Talking Taylor Schools

Friday, December 9, 2016

HOOVER MIDDLE SCHOOL describe school as helpful, amazing ... and loud!

Teachers asked students that are members of the School Improvement Team to write down words that they thought describe Hoover Middle School using the Word Cloud. The larger print words were the most popular words used by the students.

EUREKA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL benefits from coat drive

Thanks to the Taylor Rotary Club for their support of Taylor students through their annual coat drive. Pictured are students from Eureka Heights Elementary School with representatives from the club, Principal Stacie Hall, and Superintendent Ben Williams and Assistant Superintendent Mary Ann Cyr. Taylor’s deserving students are most appreciative of their new winter coats.

HOOVER MIDDLE SCHOOL posts video focusing on thanks

During this season of giving thanks, Hoover Middle School teachers and Principal Michelle Tocco and Assistant Principal Matt Hall each chose one or two students to say a very special "Thank You" for making their day bright, for being positive, for being a great academic student and caring for others.

Check outthis video clip that the teachers and administration put together. What a cool idea!

MYERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL students visit museum

Myers Elementary School fifth-grade students learned about the physics of roller coasters at the Ann Arbor Hands-on Museum recently. Students designed and tested their own model roller coaster models, then explored the rest of the museum.

WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL students learn about volume

During the week of December 5 West Middle School seventh-grade science classes were learning about volume. Volume of regular objects is found by this equation: length x height x width. The unit of measurement for solid objects is centimeters cubed. For a liquid, the unit of measurement is mL.

During a hands-on lab activity the students found the volume of a solid irregular object by using the method of water displacement. They put objects such as a screw, a nut, and or/a washer in a graduated cylinder, filled to a specific amount with water. Then they observed how much the water rose. The difference in these two measurements was the volume of the solid irregular object.

From our lab the students now know that volume and weight are very different. Also the greater the weight does not always mean the object will have a greater volume. This lab demonstrated one of our many science curriculum objectives.