Will Rogers Junior High

On Friday, Mrs. Blankenship's English class did a Christmas "Escape Room" to wrap up a writing unit and review grammar skills. The students enjoyed completing their mission! #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

WRJH Cheerleaders traveled to Branson, Mo., this weekend for Celebrity Nationals. They won first place and a GRAND CHAMPION award! Way to show your #CPSZEBRAPRIDE !

The City of Claremore proudly announce one free baseball clinic and one free softball clinic during the month of January 2020. Contact Ron Paris to enroll or ask questions at (918)342-2522 or e-mail rparis@claremorecity.com

Mrs. James' class did another STEM Challenge today where the objective was to build the longest paper chain garland. Students were only allowed to have a pair of scissors, 2 feet of tape, and 1 piece of construction paper as their materials. It was up to them on how to use it to make the chain. After creating the chain, students then measured their garland and made a bar graph with the data. #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

WRJH National Junior Honor Society inducted new members this month. The National Junior Honor Society is an international student organization that consists of chapters in middle schools. The National Junior Honor Society (NJHS) elevates a school’s commitment to the values of scholarship, service, leadership, character, and citizenship. Congratulations to these students! #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

NEW PICK UP AND DROP OFF PROCEDURES BEGIN JAN. 6TH! - ALL students will enter and exit the building through the NORTH BUS LOOP entrance -6th graders and bus riders ONLY will drop off in the bus loop -7th and 8th graders will continue to use the main entrance loop for drop off -We encourage parents to enter from SOUTH Florence Ave. and exit SOUTH on Florence Ave. due to the increase in congestion in the bus loop -There will be a new sidewalk for 7th-8th grade students to enter the bus loop entrance during pick up and drop off #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

For a brain break and review before finals start, Mrs. Boyd's class decorated "Ugly" Science Lab Coats. They added in science vocabulary and topics they have studied. #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Congratulations to our WRJH Dance Team! They are STATE CHAMPS in KICK and received 3rd place in MIX! Way to go! #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

WRJH Dance Team is going to state this weekend (Dec 14th). The OSDTDA State Competition will be held at the Tulsa Cox Convention Center/Civic Center. Performance times are 8:56am - MIX and 10:00am- KICK Good luck, ladies! #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

We will start our WIN schedule on Monday, Dec. 16. We will use the WIN schedule Monday-Wednesday, use the regular schedule Thursday, and PLC schedule Friday. Starting after Winter Break, we will be using the WIN schedule every day except Friday, which is always the PLC early out Friday. #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

6th grade Science classes are doing a Winter STEM Challenge where the students have to build a skier out of foil, tape, and popsicle sticks. The skier must look like a person and stay upright.  They have to send them down the ramp to "ski".  The skier with the fastest time WINS!    #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Here are some of Mrs. James' science class doing the Winter STEM Challenge. The skier with the fastest time WINS! #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

The winter choir concert was held at the PAC Tuesday evening, where our WRJH choir sang several seasonal songs as a combined choir and as separate individual age levels. We celebrated the many 6th grade students who made Circle The State With Song (honor choir festival occurring in February), students who made All District Honor Choir (8 JH students made NCDA All District Honor Choir), and cheered on the two students who made it to second round All State auditions. We also recognized Lacey Arthur for making All State Honor Choir. The evening was fun and festive and the students glowed with the great accomplishment of performing songs on which they've worked hard all semester to provide a quality concert for the audience and to exhibit positive performance and audience member etiquette according to Oklahoma Academic Standards. #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

More EGG DROP PICTURES! Here are some pictures of egg saving contraptions built by Mrs. Newbury’s Earth Science classes. Students did an amazing job! #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Saturday was the first Claremore Robotics tournament of the season and it went well! We had 39 teams from across the state competing. We also had six former TSA students who came back to help our current students, as well as 17 volunteers who helped judge. The Claremore Robotics students competed well. Team 9142A won the Design Award for the second time this season and team 8634A won the Excellence Award at their first tournament of the year. Congratulations to all of the students and a big thanks to the community and current and former TSA students for volunteering! If you are interested in seeing our next Claremore Robotics tournament, it will be held February 15th. It’s free and fun for everyone to see! Competitions begin around 10am and end at 4pm. #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

7th grade Science classes are studying meal worms! They are determining how the meal worm responds to different stimuli by giving them different surfaces to move on and measuring how far they go. #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

More MEAL WORMS! Friday was Mrs. Westfall's science students turn to study meal worms. They used meal worms to see how animal behaviors help maintain homeostasis, a steady internal state. They manipulated variables to get more accurate results. #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Some of Mrs. Shillings choir students were able to go to Norman to attend the OU Young Men’s Vocal Workshop. #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Mrs. Westfall won a free hour of a Tulsa Zoo presentation and the 7th grade Enriched Science classes got to participate. They are studying animals and behaviors in class and the Tulsa Zoo had a great presentation for the students using live animals. One of the students dressed up like an owl, showing the different characteristics of them and how they react. #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Robotics competition going on now at Claremore. Championship begins at 3 PM at Will Rogers Junior High. #CPSZEBRAPRIDE