8th grade science students have adopted pet rocks! Students named them, identified the rock type, and took quantitative measurements. 🪨🔬🥼
Mrs. Othic and Mrs.Stillwell reviewed this years World History with break out boxes. Awesome problem solving by these students! #TigerPride
These athletes scored Gold in all 4 categories of the State Fitness Test. This ranks them in top 95% of students their age in America. So Proud of them! #TigerPride
Mrs. Potter’s class coded their micro bits to play rock, paper scissors! #TigerPride
Mrs. Potter’s 6th grade tech class coded their microbits to be step counters and took a walk around the building! #TigerPride
Our WMS gifted classes participated in action research as they examined our school's wifi network. Students researched wifi networks, toured the server room, and collected information on how our school network is structured. Then, they wrote research plans, choosing their research questions and methodology. Students then collected network upload/download speed data in all their classrooms over a couple of weeks. Finally, they analyzed their data and presented their findings to our WSD Tech Department. In the end, students saw real changes happen to technology support and hardware in specific areas of our building after identifying wifi connection patterns.
We want to thank Mr. Anstine, Mr. Case, Mr. Nichols, and Ms. Allen for giving our students an authentic learning experience. #tigerpride
This week our WMS gifted classes used the engineering design process to think about how the ancient Egyptians might have used inclined planes to build the Great Pyramid of Giza. They also calculated the ideal and actual mechanical advantage of different theories and the number of people needed to move just one of the 2.3 million stones. #tigerpride
Burton’s 8th graders won the intramural for April’s hockey competition! #TigerPride
Geometry really measures up! Ms. Cline’s 7th grade math students using their tools to measure and construct precise angles. #TigerPride
These athletes scored Gold in all 4 categories of the State Fitness Test. This ranks them in top 95% of students their age in America. So Proud of them! #TigerPride
8th grade Medical Detectives students have been busy learning about the nervous system, and today dissected a sheep brain! #TigerPride
6th grade Quest students participated in a field trip to UCM's Max B. Swisher Skyhaven Airport and to UCM's Recreational Center last Friday. A big thank you to Beth Rutt, Betsy Kreisel and all the airport sponsors who helped create an awesome field trip for our students. #TigerPride
7th grade students are coding their own ending to the book, Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds. The book ends in a cliff hanger, so the students get to choose their own adventure! Thank you to Kelly Pryde for all the awesome things she does with our students! #TigerPride
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Come support the Tiger Shake on April 29 at Culvers!!!! #TigerPride
Congratulations to the WMS math teams who competed in the Central District Math Association contest on Saturday. All participants worked hard and showed their tiger PRIDE by earning many top 10 places in a variety of math tests.
6th grade participants were Suri , Lucy , Daniel , Reece , Nathan , Kurtis , Kaitlyn , Erin , Allis and Harper .
7th grade participants were Matthew , Carsten , Grace , Callie , Ayden , Kasen , Angelina , Reba , Halle and Addison .
8th grade participants were Alayna , Tori , Gunner , Luke , Travis , Ryan , Joely , Angela and Ryleigh .
As a school, WMS placed second over all, just behind Bueker Middle School in Marshall. The top two 6th graders overall were Nathan and Kurtis . The second place overall 7th grader was Carsten .
A BIG thank you to all of the staff and teachers who volunteered their time on Saturday to help make this opportunity possible for our students.
Our WMS and WHS Science Olympiad team traveled to Springfield over the weekend to compete against the top 64 Division B and C teams in Missouri. We had several WMS event teams bring home hardware!
Our winning teams were:
Gerrit and Gavin - 4th place in Flight
Gavin and Johnathan - 4th place in Meteorology
Kellen and Peyton - 5th place in Forestry
Luke and Gerrit - 6th place in Road Scholar
Maddox and Kellen - 6th place in Roller Coaster
William and Peyton - 6th place in Dynamic Planet
This concludes our Science Olympiad season. Our kids worked hard and the efforts paid off! Congratulations, all!!
If you are interested in doing Science Olympiad next school year at WMS or WHS, please see Dr. Comerford (WMS) or Ms. Hunter (WHS).
On Friday, WSD teams participated in a GooseChase experience at the Springfield Botanical Gardens, completing missions to find specific items or perform specific actions. More Goosechase photos and videos can be found at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nn_QRzJp2DyikNwO5TLJ0BIFOFMfzkyq/view?usp=sharing
7th grade Social Studies students in Mrs Stillwell’s classes created Olympic board games and spent the past couple of days strategizing and playing their games while learning about Ancient Greece! #TigerPride
"The MCEC Call for the Arts program invites military-connected children from all over the world, representing every branch of service, to share interpretations through art of what it means to be a military-connected child."
For more information and to register, click the link below:
https://www.militarychild.org/programs/the-call-for-the-arts
6th Grade Math Team is practicing for our upcoming Math Contest! #TigerPride
