North Elementary School staff and students celebrated Mrs. Kuntzman yesterday for receiving the 2023 Those Who Excel Award for her meritorious service. Congratulations, Mrs. Kuntzman!
A special thank you to Tommy Photo for capturing these images, TommyTV for capturing video clips throughout the morning, and Carded by Carley for the "HONK for Mrs. Kuntzman" sign.
Sharing a photo of THS Demolition Day #3.
Congratulations to Ava Odam, Lyla Repscher, Sydney Lowis, and Emma Althoff for placing first in the 4X100 relay at the Mt. Zion track meet this past weekend with a time of 54.77!
The Taylorville High School Sports Hall of Fame Banquet will be held on April 22 at 6:30 p.m. in the THS Cafeteria. Get your tickets now!
Sharing images of the building demolition at THS from today and yesterday.
The Red Sneakers for Oakley fundraiser at TJHS will be extended through the rest of the week. Students are encouraged to wear red each day. Students will be given a ticket for each dollar donated for a chance to win a red pair of sneakers!
Also, there will be a bake sale after school Thursday and Friday to raise money for the Taylorville Food Pantry. All items are $1.
School Librarian Recognition--The date was slated for April 4 for recognition, but we are grateful everyday for the service of Mrs. Suzanne Southworth in the TJHS Media Center. Thank you for your dedication and commitment to serve our students and staff!
Tomorrow (April 12) Student Council will be collecting donations for the Red Sneakers for Oakley Foundation. Bring $1 and wear anything red to participate and help us raise money and awareness for food allergies. StuCo members will be in the main hallway to collect your donation.
Tornado apparel order - extended deadline. Order today!
https://taylorvillejhbooster2023.itemorder.com/shop/home/
TJHS--Under Water Robotics Program Info/Update--Taylorville Junior High students recently competed in a regional SeaPerch competition
in Bloomington. SeaPerch is an innovative underwater robotics program that equips
students, educators, and parents with the resources they need to build an underwater
remotely operated vehicle (ROV) in an in- or out-of-school setting.
Starting in early December, TJHS students started engineering and building their robots
for competition.
The process is challenging. Students spent time working on building their mother
boards, wiring and water proofing motors, and checking electrical output into the
motors. The greatest task was making the ROVs buoyant and balanced in the water.
Once the ROVS were ready the students started collecting data on how well the ROVs
completed the tasks.
Testing the ROVs and working on buoyancy was made possible with the help of
Taylorville Feed and the YMCA. Taylorville Feed let us borrow a livestock tank big deep
enough to run some trials in the classroom. At the YMCA pool, our students were able
to fine tune the ROVs for the competition.
23 schools competed. TJHS was the only junior high school, the other schools were
high schools from all over the state. flSome of the high schools included Glenwood,
Seneca, Minooka, Normal Community, Collinsville, Evanston, and IVC out of Peoria. In
the morning rounds one of our teams advanced to the brackets. The top two teams
were vying for a chance to compete at the national competition at the Naval Academy in
Maryland.
The Tornado Torpedos team ended up with 5th place, just missing the championship
round. The eventual champion ended up being IVC. IVC beat our team 7-6. The match
with IVC was an exciting battle.
The two teams that went to the competition:
Sponsor: Pamela DeWerff
Lucky Ducks: Elsie Williamson, Molly Smith, Kavya Patel, and Cole Franklin.
Tornado Torpedoes: Deacon Shanks, Luke Short, Griffin Craggs, and Grayson Craggs
Goofy Goobers: Weighong Len Chen, Jameson Jones, Ian Stromberg, and Isaac Orr
Today is School Librarian Appreciation Day. We celebrate those that serve this role in our district. Thank you for all that you do for the staff and students of TCUSD3!
Kim Porter & Suzanne Childers, THS
Suzanne Southworth, TJHS
Karen Mahan, Memorial
Christy Rahar, North
The TJHS track team wore orange ribbons in honor of Sam Hackler this evening. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.
Congratulations to the following students who guessed the winning book, The Sour Grape by Jory John and Pete Oswald, in our 2023 March Madness Tournament of Books.
Front row: Camdyn Letz, Braden Durbin, Ava Haws, Keyaira Jackson.
Back row: Trent Spannagel, Scott Stickel, Bristol Hughes, Rylie Oller, Reese Rodden, Lyla Whitlow, Brisa Samson, and our Title I Reading Teacher, Mrs Crane.
Project Based Learning Food Trucks are complete! They had to make a menu with prices, make an advertisement poster, build their truck, and present it to the class! This was so much fun! Great job third grade!
Our cafeteria is hiring!
Today is a regularly scheduled school day.
Today's weather update from EMA: 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm minor storm activity, after 5:00 pm and through the night there is a greater possiblity of stronger storm activity. If conditions change, we will adapt and alert.
First graders celebrated Spring by completing some Easter themed STEM centers. Pictured is Mrs. Haselhorst's class completing their center time. #HappySpring #STEMinfirst
Two groups representing TCUSD3 attended the Rochester STEM Fair last evening. Suzanne Specha took 3 students from North Elementary School and shared augmented reality projects and iPad apps. TommyTV students, Neil Hohenstein, and Adam Vocks demonstrated livestreaming and showcased the Best of TommyTV. A HUGE THANK YOU to both of these groups for proudly representing our school at the STEM Fair!
Congratulations to this week's Tornado Appreciation Award winners! This week's winners are Nellea Polley, Zettie Colbrook, Livia Havera, and Theresa Helton. These students were nominated by Mrs. Sorrill for their helpfulness in class!
Taylorville Youth Cheerleading
Grades K-8
