About Me

A woman and a man with two dogs, all sitting comfortably on a couch.

My name is Travis Timperman. This is my 11th year of teaching, 2nd with Belle Creek. I am so excited for another amazing school year. The picture above is my family, my wife and my two dogs (Allie and Cosmo). I spend most of my free time walking my dogs, hanging out with my wife, and watching sports. My favorite sport is to watch is the NBA. I also work at a restaurant part time on the weekends. I'm looking forward to getting to know all of you this year.

Posts

Week 3/16-3/20

Hello Wildcats

Let's have a great week to finish off strong before Spring Break!

8th Grade

Tutoring Tuesday 3/17 after school

Chapter 7 Pythagorean Theorem test Wednesday 3/18

7th Grade

No Tutoring this week

Project Presentations Tuesday 3/17

Friday Half Day

Student Staff Basketball Game 3/20

Sincerely,

Mr. Timperman

Tutoring Next Week

In order to prepare for chapter test next week I will have 2 tutoring sessions, 1 per grade.

Monday 2/23 7th grade Tutoring after school until 4:15

Tuesday 2/24 7th Grade Chapter 5 Test

Wednesday 2/25 8th Grade Tutoring after school until 4:15

Thursday 2/26 8th Grade Chapter 6 Test

Students may only attend the tutoring session for their specific grade.

Thank you,

Mr. Timperman

Week 2/17-2/20

Hello Wildcats

I hope you all had an excellent long weekend. It was so nice to meet so many parents. If you didn't have a chance to make it to conferences then please feel free to message me and we can schedule something for after school one day in the near future.

Homework (IXL)

Many students are still not completing IXL on a regular basis. IXL is meant to remediate and is beneficial to all students. It is critical that students are logging in 3-5 days/week for 15-20 minutes with a mindset of "I want to get better at math in this skill today and show progress on my smart score" oppose to "I just want to get my time in".

We need to be working on skills that are going to make us better at math, not Kindergarten skills counting to 3. Going forward you will receive no credit for this. Additionally we need to be making progress. Missing 80 out of 82 questions will also receive no credit. I have noticed these have been recurrent issues for several students lately.

Lastly, IXL (1 hr minimum/week) and Savvas are due at 8am every Monday or Tuesday at 8am when we have Mondays off.

Journals/Focus in class

Many students especially 8th grade are starting to have an attitude of packing it in and ready for summer break. It is WAY too early for this mentality. We still have 3 months left of school and 5 weeks until Spring Break. Journals are for a 75 point grade and we need to show consistent effort in this to receive a decent grade on these.

Overall, this has still been an excellent school year. I just wanted to address these issues with homework and effort so we can finish the year off strong.

Let's have a great week!

Sincerely,
Mr. Timperman

Week 1/26-1/30

Hello Wildcats

I'm looking froward to another great week here at Belle Creek.

Homework due Monday 2/2

Savvas

45 minutes of IXL- Please remember this is a minimum amount required and I highly reccommend to get in a habit of 20 minutes/day.

Tutoring Wednesday 3:45-4:15

Check it Out night Wednesday 4-6

Bring your friends and families who are looking for a new school to come join us here at Belle Creek and become students next year.

Journal Checks

Friday 1/30

Please make sure journals include the following:

Daily goals

Notes

Graphs

Pie Charts

Workbook sheets

Problems done in class as group and independently

Each page must have a date to recieve full credit.

Let's Have a Great Week!

Thank you

Mr. Timperman

Star Testing tomorrow

Please make sure you bring your chromebooks to class tomorrow for Star Testing.

Thank you

IXL over Break

I will be offering 1pt/10 minutes of IXL over break up to 30 bonus points for 300 minutes of IXL to all students. IXL questions must be completed from 12/20-1/5 to be eligible for these bonus points. Thank you everyone have a great break and a Merry Christmas!

Mr. Timperman

P.S. Please make sure your students have a handheld calculator by the time we get back. This will make math much easier as we are focusing on algebra problem solving more than long multiplication and division.

Tutoring cancelled

I will need to cancel tutoring tomorrow in order to leave early for an appointment. We will resume tutoring next Wednesday 12/17.

Thank you

Mr. Timperman

Week of 12/2-12/5

I hope you all had an awesome Thanksgiving Break! We only have 3 more weeks of school until Christmas Break! We need to lock in and stay focused so we earn our break.
IXL- Please continue to try and work on IXL daily. We will be getting chromebooks back this week. I have assigned individual assignments to each student based on their needs. Please look under teacher recommendations and work on those first. Each student should be logging on and practicing IXL for a minimum of 1 hr/week for HW. However, just like in sports, if you want to excel then you should be practicing daily to build your skills.

NWEA- We have NWEA testing on Thursday. Please make sure you have a charged chromebook and are ready to give your best effort. I know you will do great!

Tutoring- We will continue to have tutoring on Wednesdays after school.

As always, please send me a message if you have any questions.

Sincerely,
Mr. Timperman

Homework this week

45 minutes of IXL due by Friday 11/21

You will not be able to take home chromebooks over break due to NWEA testing the day we get back.

No Savvas this week.

Thank you

Tutoring cancelled

No tutoring this week
Due to some appointments I have right after school, tutoring will be cancelled this week. For the few kids who did 3 hours of IXL last week and have earned a retake on their test, we will be doing that after school tomorrow 11/18 until 4:15. Let's finish this week strong and earn our long Thanksgiving Break!

Sincerely,
Mr. Timperman

Tutoring Wednesday

On Wednesday we will be doing a test reflection during tutoring. Students that have a very low score (50% or below) may have the opportunity to retake next week if they do the following.

Come to the test reflection review this Wednesday 11/12 3:45-4:15

Complete 3 hours of IXL this week

Take excellent journal notes and focus all week during

2 more weeks until Thanksgiving Break!

Let's have a great week!

Sincerely,

Mr. Timperman

Tutoring Change

Tutoring
I will be changing tutoring to tomorrow Tuesday 11/4 from 3:45-4:15 in order to prepare for Wednesdays test.
Thank you

Mr. Timperman

Change in test date

Change in schedule
I have just been made aware that we must Star Test on Monday 11/3 and we will move the Chapter 2 Test back to Wednesday 11/5. This is an assembly schedule so we will start the test right away. Next weeks schedule.
Monday 11/3- Star Test
Tuesday 11/4- Study Guide Review for Test as Whole Class
Wednesday 11/5 Chapter 2 Test
Thursday and Friday 11/6 and 11/7
Finish test, Journal Checks, IXL

Have a great weekend
Happy Halloween
Sincerely,
Mr. Timperman

IXL

Hello Wildcat families,

It was so nice meeting many of you last week at conferences. I just wanted to reiterate the importance of IXL for everyone especially since there were some parents I didn't get a chance to meet with. IXL is a proven program that will help your child get where they need to be in math. The best way I can explain it is that I am their 7th or 8th grade math teacher and IXL can be their tutor for any skills they are behind on in previous grades. Just like when with sports, math requires practice daily to be able to excel at. That is why I am highly recommending 20 minutes/night every night of the week. This way it will become a routine and your child will start to notice improvements in their skills.

Thank you so much!

Sincerely,

Mr. Timperman

Week 10/21-10/24

Hello Wildcats,

I'm looking forward to another great week here at Belle Creek.

Homework

1 hour of IXL- Please make sure that you stay on top of this to keep your skills up.

1 Savvas

Wednesday 10/23

Tutoring 3:45-4:15

Parent Teacher Conferences

Thursday 10/23 4pm-6pm

Friday 10/24 12:30pm-6pm

Let's have a great week!

Sincerely,

Mr. Timperman