TMS Connect

Check out all of the fun we had this week celebrating being Drug Free!

6th grade students are working on letter writing skills during success lab. They have teamed up with 3rd grade for penpals! Students in both grades will write letters throughout the quarter leading up to a big reveal party in December!

Mrs. Ogle, our student teacher, has been teaching the kids the "Cup Song" as part of a short unit on rhythm!

Members of the Tipton FFA and 4-H showed their skills and knowledge in a variety of career development events this fall including Milk Products Evaluation, Meats Evaluation, Livestock Skillathon and Horticulture.

The Milk Quality and Products participants identify cheese, off flavors in milk, dairy versus imitation dairy products, problem solve, and complete a knowledge exam.

Both middle and high school members of the Tipton FFA, as well as Tipton 4-H members, competed in the Area VIII Livestock Skillathon Career Development Event at the Cass County Fairgrounds in Logansport on September 17th. Livestock Skill-a-thon includes items such as: a livestock industry quiz, a quality assurance scenario, equipment identification, meat identification (species, primal cut, retail cut and cookery method), Breed identification (sheep, swine, goats and beef cattle), and feedstuff identification.

The Tipton FFA Meats Evaluation team had a very successful experience by placing in the top 10 at the State Meats Career Development Event at Purdue University on Saturday, September, 18. The purpose of the Meats CDE is to allow members to demonstrate mastery skills in the areas of identification and evaluation, allowing for students to be more knowledgeable consumers of meat and meat products. Members completed carcass evaluations, meat identification and placing classes. Thank you to Justin Johnson for giving of his time and efforts to lead the meats team this year!

Members participating in the Horticulture C.D.E. identified fruits, vegetables, ornamental plants, and flowers. They also completed a horticulture industry knowledge exam. This is the first time that Tipton FFA has competed in this contest and they are excited to see members learn more using the greenhouse this spring.

The Tipton FFA was recently awarded a Living to Serve Grant through the National FFA Organization to help provide meat and produce to the local Good Shepherd Food Pantry. Through a partnership with a local FFA family, the FFA members were able to make their first donation of needed meat - 343 pounds of ground beef. The Tipton FFA and Agriculture Department has been able to also donate 98 gallon bags of greens from the tower gardens and over 40 pounds of fresh produce to the local food pantry.

Our staff is gearing up for another jam-packed Professional Development eLearning Day! Students will learn remotely on Wednesday, Nov 3rd (next Wednesday) while school staff work to improve their teaching and planning skills. Students will be able to access their lessons on their Google Classrooms.

The Tipton Chapter of All Pro Dad will have their next meeting on November 4th, 2021 at 7am. This meeting is open to all TCSC elementary and middle school students and their dads. The meeting will take place in the Tipton Middle School library. Doors will open at 6:45 and will close promptly at 7:05. Please join us for some fun, food, and fellowship. Please RSVP at www.allprodadchapters.com

Didn't like your school pic? Weren't here for pictures? Don't worry!!!

Picture Retakes Nov 2nd

10:15am

As a district, we are moving towards improving many aspects of our school. One such area is our community outreach and support. We are trying to collect data to guide our decision making and improvement efforts. Please help us out by completing this survey. Thank you for your assistance!

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If you are in need of assistance with WiFi, we loan HotSpots out to families! Please see the information on the TCSC website for more information and the link for applying for one.

HotSpot Information and Application

11/3 eLearning

11/9 School Board Meeting

11/24-26 Thanksgiving Break

12/6 Choir Concert

12/8 Band Concert

12/14 School Board Meeting

12/17 End of 1st Semester

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