community. Keep an eye out for more details about this awesome event!
Spanish (Ms. Cederstrom) This week, the Spanish students will be learning about El Día de Los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead, a culturally vibrant holiday celebrated mostly in Mexico on November 1st and 2nd. We will explore the various customs and rituals associated with this holiday, such as building altars, gathering at cemeteries, eating a bread known as pan de muerto, and much more.
Chorus: Lesson Schedule MP1 (9.25.23) NEW GROUPS as of 10/10
Music: This past week, students finished up the assignment called ‘Genre Activity #3’ where they had to research an artist of their choice. We have been working on how to write short responses to the music that we listen to and had more practice with that as well. Music students are becoming masters at identifying songs by genre!
7/8 Band: 5-12 Bands Winter Concert is 12/14 @7pm in the HS Auditorium
7/8 Band Lesson Schedule/Groups- week of 10/30
8th Grade
Algebra: This week we started our unit on function notation f(x). Topics included domain and range, interval notation, intercepts, and evaluating functions.
Math 8: This week we discussed angle relationships when parallel lines are crossed by a transversal. Next week we will discuss angle relationships in triangles and move onto transformations of figures in the coordinate plane.
Science 8: We have been studying the properties of gasses. Students are now investigating the changes in matter when heated or cooled.
Regents Earth Science: Students have been learning how to classify different types of rocks based on their physical properties. We will wrap up our Minerals & Rocks Unit at the end of the week (11/3).
ELA 8: This week, we’ll be reading the Twilight Zone teleplay “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”. We will first read about Rod Serling, making text-to-world and text-to-self connections. Students will volunteer for parts to read aloud this week. Those not reading will listen while taking notes on their confidential cases slide.
Social Studies: We practice paraphrasing the pros & cons to imperialism, then end the unit depicting the U.S. as a hero or villain in a poster with a C.E.R. (claim, evidence, reasoning) layout.
French (Ms. Cederstrom): Get ready for National French Week, happening from November 1st-8th! During this special week, French students will celebrate the French language and culture. We hope these activities will inspire everyone to discover the amazing world of French and the francophone community. Keep an eye out for more details about this awesome event!
Chorus: Lesson Schedule MP1 (9.25.23) NEW GROUPS as of 10/10
7/8 Band: 5-12 Bands Winter Concert is 12/14 @7pm in the HS Auditorium
7/8 Band Lesson Schedule/Groups- week of 10/30
Clubs & Activities
Student Council
Ski Club
Great fun in the MS this week for spirit week. Thank you to everyone for showing your school spirit and participating in the fun. We also had a great 5th grade dance party on Thursday during Tropical Day - lots of singing and dancing!
In addition we held elections for this year’s student council president and vice-president. We had three groups of candidates this year. All candidates ran great campaigns in presenting the ideas they wanted to promote this year as the leaders of student council. Congratulations to Lucy Clementson & Hattie McCaffrey, who were elected by students in grades 5-8.
Upcoming we will be planning for our annual food drive to help support the local food pantry during the holiday season. Watch for more details.
Next Meeting will be Tuesday 11/7. Snacks will be served!
You must sign up for the late bus with Mr. Begeal or Ms. Salib by 1:00 PM on Tuesday.
Ski club will be starting January 7th, 2024.
Sign up on-line. Go to www.greekpeak.net\school and select your school from the dropdown.
Fliers coming home soon. Please reach out to Erin Kaplan ekaplan@tburg.k12.ny.us (for grades k-6) and Nadine Salib nsalib@tburg.k12.ny.us (grades 7-12). Space is limited, so those who sign up first will have priority. Be sure you are paying for the correct program: Grades K-6 are “Trumansburg Elementary” and Grades 7-12 are “Trumansburg MS/HS”.
Yearbook
Yearbook Club will meet in the Media room (Next to the Tech room) on Thursday, November 9th, from 3-4:00pm.
*Students who ride the bus will be dismissed at 3:35pm to get on the late bus. Students getting picked up/walking home will be dismissed at 4pm.
Any student participating in Yearbook Club who needs to ride the late bus must email advisors Lisa Magee or Tammy Parker by 12:00pm on the day of the meeting -OR- sign up on the goldenrod paper copy outside of room 211 or in the Counseling office (also by NOON the day of the meeting).
Meeting Dates:
November 9th, 16th, and 30th
December 7th & 21st
Order your Middle School Yearbook Now!
Click YEARBOOKORDERCENTER and use school code 18914
PTO
Clubs & Activities
8th Grade D.C. Trip
Friday 11/3/23: 6:30-8:30 pm MIDDLE SCHOOL ROLLER SKATING PARTY in the Elementary School gym. $5/skater if bringing own skates, $7 includes skate rental.
Please note: We have combined Facebook pages and we now have a new URL - please be sure you follow this PTO page on Facebook or visit our events page for the most up-to-date information.
Parents should have received the yellow Washington DC letter and eligibility plan with the progress reports that were recently mailed home. Signed eligibility plans were due back on 10/27. If you have not yet sent in your form, please complete that and get it sent back in to your child’s homeroom teacher. Reservations currently being made for accommodations and group activities.
Students will be attending a meeting regarding the trip on Friday Nov. 17th where more details about the trip will be shared. There will be a meeting for parents in the spring with finalized details. If you have any questions please reach out to Bill Begeal at wbegeal@tburg.k12.ny.us
We are looking for 8th grade volunteers to offer up childcare services during the ES/MS PTO meetings this year. For each person who volunteers PTO will deposit $10 into our trip account. Upcoming PTO meeting dates are:
October: 10/25
November: 11/15
January: 1/10
February: 2/7
March: 3/13
April: 4/17
May: 5/15.
All PTO meetings occur in the ES STEAM room and childcare happens in the ES library. Any 8th grader interested in volunteering and helping the DC trip, contact Mr. Begeal in room 306.
Troubadour
Dear Writers, Photographers, and Artists~
Are you interested in contributing to the Trumansburg Troubadour? The Trumansburg Troubadour is a school community newsletter written by students and supported by the Trumansburg Education Foundation. It is a great opportunity to have your work published and shared with the community. We are accepting submissions from students in grades 3-12 this fall.
In December, we will publish our regular Troubadour newsletter dedicated to school and community news and encourage students to choose one of the suggested topics below or a topic of their own related to school news/programs/events. Submissions should be half-page to full page in length with some flexibility (word count: 400-800 words).
We are also accepting creative stories, poetry, artwork, and photography for a Creative Edition of the Troubadour that will be published separately later this winter. Creative stories will need to be 800 words or less. Students are welcome to submit to both editions of the Troubadour if they would like.
The Troubadour will be compiled and edited virtually, though we may have opportunities to meet in person or individually. Submissions are typically submitted and edited using Google Docs. All interested contributors (grades 3-12), please contact trumansburgtroubadour@gmail.com with your topic ideas and questions by Friday, October 13, 2023. First drafts will be due by Friday, November 3, 2023, and all final submissions will be due by Friday, December 8, 2023.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Genna Knight & Megan Williams
Trumansburg Troubadour Editors
Trumansburg Education Foundation
P.O. Box 486
Trumansburg, NY 14886-0486
tburgedfoundation.org
Topic Ideas:
-School Sports News
-KDT Field trips
-High School Play in November (Puffs)
-Chorus
-Band
-An article on Senior Class activities
-Homecoming
-8th Grade String (Elective) Class Experiences (Earth Science, Studio Art, Chorus, DDP)
-Elementary School Drama Club, Chorus
-School Events: Fall Family Dance, M.S. Student Council Dance, Photos from Events with captions, etc.
-Student Council updates
-Freshman Interview (about high school transition)
-5th grader Interview (about middle school transition)
-Any new staff to interview?
-New MS Dean
-Fall Family Dance (ES) (Nov 9)
-MS and HS Open House
-Fire Safety Day at the ES (Oct 13)
-Dominican Republic Trip Summer 2024
-We are happy to review your school/community-related topics as well!
Building Contacts
Main Office: Brenda Everhart, 607-387-2825
Attendance: Lauren Conners, 607-387-7551, x1425
Nurse's Office: 607-387-2827
Student Services Team: 607-387-7551 ext. 1449
Bryce DeSantis, School Psychologist
Lisa Magee, Administrative Assistant
Brian Cobb, LCSW, Social Worker
Claire Valletta, Guidance Counselor
IT Help: help@tburgschools.on.spiceworks.com or 607-288-2821 (Monday - Friday 8 am to 4pm)
Newsletter items/help/unsubscribe: Gail Brisson, gbrisson@tburg.k12.ny.us