Taylor Canyon Elementary

Thank you to everyone who shared their favorite memories of Taylor Canyon Elementary school.
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Our students had a lot of fun for Read Across America Week. Our PTA helped us to have fun dress up days throughout the week, they invited WSU athletes to read to our students, PTA provided some fun prize give aways throughout the week, and they sponsored a read-a-thon. I also took the opportunity to read a Dr. Seuss book in our monthly assembly. The picture is of our mustache day to celebrate the Lorax Dr. Seuss story - notice all of the yellow mustaches.

It's time for us to share some more celebrations happening at Taylor Canyon! Here are pictures of our Principal Wolf Pack activity for December. We played balloon volleyball with the students who were drawn from our High Paw tickets, and who were nominated as scholars of the month. I have also included pictures of students who earned an ice cream treat because of their classes good behavior during lunch. Finally, there is a picture of some of the Taylor Canyon staff as we prepared to take a walking tour of the new Polk Elementary. We are so excited to be able to enjoy such a beautiful new school next year!

Over the past few weeks, our students have been battling between classes with our penny wars. Penny Wars is a fund raiser that we do each November to raise money to help some of our TCES families with Christmas. Our students also earn rewards from the teachers as they raise money. The rewards are often funny activities that the teachers and staff perform for our Holiday Assembly. Our students earned over $2000 and we had a lot of fun at our assembly. Here is the link for anyone wanting to view the silly rewards that students earned:
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I want to give another shout out to our PTA and our students. Our PTA has been hosting a school wide Read-a-thon where students track their reading minutes at home. Then the PTA provides rewards for the classes with the most reading minutes logged. One of the rewards was to invite me in this wonderful turkey costume to read a fun book in the winning classroom. Great job students! And, thank you for your support PTA!

Ms. Robinson's ALA class has been making some really fun imaginative creatures using Greek and Latin roots to help them to build vocabulary. Here are some examples. Check out some of our student created words using these roots (i.e. VorVelo-Toxi, Dino-Igna-Sauros, Archea-Cosm-Sauros, etc.).

We had a bunch of fun during this past week's Principal Wolf Pack Activity! Each month I invite students who earn scholar of the month plus another forty students whose names get drawn for High Paw Tickets (Good Behavior) and for completing academic goals to join me for a monthly activity. This past month we had a skate party in the cafeteria. I think the students had a great time! I know I did.