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| June 2016
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| TIS Morning Announcements Updated daily for the student body at TIS.
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| Medieval Times Replicas 6th grade students created to go along with our unit on the Middle Ages in World Cultures class. They created a castle or replica from scratch(as you see some did Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Greek architecture) and it must have 5 components to their creation and then write a brief essay about it. For instance, what materials they used, who helped them? What did you enjoy the most about the project? and a background of the created castle/replica. They then present their castle/replica to the class. They all did amazing jobs and they were all so creative!!!
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 | Seniors' Last Walk at TIS The Troy School District Class of 2016 made there final walk in halls of the Troy Intermediate School Building. The students, faculty and staff greeted each senior with loud cheers, high fives, and pride.
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| Olympic Field Day The PE Staff wishes to thank everyone who helped to make field day a success. A day full of fun can't be done alone; Mr. Ward and Mrs. Sheeley have worked together to hold a school wide field day for the past 7 years. They both agree that they can't pull off such an event alone, its been a pleasure to work together to provide a day with the focus on fun and fitness.
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| Taking Flight 5th Grade math class built paper airplanes and went outside to test how far they flew. The students had to collect data and figure out their mean, median, mode, and range. They quickly learned which style airplane flew the furthest.
The students were given a set amount of time and limited supplies and then instructed to make a paper airplane. We then went outside to the tennis courts where the students were given 5 trials to test and record their flights. Students were then permitted to make modifications and retest, if desired. The record at the time of this article is 50 ft! (Luis Decker).
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All Cracked UP in 3rd Grade
These students are cracking open a farm raised jumbo egg to see if it had a double yoke.
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| New Superhero at TIS The introduction of a new superhero took place at this year's annual field day. She is Queen Unitas. Her goal is to bring unity and kindness to the student body at TIS. She partners with Unity Guy and Unity Girl as champion heroes.
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 | Box Tops for Our School Collect those box tops and bring them into Mr. Butters.
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 | Babies are Found in Third Grade The chicks are hatching. As you walk down the 3rd grade hallway you can't help but hear the peep, peep, peep from each classroom.
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| Troy School District Earns Bronze Award For the second year in a row, the Troy Area JSHS has been awarded a bronze medal national ranking by the US News & World Report! Superintendent, Mr. Young, has said, "getting students to the point in high school where their learning earns this type of recognition is not something that only happens after they reach 9th grade. It takes a coordinated K-12 effort to reach this level. Well done to all members of our faculty and staff!"
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| Battle of the Books After months of preparation the time finally came for the Troy Battle of the Books teams; Starbooks 1-3rd edition, to compete in the yearly competition. The competition took place on April 16th at Sullivan County Elementary School. All together there were 20 teams battling for the first place spot. After 2 intense rounds in a question and answer format, our teams entered the final round with great anticipation of placing. Starbooks 1st edition battled against the “Wild Cat Readers,” a team from East Lycoming, while the 2nd and 3rd edition teams entered their final round battling one another. At the end of a long day of competition, our 1st edition team earned a 4th place standing, our 2nd edition team earned a 5th place standing and our 3rd edition team earned a 9th place standing overall. The coaches are extremely proud of all the hard work and dedication that each team member put
forth in preparation and participation in the competition. We are already looking forward to participating in next year’s competition with a trophy in our sites!
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| Band and Chorus Sign Ups 4th Graders – Guess what?!? You can join band and chorus next year in 5th grade! Music is more than notes and rhythms. It is team work, friendships, pride, hard work, increased confidence and FUN! This summer talk with your families and consider becoming a member of our great team. All band and chorus rehearsals/lessons take place during school. There are 2-3 concerts each year that are held in the evenings. Concert dates will be announced at the beginning of the school year. If you have any questions over the summer, please email Mrs. Carpenter (bcarpenter@troyareasd.org).
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| 3rd Grade Robots Earth Day was April 22, and students in Mrs. Colton’s science classes learned about the three Rs. (Reuse, Reduce and Recycle) To demonstrate how we can use old items for a new purpose, students designed and constructed robot models out of a variety of discarded packaging. The students also came up with ideas on how robots in the future could tackle an environmental problem facing Earth right now.
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| Read-A-Thon Dear TIS Families;
We are excited to kick off our 2016 Read-A-thon...
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 | 5th Graders Talking It Out! Communication is key! Students in Mrs. Broschart's class recently worked on some communication skills during a team building activity. The activity was called "Back-to-Back" Students sat back to back and took turns giving directions to their partner. Success was measured by the similarity of their block structures. As you can see, there were some successful communicators.
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 | 5th Grade Skilled in Geometry The students are using their geometry skills to follow a multi step project - the finished product will be a 3D City that they designed and built!
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| Drama in 3rd Grade Students in Mrs. Beeman's home room practiced and performed a play on the last two weeks of school.
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| Create An Animation With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations — and share your creations with others in the online community.
Scratch helps young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively — essential skills for life in the 21st century.
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 | Fifth Grader Go ECON! It's all about ECON!
The fifth graders enjoyed a week of studying all about economics! Students were involved in the topics off:
-goods and services
-producers and consumers
-scarcity
-natural, capital, human resources
-bartering
-supply and demand
During their week of economics, the students had a factory day where they produced TIS Playclay. They worked in small groups and made over 1,000 containers of TIS Playclay. Some of the jobs the students had to do were, measuring ingredients, mixing, dividing into portions, and packaging. The students did a great job working together in the factory. The students then sold the TIS Playclay to the school and had to practice counting money and giving back the correct amount of change. Some students even had the chance to walk down to Croman Elementary School and sell to grades k-2. Overall, it was a success and the
students loved the factory simulation!
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 | 3rd Grade Field Trip! 3rd Grade had a great field trip to Crayola Experience in Easton, PA! Thanks to our generous PTSO and Wiggle 100, third graders from TIS were able to create, explore, and imagine at Crayola. Students were able to view the world’s largest crayon, learn how crayons are made, make their own personalized crayon, and create many different kinds of art. One of the highlights was the giant indoor playground that included a drawing area, a large tunnel slide, rope bridges, and a ball pit.
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 | Lunch Menu We will be reinforcing our commitment to
good nutrition for your children. Your child must choose at least one fruit or vegetable with lunch. We will be encouraging the students to try new vegetable selections. There will be a great selection of fruits and vegetables.
Milk will be fat free flavored & fat free or 1% low fat white milk.
All of our grain offerings are 100% whole grain rich.
All of our foods are trans fats free and the sodium is limited.
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 | 2016 Computer Fair Troy School Students recently competed at the Blast IU17 Regional Computer Fair held at Penn Tech in Williamsport, Pa. Troy students created projects involving a variety of computer software programs and visual design skills. Categories they entered into were Digital Movie, Logo Design, and Graphic Design.
Each year, the competition is steep. Not only did Troy Students present well, they had to develop a plan then grow their concept to a polished state. With a lot of invested time and many pages of documented paperwork. These students walked away with 2nd place and honorable mention in Logo Design.
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| Free Learning For more than a decade, the GCFLearnFree.org program has helped millions around the world learn the essential skills they need to live and work in the 21st century. From Microsoft Office and email to reading, math, and more, GCFLearnFree.org offers 125 tutorials, including more than 1,100 lessons, videos, and interactives, completely free.
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 | A Common Sense Guide to Technology
Common Sense is dedicated to helping kids thrive in a world of media...
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 | Chorus Fest The PMEA District 8 Chorus Fest was held on April 29th at Hughesville High School. TIS sent six 6th Grade students to the festival. These students had to audition for their spot and practiced the music on their own time and during recess in the months leading up to the event. Our students did a fantastic job representing TIS and Troy. Congratulations Maezee Brown, Adelle Confer, Anneliese Getola, Bailey Johnson, Olivia Tate and Sydney Taylor on a beautiful concert!
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 | Unity through Character Traits Using Rachel's Challenge platform, we are encouraging students to make a positive difference in the lives of their fellow peers. Each month has a theme. The month of January is "Setting Goals."
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 | Preparing for Field Day During WIN time in preparation for the upcoming field day throwing events (Frisbee, javelin, and softball), we made paper airplanes to talk about aerodynamics and trajectory. These were the top winners, with airplanes that went between 56 and 71 feet.
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| Are You Angry? These 3rd graders are practicing their aim and team work for field day's newest game called angry birds.
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| First in Math Students at Troy Intermediate school have a online program called "First in Math" it encourages and motivates students throughout the school year to practice and improve their math skills. First in Math is a extra way to work on "the deep practice" that accelerates mastering the concepts students learn in the classroom.
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 | Field Trip to Chucksters sponsored by the PTSO! 6th graders traveled to Chucksters. Chuckster made a special appearance for all the 6th graders before their departure time. Thank you from all the 6th graders to the PTSO for their amazing help to fund this exciting experience.
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 | Artist of the Week! Every week a student is chosen to be an Artist of the Week and their artwork is submitted to the Towanda Daily Review and Canton Newspapers. The artist of the week feature appears every Sunday in the Towanda Daily Review.
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 | TIS Field Day Design Winner
Onica Sthale is the winner for the 2016 TIS Field Day Design Winner. Her design will be put into digital format with the` help/guidance/expertise of Mr. Beeman. All students are given a water bottle to use on field day. This is great way to reduce waste, promote hydration, and have a souvenir from field day. The water bottle contest is sponsored by the FIT Club.
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Computer Programming for the Beginner Lightbot is great fun and does a surprisingly thorough job of introducing some pretty complex principles of programming
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 | TIS School Store
Our school store in in room 231. We are open Tues, Thurs and Fri 7:35 - 8:15 and Wed. 7:35 - 8:00.
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 | Save Your Coke Caps The Physical Education Department TIS can use your coke caps to purchase equipment to benefit students. Save your coke caps and drop them off to Mr. Ward and Mrs. Sheeley.
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 | Embryology 3rd grade is studying embryology. Their chicks are due to hatch on May 23.
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 | Habitats 3rd grade has been studying habitats and created displays to show what they have learned about their chosen habitat.
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 | Seed Planting 3rd grade has also been spending time planting seeds to see how they grow and respond to their environment.
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 | 5th Graders Testing the Waters 5th Graders applied mathematical reasoning to a STEM project. Students created boats out of tinfoil and we tested them to see how many pennies each boat held. The top boat carried 175 pennies.
In addition, they tried to help Harry the puff ball. Students were challenged to make a perch out of cupcake liners, note cards, pipe cleaners, and tape. All groups were successful in creating perches for Harry. One group even created a double perch, for Harry and a friend!
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 | 3rd Grade Farm Days
In March, the fourth grade students began reading the book Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder in preparation for a field trip to Alparon Park in May. The Bradford County Heritage Association puts on a two day field trip called "Farm Days 1866" at the Village and other areas of Alparon Park as a living history memoir to Almanzo Wilder and his family, a 10 year old boy growing up in in agricultural family nearly 150 years ago. The fourth grade students went to "Farm Days 1866" on Monday May 9th where they toured the village which consisted of presentations from or about a blacksmith, a school house, the wagon/carriage display, a home, a church, threshing the wheat, making maple syrup, washing clothing, and caring for a garden. We then moved to an arena where students learned about various animals Almanzo and his family would have had on their farm including goats, a jersey cow,
sheep and how the shear them, and a team of oxen commanded to perform various tasks. Students also visited various demonstrations in two of the buildings at Alparon Park which were labeled as a Grange Building and a Merchant Building. The grange building included demonstrations by a cobbler, making butter, sewing a quilt, embroidery, hoop skirts and other 1866 clothing, separating the flax, and learning facts about various foods of the time period. The merchant building allowed the students to have many hands on experiences such as visiting an ice house, touring a carriage, writing a letter with ink and a quill, play games Almanzo may have at the fair, view cuts of meat from a butcher, learned how rope was made, the milling and grinding of corn, view samples of tin products, milking of a cow, and how to make home-made ice cream. Overall, the students were able to make a lot of
connections to what we read in the book and had an enjoyable experience!
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| Habitats in 3rd Grade 3rd grade students built habitat diorama as a culminating activity to tie into a unit on biology.
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 | Does It Hold Water? Students during WIN time were given one piece of paper to make a "cup" or something that would hold water. The winners are in the picture. The paper holding water the longest time without dripping was 48 seconds.
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