Saturday, October 7, 2017

MCDOWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL makes landforms fun


Who knew landforms could be so exciting... This is Ms. Blair's third-grade class at McDowell Elementary School creating peninsulas, mountains, valleys, islands and learning about all kinds of landforms. Play-Doh makes a lesson so much fun!





MCDOWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: Class strive to be the best possible


Mr. Tomassion's classes are becoming good citizens. Every day at McDowell Elementary School, Mr. T's class say the Pledge of Allegiance together and then they recite their class motto. This class is really striving to be the best fifth grade class they can be!





TAYLOR PARKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: Apples are the focus


Taylor Parks Elementary School teacher Mrs. Abramas did a study of apples with her students.  Apples, being the most loved of the fall harvest played a role in graphing, poetry, stories, and of course, an Apple Treat of no bake apple sauce. 





KENNEDY HIGH SCHOOL: City Clerk supervises Homecoming votes


City Clerk Cindy Bower, a longtime employee of the City of Taylor and Kennedy High School graduate, was back at the school again on Thursday, supervising the voting for the Homecoming King and Queen. Bower and her department had visited the school earlier, to supervise not only voting for the court, but registering new voters. Here, Cindy stands next to one of Taylor's new voting machines, which was used for the voting for the king and queen.


UNITY IN OUR COMMUNITY: Tip of the hat to sponsors of walkathon



From DECA and the Unity in Our Community Campaign: Thank you so much to our sponsors! The students had fun making this banner and we appreciate your donations. It will hang at our event and in the school all year. Our first annual Walk-A-Thon to kick off our "Unity in Our Community" campaign for the Truman and Kennedy merger is next week. There is still some time if anyone is interested in donating or setting up a table email carly.barnard@taylorschools.net.

KENNEDY HIGH SCHOOL: Family takes in the parade



KENNEDY HIGH SCHOOL: More of the homecoming parade start