Quick News - Tipp City Exempted Village Schools
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<strong>Quick</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />
December 10, 2010<br />
It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas!!…<br />
… many Senior Citizens enjoyed a Holiday Breakfast at the<br />
High School!<br />
Saturday, December 4 th about 150 Senior<br />
Citizens came to the High School and was<br />
treated to breakfast. During the morning<br />
meal, the high school choirs provided<br />
holiday entertainment. It is one small way<br />
the school district can say thank you for<br />
your support.<br />
Nevin Coppock First<br />
Graders performed<br />
another stellar program!<br />
Mrs. Ahmed’s First Grade music<br />
classes wowed the crowds with<br />
their Christmas program! They<br />
performed a number of songs and<br />
skits! There were renditions of Up<br />
on the Housetop, Oh Christmas<br />
Tree and Christmas Presents! A<br />
precious way to welcome the<br />
holidays!
Here We Come A-Caroling….!<br />
Here we come a-caroling Among the leaves so<br />
green,<br />
Here we come a wand'ring, So fair to be seen….<br />
In an effort to spread some holiday cheer, Broadway<br />
Elementary First Graders caroled through SpringMeade<br />
Retirement Community. This is their second year and is a First grade<br />
enrichment activity. Both the children and the residents loved the<br />
caroling.<br />
I Believe….<br />
The <strong>Tipp</strong> <strong>City</strong> Community Services sponsored Breakfast with Santa, Saturday,<br />
December 4 th at Broadway Elementary.<br />
Children and their parents stood in line to speak to Santa.<br />
The children also made reindeer food, crafted Christmas decorations, played<br />
Christmas Bingo and ate cookies and milk.<br />
<strong>Tipp</strong> Middle School STARSS Presented A<br />
Christmas Collection<br />
On December 7 th , <strong>Tipp</strong>ecanoe Middle School STARSS<br />
presented A Christmas Collection, a Reader’s Theatre<br />
written by the Semester 1 Creative Writing Class. The<br />
elves were taking a cocoa and cookie break at the North<br />
Pole while Santa and Mrs. Claus entertained them with<br />
stories. The featured stories were The Smallest Elf by<br />
Haley Miller, The Night before Christmas by Gabe<br />
Callicoat, Cookies for Christmas by Chloe Culpepper,<br />
The Ultimate Gift by Jordan McMahan, The Bittersweet<br />
Gift by Presley Cruz, and A Note from Santa by Erika<br />
Brownlee. Lane Vulkovic portrayed Santa, and Jasmine Fletcher was Mrs. Claus. Portraying elves and<br />
various other characters were Rachel Jenkins, Nikita Parks, Meghan Kauffmann, Lydia Guevara, Claire<br />
Heatherly, Nicole Lange, and Ashleigh Hood. Following the performance, the audience was treated<br />
with punch and cookies. All agreed that it was a wonderful way to spread some Holiday Cheer!<br />
Nevin Coppock Students gave their Best<br />
Performance!<br />
Going along with the Nevin Coppock Elementary<br />
building theme of ―The Greatest Show on Earth‖ –<br />
―Giving our Best Performance Everyday‖; the students<br />
photographed gave their Best Performance and was<br />
selected to come to the November Ringmaster’s<br />
Breakfast.
Broadway Elementary Super Citizens for November!<br />
Third Grade<br />
Second Grade<br />
The Super Citizen word for November was ―Trustworthy‖.<br />
The Broadway Elementary students pictured were chosen by their<br />
teachers for being very Trustworthy and were treated to breakfast.<br />
First Grade<br />
The L.T. Ball Intermediate School Fifth Graders<br />
Graduate from DARE!<br />
The first session of Fifth Graders have completed and graduated from<br />
the DARE Program that <strong>Tipp</strong> <strong>City</strong> Police, Dan Rittenhouse, teaches.<br />
Essay winners were Hannah Chaplin from Mrs. Oen’s class, Laura<br />
Fink from Mrs. Hanes room, Allyson Edwards from Mr. Mckinney’s<br />
class and Alissa Buynak from Mrs. McClurg’s class.<br />
50,000 Bonus Box Tops from Box Tops For Education!<br />
Toni McQuown looked at her Meijer’s register coupons and couldn’t believe what she saw.<br />
One of her register coupons was for 50,000 Bonus Box Tops from Box Tops For<br />
Education!<br />
The 50,000 bonus box tops equates to $5000 for the L.T. Parents Association.<br />
Toni’s daughter, Taylor McQuown is pictured with her certificate.<br />
The Great Bedtime Story Pajama Drive!<br />
Scholastic Book Clubs paired up with classrooms across the country to provide<br />
25,000 children in need with brand-new pajamas and books.<br />
L.T. Ball Fourth graders from Mrs. Brogan, Mrs. Moore, Mrs. Paulet, Mrs. Ker,<br />
Mrs. Wood and Mrs. Rhodes’ classes donated seventy-seven brand new pairs of<br />
pajamas! For every pair of pajamas donated Scholastic Books will match it with a<br />
new book.<br />
The L.T. Ball students were able to share the gift of a good night’s sleep and a<br />
sweet bedtime story
Mural painting with Resident Artist Chris Rowlands<br />
Resident Artist, Chris Rowlands spent two weeks with the students at<br />
L.T. Ball. Last week Mr. Rowlands and the students wrote and<br />
recorded a song.<br />
This past week the students painted a mural. Pictured are students<br />
making ―upside down dots‖ for the mural!<br />
<strong>Tipp</strong>ecanoe High School National Honor Society’s New Members!<br />
Thirty-three <strong>Tipp</strong>ecanoe High School<br />
students were tapped and inducted into the<br />
2010 – 2011 National Honor Society!<br />
New Members are: Morgan Beagle,<br />
Kristen Blakely, Audrey Butler, Mackenzie<br />
Clark, Julie Clapp, Daniel Colvin, James<br />
Coughlin, Paige Dahle, Nicholas NeNuzzo,<br />
Ellie Eastman, Bethany Feitshans, Kara<br />
Finley, Sydney Flora, Ellen Freeh, Augusta<br />
Grescowle, Tyler Heinl, Alexa Lammers,<br />
Gregory Lehmkuhl, Meredith McKenzie,<br />
Jenna Nelson, Emilie Paulus, Emily Ranft,<br />
Katelyn Roock, Anna Rosselit, Elizabeth<br />
Roth, Taylor Rudy, Ellise Sharpe,<br />
Stephanie Snyder, Emily Starcher, Lauren<br />
Subler, Haley Sylvester, Megan Witwer and<br />
Megan Wray.<br />
2010-2011 <strong>Tipp</strong>ecanoe High School National Honor Society!
ESL Winter Celebration<br />
Bosnia, China, Ethiopia,<br />
France, India, Japan,<br />
Korea, Mexico,<br />
Phillipines, Russia,<br />
Ukraine and the United<br />
States…all at L.T. Ball.<br />
There were seventeen<br />
families from these<br />
countries that gathered for<br />
the ESL Snowman<br />
Factory.<br />
The celebration included<br />
a Snowman Factory<br />
display, a Power Point<br />
presentation, prizes and<br />
then cookies and treats. It was an excellent opportunity to see the diversity of <strong>Tipp</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>Schools</strong> on display!<br />
“Wear a Tie Day”<br />
Photos courtesy of the Yearbook Staff<br />
In celebration of National Tie month the Octagon Club sponsored ―Wear a Tie Day‖. The high school<br />
student wore all kinds of ties; bow ties, holiday ties, ugly ties, polka dot ties, and ties for a cause. It was<br />
a tie-rific time!
The 2010 <strong>Tipp</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>Schools</strong> Band Holiday Concerts!<br />
Sixth Grade Band<br />
Seventh Grade Band<br />
Eighth Grade Band<br />
High School Band<br />
The Middle School Bands and High School Band played Christmas music ranging from Jingle Bells to The Bells<br />
of Christmas. Even though it was a Holiday band concert, Mr. Parks and Ms. Howard chose to mix in a couple of<br />
non-holiday pieces for the crowd’s enjoyment. The instrumental sounds of Christmas certainly put everyone in<br />
attendance in the holiday mood.<br />
<strong>Tipp</strong>ecanoe High School presented their Holiday Choir Concert!<br />
Pictured is the High School Concert Choir<br />
The High School Choir performed in the THS Center for the Performing Arts Thursday evening.<br />
The Symphonic Choir performed Handel’s ―Hallelujah Chorus‖ and many faculty and choir alumnus joined them<br />
on stage for the singing tradition!
Holiday Tunes were in the air at the <strong>Tipp</strong> <strong>City</strong> High School!<br />
L.T. Ball Choir<br />
Sixth Grade Choir<br />
Seventh Grade Choir<br />
Eight Grade Choir<br />
The L.T. Ball Choir along with the Middle School Choirs gave great Holiday performances to a packed crowd<br />
Thursday night! The crowd was tapping to the Christmas tunes and left full of Holiday Cheer!<br />
Brutus Buckeye and Two OSU Cheerleaders visited Broadway Elementary!<br />
If Broadway Elementary students read 3500 books in<br />
November, Brutus Buckeye and two OSU Cheerleaders said<br />
they would make a visit. To insure they would get the visit<br />
they read 8760!<br />
Brutus and the OSU Cheerleaders came and read “Hello<br />
Brutus” to the students! And Brutus stood on his head!<br />
Congratulations Broadway Elementary readers!
<strong>Tipp</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>Schools</strong> will receive $25,000 during the next four years for a total of $100,000 awarded<br />
through the Race to the Top grant.<br />
Dollars will be used to cover the cost of :<br />
1. Support for increasing graduation rate within our district<br />
2. Standards and assessment- alignment of curriculum to new State Standards (substitute teacher<br />
coverage for Curriculum Committee)<br />
3. Using data to improve instruction:<br />
a. Time to meet as teams to study data (substitute teacher coverage)<br />
b. Consideration of dollars will be used toward a data tool, and professional development to<br />
learn how to effectively use data tool.<br />
c. Teachers and leaders—peer coaching/peer observation, training for Ohio Principal Evaluation and<br />
Ohio Residency Mentor Program (substitute teacher coverage and registration fees for training)<br />
*Updates on RttT will occur at monthly BOE meetings and periodically in <strong>Quick</strong> <strong>News</strong> / Community<br />
<strong>News</strong>letter.<br />
Boys Basketball will play at HOME this Friday, December 10 against CBC Rival,<br />
Tecumseh. Game time is 7:30. CBC Policy is that all tickets are $6.00 at the gate for<br />
boys’ basketball games – both home and away. Students can purchase $4.00 presale<br />
tickets at Clark’s, The Booster Fan Store and the High School Athletic Office. Please<br />
remember that <strong>Tipp</strong>ecanoe receives 100% of all basketball presale revenue and ZERO at<br />
an away game. Purchase your student presale tickets in advance – this is all students<br />
grades 1 thru 12!!!<br />
During halftime State Qualifying Girls Cross Country Team and our Girls Cross Country<br />
State Champion – Katie Landwehr will be recognized.<br />
Friday will also be the Parents Who Care Chili Supper!!! Warm up with some great Chili!!!!!<br />
GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF OUR WINTER RED DEVIL TEAMS!!!!!<br />
Thank you for your tremendous support at our athletic events. Our student athletes feel your presence<br />
and hear your encouragement. If you’re a sports pass holder, please do not forget to bring your pass to<br />
the events. Without this pass, our ticket takers will charge the normal admittance price. Be sure to<br />
grab your sports pass and enjoy the events! Go <strong>Tipp</strong>!!<br />
<strong>Tipp</strong>ecanoe High School athletic schedules: are available at<br />
www.highschoolsports.net/school/<strong>Tipp</strong>ecanoe-High-School-<strong>Tipp</strong>-<strong>City</strong>-OH/<br />
<strong>Tipp</strong>ecanoe Middle School athletic schedules: are available at<br />
www.highschoolsports.net/school/<strong>Tipp</strong>ecanoe-Middle-School-<strong>Tipp</strong>-<strong>City</strong>-OH/<br />
<strong>Tipp</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>Exempted</strong> <strong>Village</strong> <strong>Schools</strong>’ website: www.tippcityschools.com is full of important information<br />
please go there often to stay updated on the district and your child’s schools’ happenings.<br />
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