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!
Mrs. McGuire's 6th grade Ag Explorer class is responsible for maintaining, caring for, and harvesting the hydroponics system in our library. At the beginning of the year, along with Ms. Leisher's STEM students, they set up the system and placed the Salad Mix pods into the correct spots. Hydroponics grows plants without soil, by using nutrient-rich water that is pumped up through each column. The water then "rains" down on each pod to meet the needs of each plant. Each 6th grade class begins with a collaborative lesson in the library, where students research hydroponics and their role in agriculture. They are then responsible for completing tasks for the system as they arise. Tasks include cleaning and topping off the water tank, checking roots, pruning, and harvesting. The greens harvested are given to the Teen Skills class for cooking, and any leftovers are distributed to the 6th graders who harvested them. This has been an amazing hands-on learning experience for all students at our school. Thanks to Mrs. Leisher, Mrs. Matthews, and Mrs. McGuire for this awesome collaborative effort!!
Mrs. Ruga's math class working as groups to prepare teaching the class their review section! What a great way to strengthen higher-level reasoning skills!
We celebrated being drug free with our Red Ribbon Week Door Decorating Contest! Everyone did an amazing job sharing the message to stay drug free! Stay tuned-- the winning door will be announced on Monday!
Pic 1 words: Scare away Drugs! We scare because we care!
Pic 2 words: Oh Look! Another glorious morning makes me sick! I smell children!
Pic 3 words: There is a minion reasons to be drug free!
Pic 4 words: Drugs are a trick not a treat!
Pic 5 words: Let's give 'em pumpkin to talk about!
Pic 6 words: From planet to planet for all to see; the coolest kids stay drug free!
Pic 7: Drugs make you poco loco!
Students in Mr. Butterworth’s 8th grade Social Studies class have been hard at work, creating wartime-inspired posters based on the American Revolution. These creative and thoughtful projects are now on display in the 8th grade hallway. Be sure to stop by and take a look during Parent-Teacher Conferences next week!
Mrs. Williams' Social Studies classes learned about the beauty of recording history through creating their own illuminated letters. What a great way to showcase the work of past historians and recorders of history!
Big shoutout to our amazing 6th graders-- Claudia, Jordyn, Eli, Cristina, Henry, and Ayden!
Their articles about our 6th grade Outdoor Learning Experience were published in the Power County Press!
We're so proud of their hard work and creativity. Each student even got their own copy of the paper-- thank you, Mrs. Cysewski, for making that happen!
#StudentWriters #OutdoorLearning #ProudMoment
We held our annual 7th-grade career fair on 10/9/2025. It was a huge success!. Students were able to be introduced to eighteen different careers. Students were happy and engaged. One student came up afterward and shared how excited she was that there was a detective at the career fair. She shared that this was a career that she has wanted to go into for several years now. We had such an awesome variety of presenters both from our local community and the Pocatello area. We appreciate all of them and for taking the time to be with our students. We live amongst people who truly care about our students' future.
With winter sports ramping up, we want to give one final shout-out to our fall sports teams. They all had wonderful seasons of growth and success, and they really represented WTMS well!
