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Don't forget - Wednesday is Camo Day @ TCMS!

🏀 TCMS Girls Basketball Announcement 🏀

🛍️✨ Thank you to Burlap and Twine for stopping by TCMS last week! Teachers enjoyed shopping their beautiful selections, and we are so grateful for their generosity in donating a portion of sales back to our school. 💙❤️

#TheStandard #CommunityPartners #ThankYou

🎉 A big THANK YOU to Smith’s Roll Offs for sponsoring treats for our teacher birthdays! 🥳🍪 Your generosity helps us celebrate our amazing staff in the sweetest way. 💙❤️

#TheStandard #ThankYou

📘➗✖️ Math + Fun = Learning Success!

Our 7th graders in Mr. Poppell’s and Mr. McLeod’s classes put their skills to the test with some friendly competition while learning how to multiply and divide with negative numbers. 💡👏

🌟🐾 Congratulations to TCMS Teacher of the Year—Mrs. Melanie Hutcheson! 🐾🌟

Mrs. Hutcheson has dedicated 32 years to teaching, with 25 of those years here at TCMS as our beloved 7th grade science teacher. 💙❤️

She shares:
“Teaching is my calling. I enjoy seeing students learn and grow throughout the year. This next generation has such potential, I just want to be a part of it. I enjoy road trips to the beaches of Florida and the Smoky Mountains with my husband of 32 years and our daughter. My mom and dad are my inspiration and encouragement. With God, all things are possible.”

We are so grateful for Mrs. Hutcheson’s passion, dedication, and love for students. Help us celebrate her incredible achievement—congratulations, Mrs. Hutcheson! 🎉👏

#TheStandard #TeacherOfTheYear #BulldogPride

🎉🐾 Get ready, Bulldogs—it’s time to show your school spirit! 🐾🎉

Next week is Homecoming Dress Up Week (Sept. 8–12)!
Check out the info below for each day’s theme and join in the fun.

Let’s see that Bulldog pride all week long! 🔴🔵 #TheStandard

🏈 Game Day is Almost Here! 🏈
Join us this Thursday, Sept. 4 at 5:00 PM at The Pit as TCMS takes on Vidalia! 🔥

Come out, pack the stands, and show your Bulldog pride! 🐾❤️💙

🍕💡 A big THANK YOU to Domino’s in Vidalia for supporting TCMS!

Your generosity as a classroom sponsor helps fuel the growth of our TCMS STEM program, giving students hands-on opportunities to learn, create, and explore.

We appreciate your partnership in building brighter futures! 🐾✨

#TheStandard #STEMStrong #CommunityPartners

💙🐾 Mr. Brantley’s 6th Grade students enjoyed a wonderful Parents to Lunch! It was the perfect chance for families to sit down, share a meal, and be part of their child’s middle school experience.

We’re grateful for our supportive TCMS families! 🌟

#TheStandard #TogetherAtTCMS #BulldogFamily

📚✨ 6th Grade Social Studies dove into the Connecting Themes that will guide their learning all year long!

To bring the themes to life, students read The Lorax 🌳 and worked in groups to complete a Cause/Effect chain. Each group then explained why they connected their chosen themes to the story.

A fun and thoughtful way to kick off a year of exploring history, geography, government, and more! 🌎✏️

#TheStandard #ConnectingThemes #6thGradeSocialStudies

🎉 The 7th Grade BETA Club kicked off their first meeting of the year with excitement and big opportunities ahead!

Members encouraged classmates to:
⭐ Compete at the GA State BETA Convention
⭐ Step up as leaders by running for BETA officer positions

We’re proud of our BETA students for striving toward leadership, service, and excellence! 💙❤️ #TheStandard #BETAClub #FutureLeaders

🌟 Celebrating Excellence at TCMS! 🌟
Congratulations to this week’s standouts:
👩‍🏫 Teacher of the Week - Windy Smith
🏅 Student of the Week – Athletics - Vincent Ramirez
📚 Student of the Week – Academics - Ella May
👏 Student of the Week – Behavior - Liam Dailey
We are so proud of your hard work, leadership, and Bulldog spirit! ❤️💙🐾

📚✍️ In Mrs. Pierce’s 8th grade ELA, students are sharpening their research skills!
They’re learning how to cite evidence in Modern Language Association (MLA) style while exploring the fascinating Birth Order Theory. 🔎✨

Building strong writing skills today means confident communicators tomorrow! 💙❤️🐾

#ELAExcellence #ResearchSkills #THESTANDARD

Mrs. Dowell’s class is happy to participate in a classroom Student of the Month. The Student of the Month for August is William Rogers. William has made the transition to our classroom seamlessly. He is kind to others, works hard, and is an asset to our classroom. Congratulations, William!

💙❤️ Ms. Balcazar’s Homeroom students had some very special guests to lunch this week—our PARENTS! 🥪🍎

Thank you to all the parents who joined us—you are an important part of our TCMS family! 🐾✨

#THESTANDARD #TCMSFamily #ParentPartners

📚✨Ms. Balcazar’s 6th grade ELA students have been exploring different text structures and how they help us better understand what we read. To make this skill come alive, students completed an interactive notebook activity—cutting, pasting, and organizing examples of text structures. Hands-on learning = deeper understanding!
#TheStandard #ELAinAction

🌍✨ 7th grade Social Studies is diving into the Physical Features of Southwest Asia (Middle East)! Students are exploring deserts, rivers, and mountains that shape the culture and history of this important region of the world. 🗺️📚
#TheStandard #TCMSBulldogs #SocialStudies

Mr. Poppell’s 7th grade math students were hard at work solving puzzles to practice positive and negative numbers. Each cut-out piece represented part of the solution to changes in temperature, and students had to fit the pieces together just like a math puzzle. 🧩➕➖

Hands-on learning at its best! #TheStandard #TCMSBulldogs

📢 Attention Parents & Guardians:
Georgia law requires ALL students entering 7th grade to have proof of a Tdap booster (whooping cough) and a meningococcal vaccine before starting school. ✅

Protect your child and others—check with your pediatrician or local health department today! 💉✨

For more info, visit dph.georgia.gov/vaccines-children
or call (800)-848-3868.