Greater Lafayette Commerce is recognizing five outstanding educators with the Golden Apple Award.

Student groups rallied their classmates to give back to the community.

Students will benefit from grants awarded to TSC teachers from the Public Schools Foundation of Tippecanoe County.

Throughout the week, schools took time to salute our veterans.

The Indiana Department of Education named East Tipp engineering and technology teacher Sharita Ware as the 2022 Teacher of the Year.

TSC teachers received grants to support students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics lessons.

Academics are, of course, important for students and teachers at Mintonye Elementary. However, teachers also feel that it is important for students to learn skills that will be important throughout life, such as shaking hands, looking someone in the eye, and answering questions. Adults know that each of those skills improve with experience, Mrs. Miller’s room 7 is learning those particular skills now in her class, and practicing several times a week with something she calls Community Circle.

This week Mrs. Clevenger’s 3^rd Grade created cereal box book reports about the story, Soccer Shootout. Using a cereal box as their base, the students created a catchy name for a cereal related to the story and then illustrated the front cover for their "cereal". On the back of the box each child designed a game, maze, puzzle, word search, crossword, or other fun activity that included information from the story. On each side of the box students wrote a one paragraph summary about the story and instead of listing cereal ingredients, they included story elements about the book such as the main characters and setting. On the top of the box students listed the story title and author information, and the number of stars they would give the story if they were a book critic. The class enjoyed the opportunity to creatively present their book report information.

Welcome to Reading Buddies from Mrs. Frauhiger and Mrs. DeGolyer’s classroom!  Mintonye fifth graders from Room 16 meet weekly with their kindergarten Reading Buddies from Room 11. We enjoy sharing our weekly reading story with our buddies and reading the picture books they bring from the library.  The friendships we are developing and the reading skills we are practicing create positive bonds between the oldest and youngest members of our school community!

Kindergarten boys and girls have been working on a nursery rhyme unit in Mrs. DeGolyer's classroom. It has been lots of fun learning new rhymes while enjoying some of our familiar favorites. During the nursery rhyme unit, they focused on literacy skills such as phonemic awareness, rhyming words, sequencing, and alliteration.  As a wrap-up for the nursery rhyme unit, each child selected a nursery rhyme to memorize along with dressing as the character they selected. A Kindergarten Nursery Rhyme program was held on the stage for all Kindergarten families to enjoy!