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Principal's Comments It is only 7:45 this morning and from my office I can see Mrs. Dannelly has her English class lined up heading towards the library. Today is their turn to take the Accelerated Reading Quizzes based on the books they have already checked out and read. The library media center in our school during first period is a very busy place with students checking out books for their reading assignments and classes. Today, Mrs. McNider's reading class is using the computers in the library media center to develop presentations called the ABC's of Me using PhotoStory 3. Each student has collected 26 digital images and must use a word starting with each letter of the alphabet along with a picture to describe who he or she is. As I walk down the fifth grade hall at 9:15, I enter Mrs. Champion's math class. Her students are working hard on mastering long division. Some children are working problems at the board while others help those who are having a little trouble with the concept. After the bell rings, I move toward the sixth grade hall. I stop by Mrs. Cox's social studies class. Jeffery had asked me earlier to come by and look at his notebook. He has been excited about the project they are doing in class. Mrs. Cox is a wonderful teacher with a great personality and all her students enjoy being with her. As I leave her class, I hear Mrs. Smith in her science class working on an AMSTI project. The students are all gathered in groups around the science tables discussing cloud formations and learning how barometric pressure affects the weather. It is amazing sometimes how the time moves during a school day. It is now nearly 11:00 in the morning, and I make my way down the hall to Coach Anderson's seventh grade class. He is an outstanding young teacher who today is teaching from a Power- Point presentation. He is explaining how the checks and balance system works in our federal government. While in his class I hear children moving toward the cafeteria for lunch. We serve over 450 people everyday in a large and very clean building of which we are very proud. As the afternoon arrives, I move upstairs to the eighth grade hall where I visit Mrs. Gordon's English class. Although her leg is broken, she is still upstairs teaching away. The students are creating found poems using phrases selected from the prose in Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Across the hall, Mrs. Henderson's history class is taking a test. When I look through the window, I see a student or two struggling to remember the correct answers as the others seem to be confidently responding to the questions.
It is a short walk down the stairs to the band room where Mrs. Clarke is hard at work with her beginner band students as they learn to play their instruments. Welcome to a typical day at Wilson Hall Middle School.
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