BOURBON — Triton Elementary School kindergarten and 1st-grade students participated in the Marshall County Promise “Walk into their Future” event held at Ancilla College on Friday, Sept. 21. All kindergarten and 1st-grade students in Marshall County had the opportunity to participate in this annual activity at the two year college located in western Marshall County. …read more.

BOURBON — Denise Shafer was selected as the 2018 Celebrate Literacy Award winner. This award, given by the Marshall County Reading Council, was presented to Triton Elementary School Librarian Mrs. Denise Shaffer for her outstanding dedication to increasing the joy of reading and literacy in children. Over the past five years, she has done an incredible …read more.

BOURBON — Triton Elementary School was recently awarded a robotics grant from the TechPoint Foundation for Youth. The grant will allow the school school to receive a free VEX IQ Robotics kit and to train one teacher to become a robotics educator. Triton has selected fourth-grade teacher Jenny Mevis, who applied for and was awarded the grant.

By DONNA BURROUGHS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation BOURBON — Triton presented Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’ for their spring musical production the weekend of April 30. The play was well attended both nights and the students appreciated the great support. The musical was directed by teachers David Seel and Susan Dietzel.

BOURBON — As a visual for everyone in the community who have been saving bottle caps for Triton Elementary School, is a picture of a bag with approximately 500 pounds of caps. These bags full of caps will be headed off to Green Tree Plastics in Evansville to be made into benches for the school’s …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation BOURBON — Third graders at Triton Elementary School celebrated Earth Day in a special way this year. They participated in many earth friendly learning events about plants and how they are important to our world. Teams studied plant parts and how those parts work to help the plant, …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation BOURBON — After reading, “The All American Slurp” and discussing the big question, “How can we understand and appreciate cultural differences,” students in Mrs. McFarland’s sixth grade reading class at Triton Elementary School finished the week comparing and contrasting chopsticks with forks. The students came to a consensus …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation BOURBON —Triton Elementary sixth grade students visited Junior Achievement’s BizTown Wednesday, April 13. BizTown is a 10,000 square foot kid-sized city in which students can experience what its like to be an adult for a day. What a great experience for Triton Elementary School 6th grade student. They’re …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation BOURBON — Third graders at Triton Elementary School have been learning about natural resources and how they can be used to help us solve problems. Students worked to solve a potential “real world” problem where a local river was getting too low at times; which did not leave …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation BOURBON — The annual Triton Elementary School fun fair took place Thursday, March 24, with hundreds of Triton Elementary students attending. The staff provided family-friendly activities and, in the process, raised funds for student and classroom activities.

By DONNA BURROUGHS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation BOURBON — Second-grade students in at Triton Elementary School recently reviewed skills in reading while studying the story of Helen Keller. The class read many books and articles about Keller and had a lot of questions, as many of them have never met someone who is deaf …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EDS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation BOURBON — Members of Triton High School’s girls’ and boys’ basketball teams held a special activity for Triton Elementary students entitled “Books and Baskets.” It was the ninth year for this annual tradition. The high school students volunteered their time to read books, then shoot baskets …read more.

DONNA BURROUGHS, EDS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation BOURBON — Wednesday, March 16, the sixth grade students at Triton Elementary School traveled to Medieval Times in Schaumburg, Ill. Despite the 50 miles per hour winds, and the road construction, the Triton School Corporation bus drivers got the students to and from Schaumburg safely. The students …read more.

BOURBON — Fourth graders at Triton Elementary School are finishing up their science unit on electricity by having a guest speaker from the Kosciusko Rural Electric Membership Corporation. The students are engaged through this text to world connection.

BOURBON — Triton Elementary School will be holding Kindergarten Round Up at 6-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 12. Parents and students will be able to view a kindergarten classroom and speak to perspective teachers from 6-6:30 p.m. At 6:30 p.m. parents and students will be asked to go to the cafeteria where students will be dismissed …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EDS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation BOURBON — Third graders at Triton Elementary School learn that clues found in rocks tell us about the plants and animals that lived long ago. How can we learn about those creatures that are extinct? By finding fossils, of course. Fossils can tell us what once …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation BOURBON — The following students were recognized for showing pride in their daily work at Triton Elementary School for the month of January: Nicki Duff, Austin Kanczuzewsk, Josh Mullet, Keegan Best, Cayden Greer, Jenna Bules, Hannah Snyder, Kate Howell, Nate Schuler, Cohen Stayton, Sadie Cline, Emma Meece, …read more.

BOURBON — Fourth grade classes at Triton Elementary School went bowling during their physical education class this week.

DONNA BURROUGHS, EDS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation BOURBON — Triton Elementary had a record high 84 participants for the Triton Elementary Science Fair this year. There were Medal winners from every grade level and the top four will represent Triton at Regional Science Fair on Feb. 27 at the Notre Dame campus. Additional Grade …read more.

From left: Todd Slabaugh, president; Keith Claassen, vice-president; Kevin Smith, council member; Laura Baker, clerk/treasurer and Don Gruenemyer, Sawvel and Associates (Photo by Michelle Reed) ETNA GREEN — On Feb. 9, Don Gruenemyer, of Sawvel and Associates, an engineering service firm from Findlay, Ohio, presented the Etna Green town council with the report for the …read more.

BOURBON — The Marshall County Reading Council invites the community to spend an evening with artist and children’s author, David Slonim, at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 17, in the Triton Elementary School gymnasium. Slonim’s books have won many awards, including a New York Times Best Illustrated Books selection, Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold and Potter Barn selection.

BY DONNA BURROUGHS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation BOURBON — First-grade students at Triton Elementary School each brought a bag of 100 pennies to school on the 100th day of school. After completing several activities with the pennies, the classes discussed what they could do with the pennies. The students were excited by the idea of …read more.

BOURBON — Students and staff of Triton Elementary School celebrated with an all school assembly the last day of school before vacation. Several of the highlights are pictured.

BY DONNA BURROUGHS, Triton School Corporation Superintendent BOURBON — Students in Mrs. Strycker’s third grade class at Triton Elementary School have been learning about how light moves, creates heat, reflects and refracts. These science concepts were tied to reading about Antarctica and penguins, along with socials studies, as we discussed “rookeries” or communities of penguins and the …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, Triton School Corporation Superintendent Monday evening before Thanksgiving, The Triton Elementary School PTO sponsored a free movie and popcorn night at the school. There was a great turnout for this evening of entertainment at the school. Guests watched “The Polar Express” and enjoyed popcorn.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, Triton School Corporation Superintendent This is week three of “Art After School” at Triton. Thirty Triton Elementary School students worked hard to create their masterpieces. The event was a hit. Triton has some talented artists.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, Triton School Corporation Triton Elementary School honored several veterans at their special program the morning of Nov. 11

By DONNA BURROUGHS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation BOURBON — Triton third graders have been discovering multiple strategies to help them solve math problems as one way to work on increasing “rigor” through state process standards. As learners repeatedly practice each week, they gain knowledge and confidence in their math thinking. They spend a little …read more.

Donna Burroughs Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation BOURBON — Third-graders at Triton Elementary School received dictionaries from the Lions Clubs serving Bourbon, Etna Green and Tippecanoe. The clubs’ mission is to empower volunteers to serve their communities, meet humanitarian needs, encourage peace and promote international understanding through the Lions Clubs. Each year, the Lions raise money …read more.

Mrs. Heather Sell, the assistant in Mrs. Sarrah Davis’ classroom at Triton Jr.-Sr. High School, bought pizza for a few 8th grade students today for all getting 100 percent on their science quiz.

By DONNA BURROUGHS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation BOURBON — Dozens of minions showed up in Mrs. Potter’s kindergarten class at Triton Elementary School, Bourbon.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, Triton School Corporation Superintendent BOURBON — Students in Cathy Strycker’s third grade class at Triton Elementary School held races with the vehicles that they designed using the scientific method. Jack Carpenter, Triton’s elementary physical education teacher, conducted the experimentation phase of this project by setting up race brackets for students. Each person …read more.

  By DONNA BURROUGHS, Triton School Corporation Superintendent Alex Gaughan a fourth grade student at Triton Elementary School in Jenny Mevis’ class was doing some research on the stages of a butterfly’s life while his class was visiting the library.He enjoyed the close-up view under the magnifying glass!

Fourth graders at Triton Elementary School are excited to have their own laptops for their daily learning activities at school. Pictured are Casi Painton’s students at work.

By DONNA BURROUGHS,EdS Superintendent,Triton Community School Corporation Triton Elementary School Field day sponsored by 1st Source Bank and Ball Auction was an overwhelming success. A few raindrops would not stop our students and community from making this a great event. The students had a blast and the volunteers where outstanding. We could not ask for better …read more.

BY DONNA BURROUGHS, Triton School Corporation Superintendent Triton Elementary School fourth graders enjoyed listening to a civil war soldier (reenactor). What a great way to wrap up all that they have been learning about Indiana History this year!

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation Fifth graders at Triton Elementary School spoke with a robotic engineer from Istanbul. They were able to speak with him through Google Hangouts and connect real life with what they are learning from Project Lead The Way.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation After reading, “The All American Slurp,” a story about understanding and appreciating other cultures, Mrs. McFarland’s sixth grade reading class at Triton Elementary School put their weekly skill of comparing and contrasting into a real world situation by comparing and contrasting chopsticks and forks. They decided they’d …read more.

Cathy Strycker’s third grade class at Triton Elementary School took a brain break from ISTEP testing this week and worked out to GoNoodle.

By ANNIE MILLER Invent Now Camp Invention, the nation’s premier summer enrichment day camp program that is supported by the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the National Inventors Hall of Fame, is coming to Triton Elementary School the week of Monday, June 1 through Friday, June 5. The week long day camp for …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation Triton sixth grade students traveled to Shaumberg, Ill., in March and enjoyed a very educational show by immersing themselves in the tale of the middle ages at Medieval Times. The show was complete with a hearty meal and exciting action. Triton students were invited to a …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation The fourth grade students at Triton Elementary School enjoyed a visit from Marshall County REMC last week. They had been studying electricity, circuits and different energy sources. What a great way to wrap up a week of ISTEP.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation Third graders at Triton Elementary School have been working for over a month at learning how to do research and write an informative story from what we have discovered. Students were planning a trip to the Shrine Circus, so they were already reading about the circus. …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation Triton Elementary School announces and congratulates their STAR students — those students who made the greatest improvement in their composite reading scores from the beginning of the year to the middle of the year. Those students include Austin Kanczuzewski, Raven Irwin, Race Baldwin, Kayla Miller, Nic …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation Triton Elementary School held it’s annual Science Fair on Friday, Feb. 6. Students were judged by a Bethel College professor and Bethel education students. Triton Elementary Science Fair is for students in fourth, fifth and sixth grades. Science fair projects were required to be grounded in …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation Students in Jill Finley’s kindergarten class at Triton Elementary school enjoyed showing off their funny hats this week. The students wore hats while studying the letter “H”, which they call “Mr. H”. They have a good time learning all about their letters.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation Third graders at Triton Elementary School are beginning a new unit of study in science about earth materials. Students will be learning about minerals, rocks, fossils, and renewable and nonrenewable resources during their studies. As an introduction to minerals and rocks, they are reading about how …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation Students in Cathy Stryker’s third grade classroom at Triton Elementary have been learning about being healthy this semester. In class students had a chance to see just how effective hand washing can be in fighting germs that can make us sick. Students were sprinkled with glitter …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation The Triton Elementary Third Grade is happy to announce that they have a new guest joining them each week to help learn about eating healthy. Kathe Beehler is working as a youth food nutrition practitioner through the Marshall County Purdue University Cooperative Extension Office. Since it …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation It may be cold outside, but it certainly is not cold in third grade at Triton Elementary School. Students have been learning about energy by working with light and heat. Students tested out how different materials react with light and heat by testing bottles of cold …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation The second grade classrooms at Triton Elementary School held their annual Spider Beauty Contest. There were many beautiful contestants and picking a winner from each class was difficult. When the students finished their voting, Adrian Rooney and his contestant, Midnight, were proclaimed the winners in Samantha Phenix’s …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS EdS, Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation Triton Elementary third grade students have been working to learn the scientific process and how it is alike and different compared to the engineering process. The class worked on solving a real world problem about a local pool needing lifeguard chairs for safety before they can …read more.

Students in Mrs. Cathy Strycker’s third grade class at Triton Elementary School had one last fun activity related to our studies on rural communities, cows, nutrition, and products … butter! They learned so many things during their studies, but only had a chance to read about how products such as cheese and butter are made. …read more.

Next Friday, Oct. 3, Triton Elementary School and Triton High School will be celebrating GrandPersons’ Day at School and grandparents, or other special people, are invited to visit our schools with their special child. Below are a few lines written by Ms. Finley’s 2014 kindergarten class. “What is a Grandparent?” It’s somebody that loves you …read more.

Triton Elementary School’s fourth annual Trojan PRIDE kickoff is set to take place at Triton Elementary at 2 p.m. Thursday Sept. 18, in the Triton Elementary Gymnasium. Trojan PRIDE is the Triton Elementary Positive Behavior Intervention Supports and is the recognition all of the hard work and effort that staff and students have put into …read more.

Triton Elementary School sixth grade students: Brandon Kitch, AJ Austin, Hunter McIntyre and Ryan Farmwald are busy working on research projects in the school library. The computers come in handy for this type of project.

Brittany Brosman, fifth grade teacher at Triton Elementary School was the first Triton teacher to be “Common Sense media” certified. This certification program helps teachers know how to teach students to be safe on the Internet and leave a clean digital footprint as they work.

Kindergarten students at Triton Elementary School give a “thumbs up” to the first day of school and the start of their school career!

Kindergarten students in Mrs. Finley’s class at Triton Elementary School enjoyed playing a get acquainted game that ended up with a “spider web” in the middle of the room. The 2014-2015 school year is off to a great start!

Triton School Corporation will host a free ice cream social at 8 p.m. this Saturday, Aug. 9, in front of Triton Elementary School. This ice cream social will be followed by the Summerfest fireworks on the school grounds.

The annual sixth grade graduation was held at Triton Elementary School the evening of May 28. Several awards were given out to the sixth graders by the teachers. The Presidential Award is a national award presented to the top students at the “graduating” level in each school. To earn this award, students must have an “A” …read more.

Triton Elementary School’s first grade classes participated in a 4-H in the classroom unit about bugs. The unit was presented by Angela Smith from the Marshall County Extension Office. For the culminating activity, the students made posters about bugs. Some of the posters will be on display at the Marshall County 4-H Fair this summer. …read more.

On Monday, May 12, Mr. Mark Schwartz shared with Triton Elementary first graders in Mrs. Smith’s class and second graders in Mrs. Phenix’s classes about brass instruments, how sound is produced, tone color, and comparisons of the trumpet, mellophone, marching mellophone and French horn. The students enjoyed hearing Willy Wonka songs played on the instruments …read more.

“Girls Night Out” was held at Triton Elementary School the evening of Friday, May 2. There were 60 girls in attendance from fourth, fifth and sixth grades. The girls enjoyed a treasure hunt, a demonstration on skin care, exhibited by a “Mary Kay” representative and nail glam. They also took part in a video and …read more.

Triton Elementary School kindergarten students and third graders performed their musical program to a packed house on Tuesday, May 6. The kindergarten students began the evening with a program about “Grandpa and Grandma’s Farm.” Students performed songs like  “Big Green Tractor” and danced the “Chicken Dance” in the finale. Third graders program was entitled “On With …read more.

Triton School Corporation extends a thank you to the Triton High School science group that shared their knowledge about Earth Day with the sixth grade science students at Triton Elementary School. Earth day posters were created and several are on displayed in the high school.

Today, the fifth graders at Triton Elementary School celebrated the culmination of 10 weeks of D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) lessons with a graduation ceremony in the Triton Auditorium. Officer Haskins of the Bourbon Police Department led the ceremonies. Bourbon Police Chief Martin also attended the ceremony in support of the students. Triton Elementary Principal …read more.

Students in Mrs. Strycker’s third-grade class at Triton Elementary School, Landon Lemler and Barre Shaw, were working in the designing and constructing process of their juice box holder in this picture. This is one of the lessons developed through the science learning through an engineering design program sponsored by Purdue University.  

Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz announced Indiana’s “4-Star Schools” for 2012-2013 today. In order to achieve this designation, a school must be in the top 25th percentile of schools in three ISTEP-based categories. A total of 311 schools received the award throughout the state but locally, only two schools accepted the honor. Both …read more.

Students at Triton Elementary School rocked out with 50’s Day on Friday, April 11th.  Students dressed the part of Elvis and other 50’s personalities and enjoyed performing musical hits like “Blue Suede Shoes” for the many visitors. Students also enjoyed celebrating the day with root beer floats.  Pictured are fourth grade students from Mrs. Shively’s …read more.

The following students from Triton Elementary School  represented their Science research at the regional level Science Fair competitions held at Notre Dame on March 22. Jared Bules, sixth grade, won a second place ribbon for his project on “Eggmosis”. Gavin Greer, sixth grade, won a third place ribbon for his project on popcorn and temperature. Macclain Middaugh, fourth grade, won …read more.

The annual “Books and Baskets” evening took place at Triton Elementary School from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. March 19. The Triton High School boys’ and girls’ basketball teams were at Triton Elementary School to read with the elementary students and then shoot “hoops” with them in the gym.

Fourth grade students at Triton Elementary School, who are some of the members of Little Hoosiers, are shown making Indian rattles during their Little Hoosiers Club. They are laying paper mâché over lightbulbs. Pictured are, clockwise from left, Connor L.,  Gabe D., Trevor D., Makenna M., Valerie E., Lucy M. and Aiden S.

Kindergarten round-up at Triton Elementary School will be held from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 1, at the school. Parents who would like to visit the kindergarten classrooms and take a look around the school, should please plan on arriving 15 to 20 minutes early. Students will have an opportunity to meet the …read more.

Dr. Seuss’s birthday was on March 2 and the kindergarten students at Triton Elementary School celebrated his birthday and Read Across America Day all week the week of March 3-7. The grand finale was a special dress-up day with everything Seussical on Friday, March 7.            

Triton Elementary School is approaching the end of the year field day a little differently this year. Each teacher will have a “family” team composed of a few students from each grade level (K-6) to compete in the end of the year celebration event. On that day, teams hope to have matching shirts, win medals, …read more.

Kevin Stonerock, a Union Soldier impersonator, visited the fourth grade class at Triton Elementary School. Students enjoyed learning about the life of a soldier during the Civil War. Fourth-grade teachers are Ms. Painton, Mrs. Reese and Mrs. Shively.  

In the true spirit of the holiday season, one local church donated presents to every child in Triton Elementary School. Students from kindergarten to sixth grade received and opened presents recently not only as a way to honor the holiday, but as a way to honor the selflessness of students at the school. According to …read more.