Exploring climate change through the eyes of middle schoolers

Mrs. Bewick's structured literacy classes will be focusing on climate change. The book, Two Degrees by Alan Grantz is a story based on three different climate scenarios, Wildfires, Melting Tundra and Hurricanes.

Two Degrees explains the three different scenarios of climate change through the eyes of middle school student's. Our poster project is a way for our students to dive into the subject of climate change while gathering some background knowledge before reading the book as a class. Check out our beautiful poster collection in the hallway by the middle school gym. 

Mr. Becker brings science to life

Eighth grade science teacher Ryan Becker engages students with his passion for science, turning abstract concepts into hands-on learning experiences. During their recent dry ice experiments, students observed solid carbon dioxide transform directly into gas, creating clouds of vapor throughout the classroom. Dr. Becker has taught in the middle school since 2004.

Library News!

In this week's From the Library Newsletter, learn about the next Young Adult Diverse Books Book Club's next book titled All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir, discover the Middle School Book Club book titled When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary by Alice Hoffman and get ready for the next Faculty/Staff Book Club by reading The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton. Please click here for more information and photos.

Please remember to return your overdue books, renew the books you need more time to read and pick out your new winter reads!

8th grade investigates WWII

The 8th grade American Studies class is currently studying WWII from the point of view of different factions and nationalities, looking at both heroes and villains. WWII was a major transformative event in world history and it helped launch the United States into its role as one of the world’s military superpowers. Here students are organizing images from the National WWII Museum into chronological order.

As a resource to help them identify and explain some of the images, they were able to refer to the 7 interpretive panels of the traveling WWII exhibit from the Gilder Lehrman Institute that is temporarily set up in our library. 

New Private Music Lesson Program @ WUHSMS

We are excited to let you know about an exciting new opportunity at WUHSMS, private music lessons! This program offers music instruction from highly skilled professional musicians within the school day. Additionally, through the generous support of a private donor, we are offering these lessons to any interested student, regardless of financial situation. To find out more information about this program and to sign up please go to the Private Lesson Program page on our new and developing WUHSMS Music website.

Please feel free to contact Mr. Pauly at joshua.pauly@mtnviews.org with any questions you may have.