Good afternoon families,
Next week we will have a Finals Week for 7th & 8th grade. Attached is the schedule for the students. All students are required to take a final exam as part of their overall class grade. A make-up day is scheduled for Wednesday December 20th in case a student is absent.
If you know your child will miss days next week, please contact your child’s teachers in advance.
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Thank you and have a great afternoon!
With our newly reopened library, students are beginning to go in and get their library needs met. We have students who use the space to research, study, play chess, and even play the piano. It is great to have the space open again for our students to use.
Falcon Flyers Family Night is this Thursday. Check out the link below for details. Please note, Falcon Flyers will be available to students on December 21st from 12:45-6pm on the early release day. Happy Holidays from Falcon Flyers!
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We had 17 students attend Simply Silly Shakespeare this weekend at Coconino Center for the Arts. FlagShakespeare offered to come to Williams and work with our students. Thank you to Mrs. Gutshall for encouraging our students to get out and experience live theater, especially as it pertains to their own Shakespeare studies.
Congrats to our Falcon Flyers Lego Robotics team for a great tournament today! They even earned an award. Proud of you!
Way to go Lady Falcons! 3rd place today!!!
Congrats to our WEMS Spelling Bee winners! Ben will represent us well at the county Spelling Bee!
WHS Parents & Guardians: The final Parent survey for Cognia accreditation is here!
https://eprovesurveys.advanc-ed.org/surveys/#/action/242426/p2498
Ms. Brungardt’s science classes are working hard as they race toward the end of semester 1. The anatomy class has been building haunted houses based on phobias, examples of which can be found in the hallways near their class. The environmental science class created a news clip as meteorologists to practice their weather predicting skills for various areas around the world. Fun ways to apply scientific skills to the world around them. The biology classes have extracted DNA from strawberries and are moving on to protein synthesis, so they can better understand how living things survive and thrive.
Congratulations to our 3 teachers who have been nominated for Coconino County Teacher of the Year! Way to go Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Guggisberg and Mrs. Meier! Thank you for the work you do for our students and staff each day!
Mrs. Moreno’s 2nd year Hotel Restaurant Management students have been hard at work preparing gingerbread so they can build their fabulous gingerbread houses. They have learned to modify their recipes in order to make the gingerbread strong enough to stand up to the construction process.
Dear Senior Parents and Students,
We have extended the deadline for Senior Ads submissions and payments until Monday, December 18th. Original photos only please. Any digital information can be emailed to iyawruiz@wusd2.org. If you have physical photos, please send them in and we will scan them for you and will let you know when they are ready for pick up.
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me at the email above.
Sincerely, Mrs. Yaw, Yearbook Adviser
Mr. Johnson’s Welding class is hard at work building a bench. It will be placed at WEMS by the trees planted in memory for a community member. Another student is fabricating a lamb stand for the Ag. Science class. Thank you to our students for their precision work and support of our community!
Check out the WEMS December Newsletter
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Sitting in Mr. Grossman's pre-calculus class is always an enjoyable experience. While students experience productive struggle with complex math, the atmosphere is always positive and fun. The respect and rapport between teacher and students, and students with their peers is always a joy to see. There is always laughter coming from that class. When the students catch Mr. Grossman in an error, the accolades they receive are always so positive. It dominates to the students that mistakes are acceptable and good for us to learn from.
Hello families. Please join WEMS PTSA tonight for a movie night. Doors open at 6PM and the movie starts at 6:30.
All students must be accompanied at all times by an adult.
Concessions, including hot cocoa and cookies will be sold by PTSA. Admission is free. Feel free to wear your pajamas to this enjoy this film.
Greetings WUSD # 2: We are pleased to announce that on Saturday Dec 2nd at 5:30 pm, there will be a special ceremony in the WHS Gymnasium to name the WHS Gym the WHS Phillip Echeverria Gymnasium, during the championships of Route 66 Holiday Basketball Tournament. Please join us for this momentous event in Williams History. If you are attending for the ceremony only, there is no charge to attend the event.
This week, 9th grade PE with Ms. Durn z worked on their basketball skill, ending with a rousing game of musical basketball. There was great, positive communication between the teacher and students, and students and their peers with encouragement and night competition. Near the end of class, Mrs. Mitkowski's 11th grade ELA class came in to use the sights, sounds, and smells of the gym in their descriptive writing assignment. Great engagement and real-world application of skills for all involved.
The sophomores today in Mrs. Gutshall's ELA class had a brief brain break today to decrease any stress and anxiety they brought to class with them. The quick, 30 second acitivites brought laughs as well as moved stufents out of an over-thinkint cycle. A great use of transition moments between learning activities.
Our senior class has begun their Participatory Budgeting Legacy Project. In collaboration with Arizona State University’s Center for the Future of Arizona, the students will research and select projects that are within a budget of $1000. They will then promote the projects to the school, who with then vote on the preferred project, and finally follow the selected project through to completion. These projects improve student agency, collaboration, and critical-thinking while preparing them to be actively engage in their civic life outside of school. The project also encourages the entire student population to engage civically as the process follows municipal Participatory Budgeting models and students will go through the entire voting process from registering to final decision on how part of a public budget will be spent. Thank you to Mrs. Mitkowski, our Government and Economics teacher, for spearheading the great real-world application of civic participation for our students.