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Bus Announcement: Bus # 73 will not run today, Tuesday , March 19th. Middle School and High School students who normally ride that bus will be transported home on Bus # 24 or #25. Flemington students from that bus will be transported by Bus #79.
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The TCMS Library is hosting our Book Fair Family Night tomorrow starting at 3:30. Please consider stopping in and shopping with us. We will be open until 5:30 PM so stop by and enjoy all the book fair excitement! See you Tuesday!
Fun Tip Friday for Families:
This week's Fun Tip Friday for Families focuses on reading comprehension. Developing strong reading comprehension is an important reading skill that promotes lifelong readers. Therefore, this week's Fun Tip Friday for Families includes a short video that explains the importance of reading comprehension and tips to try at home.
Click BELOW to watch the video.
Comprehension Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn9UGAcNHxE
TCMS Literature Fair Information
It's here; TCMS Scholastic Book Fair is set and ready to shop! Remember that 5th grade shops Monday so make note to pack up some book fair money (or set up an eWallet)! ALL are welcome on Tuesday from 3:30 - 5:30 during Family Night so plan to grab family/friends and join us!
Congratulations to our PI contest winners. Each grade level had the chance to write down the most digits to Pi. Here are our grade level winners.
Congratulations to Julia Rossi for o ur overall winner by getting 79 digits correct.
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Attention all students, families, staff, and administrators!
Taylor County Schools is excited to announce nominations for the 2023-2024 Service Staff of the Year are now open! If you know a cook, custodian, bus driver, secretary or aide that goes above and beyond to support his/her students, then nominate that service personnel today. Nominations will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. on March 22, 2024. Click below to nominate an exceptional teacher TODAY! https://forms.office.com/r/j5nUtQsGh0
Important Announcement! π³οΈ
The upcoming Taylor County Schools Levy Renewal vote is on the horizon, and your voice matters!
Stay tuned over the next few weeks for information on how the Levy Renewal supports many different aspects of our schools, students, staff, and community. Your vote matters!
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Attention all students, families, staff, and administrators!
Taylor County Schools is excited to announce nominations for the 2023-2024 Teacher of the Year are now open! If you know a teacher that goes above and beyond to support his/her students, then nominate the teacher today. Nominations will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. on March 22, 2024. Click below to nominate an exceptional teacher TODAY! https://forms.office.com/r/8j79KJgJBx
To celebrate Pi Day and to challenge our students, the admin team at TCMS is sponsoring a PI Digit Memorization Contest during each lunch time on Thursday 3.14! The student who memorizes the most digits of PI gets a prize!
It's here! Our Scholastic Book Fair will officially open this Monday, March 18th! There is still time to set up an eWallet for students to avoid the hassles of cash. Or plan to shop Tuesday (3/19) from 3:30-5:00 PM. Details can be found at https://www.scholastic.com/bf/tcmswv.
Some of Mr. Maple's agriculture class and Mrs. Shinkovich's STEM classes planted these micro-greens last Tuesday.
They planted Popcorn, sunflowers, radishes, broccoli, cabbage, Amaranth, beets and a spicy salad mix. They covered seed germination, plant growth and safe handling of food crop.
A lot of cool things happening on the hill.
Fun Tip Friday for Families:
We continue our focus on the importance of supporting the development of your child's reading and speaking vocabulary. Check out the link below for more tips and activities for building your child's vocabulary.
Vocabulary Activities:
http://homeliteracyblueprint.com/building-vocabulary/
Thank you to Mr. Cunningham for his generous donation to the Scholastic Book Fair! He made his donation through an eWallet so we can use the funds during the fair, March 18 -22. What a wonderful donation to help us spread the joy of reading to everyone; thank you Mr. Cunningham!
Please join us in congratulating our TCS βStudents of the Month" for February. Each of these exceptional students was selected as an excellent ambassador for his or her school. Congratulations to each of these excellent individuals! Way to represent!
Monday, March 11th, our students will take the GSA writing summative test. Students 5th-8th grade will participate in this test. Any student who is absent will have to complete the make up test when they return.
Students please make sure your iPad is fully charged.
Grafton Taylor Health Department will be available at TCMS March 14th from 7:30-11:30am to administer the required immunizations for your 6th grade student needing their immunizations for next school year. If your child did not bring home the required forms, they are available in the office and will also be available on the 14th if you wish to accompany your child to fill out the forms that day. Please see the letter below from the Grafton Taylor Health Department. Thanks!