Congratulations to Braydon Calonder for some impressive finishes at the Mississippi Valley Conference Swim Meet yesterday! He earned all conference honors placing 5th in the 50 free as well as on the 6th place 400 free relay. He also finished 7th in the 100 free and 200 free relay. Braydon is back in action on February 8th for the Districts at Dubuque.
TMSPN Conference Championship Round Playoff Show: This time we welcome our Steelers expert, Mr. Bouse, & even talk a little NFL uniforms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpT4E9rlb48
Up and At 'Em for Large Group District Speech today @ Camanche.
The Transition Center students toured Cedar Manor this week!
Students in Mr. Roos'/ Mr. Walsh's Art of Anatomy 2 class use the full range of the new windows at the high school to see their skeleton drawings through another sheet of paper.
Some 7th Graders at recess are doing Knee Nerf Football. A group of them made rules, teams & regular season games. Playoffs started yesterday as the 0-3 Chiefs got a huge upset, beating #1 seed Bills! It's Double Elimination so no one is out...yet. So fun to watch!!
Book Recommendations from some of our MS students & more Library stats on the bulletin board in the MS Commons along with some staff book picks as well.
Last week Tank got to visit the Tipton Public Library. He helped pick out books for story time, then listened to the stories and colored with kids. He also helped order new books!
Due to the Extreme Cold Warning, Tipton Schools will be closed Tuesday, January 21.
Due to the excessive cold, Tipton Schools will be delayed 2 hours tomorrow, January 21. Breakfast will not be served.
Here's the 2nd episode of the TMSPN Playoff Show, this time featuring celebrity picker, Mr. Heitland.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y5jK6rqZyA
Large Group Speech performed at the RVC Conference Contest at Mid-Prairie today. Our four events were Group Mime, Group Improv, Choral Reading, and Readers Theatre. Our Readers Theatre was awarded 3rd place, and our Choral Reading was awarded 1st place! Great performances by all!
Congrats to the THS boys wrestling team on posting a 4-1 dual meet record at the BGM Duals on Friday. The Tigers defeated D.M. North-Hoover 51-27, North Scott JV 42-35, BGM 59-18, and Gilbert 47-34 before falling to North Mahaska 44-30 in the final dual.
7th Graders earned an extra recess as a reward for having the least minors in our No Minors Contest. Way to go Class of 2030!!
NHS is hosting Chuck-A-Duck at the basketball games tomorrow night! It will be during halftime of the varsity boys game! Bring a couple extra dollars to participate and donate to a great cause!
High School students from the Relationships and Parenting class last semester completed a felt board story book final project and read their stories to elementary students. The younger students loved having guest readers in their class and listening to the books.
Last week Tank got to visit some behind the scenes places at the University of Iowa Health Care with the Engineering Services team. Engineering services is the hospital maintenance team and they do a lot of work making sure everything is in working order both inside and outside!
Tipton had a GREAT day at the SEIBA honor band auditions at Fairfield HS. Sophomore Noah Johnson made first chair tuba in the HS band while 8th graders Aislyn Smith (clarinet) and Logan Borseth (euphonium) made the JH band. 7th grader Kai Kruse made it to the 2nd audition round.
Mark those calendars. Coming up we will be having a benefit night at our home basketball games on February 11th. This is all to support a past Tipton student so order those t-shirts and be ready to come to the game!