Wolverine Bimonthly News
February 2025
February is here, bringing with it a special opportunity to celebrate love, kindness, and friendship! Valentine’s Month is not just about heart-shaped chocolates and greeting cards—it’s a time to spread warmth, appreciation, and positivity throughout our school.
This month, we encourage our students, teachers, and families to take small actions that make a big difference—whether it’s a kind note to a friend, a thank-you to a teacher, or an act of service for our community.
Let’s make this month a celebration of love in all its forms—friendship, kindness, and community spirit. Thank you for being part of our caring school family!
Wishing you all a heart-filled February!
All sales will be online. The QR code is below.
Buy the 2024-25 Wiggs Middle School Yearbook now!
Don't miss your chance to hold on to this school year's memories.
The price is $30 until May 9, 2025 (tax free).
No yearbooks may be sold from May 10th-19th.
From May 21st on, yearbooks will be $36 plus tax.
All purchases must be made online. Cash is not accepted.
Parenting with UNIQUENESS
For some of you, your child’s uniqueness is on full display. Maybe you have an artist, a performer, or someone who is bold in their appearance living under your roof. Each day is a new look, a new experience, or a visual display of who they are and how they are feeling. For others, uniqueness is not something to be desired. You might notice that your child wants to look or dress like their peers, not try anything new, or venture into the unknown.
In any case— whether they choose to display it openly or not— each child is wonderfully unique. This month is a great opportunity for you (and other adults you know and trust) to reinforce your child’s unique gifts, talents, and personality traits that you hope to see grow and expand in them as they mature. It’s also a great time to talk about and point out the unique things about others— their friends, teammates, family members— as a way of reminding their adolescent brains that being different isn’t bad, it’s a part of life!
Questions to consider:
- What unique traits do you like about yourself? Do you think your child knows that? Why or why not?
- How did you become comfortable with parts of who you are? How can you help your child be proud of herself/himself and what she/he brings to the world?
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How do you think learning about others helps you to know more about yourself? How can you apply that in your family life?
Questions to ask your child:
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Think of your three closest friends. What unique things do you like about each of them and why?
Is there something about our family that makes us unique? What is that trait, and why do you believe we are unique?
When is it hard to embrace your uniqueness? Why do you think that is?
**NEW CLUB!: Mindful Moments with the Counselors; based on teacher recommendation in the Library AFTER SCHOOL.
Chess Club: Wiggs Chess Club is an award-winning team. We are an informal, social club meeting on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3-4 PM in our cafeteria, competing in tournaments up and down the Rio Grande Valley, throughout the year . Any student is welcome to come out and play. For further information contact M. Probasco at mhprobas@episd.org.
Destination Imagination: 3:15 -3:45 PM
Drama Club: meets MWF from 3:30 -5:00 PM. Students will need to come by and get a permission form to take home and get signed.
Math Club: (Mathletes) practice on wednesday from 3:00 to 3:40PM.
Robotics Club: Robotics will be having their practice every Tuesday and Thursday until 4pm.
NJHS Members:
NJHS sponsored Valentines Day Dance 2/14 2PM-3PM in the cafeteria.
NJHS V-day dance tickets will be sold the week of 2/10-2/14 - Tickets are $3 each, this buys you the entrance and a vote for Valentines dance court of honor.
NJHS parents- Valentine's Day dance decoration donations as well as crowns are appreciated and welcome. Needed 3 male crowns and 3 female crowns. All of these items can be turned in to the school by Friday February 12th.
NJHS Community Service field trip -February 21st 8:30-2:30. (This is for 8th GRADE NJHS MEMBERS ONLY.)
NJHS applications are open through March 17- All documents are due by March 17th.
Check out the NJHS Website by clicking here
The web page is where parents can apply, there will be an application link on there along with the requirements.
Requirements to join NJHS:
93% cumulative average
10 hrs of community service(must turn in documentation to Mrs. Orpinel or Mrs Soriano)
2 recommendation letters( No Wiggs teachers)
No behavior infractions.
We will announce acceptance into NJHS early April.
