William Thomas Middle School

6th grade is still leveling up! 6th grade students were the first grade at WTMS to get all Skill Exploration 2026 Pre-registration forms turned in! Let's keep it up and get all permission slips and waivers turned in first too! They are going home today in the Wednesday Red Folders. *Picture words include: Skill Exploration 2026- Pre-Registration Listed below are the exploration choices for this year. Please review this list and make your selections below. Please note that the price listed is the total for all three weeks and includes the cost of any equipment or supplies needed. Activities are for all grades.*

Mrs. Williams' world history class learned how to use a simple compass and ruler to create tessellated Arabic designs. These designs are used in rugs, ceilings, and walls.

Attention parents and fans: tomorrow and Thursday's 7th & 8th grade basketball games have been moved to JRSE due to a problem with our bleachers. Games will still start at 4:00.

Congrats to our 6th grade students of the month for December Henry Moore and Brenda Godfrey! Can't wait to hear who our January students of the month are!

Check your student's red folder today for their mid-term report card and a flier for club wrestling starting soon. We are officially halfway through this school year!

Mrs. Lish's math class has been using directional robots to help our students learn and manage increasing levels of efficiency, accuracy, and problem solving. Thank you, Mrs. Lish, for taking the extra classes and acquiring these robots to give our students this amazing opportunity!

Continuing on with our 6th grade theme of Level Up?? Challenge Accepted! Mrs. Cysewski found this awesome Level Up in the New Year worksheet. 6th grade is still leveling up! Ask your 6th grader how they are leveling up in the new year. 😁 Words on worksheet include: Level Up in the New Year Something I want to be better at... My motto for the year... A good habit I want to start... One habit I want to develop that will help with school...

8th grade students are hard at work on their science and engineering projects in preparation for their annual Science Fair. This year it will take place on Thursday, January 22nd from 9-2:30 in the gym. All parents and members of the community are invited to see what these amazing students have made!

After reading the poem "My Mother Pieced Quilts" by Teresa Palomo Acosta, Mr. Singleton's 7th grade ELA class created "quilts" to honor their own memories while engaging in some of the same creative processes that are used to write poetry.

8th grade recognized 5 outstanding students for the month of December. Our 2 students if the month were Lainey Moore and Eryx Hamann. The learner award went to Jaeleen Cuahutzihua, leader went to Carson Anglesey, and Succeeder went to Sami Garcia

Mrs. Ruga had West Mark Credit Union come into her 7th grade math classes to teach them about real-world math and banking! What a great experience for our WTMS students!

We have had some wonderful students of the month so far this school year in the 6th grade! Work hard and you might be next. 🥰👏 September Students of the month: Leon and Cristina October Students of the month: David and Natalie November Students of the month: Claudia and Timothy

Our 7th grade girls basketball team also completed their season yesterday. This was a tough group of girls who grew a lot this season. Great work, ladies!

Our 8th grade girls basketball team finished their season with a 3rd place finish in the district tournament yesterday. Congratulations to all the players and Coach Tarbett on a wonderful season!

Mrs. Williams' social studies classes have been demonstrating their learning through visual and language arts.

Thanks to everyone who attended our Read-Talk-Play+Eat event last week. See our Facebook page for even more photos!

Congratulations to our awesome November students of the month!

Ms. Baumgart's ESL class had a great time making Thankful trees right before the break!

Our sixth-grade students know to go to their homeroom teacher for pencils. They get pencils from their "pencil person." Implementing this process has helped minimize pencil loss and improved students' readiness for class!