Mountaineer News week of Nov. 15th
$1.00 Pajama Day Thursday, Nov. 18th for the Taylor County Foster Closet.
Thank you to all Veterans! A special Thank You to the Color Guard that helped with the flag folding ceremony at the 4th grade Veterans Day Program on Friday.
Please fill out the survey if you want for your child to participate in the vaccine clinic provided through the Grafton Taylor Health Department.
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=S7AZ4AwzekaLrgn7FzdNakpIvBnQ6XZGiP43XTQhasZURE5DMUxGOEw5NElPSlMxWlBVV1E5Skg2TS4u
To be able to get the vaccine you have to fill out a consent form and return it to school before the clinic. If you need a copy of the consent form please contact your child’s teacher to send home another copy with them next week.
Let’s Go Bearcats!
Go Bearcats! 💙🏈💛
Here are the scheduled 2 Hour Early Release dates for the 2021-22 school year.
November 15, 2021
January 31, 2022
March 2, 2022
May 6, 2022
You can also find this and other important dates by downloading the TCS App.
Reminder Veterans Day is Thursday.
The Grafton Taylor Health Department has volunteered to conduct vaccine clinics in our schools for students ages 5-11 for parents that want their child to participate. Please complete the link to the survey below by Wednesday, November 10, 2021.
Link to survey:
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=S7AZ4AwzekaLrgn7FzdNakpIvBnQ6XZGiP43XTQhasZURE5DMUxGOEw5NElPSlMxWlBVV1E5Skg2TS4u
Reminder: No school for students on Wednesday, Nov. 10th - Parent/Teacher Conferences
Taylor County remains red on the WVDHHR map today, November 7, 2021. Taylor County Schools will remain masked in all facilities and on our buses for the next 14 days .
Just A Reminder that Picture Day is Monday! This is for retakes or for students that missed the first picture day.
Our second graders worked hard on turning a pumpkin into a fictional or nonfictional character and presenting in front of the class facts about what or who they created.
Students enjoyed a drone demonstration in front of the school this week.
Miss West Virginia Teen USA, Brylee Knotts spoke with our third and fourth grade students about positive events in their life.
Mrs. Tennant had the students make glowing art in art class this past week. Two first grade classes worked together to make a midnight sky with glowing stars and stretched cotton ball clouds. While 3rd and 4th grade classes painted colorful sugar skulls.
The staff had a great time decorating a scarecrow that has been displayed all month on the awning in front of the house,
This week we had a special visitor to the school, WV Author and Illustrator Ashley Belote. She read to the whole school via TEAMS her most recent book that she illustrated titled "Frankenslime". She also showed them how to make one of the slime recipes from the back of the book and how to illustrate Igor on of the characters in the book.
All of our students enjoyed Spooky Relays this week in gym class with Mrs. Dye! The students raced being zombies and practiced sliding. Students practiced galloping, running, and balance strategies while being witches. They then turned into skeletons and had to work hard on balance and coordination while trying to bring back as many eyeballs as they could to their pumpkins. The 2-4 grades also raced boys vs. girls to see who could wrap one of their peers up as a mummy
Today is our costume parade! 🎃
