Ms. Brown's Physics class spent a week engineering paper marble roller coasters to review concepts of distance, displacement, velocity, and acceleration.
The Christian County CEO program traveled to Chicago to visit Draper & Kramer and Antares Financial. Thank you to Bill Barry and Dan Barry and their respective teams for sharing their knowledge, experience, and tips on success.
Christian County CEO members include Olivia Woodward, Mia Morelock, Owen Morgan, Jesse Sloan, Jack Chesser, Seth Daum, Jay Bliler, Drew Mickey, Jake Whetsell, Brenton Good, Emma Althoff, Hallie Smith, Mylie Sims, Milana Henson, Jordan Staples, Brock Daugherty, Audrey Curtin, Chloe Grant, Ella Moreland, Andie Koontz, and Carter Donnan.
Shannon Culberson and Casie Matthews from Midland Community Bank spoke to the STW and Accounting 2 classes.
Second graders enjoyed a STEM lesson on catapults. We followed experiment directions, made predictions about out outcomes, and recorded our data using a google form. Some excellent work was on display today!
Picture Day Update and Date Change--TJHS will host picture day on Thursday, October 26, not on Oct 19 as originally posted. Please anticipate the picture forms coming home soon and we hope to see lots of smiling faces each and every day!
Parent/Teacher Conferences are coming to TJHS!
Wed, Nov 8 (11-3 pm and 4-7 pm)
Thurs, Nov 9 (8-11 am)
If you have questions please call 824-4924 and ask for Mr. Peabody.
Congrats to our JH Girls' Cross Country team who qualified for state as a team for the first time in TJHS school history. Jackson May qualified on the boys side of things. Good luck to all who are running this Saturday, at the state race in Bloomington-Normal! Great job by our staff in hosting the sectional as well!!!
Join us for the Taylorville Public Schools Foundation McTeacher Night on October 26th from 4-8 PM!
TJHS September Miller Media Group and Peoples Bank & Trust grade level students of the month along with Mr. Randal J. Miller and Mrs. Lindsay Lopian.
(L-R) Camille Nash (5), Annabella Blue (6), Haylee Davis (7), and Tinsley DeClerck (8)
Meet our Sept Students of the Month at TJHS--our Tornado Trait of the Month was "Compassion"--showing concern for the well-being of others. Congratulations to these outstanding young leaders.
Back: Tinsley Declerck, Reagan Fassero, Ella Mills, Destiny Marrow, Addison Newlin, Logan Barry, Liam Davis, Brock Brown, Brooklyn Little, Shelby Mullins
Middle: Anna-Lou Hamell, Annabella Blue, Haylee Davis, Kayden Turner, Jayse Carlile, Evan Boblitt, Vinny Verardi, Bode Woodall, Jaylynn DeVore, Vivian Smith, Sophie Allen, Maliyah Thompson, Cooper Riva
Front: Emily Brown, Judson Shanks, Mia Siempelkamp, Maelee Morrissey, Logan Sterns, Braden Durbin, Amber Achenbach, Reagan Smith
Pic 2: Camille Nash, Journie Rogers
Mrs. Tucker's life skills class and Mrs. Johnson's 5th grade class joined together recently for a BINGO session. The kids absolutely loved it and had a great time supporting one another! We are better, when we get together!!
Our 8th grade ELA students are currently working on a Descriptive Writing Unit. Students are learning how to incorporate voice in their writing. Mrs. Graves and Mrs. Alberssen said, "This is pretty cool! We are using an idea that we got from attending one of the Smekens online Webinars!!!😜The kids are really getting into it!"
Mesage from Mrs. Reber's class--"We were coding the Spheros to revolve around the "sun" as if they were Earth. We then coded them to stop at each season and change color. Once they were finished, they added sounds and other features. It was so much fun!"
Mrs Howard's class is playing Disc Golf today. We received the targets and discs through a grant from Taylorville Public Schools Foundation
Tornadoes Fight Cancer! Friday, October 6th is our Pink Out Game! Taylorville Tornadoes vs. Mattoon Green Wave.
The Taylorville High School Choirs will present the annual Fall Demonstration Concert on Thursday, Oct. 5 beginning at 7:00p in the THS Cafeteria. This first concert of the year serves as a demonstration of the learning process that the students go through while preparing for the performance. In addition to several finished songs, the combined THS Choirs will present some of the warm-up and vocal flexibility exercises that are used in the classroom.
The THS Choirs will be previewing several pieces of music from the Illinois Music Educators Association District 5 Music Festival, which will take place on November 18 on the campus of Eastern Illinois University. These pieces include a gospel style song called “Sing Out My Soul”, a beautiful contemporary choral piece called “The Sun Never Says”, a mashup of two popular Broadway songs called “Found/Tonight”, and the traditional spiritual “Daniel, Daniel, Servant of the Lord”.
Don't forget to support the Taylorville Junior High Booster Club Fall Fundraiser 2023 by purchasing some Tornadoes apparel! Follow this link: https://taylorvillejhboosterfall2023.itemorder.com/shop/home/
31 THS students and staff joined together at the flagpole for See You At The Pole to pray for our government and city leaders, staff, and students. This was our FCA.
Our first Tornado Futures of the year was held today at THS! Today's topic was Business.
TJHS students gathered in two groups, 5 & 6th and 7 & 8th at the See You At The Pole. Students and staff prayed and also told what they were thankful for this school year.
