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Tornado apparel order - extended deadline. Order today!
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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
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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.
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Congratulations to the following students who guessed the correct book, The Sour Grape by Jory John and Pete Oswald, as the winner of our 2023 March Madness Tournament of Books.
Front row: Candy 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.
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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!
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Our cafeteria is hiring!
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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.
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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!
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Taylorville Youth Cheerleading
Grades K-8
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Attention Parents: Preschool screening is open for the 23-24 school year. Call Central School at (217) 824-5050 to sign up.
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ONE WEEK LEFT!
Just a reminder that your student will receive a prize and you (parent) will be to be entered into a drawing for an Amazon gift card for taking the 5-Essentials survey. Click on the link or QR code to complete the survey or log in to take a screenshot of your survey completion to send to your child's teacher.
http://survey.5-essentials.org/illinois/survey/parent/
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Congratulations to the February Students of the Month at Memorial Elementary!
Front row: Reid Shaw
2nd row: Madison Roberts, Mia Siempelkamp, Presley Campbell, Remy Snyder, Olivia Hardin and Alaina Wesley
Back row: Payton White, Brisa Samson, Sarah Sedlock, AuBree Durbin, Whitt Brown and Jud Shanks
First National Bank of Taylorville Representative: Stephanie Longden
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Memorial Elementary will be hosting our Spring Scholastic Book Fair March 27-31. We are looking for volunteers to help. Please click on the link to sign up.
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Miss Bitschenauer’s class has been researching different types of frogs and toads in class after learning the frog life cycle. Students made a slideshow with facts of their frog or toad assigned to them to present to the class. They got to learn how to include pictures in google slides and search the internet in a kid friendly way!
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Celebrating Read Across America Week this week. Happy Wacky Wednesday!
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Miss McCallister’s class is working hard on geometry! Today we went on an “angle hunt”. We found different angles consisting of acute, right & obtuse angles!
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The Unified Tornadoes group spent time at Memorial Elementary School today making cookies.
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Tuesday is the deadline to order yearbooks for Memorial Elementary. Click on the link to order online. http://inter-state.com/flyerentry/74614R
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TCUSD3 Cafeteria is hiring!
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Miss Basil’s class has some Valentine fun with Candy Heart Fractions.
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