School of Innovation

STEM PROJECTS Members of Mr. Haywood's STEM class created colonies on Mars. They designed these colonies using Minecraft and shared their creativity during class presentations. Great job, everyone!

EdRISING SPECIALITY SPEAKER SERIES Next in our EdRising Specialty Speaker Series is Ms. Paula Pleasant. Ms. Pleasant is Greenup County's Teacher of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. On Friday, students learned about career paths, assistive technologies, modes of communication, and some basic sign. Ms. Pleasant worked with students to finger spell their names and shared a few of her tools and manipulatives. Thank you, Ms. Pleasant, for coming to share your experience and expertise with our students! 🤟🏼

NEW AED We have the most amazing school nurse at WMS! She wrote a grant for our building to get a second automated external defibrillator (AED) through KDMC. This will allow us to install a second unit upstairs. Thank you to Nurse Tara Adams and to our friends at KDMC!

HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM Oh, the fragrances of this dish! Braylon Chandley is a natural at this "cooking thing"! His tomato pasta was delicious! The sauce was made completely from scratch. The aroma was amazing! Great job, Braylon! 👏🏼

EASTER PAINT KITS Members of our Cats' Creations class are selling paint kits for Easter. There are two paint kit options available, and the kits come with paint and brushes. There are 15 kits available for purchase. Get yours today for only $15.00!

ANOTHER GIVE IT AWAY, GIVE IT AWAY, GIVE IT AWAY NOW! We are grateful for our community, and our students want to continue giving back to you for supporting them! How do you participate?! Like the WMS Facebook page, like and share this post, and drop a comment on the original post for a chance to win this strawberry-themed cup made of beautiful frosted glass. The drawing will be held next Wednesday. Good luck!

COLLEAGUE CREDIT Tonya Bullion shares that Mrs. Logsdon loves her job! She often opens the door to students each morning and greets them with a smile. Thank you for all you do, Mrs. Logsdon!

READER OF THE WEEK Mrs. Logsdon shares that, on multiple occassions, Dakota has volunteered to read passages aloud in reading class. His volunteering to read has inspired his peers to do the same! READERS ARE LEADERS AT WURTLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL!

WILDCAT OF THE WEEK On several occasions, Brooklyn has shown kindness to both her peers and members of the faculty. She always volunteers to help organize the ChromeBooks. She also made little paper stars to give to her pen pals. Just today, she offered a piece of candy to another student.

CATS SPREADING SOME LOVE Members of our Cats' Creations class spent time making Valentines and spreading love throughout the building yesterday. We love the good hearts of our students!

A TASTE OF FRENCH CUISINE Today, Damian Smith taught Mrs. Shannon's class how he makes French toast. He did a great job! What a delicious start to our second semester of Hospitality and Tourism!

BLASTS FROM THE PAST Students in Mrs. Long’s class traveled back to the 80s today! They listened to three different love ballads and had to write a persuasive response for their favorite song providing evidence and reasons. The choices were “Faithfully” by Journey, “I Can’t Fight This Feeling Anymore” by REO Speedwagon, and “Heaven” by Bryan Adams. They voted on their favorites, and the lucky winner will be played during tomorrow’s morning announcements!

SPECIALTY SPEAKER SERIES What a SWEET TREAT!!! Mrs. Amanda Greene, teacher for the blind and visually impaired, stopped by to visit with EdRising students today. She shared her path to becoming a VI teacher and let students see and experience many of her specialty tools and materials. We are so fortunate to have Mrs. Greene in our district! Thank you for coming to share with us today!

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Students in Mrs. Logsdon's class continued their lesson on meiosis with a final review of finding traits for both parents. Students then determined the traits offspring would have using the Punnett square and then the phenotype needed make the class dragon baby.

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GROCERIES, OUTER SPACE, AND LISTS Students in the classes of Mrs. Brumfield have been working hard this week! They used a grocery list to practice brainstorming ideas, then grouping them into bigger categories for composition. Students also applied the strategy to a debatable topic and text set about space. MRS. BRUMFIELD AND HER STUDENTS ARE DOING THINGS WRITE AT WURTLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL!

MEIOSIS CREATURES Students in Mrs. Logsdon's class are enjoying their unit on meiosis and learning about dominant and recessive traits. They created a creature, Reebop, based on the genetype that were drawn from a bucket to determine the phenotype. They then had to draw their creature based on those traits. This is imaginative and engaging learning!

TEXT MAPPING Text mapping, developed by Dave Middlebrook in the 1990s, is a visual technique to help students understand how information is organized in content area texts, especially textbooks. Students mark sections of the text and the included features. We love this work!

NATIONAL GEOGRPAHIC EXPLORER: OCEANS Last week, students participated in a question and answer session with National Geographic Explorers. Students asked great questions about oceans!