Important Dates
May is National Physical Fitness & Sports Month
- May 1 - WKMS Dance Company Tryouts
- May 3 - Bring Your Mom to Lunch Day
- May 4 - Star Wars Day - May the 4th be with U! (Dress up)
- May 5 - School Lunch Hero Day
- May 5 - Relay for Life @ PHMS Track
- May 8 - 12 - Teacher Appreciation Week
- May 10 - National School Nurse Day
- May 11 - Rising 6th Grade Parent Night @ WKMS
- May 15 - SC Ready Test - ELA Day 1 (Do Your Best!)
- May 16 - SC Ready Test - ELA Day 2 (Work Hard!)
- May 17 - SC Ready Test - Math (Show How Awesome You Are!)
- May 18 - SC PASS Test - Science for 6th Grade ONLY (Rock It Out!)
- May 18 - National Speech Pathologist Day
- May 19 - Field Day at WKMS (Bring sunscreen & dress for outside)
- May 22 - Fine Arts Spring Showcase @ Icehouse Amphitheater 6:30pm
- May 25 - Algebra 1 End-of-Course Exam
- May 25 - 8th Grade Promotion Ceremony @ WKHS Gym 6pm
- May 29 - Memorial Day (No School)
- May 30 - WKMS SIC Zoom @ 5:00pm
- May 31 - Honor Hawk Awards - 7th Grade - 8:45am and 6th Grade - 10:30am
- June 1 - Half-Day for Students
- June 2 - Half-Day and LAST Day for Students
- June 5 - Last Day for Teachers
Spring Football Practice at WKMS!
Spring football practice will begin Monday, May 1st. Please refer to the schedule below for times and dates of each practice. All rising 7th and 8th graders may attend. Must have a physical uploaded onto PlanetHS in order to attend.
Contact Coach Albino jalbino@lexington1.net with any questions.
WKMS is Lex 10 Track Champs!
We are proudly displaying our girl's trophy in the front office, stop by and see it!
A few White Knoll Middle Highlights:
Nyla Fair took 1st place in High Jump and 3rd place in the 100m hurdles
Londynn Guess (and teammates) took 1st place in the 4x100m relay
Emmanuel Rhone (and teammates) took 3rd place in the 4x100m relay
Cameron Buxton placed 2nd in the 400m dash
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Many teachers will be reading or talking about their favorite children's books in classes during this special week. We would like to challenge you to take a moment at home to discuss your favorite children's book and why. Did you like it because it was funny or because it had a good message? Was it the incredible illustrations you often find in these books? Or perhaps, you have a wonderful memory attached to when you read it or had it read to you? Whatever your reason for loving the book, share it with your family and open the discussion of the power of books.
Our Nursing Staff is the Best!
May 10th is National School Nurse Day. Our nursing staff always does an incredible job and are so patient with our students and staff! We are SO thankful for all the measures they take each and every day to help keep our students and staff safe and healthy. Take a moment on this day to say thank you in your own special way to our nurse, Ms. Linda Boatright, RN and Health Room Assistant, Ms. Sarah Hoover. They deserve to feel extra special because they truly are!
SC Ready & SC PASS Testing!
SC Ready & SCPass Testing is coming! Please try not to schedule any appointments on the following dates: May 15th -19th. This will help reduce the number of make-up tests that will have to be administered and also keep your student from having to miss even more class to take the make-up assessment. We appreciate your help with this and look forward to seeing how amazing our War Hawk students do each day of these tests.
Congratulations to Shelby Ellisor! (6th Grade)
Shelby is our April winner of the "I Love Books" campaign and receives a $15.00 Gift Card to Books-A-Million for recommending the book, Life as We Know It by Susan Beth Pfeffer. Shelby likes this book because it is "extremely attention-catching. After the first chapter, it really pulls you in with suspense and a sort of 'what'll happen next?' mood. It's like a what-if situation that really pulls you into the point of view of Miranda through a diary writing style. The writing of the characters is also realistic and will make it impossible to keep yourself from reading." Shelby recommends this book to "people who like scenarios where it shows what might happen if a tragedy occurred suddenly. I also recommend it to people who like both science-y and emotion-filled stories combined." Please read below to see what Life as We Know It is all about. It might just be your next favorite book!
Life as We Know It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
New York Times bestseller! A heart-stopping post-apocalyptic thriller that's "absorbing from first to last page."*
When a meteor knocks the moon closer to earth, Miranda, a high school sophomore, takes shelter with her family.
Told in a year’s worth of journal entries, Life as We Knew It chronicles the human struggle to hold on to the most important resource of all—hope—in an increasingly desperate and unfamiliar world.
As August turns dark and wintery in northeastern Pennsylvania, Miranda, her two brothers, and their mother retreat to the unexpected safe haven of their sunroom, where they subsist on stockpiled food and limited water in the warmth of a wood-burning stove.
I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald’s still would be open. Like one marble hitting another, when the moon slams closer to earth, the result is catastrophic. Worldwide tsunamis wipe out the coasts, earthquakes rock the continents, and volcanic ash blocks out the sun.
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