COVID-19 Testing: Next Results Due Today - Next Round Due November 10
WMS requires ongoing testing for students and staff, regardless of vaccination status. We are currently requiring testing every other week.
All students and staff should have submitted their negative COVID-19 test results by noon today, Wednesday, October 27. If you haven't already done so, please submit yours as soon as possible. Results should be emailed to covidresults@wmsde.org as soon as they become available. Your child will NOT be permitted to attend school tomorrow, October 28, without a negative test. If you are sending a screenshot, please include the date tested.
Important: All tests must be conducted on-site at a testing location - no at-home test results will be accepted. Please understand that if no results are forwarded to the nurse, your child will not be permitted to attend school the following day. If your results are forwarded after noon on the due date, you may experience a delay in drop-off the next morning. A last-minute result may delay or prevent your child from attending school; time must be allowed for communication to the staff members conducting screenings in the car line.
Due to high volume, some testing locations are taking three or more days to process results. Please plan to test early in the testing window. We highly recommend that you complete your test by the weekend prior to the deadline to ensure your results will be on time.
Next Due Date:
Wednesday, October 27 (Submit by 4:30 p.m. TODAY if you haven't already done so)
Wednesday, November 10 (test on or after November 3)
We are still awaiting further information about hosting onsite COVID testing. We will share details about this as soon as it is available.
As always, you are still welcome to have your child tested more frequently and may forward the results to covidresults@wmsde.org.
Click here to find Delaware Curative testing locations near WMS.
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CLASSROOM NEWS - As Seen on Bloomz |
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Pumpkins, Pumpkins Everywhere |
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We had a great time painting and washing some pumpkins this morning. We will likely keep this work available in our outdoor classroom during our morning work time for an extended period. It's a great sensory experience as well as providing lots of feedback about color mixing and early science concepts.
- Emily Edmonds, Lead Toddler Teacher (Room 3)
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This week, our toddlers explored pumpkins by painting and washing them. They also used spoons and their fingers to dig inside the pumpkin guts and feel pumpkin seeds. They enjoyed examining the seeds and touching the squishy, slippery textures
- Alyssa Ross, Lead Toddler Teacher (Room 4)
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Room 20 Takes Flight
Marilyn Faralli, Primary (3-6) Lead Teacher
This month, students in Room 20 are learning about airplanes. We started with a discussion about whether or not we have ever been on a plane before. If so, where did you go? How did you feel? Did you like going on a plane? Do you remember? Was it at night or during the day? What did takeoff and landing feel like? Did you see clouds? If you have never flown before, where would you go if you could?
Planes represent a way to travel the world. In a way, it is the perfect beginning to a study of the different modes of transportation. It is also a very symbolic way to start the year. When you travel, you learn about the world. In the classroom, we are taking off on a new journey of exploration and learning.
Some of the related work on the shelf includes how to draw a plane and “Parts of a Plane.” Students have also been working on a plane mural in art class.
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Lower Elementary (6-9) Program |
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October Outdoor Learning in Room 22
Melissa Connelly, Lower Elementary (6-9) Lead Teacher
Outdoor learning can make a variety of subjects - even grammar lessons - engaging and exciting! We spent a Wednesday afternoon walking around campus for a noun and adjective scavenger hunt. Students were amazed at all of the words we could use to describe the leaves, trees, mushrooms, clouds, breeze … and oh, the verbs at the stream on Thursday! Don’t get us started with all of the glistening and flowing and waterfalling ... Hopefully this descriptive language will begin to emerge in both our creative writing and scientific observations.
We’ve been noticing all sorts of seeds right now, from seed pods to nuts to pinecones. We dissected a flower to look at how this all must work, and we explored the woods thinking about how trees and plants, like every living thing in our forest, manage to survive the long winter, or at least reproduce so that the species can return in the spring.
We also went to the outdoor stage to watch the 9-12 students act out some fables they have been reading - what a beautiful setting!
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Upper Elementary (9-12) Program |
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Sharing Fables
Allie Colflesh, 9-12 Lead Teacher
Earlier this year, students in the 9-12 Program researched Aesop, the storyteller/fabulist, in reading class. Most of the students did not know who he was! They worked in pairs, were assigned articles to research, and then came together as a class to answer the question: "Who was Aesop?" They spent time reading some of Aesop's fables and brought the stories to life through a reader's theater project, performing four of Aesop's fables for Primary and Lower Elementary students. Using no props, the students were able to use their bodies and tone of voice to convey their stories. Below, you can watch the first two minutes of one of their performances.
The students are also completing work on writing their own fables. We can't wait to read them.
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Middle School (7th & 8th Grade) Program |
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Essay Writing and Research
Mandy Balanetsky, Lead Middle School Teacher
Students are busy writing both essays for the Montessori Model United Nations and expository essays on a topic of their choice.
Some of their chosen topics include blue-tongued skinks, synthetic meat, soldering, the construction of the Nimitz-class aircraft carriers and cheetahs.
They have spent the past week researching and completing topic webs to plan the structure of their essays prior to beginning the writing process.
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