It’s Truman Release Day!! Love all the students who showed up at 8am to get their hands on the nominees for this year. Special thanks to our “security guards”! @wmssdow @maslonline

1st and 2nd place winners of the Book Spine Poetry Contest! They each won a copy of a signed Alan Gratz book!

The WMS chapter of Epsilon Beta (book club) received a Little Free Library grant from the Community Literacy Foundation. It was assembled by Mrs. Bade’s students and is fully stocked by members of Epsilon Beta.

Some 7th grade students had a great Zoom with author Joelle Charbonneau! They just finished reading her novel “The Testing” - a special thank you to @jcharbonneau for spending some time with us! @coachreggert

The first day to drop off your books is tomorrow, May 7th! See Mrs. Jankowski or the WMS website for more info and guidelines!

WMS students - see the WMS library website or Mrs. Jankowski for more details about the WMS Book Swap!

Ground Zero by Alan Gratz is the 2024 Truman Readers Award winner!

It was a great day to check out the 23-24 Truman nominees! They were all gone in less@than 10 minutes!

WMS - the 23-24 Truman nominees are ready for you!Tomorrow at 8am in the library!

Congratulations to these 20 WMS students who participated in the WMS Library Summer Reading Challenge!@WMSSDOW

Chess is so popular at WMS! A huge thank you to the anonymous donor who sent the library a new chess board. The students are so excited!!

Busy morning before 1st hour at the WMS library - love to see it! @WMSSDOW

All signed up and ready for the Washington Public Library Summer Reading Program!!

All signed up and ready to go for the Neighborhood Reads Summer Reading Challenge! @neighborhoodreads

All ready for the last Food Friday of the year! Looking forward to talking about books for the summer! #EngageSDOW @neighborhoodreads @WMSSDOW

It's not too late to participate in the book swap! You can still bring books in tomorrow!

ELA assignment asked students to write another chapter of @JasonReynolds83 amazing book "Long Way Down" and mimic his style - please check out this awesome piece of writing by one of our 7th graders:
EVERYONE ELSE WAS GONE (cont. below)

He guided me

My thoughts

Then I took a deep breath and. . .

A SINGLE TEAR ROLLED DOWN MY CHEEK
It doesn't count

I think. . .

It doesn't really matter anymore

The Rules don't count anymore

Then a thought sprouts into my head
Would Shawn really want me to kill Riggs?

It didn't work out for Dad,

or any guy before

So maybe. . .

I’LL WAIT