Congratulations to 8A students Rigley, Finn, Max, Beatrix, Sophie, and Naomi who were selected as part of th OPA Jazz Academy. They have upcoming performances in April at UNO Stauss Peforming Arts Center and in May at the Holland Center.

Congratulations to 8A students Samantha Baker, Alice Cartwright, Sophie Gillispie, Duncan Hansen, Oliver Johnson, Sharell Piendjou, Laetitia Weissan, Sophie Whittle, and Maggie Wordekemper for being selected by their 7th and 8th grade teachers as Rotary Honor Roll members. Students were selected based on character, scholarship. service, and leadership.

Congratulations to 8A students Tegan Campbell and Sophia Skomal on having their artwork selected to the Scholastic Arts Competition. The girls got to visit the exhibition on Friday.

Students had to reflect, rotate, and translate the first letter of their first name.

Students completed a 12 station scavenger hunt to practice with 4 geometric transformations: translations, reflections, rotations, and dilations.

Congratulations to 8A students who participated and earning a rating of 1 at the recent Bellevue Jazz Festival. As a group they received 2nd place in their division and many students were rewarded soloist recognition.

Art students created Holocaust Survivor portraits.

Kathryn Mathiasen, Scarlett Thiele, and Ben Boss represented Team 8A during Musical Chairs at the Pep Rally.

Congratulations to JV Wrestlers who competed at the Tournament on Saturday, February 24.

Students worked in groups to name polynomials by degree and term.

Students worked in groups on a station activity over dramatic irony and point of view in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Students worked in groups to sort examples of translations, rotations, reflections, and dilations.

Students participated in "Over, Under" as homerooms competed at Team Celebration.

Sophie Whittle and Kathryn Mathiasen compete this Saturday at the Henry Doorly Zoo for Science Olympiad. Good luck to the girls at their first competition!

Maya Sangalli plays for the Jr. Omaha Lancers. Her team and her dominated Friday night at Moylan Complex.

Students chose a character from a Midsummer Night's Dream and answered questions about love as their character would.

Students simplified 15 exponent expressions to solve 5 crime scene activities.

At Team Celebration, students had to balance and catch pencils as part of the activity.

Chloe Travis and JV basketball competed twice last week.

Varsity and JV Wrestling competed against Lewis & Clark.

Students gathered and communicated evidence of waves in Science Class.

Students had to line themselves up by birthday (January-Decemeber) in each homeroom without talking.

WMS Teachers' were treated to a before school performance by Westside Connection!

130 Reasons We Love WMS (Names of Students/Staff on Team 8A on hearts) + One Word Activity for 2024

Students shared what they love about WMS on hearts, displayed by each homeroom door.

Everett Snelling, Nina Lierlier, Courtney Bentzinger-Hill, Emily Johnson, James Larsen, Max Dickinson, Gavin Berglund, Lawson Kasameyer, Elaina Grube, Finn Jacobson, Claire Veylupek, Sam Lehotyak, Johnathan Farrell, Jake Cecil, Brayden Lawton, Chris Alfieri, Luke Boyer, Maxwell Wegner, Sophie Whittle, Maggie Wordekemper, Gavin Schenkelberg, Leo Mathews, and Naomi Cook

Gavin Schenkelberg

Alex Gentry, Elaina Grube, Luke Boyer, Maggie Wordekemper, Finn Jacobson, and Johnathan Farrell

Students selected three key events that led to the start of The US Civil War and created an Internet MEME and wrote a description explaining the importance of the event.

Varsity and JV Wrestling competed in a triangular versus Mission and Ralston. Westside took 1st place.

Algebra students completed a Chapter 6 Breakout Activity. Math 8 students practiced finding missing angles on their desks and did an around the room activity with parallel lines & transversal vocabulary.

American History students worked in groups to explore some of the different views on what was the best way to end slavery in the United States. Students had to sort different people at tables in the lunch room based on their views.