Will Rogers Junior High

Happy Easter! We’d love to share your holiday with you. Comment your favorite Easter photo, past or present, & tag your school on the Claremore Public School Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ClaremorePublicSchools #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

☀CPS Zebra Stripes Summer Camp☀ Now Accepting Applications Kindergarten - Fifth Grade 2 Sessions ☀June 1 - July 2 ☀July 12 - August 6 6:30AM - 6PM Full Time l Part-Time l Drop-In Rates Available Find more information here: https://www.claremore.k12.ok.us/page/zebra-stripes-child-care #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

If you could go to any country you'd like, which one would you choose? 🌎 Students in Mrs. Shilling's Current Events class did a research presentation over interesting countries of their choice. They gathered five sources and used Google Slides to present about the countries and shared the countries demographics: location, population, geography, government, economy, language, and interesting facts they found about it! #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

🐣 CPS will be closed Friday, April 2, 2021 for a egg-ceptional Easter holiday weekend. 🐣 We are egg-cited to celebrate the holiday with our families. Anyone got a good egg pun to crack us up? Share it in the comments. #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Were new substances formed or not? 🧪 Mrs. Tietz's High School Physical Science class has been studying chemical and physical changes. One station has a reaction between baking soda and vinegar that blew up a balloon. One station had a reaction between liver and hydrogen peroxide. It bubbled and got hot. They formed a precipitate with ammonia and copper 2 sulfate. They turned water red, blew some bubbles, ate a cracker, put butane in a baggie and watched the baggie expand. #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Delivery day! 🐶🐱 These students helped create a service project to honor December the National Month of "Santa Paws". They created a gift exchange for themselves and invited other classes to join! All gifts were cat and dog related items, so we could donate them to the Claremore Animal Shelter. We went to the animal shelter, got a great tour from Mrs. Jean Hurst, and learned about how the Animal Shelter serves our community and does a great job taking care of the animals and adopting them out to great homes. It was a great day! #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Have you ever wondered if your wingspan and height are the same? 💸 Mrs. Higgins Math class took measurements to create a graph of their heights and wingspans to see if there is a correlation and to make predictions. #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Here's the newest addition to the Zebra family! Mrs. Kylie James and her husband Dylan welcomed Nathan David James on Wednesday, March 24th. Nate was 5 lb 13 oz and 19.5 inches long. Mom, dad, and big sister, Tatum, are absolutely in love! #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

#TechTipTuesday will show users how to search a site for specific content. Searching on a website for a specific topic and can be challenging and time-consuming. This #TechTipTuesday will show users how to search a specific site for specific content using the site search feature in Google Chrome. Using this feature will narrow the search results to only the site you want to search and not the entire web. Use this to find documents, images, or any content on a specific website without searching the whole web for it. Watch it here: https://youtu.be/LrcQUBuRhGE Script in English & Spanish: https://bit.ly/3suPbIh #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

March is Youth Art Month. 🎨 Mrs. Miller's art students are creating paintings and drawings in art while experimenting with blending, shading and expanding their art skills. #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Mrs. Smith introduced the 7th grade to the 2022 8th grade trip to Washington DC and New York City today. There will be a parent meeting via Google Meet on March 30th at 6:30 for those who are interested in more information. Virtual Learners have access to this information via their child's geography teacher's Google Classroom. Parent Meeting: https://meet.google.com/asj-rikb-xbp Trip Dates: June 6-10 2022 Trip ID# 195859 Trip Website: https://worldstrides.com/custom/will-rogers-junior-high-school-dc-ny-195859/ Mrs. Smith's Google Classroom: https://sites.google.com/claremore.k12.ok.us/smithwrjhgeography/home

🎶🎶🎶🎶 Our 7th and 8th grade Treble Choir competed in their VERY FIRST show choir contest at Edmond Santa Fe High School. In show choir, you sing while you do choreographed dance moves. It was a great day of hard work, sweat, nerves, dedication, success, fun AND... they earned the TOP superior rating! 🏆 Way to go! 🎉 #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

JOIN OUR TEAM! Be the first smile our students see in the morning and the last smile they see as they head home. CPS is hiring bus drivers! We are looking for people who love kids, who value an opportunity to positively influence the lives of our students, and see these young people as precious cargo. 🚌District bus drivers work either four or five-hour routes per day. In the past, driving positions have proven to be a good fit for many retirees looking to make extra money while keeping them active in the community. In addition, it is a good income source for college students or parents looking for extra money. Drivers come from diverse backgrounds, but they have one common thread; they enjoy being around and helping the kids. 🚌 If you are interested in becoming a Claremore Public School bus driver, please contact Jennifer Hayes, CPS Transportation Director, for additional details. The job does require a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) with school and passenger endorsements. The school district will reimburse these costs and starting pay begins at $15 per hour. Fill out an online application here https://www.applitrack.com/clar.../onlineapp/default.aspx... #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

🌋VOLCANOES🌋 6th grade Science classes worked on [[volcano]] projects. Students built models of active volcanoes, labeling major parts of the volcano. Students learned that volcanoes are formed when tectonic plates converge AND that volcanoes are an integral part of the Rock Cycle, since cooling lava forms Igneous rocks! #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

How do you incorporate an English lesson with kickball?⚽ Mrs. Black's class did a review KICKBALL game over verb moods, active & passive voice, analogies, and gerunds/participle/infinitives to help prepare them for state testing. If they got the review question correct, they got to kick. If they got it wrong, it counted as an out for their team! Can you tell which team won? #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Claremore Public Schools is continually committed to developing an atmosphere of trust among parents and the community in our ability to provide not only a positive and enriching educational experience but a safe place for students to thrive. That is why we have partnered with Family Zone, a leading provider of cyber safety products and education, to ensure your kids are cyber safe while at school. Claremore Public Schools is already using Family Zone to block inappropriate content and to identify red flag search terms from students. As a parent or caregiver of our school district, you receive free access to the Family Zone Cyber Safety Hub, which includes articles, videos, courses, and more. Click “sign up” below to get ongoing materials and education from the platform we trust to manage cyber safety across our entire district. Our #TechTipTuesday is to go online and create an account with this FREE resource to help keep you informed about your child's online activity and the latest updates on website, apps an more. https://claremorek12.familyzone.com/ #CPSZEBRAPRIDE As a parent or caregiver of our school district, you receive free access to the Family Zone Cyber Safety Hub, which includes articles, videos, courses, and more. As a parent or caregiver of our school district, you receive free access to the Family Zone Cyber Safety Hub, which includes articles, videos, courses, and more.

✨Staff Spotlight✨ My name is Heather Lohmann. I was born and raised in Alva, Oklahoma. I graduated from Alva High School in 2006. After high school, I attended Northwestern Oklahoma State University where I received my Bachelor of Science in Education. This year is my 11th year in the classroom and I have had the opportunity to teach everything from 6th grade math to trigonometry. I will be getting married on June 19th, 2021. My fiancé is the Dean of Students at Edison Middle School and coaches football for Edison High school. We have two English bulldogs and one crazy cat. This is my 11th year in the classroom and I have had the opportunity to teach everything from 6th grade math to Trigonometry. I taught 6th grade math last year before moving to 8th grade math this year at Will Rogers Junior High. I love inspiring my students and challenging them to reach their full potential. #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

What is the best way to connect ecosystems? Watching the original Lion King!🦁 Mrs. Worley's classes are learning about ecosystems in 7th grade Science. Connecting students with relatable content helps to understand and retain the knowledge. #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

✨Staff Spotlight✨ My name is Rhonda Bart and I teach 6th grade math at WRJH. I was born and raised in Claremore. My husband and I have been married for 27 years and have 3 amazing children. I graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education from Oklahoma State University and my Master’s Degree in Middle School Math and Science from the University of Tulsa. This is my 28th year of teaching. I teach because throughout my years as a student in Claremore Public Schools, I had many teachers who believed in me and worked hard to help me succeed. I want to be that teacher for my students. #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

In Mrs. Boyd's Native American Club, students made corn husk dolls. Corn husk dolls have been made by Northeastern Native Americans for more than a thousand years, since the beginning of corn agriculture. They would soak the dried corn husks in water to make the dolls for their children to play with while they did their work. Native American Club meets weekly after school. #CPSZEBRAPRIDE