A "Captivating" Weekend...

On Saturday, April 27th students from the CAPTivating Kids program traveled to the Eli Whitney Museum in Hamden to build and race elastic band cars!

Comedy or Tragedy? That is the Question...

After spending a few weeks in reading class discussing how the theater evolved through centuries, students created theatrical Greek masks as part of the drama unit. Students had to decide if the mask would be part of a comedy or tragedy.

8th Grade Reader's Theater

Preparing to read The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, students were broken up into groups and assigned a script to perform in front of their class. This Readers Theater assignment offered students a fun, interactive way to build fluency and motivated the students to experiment with language, work with expression, pacing, tone, inflection, meaning,and interpretation. They had a great time acting out all of their scenes in front of the class!

Spirit Week Ends on a Formal Note

Twin Day and Formal Friday rounded out a very successful Spirit Week at TMS.

Weather or Not...

Grade 6 Science students built anemometers to measure wind speed during the data collection week of their weather unit.

Story Extension in 6th Grade

Mrs. Uccello and Mrs. Rosa’s 6th grade Reading classes visited Mrs. Murphy and Mrs. Stec’s Kindergarten classes at Wakelee School on April 24. The 6th graders read the sequels they wrote to the book, Strega Nona by Tomie de Paola and designed lesson plans around their stories for the Kindergarteners to complete. The lessons focused mainly on the retelling of a story in proper sequence and understanding the story’s theme. The 6th graders showed great teaching skills in preparing age appropriate lessons, and making the lessons engaging, and fun. The kindergarteners enjoyed hearing the stories and were engrossed in the lessons, showing all they learned by completing both hands on and written activities! It was a great learning experience for all!

Hot Dog!!! You Read A Lot!

6th graders who earned the Team Read Hall of Fame reward for the 3rd quarter enjoyed a hot dog roast outside.

Greek Day Celebration

7th Graders participated in Greek Day events as part of their Social Studies curriculum. Events took place throughout the entire day that led to better understanding of Ancient Greek culture; some activities were mental and others were physical challenges.

Spirit Week Kicks off at TMS

Mix-matched Day at Tyrrell sponsored by the TMS Student Council, as part of School Spirit Week April 23-27.
The rest of the week's events are as follows:

24th: Favorite Team Tuesday

25th: Team Color Wednesday
• Diamond: green
• Platinum: blue
• Marble: purple
• Granite: red
• Pearl; black
• Onyx: white

26th: Twin Day THURSDAY

27th: Formal Friday

We Took Them Out to the Ballgame

6th graders rooted for the home team at a Rock Cats baseball game against the New Hampshire Fisher Cats as part of their interdisciplinary unit on baseball. Some students got to pose with or get autographs from the team mascots.
A fun day was had by all baseball fans!

Inkaswasi Visits TMS

The Peruvian musical group Inkaswasi performed for Tyrrell students at a recent cultural presentation at Tyrrell as a culmination to World Language Month.

Book Fair at TMS

Students browse through the latest choices at the Scholastic Spring Book Fair.

Top Tyrrell Spellers Named

First and second place Spelling Bee winners Gabby Hammel and Jillian Noack stand with representatives from the Junior Women’s Club, along with Frisbie Principal Joe Norcross and Wakelee Principal Robert Nagashima , who were the judges for the evening.

Annual 6th Grade Spelling Bee

TMS held its annual 6th grade spelling bee sponsored by the Wolcott Junior Women’s Club on April 17. The bee finalists were (in order of how they placed from first to twentieth place):
Gabrielle Hammel, Jillian Noack, Kaitlyn Rosato, Taylor Riviezzo, Regan Richard, Caitlin Mahoney, Erin MacDonald, Samantha Hickey, Sarah Hatush, Taylor Dalton, Autumn Briglia, Wenting Zheng, Lauryn Santos, Mollly Regan, Alyssa Egan, Katherine Donahue, Natalia DiLonardo, Tianna Butkus, Kiana LaRock, and Lauren Wright.

Congratulations to all participants! The two top winners will go on to compete in the state spelling bee at Sheehan High School in Wallingford on May 26.

Project Explore Goes to GOOGLE

8th Grade Project Explore students recently visited the amazing Google complex in New York City. During their tour, students learned about the many career options available to them in computer engineering, technology, graphic design, and digital marketing.

World Language International Food Fair

The World Language department celebrated the end of World Language Month with an International Food Fair in the TMS cafe on Thursday, March 28th. Students, parents and teachers were able to sample food from different cultures around the world prepared by students.