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WMMS Tiger Times

February 2025

WMMS Tiger TimesFebruary 2025

January Students of the Month January Students of the Month

Congratulations to our PBIS January Students of the Month! These students were nominated by their teachers for showing RELIABILITY. The students were recognized at our January PBIS assembly and rewarded with a pancake breakfast!

Jack Dent

Kirk Rogers

Jace Billington

Soha Fine

Whitney Kirkland

Zac Tilton

Emily Furman

Elise Miller

Lucy Amoroso

Kadence Selby

Aela Alimi

Kennedy Meintz

Evey Mills

Sophia Rolston

Kason March

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If you have any questions please reach out to Mr. Kennard, nkennard@kirksville.k12.mo.us

Yearbook Orders due March 1st! Yearbook Orders due March 1st!

First Day, Fresh Start Application

January Students of the Week January Students of the Week

Montana Veach

Gerard Guiterrez-Luevano

Devin Watkins

Emma Elmlinger

Kinsley Western

Adam Treasure

Lukas Stocks


James Schaeffer

Emmalee Ayers

Omar Rahman

Silas Trunk

Cardion Robinson

Lucia Marquez-Ovalle

Tristin Jones


Emery Tucker

Cooper Allen-Baxter

Axl McCoy

Marie Gonzalez

Greenlee Richman

Emma Pearson

Zoelyn Wilson


Seann Alberts

Mariah Pinson

Ryan Lewis

Adilay Bowen

Jagger Hagan

Brynn Shahan

Elise Miller

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Scholar Bowl Champs! Scholar Bowl Champs!

Congratulations to the Scholar Bowl team! They took first place at the Scotland County Sprint this weekend against 17 other teams! They competed in 9 matches during the day. Special recognition goes to team captain Wade Guffey. Lincoln Best and Reid Emmerich were recognized as top individual scorers among all the students in the competition.


Upcoming Tournaments


February 8, 2025 9:00 AM

2025 North Shelby JH Scholar Bowl Tournament

North Shelby High School


March 1, 2025 8:30 AM

2025 Tournament of the Minds

Knox County High School- 55701 MO-6, Edina, MO 63537

House Points Leaderboard House Points Leaderboard

Library Lowdown Library Lowdown

Save the Date

Children’s Literature Festival will be Friday, March 28th for 6th grade @ Truman State


The spring BOGO Book Fair will be March 31st - April 4th.


EBSCO Explora


Students have access to the EBSCO Host Databases through the district. In helping several classes with research projects, I have found EBSCO Explora to be a great resource for our students. They can access articles, periodicals, and ebooks. Your student may visit with their teacher regarding login information.


February Reading Challenge

Paper copies can be found on the bulletin board outside the library.


House that earned the most points in the Library

Generosity


Books Checked Out in January

789

Books Checked Out This Year

4213

Homework Club Homework Club

Homework club has been canceled for second semester.

Student not feeling well? Check out our Cares Center! Student not feeling well? Check out our Cares Center!

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The Complete Family Medicine CARES Center is a school-based health center formed in August 2019 through a partnership between the Kirksville R-III School District and Complete Family Medicine, a service of Hannibal Regional Healthcare System. “CARES” stands for “Care At R-III for Every Student”.


Purpose: To provide accessible and affordable urgent/walk-in and preventative/well health services on-site at the school district’s campus to students, faculty, and staff. Students will not be able to be seen at the center without the consent from their parent/guardian.


Location: The center is located in the northwest corner of the Kirksville Area Technical Center (KATC) at 1103 South Cottage Grove. Using the north entrance to the building, the CARES Center lobby is the first door on the right. There will be limited, designated patient parking west of the entrance.


Hours of Operation: 7:30am-4:30pm Monday-Friday


Some of the Services Provided at the CARES Center: Urgent/Walk-in care, Preventative Care, Wellness Visits, Immunizations (free for medicaid eligible and uninsured students through VFC and billed as normal for commercial), Flu Vaccine, Sports Physicals, Point-of-Care Testing (ie - Rapid Strep and Influenza Testing), can arrange for COVID testing if needed.


Team at the CARES Center: Provider (either Physician or Nurse Practitioner), Licensed Nurse, and Clinic Coordinator


Complete Family Medicine CARES Center at (660)956-7011

https://www.cfmcares.com/locations/Complete-Family-Medicine-CARES-Center/4/location-details

Who Should I Call? Who Should I Call?

Attendance: We look forward to seeing your child every day! If your child must miss school, please contact the main office (660) 665-3793 before 8:00 to let us know. If we haven't heard from anyone regarding an absence, we will call home to make sure your child is safe. Please turn in any doctors excuses to our secretaries asap.


Scheduling/Student Concerns: Our school counselors are here to help!

Mrs. Kellie Shoemaker (Last Names A-L)

Mrs. Michele Yoder (Last Names M-Z)

Extension 4


Medical Concerns: Nurse Kristi Zentz can help if your child has medical needs or if you have questions about your child's health. Extension 5


Classroom Questions: The easiest way to reach your child's teacher is via email. Click here for a list of emails.


Transportation: If you have a question about your child's bus or about signing your child up to ride the bus, please contact the transportation office at (660) 730-1653.



General Questions: If you are not sure who to contact for your specific question, our amazing office secretaries, Mrs. Pletz and Mrs. Reed, can help answer your question or connect you to the right person.

Calendar of Events Calendar of Events

  • February 14: NO SCHOOL - TEACHER PD DAY
  • February 17: NO SCHOOL
  • March 7: End of 3rd Quarter
  • March 10-14: NO SCHOOL - SPRING BREAK
  • March 17: NO SCHOOL - TEACHER PD DAY
  • March 21: Fun Night 6 - 8 PM
  • April 18 - 21: NO SCHOOL
  • May 9: 7th/8th grade dance
  • May 22: Last day of school
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William Matthew Middle School

1515 South Cottage Grove

Kirksville, MO 63501

660-665-3793

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