Sixth graders build
cell cities
MARCH
2007—Twin
Students in Mrs. Edelman’s
sixth grade class built cell cities to show how the
body operates as part of science class. "Cells, the basic
units of life, can be compared to a city," said Mrs. Edleman.
"Cells are building and breaking down material and they
release energy from foods, and then use that energy to make
needed cell parts. Cells function to make your body operate
like a well-run city."
Ball in the House
performs at school
FEB.2007—Twin
Towers School students had the chance to see
Ball in the House
perform live at the school on Feb. 23, 2007, as part of
Arts in Education programming. Choral students met with the
band prior to the assembly for a workshop to ask questions,
get feedback on their singing and spend some one-on-one time
with the artists.
Ball in the House is a
five-man soul-pop/R&B vocal
a cappella group from Boston.
They have opened and performed with various pop artists as
well as Gladys Knight; Blondie; The Temptations; Smokie
Robinson; and numerous others. They can be heard on national
TV and radio as the voices behind the Cool Whip
commercials.
Noted poet & professor visits
TTMS for lecture series
FEB.2007—In
honor of Black History Month, award-winning poet and
author Quraysh Ali Lansana visited TTMS as part of
Middletown's Arts in Education programming.
Lansana, a professor at Chicago State University, was at
TTMS during the week of Feb. 5, 2007, to give lectures
to students on Harriet Tubman and the Harlem Renaissance.
Lansana, a professor at Chicago State University, is the author of They Shall Run: Harriet Tubman Poems and the poetry
collection Southside Rain, The Big World, a
children's book, and a poetry chapter book, Cockroach
Children: Corner Poems and Street Psalms.
Students write letters to
U.S. airmen in Iraq
DEC.2006—Sixth
grade students in the Horizons Cluster at Twin Towers Middle School
wrote and mailed letters to men and women in the U.S. Air Force who
are serving in the southern part of Iraq this holiday season. The
U.S. airmen are stationed at the Ali Air Base and will be returning
home in January.
"The sixth
graders were really excited to write to and receive letters from the
men and women at the Ali Air Base," said teacher Cathy Smith.
"Souvenirs, such as Iraqi money, pictures of temples/ziggurats, and
badges, were enclosed in some of the letters to the students."
In addition, the sixth grade class received a U.S. flag (that was
flown over the air base in recognition of the students’ support and
encouragement), a picture of the flag over the air base, and a
certificate that expresses the men and women’s appreciation of the
students’ letters.
At left: Mrs. Jefferson and Mrs.
Caldwell, middle school teachers, along with TTMS students. |
