Attention American Falls!!!
The Spirit of the Falls Music Program is excited to announce our Winter 2025 Rock Concert. The concert will be today, Tuesday, Feb. 18th, in the band room starting at 7pm. The Concert is free and will be a super great time. The concert will feature our Ukulele Ensemble in collaboration with this year's talent show winners the SOTF Guitar ensemble. They will be performing music from the likes of Selena, ClearWater Creedence Revival, John Denver, Elvis Presley, DJ Oski, Jimmy Eat World and many more. Come out for a great hour of music and blow off some steam before finals and Parent Teacher Conferences.
See you at the show Tonight!
Congrats to the WTMS Players for a wonderful production of The Little Mermaid, and thanks to Read-Talk-Play for allowing so many families to see the show for free!
Today's boys basketball game is cancelled as per Bear Lake's request based on the amount of snow they received overnight. Rescheduling information TBA.
Principal Tyler Shafer was chosen as the Region 5 Idaho Middle Level Association Educator of the Year for 2025. He was nominated by superintendent RandyJensen and the students of WTMS.
He always works tirelessly to help make sure our school runs smoothly and to ensure all students and staff are cared for. It's definitely a well-deserved honor. Congratulations, Mr. Shafer!!
8th grade student Carolina Altamirano submitted a painting to the art contest held at the IMLA conference in Nampa last weekend. She won 2nd place and is the first winner from our school in the past 7 years. Congratulations Carolina!!
A small group of teachers spent some time in Boise this past week attending the IETA conference and/or the IMLA conference in Nampa.
Myriah Leisher presented on Microbits and Jamie Clark presented on accessible & engaging websites at IETA. Jamie then attended and presented at the IMLA. Maike Baumgart, Shirley Bammert, and Jacque Foster also attended IMLA. These educators are all excited to bring back some new resources for our school and students.
Congrats to 6th grader Alex Permann on qualifying for state chess!
Join us at the high school tomorrow night (January 23) for Pathways to Success night. This open house style event is a great opportunity to learn about the diverse career technical & academic pathways offered at AFHS. The event is tailored towards future AFHS students and their parents, but all are welcome. Participants will be given FREE admission to the girls' basketball game that night. This year, participants will enter the high school through the main entrance.
28 of our sixth grade students were selected for publication in a poetry book that features today's best student writers. Their poems will be featured in a student poetry anthology that is set to be released this spring. Congratulations to these poets!
Our 7th and 8th grade boys basketball teams started their seasons at home today and they both played awesome. We can't wait to watch and support them all season long!
Congrats to all of our January students of the month! Way to Work Hard, Take Responsibility, Make Good Choices, and Show Respect.
Last Thursday, December 12th, students in 6th to 8th grade spent their elective hours participating in an Hour of Code, a national event to celebrate National Computer Science Week. We had volunteers from ICCU and Idaho Power come in to help students through coding. We would like to give a huge shoutout and thanks to the Idaho STEM Action Center and Ashley Schaffner for helping make this event happen. Thank you Mrs. Leischer for arranging this awesome event!
The 8th annual SOTF Christmas Extravaganza was once again a great show and a wonderful celebration of the holiday season!
Congratulations to our awesome December students of the month, and thank you Tres Hermanos for hosting us and helping us celebrate these students!
Make sure to swing by the concert tonight for a wonderful time of music making. We've got some great raffle items and date nights that have been donated. $2 a ticket or an arms length for $20. The cookies have been baked and smell so good and the Hot Chocolate will be nice and warm!!!Hope to see you soon!!!
Congratulations to 8th grade November students of the month, Aurora Hamilton and Chantaya. Congratulations also to our November learner- Nathaly Ferreyra, leader- Haydin Lewis, and succeeder- Dylan Cardona!
Huge thanks to all the parents who attended our Read-Talk-Play (and Eat) event yesterday. See our Facebook page for many more pictures!
Our 7th and 8th grade girls basketball teams, supported by our cheerleading squad and a raucous student section lead by Mr. Butterworth, had their last home games of the season this week. Good luck in districts next week, girls!
In honor of Native American Heritage month, WTMS staff and students were treated to an assembly of traditional dances put on by current and former students of American Falls school district. Thank you to all that performed.
On Friday WTMS staff participated in a chili cook-off sponsored by the AFEA. All the food was delicious and congratulations to our 3 winners! 1st place- Brian Leischer, 2nd place- Rickay Rose and 3rd place- Sara Cysewski.
