On behalf of the Taylor PTA, we are thankful for all of you and this wonderful Taylor community! We hope you have a wonderful holiday.

HAPPENING AT TAYLOR

How to Read Your Standards Based Report Card

We are looking forward to coming together on December 5^th for the PTA meeting. Katie Madigan, principal, along with Stephanie McIntyre, from the Office of Academics, will be joining us to help us understand and interpret all the information that we can glean from the standards based report card.

The annual Taylor “No Frills” Fundraiser is upon us

and we need your support!

The annual Taylor “No Frills” Fundraiser is upon us

We are almost 1/3 of the way to our goal, but still need your support!

Do your children enjoy going on field trips?

Do you like the variation of educational experiences they have in the form of assemblies, and STEAM programs?

Did they like the laser show??

Do you think the cafeteria could use some refreshing?

If the answer to any of these questions is YES, then PLEASE consider donating today to No Frills.  

For the 2023-2024 school year, in addition to the standard programming we supplement, we are focusing these funds on:

new and durable recess equipment, flexible seating for our pod classrooms, and cosmetic and acoustic updates to the cafeteria. 

No amount is too small! 

Please check if your employer offers donation matching and double your donation!

If we meet or exceed our goal of raising $30,000, we will be having

a school wide ice cream social for Taylor students!!

To make a donation, we are offering three convenient options:

1. Click or Scan the QR Code below. 

2. Online via Taylor PTA Website

3. Write a check! Checks can be made payable to Taylor PTA. Please mail checks to Taylor PTA No Frills @ 2600 N. Stuart Street Arlington, VA 22207.

STEAM DAY SUPPORTED NEEDED

Our first STEAM Day for the 2023-2024 school year is Tuesday, November 21st, 2023. All students will be rotating between four problem based challenges that focus on the 4 C’s (21st Century Skills). The 4 C’s are Collaboration, Communication, Critical Thinking, and Creativity. You can support this event in three ways:

1.   Donate NEWSPAPER in the main lobby starting on Monday, October 30th.

2.   “At Home Volunteers” to cut materials by Monday, November 13th. 

3.   “Day Of Volunteers” to support students as they participate in challenges. Volunteers will be assigned to support one specific challenge and all students from each grade level will rotate through each challenge.

Sign Up to be a “At Home Volunteer” and/or “Day Of Volunteer” HERE

Upcoming STEAM Dates:

STEAM Day: Tuesday, November 21st

STEAM Day: Wednesday, February 7th (early release)

Career Day: Tuesday, April 9th 

STEAM Day: Wednesday, June 5th (early release)

Tigers Helping Tigers and Foster Care Giving

This holiday season, we hope you'll consider honoring the tradition of supporting two important causes:

Foster Care Giving: gift cards will be given to children in foster care in Arlington. The gift cards will be given to children at a holiday party hosted by Arlington County's Child & Family Services Division.

Tigers Helping Tigers: support fellow Taylor families in need. Our school social worker will deliver gift cards to the appropriate families with a holiday greeting.

For both causes, our goal is to collect gift cards from local grocery stores and retailers for $20 to $50. The most requested retailer gift cards are: Safeway, Giant, Harris Teeter, Target, Amazon, Walmart, Marshalls, Old Navy, TJMaxx, Sephora, H&M, DSW and Chick Fila. If you would like to support this important cause, we ask that you sign up below 

SIGN UP HERE

Please deliver your card(s) by Monday December 4th in one of three ways:

1. Send e-gift cards directly from retailers to taylorelementarygiving@gmail.com. NOTE:  please also separately send an email to  taylorelementarygiving@gmail.com and we will confirm GCs were received

2. Drop off at the Taylor School front office. Please include a note to specify whether for Foster Care or Tigers Helping Tigers.

3. Drop off your gift card(s) in the mailbox at 4027 20th Street North, Arlington. 

Kidsgiving

KidsGiving will host our very own Giving Tuesday event at Taylor on November 28. This very popular event gives kids an opportunity to use their own money to support a local nonprofit. Any student who gives $1 or more will receive a thank you letter from the organization. Parents are also welcome to match donations too! Our donation station will be open before school from 8-9 am and after school from 3:30-5:30 pm by the front doors and students can support one or more of the following Arlington-based nonprofits: AFAC, Arlington Free Clinic, PathForward, EcoAction Arlington, Aspire!, and AWLA. Donation forms went home in Friday folders or you can print a donation form and help your child fill out the form and bring it in with their donations on Nov. 28.

On Saturday, December 2 from 10m-12pm, join us for the KidsGiving Fair at Arlington Science Focus School (1501 N Lincoln St) to meet, support and learn about the work of our 11 wonderful Arlington nonprofit partners. This is a free, family-friendly event with hands-on activities, kid raffle prizes and entertainment, and for every donation, shoppers will receive a KidsGiving holiday card for kids to decorate and give on behalf of a loved one. 

Upcoming Fundraising Events

As we approach the busiest time of the year, we wanted to let you know about 2 upcoming fundraising events.

Monday, November 27th is a Restaurant Night at The Simple Greek from 4 pm - 8 pm. They offer pre-scheduled pick up orders at https://order.thesimplegreek.com so you can place the order up to 2 hours in advance!  Leave the cooking to The Simple Greek and 20% of your order will support our PTA.

Monday, December 4th is our First Local Business Holiday Shop Night!  Shop at Lemoncello on December 4th between 10 AM - 6 PM - and then come back later to shop at Child’s Play Toy Store (Lee Heights location- 4510 Cherry Hill Rd, Arlington, VA 22207) on December 4th between 6 - 8 PM. Shop local, support local, support Taylor! 20% of all proceeds will benefit the Taylor PTA.

More details can be found at https://www.taylorpta.org/seasonal-shop

SCA Toy Collection

Taylor’s SCA is partnering with a Washington-Liberty High School Club (and former Taylor students) to collect NEW toy/game/book donations for The Jared Box Project. The Jared Box Project puts together boxes filled with fun activities, toys, games, and books which are given to young patients in emergency rooms, hospital rooms, surgical centers, and clinics. All toys must be new and must be small enough to fit into a shoe box. Washington-Liberty Jared Box Project students will be putting together the boxes and delivering them to INOVA Children’s Hospital in Falls Church. They have put together a wish list of items that will fit in the shoe boxes: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/AHOEJMUTXIL?ref_=wl_share

Please bring any donations to the Toy Drive box in the main lobby at Taylor. We will continue to collect donations until December 15^th.

Science Olympiad

The Taylor Science Olympiad team has wrapped up another exciting season! Their hard work learning science & engineering paid off in the November 4th Virginia State Science Olympiad Competition. Out of 34 teams of 3rd-5th graders, Taylor students won the following medals!

- 1st place in Rubber Band Cars: Karl Christensen & Steve Cui

- 4th place in Rubber Band Helicopters: Harper Burns & Noreen Dhaliwal

- 4th place in Wright Stuff Airplanes: Dex Weaver & Markus Krumins

- 6th place in Air Rockets: Oliver Shum-Sanders & Isabella Calfee

Join us next season in September 2024!

Head Coach: scienceolympiad@taylorpta.org

Taylor 2023-2024 Online Directory



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Calling all Student Artists - Explore the Arts, and Express Yourself!

Taylor is proud to be participating in the National PTA Reflections program this year and supports our school’s long-standing commitment to arts education. The Reflections program provides opportunities for recognition and access to the arts which boost student confidence and success in the arts and in life. Each year, over 300,000 students in Pre-K through Grade 12 create original works of art in response to a student-selected theme. This 50+ year-old program helps them explore their own thoughts, feelings and ideas, develop artistic literacy, increase confidence and find a love for learning that will help them become more successful in school and in life.

This year’s theme is I am Hopeful Because

How to Participate:

• Review the Participation Guidelines (you do not need to submit the guideline form back; just your student entry form)
• Get to creating!
• Submit your entry before 11/29/2023. Approximately 2 weeks prior to the deadline, a small bin will be located in the lobby for students to drop off their original work, and student entry form. 

All documents can be found here.

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