Spelling Bee Club Begins: Friday, Oct. 24th

All interested students are invited to attend an informational meeting for our Scripps Spelling Bee Club in Mrs. Cochren’s classroom, room 212, at lunch on Friday. Students should bring their lunch.  Our meeting will begin about 10 minutes into the lunch period so that students may go get their lunch and return!
 The club fee will be [...]

GATE Student meeting: ESP on 10/23

GATE families should have received  CALL OUT on the evening of 10/22 notifying parents of the meeting sheduled with their GATE child/children.
Students have been reminded on the morning announcements for the last 3 days that there will be a mandatory gifted and talented meeting in the library during Extra Study Period on Thursday. 
Students will receive [...]

Chinese Moon Festival and Mandarin Chinese Lessons

Mr. Dixon’s first period class and Mrs. Cochren’s foreign language class met with Ms. Woo to learn more about the Chinese tradition of the harvest moon.  We sampled moon cakes and Chinese teas and discussed cultural similarities and differences.  To learn more about this interesting tradition, please visit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Autumn_Festival
The after school Mandarin Chinese program will begin [...]

Different Types of Intelligence

This is a great site which showcases Howard Gardner’s theories on multiple intelligences.  http://lth3.k12.il.us/rhampton/mi/mi.html

Club Rush: Wednesday, October 7th

Thurston Middle School club sponsors are invited to promote their clubs at this year’s CLUB RUSH.  This will take place during lunch this Wednesday.  Students will have the choice to browse booths and get information about what Thurston has to offer!

October 5th: Sixth Grade Meetings

Ms. Demark and Dr. Ostensen will be meeting with sixth grade students beginning today.  Please attend this meeting with your child’s Individual Learning Plan.  TMSILP[1]