We LOVE when Mr. Dave comes! Hands on Science is so fun! Not to mention job embedded PD for our teachers! #wmsismakingideashappen #thepromsingchoice
More 5th graders working on their mixture and solution lab in Science!
5th grade students were separating a mixture of powder, salt and gravel with a secret ingredient they had to find in class last week! They had a blast! #wmsismakingideashappen
A WMS PTO meeting will be held at 5:50 pm on Monday, 9/17 in the cafeteria.
The WMS Report to Public will be held at 5:30 on Monday, 9/17 in the cafeteria.
We love college shirt Wednesdays! Mrs. G's 5th grade ELA class was representing LA Tech, UALR, SAU, and U of A! #thepromisingchoice #wmsismakingideashappen
5th grade picture day was today, 6th graders don't forget your pictures are tomorrow! Everyone will have their picture taken for the yearbook- parents can also purchase pictures with packets sent home last week!
Parent Volunteer Training will be held in the library this Thursday at 8:15 am. If you would like to volunteer this year at WMS please make sure you can attend this training. If you are unable to attend please contact our Parent Involvement Coordinator.
Students at WMS have been learning all the library rules and procedures through #breakoutedu Students have been working in cooperative groups to solve puzzles and clues to "breakout" of the library! #wmsismkaingideashappen
Picture day envelopes were sent home yesterday. Please check your child's backpack. 5th grade pictures will be taken Sept. 11th and 6th grade pictures will be taken Sept. 12th!
Today students in Mrs. Savage's 5th grade science class worked on a Mixtures and Solutions Lab! #wmsmismakingideashappen
WMS has officially started our reading and math competitions! Winners of the competitions will be rewarded with an awesome overnight field trip on the Magical Mystery Tour! You won't want to miss this! More details coming soon!
This week our 6th grade students started building PIPER computers. Students used blueprints to build the computer casing. Next they will put together the electronics of the computer! #wmsismakingideashappen
WMS STEAM students built balloon and straw powered cars this week! Congrats to our long distance winners Joshua Ford, Jarett Baker, and McCoy Davison!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdVThpK8WeE
Our Library MakerSpace is up and running this week! Students can earn tickets in their classes for a chance to bring a friend and hangout in our MakerSpace! #wmsismakingideashappen
Today 6th grade science students worked on starting the WMS garden! Students will learn about the scientific method as they watch things grow! #wmsismakingideashappen
Students in STEAM had to use the engineering design process to create a tower at least 10 cm off the ground that would hold a tennis ball aloft. They were given 5 straws, 4 coffee stirrers, 8 Popsicle sticks, string, and tape. #wmsismakingideashappen
Last week in STEAM students worked in teams and were told to design a shoe using only tape and newspaper! #wmsismakingideashappen #thepromisingchoice
WMS has the BEST PTO! Thank you so much for our waters today! Just the hydration we needed to get through this first Friday!
Thank you El Dorado Missionary Baptist for the goodies on our first day! It made all of our teacher's day just a little sweeter!
Students and teachers had a great first day! In Mrs. Sprawls class students played a getting to know you index card challenge! #wmsismakingideashappen #thepromisingchoice #ESDfirstday
Thank you El Dorado Fire Department and volunteers for helping our 5th graders learn how to use their lockers this morning! #firstday #thepromisingchoice
Welcome Mrs. Tamekia Kesee! She will be teaching 5th and 6th grade STEM and PE. Mrs. Kesee is a proud graduate of SAU! WMS is so excited to have her on our team this year!!
Welcome Mrs. Angula Davis! She will be teaching 5th and 6th grade mini music as well as musical production. We are so excited she is at WMS this year!
Mrs. Dana Love will be teaching 5th and 6th grade mini art at WMS this year! WMS is so excited she is here! Interesting facts about Mrs. Love- her husband teaches music at Northwest and she plans to retire in Berlin! Welcome Mrs. Love!
Welcome Mrs. Katie Carroll! She will be teaching 6th grade literacy this year for WMS! She is a proud SAU graduate and is excited to be back at Washington as a teacher!
Welcome Mrs. Dorinda Stephens! Mrs. Stephens will be teaching 5th and 6th grade learning skills at WMS this year. She has been a paraprofessional in our district for over 15 years and is now back as a teacher! YAY Mrs. Stephens! We are so excited you're at WMS!
Welcome Mrs. Brianna Sheeley! Mrs. Sheeley will be teaching 5th grade math at WMS this year! Interesting fact about Mrs. Sheeley- she use to teach in Barbados! WMS is so excited to welcome Mrs. Sheeley to our team!
Welcome Mrs. Tobie Sprawls! Mrs. Sprawls will be teaching 5th grade Innovation Station, 5th grade math, and 5th & 6th grade competition STEM. We are so excited for Mrs. Sprawls to join the WMS staff!
Welcome Mr. Andrew McDaniel! He will be teaching 5th grade social studies this year at WMS. Mr. McDaniel is a proud Henderson State University Graduate! WMS is so glad you are here Mr. McDaniel!
Welcome Mrs. Tara Watts! Mrs. Watts will be teaching 5th grade literacy this year at WMS! Interesting fact about Mrs. Watts- she has worked 10 years in the entertainment industry! We are so excited to welcome you to the WMS staff Mrs. Watts!
Welcome to WMS Mr. Kyle Strobel! He will be teaching 6th grade math this year. Interesting fact about Mr. Strobel- He LOVES to rock climb and graduated from Washington University in St. Louis!
Welcome Cody Wales! Mr. Wales will be teaching health/PE and robotics this year at WMS! We are so excited to welcome Mr. Wales to the WMS staff!
Ms. Morgan Pitts will be teaching 6th grade literacy! Welcome Ms. Pitts! Fun fact about Ms. Pitts- she is double jointed.
Mrs. Brinkley Aycock will be teaching 5th and 6th grade art! Fun fact about Mrs. Aycock- she LOVES Marvel comics!
Welcome Mrs. Melissa Colorigh! Mrs. Colorigh will be teaching 6th grade science at WMS this year! We are so excited for her to join the WMS staff! Interesting fact about Mrs. Colorigh- she LOVES to travel!
Elizabeth Nelson will be teaching 6th grade science this year! Interesting fact about Ms. Nelson- she played ultimate frisbee in college!
Mrs. Amanda Griffin worked at WMS last year as a paraprofessional and is joining our team this year as a 6th grade pre AP social studies!
Mrs. Ebony Flannigan attended WMS when it was Rogers and is now back as a teacher! She will be teaching 6th grade literacy. Welcome to WMS!
WMS has several AMAZING new teachers this year! We will be introducing a different one each day! Stay tuned!
Come grab your schedules and meet your teachers!
Our WMS Waiting to Excel students are enjoying the MakerSpace this summer! #wmsismakingideashappen
The WMS library will be open every Mon. and Tues. in June from 9:30am- 10:30am this summer! Students can check out books and take AR tests!
The WMS Art Show was AMAZING! We have the most talented students! Great job Mrs. Harwell, and thank you Mr. Jorge and Mrs. Maria!
We would love for everyone to come join us at the SAAC tonight from 5:30- 7:00 pm. WMS Artwork from the musical will be on display!
Washington Middle School has the BEST PTO!! Thank you all so much for making all of our teachers feel so special this week!!
Mrs. Hickmott's classes have been working with 3-d pens to complete a project over volume and surface area in 3-d geometry!
Students with 300 or more AR points were rewarded with a trip to the Museum of Natural Resources. Students created objects with a 3D pen!
Thank you First Assembly Church for providing our staff with pizza! Your kind gesture was much appreciated!
WMS Stem competition students are having a great time at the Science Destination STEM challenge at Iron Mountain.
Our Orchestra students work so hard all year! Come see how amazing they are at their spring concert!
AND THE WINNER IS... Magnus Chase! Our students are loving this book! Check out your copy in the library today!
Congratulations El Dorado School District Student and Teacher of the Month- Maria Ruiz and Mr. John Thompson! WMS was well represented!!
Congratulations to Becca Hooks, Stormey Barker, and Vincent Zou, winners of Mr. Thompson's flag challenge!
Last week the Governor came to El Dorado to see how we use coding throughout our curriculum. WMS was represented well! Great Job students!
It's to the BIG GAME! Who will win?
BJHS Volleyball tryouts are Monday from 4-6. A bus will take students from WMS to BJHS if your student needs transportation.
Check out our latest WMS Newscast!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esnr-M7MDhI
Who will win? Voting is open now, stop by the library to vote for your favorites!
Thank you South Central Coop for the new LEGO table for our MakerSpace! Students are loving it! They are tinkering away!
A Tournament of Books is underway here at WMS. Who will win the 2018 championship? Voting is open now!
How do you keep your students focused the day before spring break? #breakoutEDU #wmsismakingideashappen
The WMS yearbook is going to be AMAZING! You don't want to miss this! Order yours today!
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WMS had so much fun during our STEAM day Friday! Cityscapes was great! So much learning took place! Homeroom Winners announced Thursday!
We are having so much fun with our CityScapes unit in Math!
Mrs. Harwell's art classes are having so much fun with Cityscape!
We are loving Cityscapes! Here students are using their handmade clinometers outside to measure the height of tall objects around campus!
Everyone got their CityScapes shirts today! We will wear them Thursday March 1st, Wednesday March 7th, and Friday March 9th.
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Help support our cause! http://bit.ly/2EG6cGK
A HUGE thank you to the parents that provided pizza and pies to our staff yesterday! We so appreciate your kind message and gesture!
Yesterday students recording the functions of the different organelles of plant and animal cells with Ms. Kozubski and Mrs. Turner!
Next big event tee shirt on sale now $15. Students have been given order forms.
More photos from our VEX IQ tournament at HSU this past weekend. One of our teams placed 7th out of 30 teams!
Check out our students participating in a VEX robotics competition at HSU last Saturday!
Come to our family book fair event tonight!! We have books for ALL ages!
The WMS Scholastic Book Fair is here! We are open today through Friday 7:30 am- 4:00 pm! Come grab some great books! #scholastic
Check out a 360 photo of our book fair that starts MONDAY!
http://wmslibrarymediacenter.weebly.com/book-fair.html
WMS has started our 6th grade drone unit! Every 6th grade student will learn to code drones!
Congratulations George Yin for placing 2nd in our county spelling bee! You rock!
WMS is headed to Orlando in just a few days! We are so excited to be a featured presenter at this year's FETC conference!
Costumes are underway for our Alice in Wonderland performance in May! Thank you studio art for all of your hard work!
Competition STEM has been working hard! Several competitions this month! Keep up the hard work!
Students with 70 or more AR points were rewarded with a special field trip to the bowling alley last Friday!
Save the Date for the WMS Book Fair! It will be Feb. 5th- 9th in the Library Media Center.
This week our students have been able to attend field trips to a local African American history museum!
This week, Mr. Thompson's classes practiced their awesome graphing skills by reflecting and rotating letters!
George Yin is the WMS spelling bee winner! George is a 5th grader and will represent WMS in the county wide spelling bee January 24th. Saara Mohandas was our runner up! Congrats George and Saara!
Our ornaments are hanging at the White House!
More Hour of Code! So fun!! These photos are from 5th grade literacy classes! Way to go teachers and students!
Today some of our girls are at the Girls of Promise Coding Summit!
Our students had a blast with the hour of code this week! Here they made "Slay the Dragon" hats. This was one game they coded!
This week our students have participated in the HOUR OF CODE! We love seeing them have so much fun coding!
WMS is so excited to be one of only 3 middle school finalists for the 2018 STEM Excellence Awards!
El Dorado School District will have a 1:30 dismissal Tuesday, December 19.
Picture retakes will be Thursday, Dec. 7th at 8:00 am!
The WMS Cinematography class worked on a Thanksgiving animation last week. Check it out!
https://youtu.be/c0iTT7lPXQM
6th grade Pre AP students participated in a #BreakoutEDU to review their most recent classroom novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
More photos from our field trip this week to reward our Fairy Tale Fever winners!
Students and homeroom classes that won contests during Fairy Tale Fever were rewarded with a field trip yesterday!
Students worked hard in the library for the past two days creating interactive posters using Scratch and Makey Makey!
Mrs. Wiley"s class enjoyed a math workshop today following a math show in the gym by a math theater group out of Fayetteville.
Please scan this at Brookshires on NW Avenue with your purchase. WMS will get "Cash for Schools!"
Attention students and parents: school will dismiss at 1:30 on Friday, November 17.
So proud of our WMS beginning band in concert last! Great job students!!
During our STEAM DAY students created dioramas of fables. Check out just a few of our favorites!
Jack and the Beanstalk was one of the challenges for STEAM DAY! Students had to get Jack and an egg down safely.
One of our stations for STEAM DAY was a Kahoot Challenge!
Check out our video to see a few of our favorite PIG HOUSES created during Fairy Tale Fever!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFbbV4_w9Rs
Teachers when through a fairy-tale themed obstacle course that finished with them floating across the river on a student made boat!
Hoping these will become castles!
A room full of great consultants. Taking a break after a few hours of hard work. We could not do it without you guys!
Painting our boats.
Some interesting boat designs. We will find out Tuesday if they will float the teacher.
Friday was our first STEAM DAY of the year, and man it was great! Here are some pictures from Mrs. Rynders's homeroom!
For Fairy Tale Fever students completed a Goldilocks lab, testing the temperature of the porridge!
Remember parents, students will need one shoe box or pizza box each for our STEAM DAY tomorrow! Also any size plastic soda bottles, milk jugs, water bottles, etc.
No new items, only recyclables!
6th graders new to STEAM are learning about buoyancy with Mr. Dave!
Picture day will be Monday, October 30th. EVERY student will take a photo for the yearbook. Look for forms next week to purchase photos.
Fairy Tale Fever is in full swing here at WMS! Ms. Young's class has been comparing and contrasting fairy tales!
Students in STEM Competition class are learning to code drones!
Fairy Tale T shirts were handed out today! We are wearing them 10/17, 10/24, 10/27, 10/31. Can't wait to see everyone in them!
Fairy Tale Fever begins NOW!!!
https://youtu.be/oR2uI2f0XAs
Students with 30 or more AR points had their reward today! Congratulations top readers! #thepromnisingchoice #welovetoread
This week Mr. Thompson's class did a card sort to find the relationships between rates, decimals, percents, and graphs.
Check out our Fine Arts Fright Night Fundraiser!
6th grade students have been learning about space. WMS has been happy to host Planet X, a traveling exhibit from the Reynolds Foundation.
Mr. Dave presented great lessons on sonar and submarines to 6th grade STEAM students today!
Costume creation has begun! #aliceinwonderland #thepromisingchoice
Parents, please take our parent survey!
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/9RT3CRJ
Murphy Awards will be held at 8:15am on Wednesday, September 27th. If your child will be recognized you should have received a letter.
A big "Thank You!" goes out to our wonderful PTO! We loved our refreshments during Parent/ Teacher Conferences!
How do you make division fun? Turn it into a scavenger hunt! Take a look at Mrs. Rynder's class in action.
Catch our students performing at Musicfest this weekend! Check times to see your favorite group or come watch them all!
Making scatter plots and lines of best fit of real life data on our ti-84s!
Today at WMS students were building balloon powered boats with a budget to purchase materials!
Building our own computers in Mrs. McDaniel's class!
WMS Report to Public is tonight at 5:30. PTO meeting after at 5:45. Both meetings will be in the Library. Hope to see you there!
You have to read schematics carefully when you are what? BUILDING YOUR OWN COMPUTER!!!
6th grade students have started building computers in their science classes! Stay tuned for more information and pictures as they progress!
Today Mrs. Carelock and Ms. Compton used #breakoutEDU to review literacy skills. #thepromisingchoice
This week Mr. Thompson's class compared the ratio of knots in a rope to length of the rope, with 3 different sized ropes!
Mrs. Nelson's science classes have started working in their garden! They're growing pumpkins, radishes, turnips, cabbage, and lettuce!
Today Mrs. Harwell's art students designed American Art to honor September 11th.
Parent Teacher Conferences - No School for students all day Monday, September 25.
Today students in Mrs. Nelson's science class used graduated cylinders to learn about volume!
WMS students will be helping with hurricane relief! We invite students to bring unopened paper towels, toilet paper, baby wipes, or soap to school. We will be collecting through Friday morning.
We love when Mr. Dave visits! Steam students created boats out of only foil, hangers, and tape. Winning boat held 16 bottles!
Library Orientation has never been more meaningful or fun! #breakoutEDU #thepromisingchoice
Thank you to Chief Mosby for directing traffic in the rain and thank you EFD for helping our 5th graders with their lockers!
Bus Routes for the 2017-18 school year are available here: http://5il.co/1ntf
School starts Monday, August 14. Bells ring at 7:55 a.m. We can't wait to see you!
WMS is so excited to introduce our new teachers! Check out our new teacher video created by Mr. Herren.
https://youtu.be/pluawmDduzM
WMS Student Orientation Tonight!
5th grade last names A-L 5:15pm
5th grade last names M-Z 6:00pm
6th grade 6:30pm
Meet in cafeteria
Incoming 5th graders bring $5 for a one time locker fee.
Get the school calendar for 2017-18 so you don't miss a thing! http://5il.co/1aki
School Supply Lists for 2017-18 now available. http://5il.co/1b38
Honor's Day at WMS. Mon. May 22 in the gym. Parents are invited. This event will recognize outstanding academic achievement. 5th grade at 8:15. 6th grade will begin at 9:30.
What a great night at the El Dorado School Board Meeting! Way to go Mrs. Vines, Mrs. Hickmott, and Mrs. Greer! WMS is the best!! #thepromisingchoice
Be Our Guest May 9th & 11th for Beauty and the Beast Jr.
Presented by Washington Middle School!
Check out our commercial by clicking the link below!http://wmslibrarymediacenter.weebly.com/uploads/5/4/5/7/54572667/beauty_and_the_beast_full_mixdown.mp3
NO SCHOOL TOMORROW!
$50 prize to top fundraiser tomorrow morning!
The faculty and staff wish to thank Dr. Kevin Williams' orthodontic's office for the teacher appreciation goodies yesterday. That was very kind of you Loved our treats!
Check out our fun on Friday when we tested our Rube Goldburg machines!
https://youtu.be/yLh0-OkoCLU
Congratulations to Wyatt Shankle. Wyatt finished in the top ten of the "You Be the Chemist Challenge." He will be advancing to state.
#breakoutedu is happening all over the school! Students are solving puzzles and riddles relating to their class content. Check out some recent classes that were able to break out!
Thank you to all the parents that came earlier this week to our Parent Night!
We had a blast showing you some of the cool things we do here at WMS!
WMS made the news today!
http://www.myarklamiss.com/…/washington-middle-sc…/664200875
Our Maker Lab students learn editing:
https://youtu.be/QO3TXSTPjv8
#washingtonmiddleschoolesd is at the #TICAL conference today showing off how we use technology at WMS!
Students in Mr. Patel's Innovation Station class assemble MBot robotics kits.
Congratulations to our Archery Team. They earned a spot in the NASP State tournament with a 3rd place finish in the regional tournament in Hamburg. Great job!
Fifth grade STEAM-Lab students are preparing to begin their structures unit. We always learn a lot when Mr. Dave comes to visit.
Students in sixth grade science class built first, second and third class levers today. Fifth graders have been studying pulleys and inclined planes. Both grades are studying simple/complex machines.
Thank you to Chemtura (Patty Cardin, Viayak Oza, Erik Lantz, Barbie Trammel, Jamie Crawford, and Blake Johnson) for speaking to our students during our recent career day. #thepromisingchoice
Teachers learn too!
Professional Development Days: We have been working hard to get ready to teach you during Kinetic Konundrum.
We have a winner! Crossover is the 2017 WMS book of the year!
Enjoy the winter break!