Edgewood Middle School

Successful Living students cut paper plates to review fractions. Knowing how to do fractions makes cooking better! STEM concepts at work! #EdgewoodSTEM #wcsmission #togetherwearewarsaw

Toxic popcorn? Students in Mr. Fleming's science classes worked to transfer unpopped popcorn from one container to another, using one large rubber band and four ropes. Because the popcorn was "toxic," they were not allowed to touch the containers or cross an invisible barrier. Lots of problem solving and laughter ensued, as well as several successful attempts! #EdgewoodSTEM #wcsmission #togetherwearewarsaw

Successful Living students played the “Speaker-Listener”:game. One person in their group told a story while the rest did things to make communication difficult. Sleeping, interrupting, playing on their iPad and looking away made for a frustrating situation and poor communication. #wcsmission #EdgewoodSTEM #togetherwearewarsaw

Successful Living students played a communication game. Students ordered food off of a menu and one person in each group was the server and took orders. Whose responsibility is it to be sure the order is correct? #wcsmission #togetherwearewarsaw

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Parent-Teacher Conferences will be held at Edgewood from 3:30-7:00 on Thursday, September 23. Conferences will be held in the Commons and in the library. Wear your favorite mask and come meet the teachers!

School Pictures are this Friday, Sept. 24. Every student will be photographed. They will receive an individual code to enter at Blossers website. You can view pictures, then order what you'd like. Big Smiles needed! #wcsmission

Edgewood will be hosting Reading for Riley, a read-a-thon, for Riley Children's Hospital. Event is Friday, Oct. 8 from 3:00-9:00 p.m. Minimum $20 to participate. Pizza, popcorn, and pop will be provided. #wcsmission #togetherwearewarsaw

This week, students in Mrs. Heckaman's SRT class planted a tree in front of Edgewood. Thanks for helping the environment and making our school more beautiful! #wcsmission #EdgewoodSTEM #togetherwearewarsaw

Warsaw Girls Basketball proudly presents: Elementary/Middle School Team Camps. Get full details and REGISTRATION FORM here: https://bit.ly/WGBTeamCamps #wcsmission #togetherwearewarsaw

Warsaw Basketball Tiger Academy proudly presents: Team Camp; Holiday Hoopla; TBA Travel Team Tryouts. Get full details and REGISTRATION FORM here: https://bit.ly/TBAFALL21 #wcsmission #togetherwearewarsaw

We are partnering with KREMC to get an important survey out. Please consider completing this survey to help bring higher internet speeds to more homes. LINK: https://bit.ly/KREMCsurvey @kosciuskoconnect @GetFiberKos #wcsmission #togetherwearewarsaw

Ms. Rhoades’s 7th grade PE students worked on their throwing skills and game strategy on Friday as they played small games of 2v1, trying to make successful plays and earn individual points. #wcsmission #togetherwearewarsaw

Beginning Monday, Sept. 13, Edgewood will be following a new bell schedule with 3 lunch shifts. https://5il.co/yp4q

FACS students watched a demonstration, read the recipe, used sausage, bread, eggs, cheese and seasonings to make breakfast egg cups. This inexpensive and nutritious food was made from a recipe created by our principal, Mrs. Hauselman. #togetherwearewarsaw #wcsmission #EdgewoodSTEM

Dear Warsaw Schools Community, We all long for normality during this continued time of COVID.  As exemplified during the 2020-21 school year, our local schools are the bedrock of the community.  During a year of abnormality, we were able to provide a stable environment.  In-person instruction is needed for student academic and social well-being along with economic and community health. Our number one priority must be a safe in-person educational environment. Within the first four weeks of the 2021-22 school year, COVID-19 numbers have spiked due to the highly contagious Delta variant.  These numbers reflect positive cases experienced during the height of the 2020-21 school year.  Our local health department has noted substantial community spread that led to the creation of new recommendations for additional mitigation strategies.  Due to this similar spread throughout Indiana, Governor Eric Holcomb issued a new Executive Order 21-24 on September 1 for all K-12 schools.  On Tuesday, September 7, our school board met to review the executive order and local health department recommendations. Beginning Friday, September 10, 2021, in an effort to maintain high-quality in-person instruction in a safe and healthy environment for our students while minimizing the disruption caused by mandatory quarantine rules, Warsaw Community Schools will require masks for all students, staff, and visitors during the school day regardless of vaccination status in all of our school buildings. What does this mean for our WCS school community? During the school day, masks will be required regardless of vaccination status for all students, staff, and visitors in all indoor WCS school buildings and on buses.  By wearing masks, WCS expects to reduce quarantines significantly, which will increase the likelihood of maintaining full-time in-person learning as well as continued opportunities for co and extra-curricular activities.  Our number one priority is to provide our students and community a safe in-person educational environment. A compelling benefit of the mask mandate (per Governor’s executive order) is that instructional and social activities may return to pre-COVID conditions; a 3-foot or 6-foot radius is required between students when masked is no longer required. Healthy students will now be able to engage in more interactive instructional strategies with their peers without the risk of being quarantined. Staff will provide students with opportunities, as allowed by state health protocols, to remove masks at appropriate times when eating, engaged in physical activity, outdoor learning, and when 6-feet of physical distance is possible. Quarantines from outside of the school settings, as well as those close contacts from non-classroom settings, extracurricular activities. and athletics may still be subject to quarantine. In accordance with the Indiana State Health Department vaccinated (asymptomatic) students and staff remain exempt from contact-traced quarantines. WCS will continue to encourage social distancing and frequent hand washing/sanitizing in addition to our other layered mitigation protocols. The masking requirement will be deployed whenever Kosciusko County is in the orange or red zone according to the Indiana State Department of Health.  When Kosciusko County is in the yellow zone for two consecutive weeks, masks will return to recommended, but optional.   Thank you for your continued support to make our number one priority a reality.  #TogetherWeAreWarsaw Reopening Plan UPDATED: https://www.warsawschools.org/browse/158668 David Hoffert, PhD Superintendent, Warsaw Community Schools

Check out the Warsaw Community Pool Calendar for September https://bit.ly/swimseptember #wcsmission #togetherwearewarsaw

FACS students in Successful Living class stack cups by using a rubber band with yarn tied to it. No hands allowed! Besides being a teamwork exercise, they were to determine if the task was easier to do by talking (verbal communication) or without talking (nonverbal communication) and why. #wcsmission #togetherwearewarsaw #EdgewoodSTEM

I would like to extend an invitation to students to experience a once in a lifetime opportunity to travel to Ecuador and the Galápagos Islands in the summer of 2023! This opportunity is for all high school, middle school, and 6th grade students. Spanish is not a prerequisite. The trip is timed to allow students to attend the first session of summer school, graduation, and the 4H fair, but still get them back in time to start back to school or college. We will be holding a virtual meeting on Thursday, September 9th at 6:00 p.m., and anyone who RSVPs and attends gets a $200 discount towards the trip! Go to this link to RSVP for the meeting and receive a $200 discount towards the trip. https://rsvp.eftours.com/8smhx9p Any questions about the meeting? Contact me at znetzley@warsawschools.org

Mark your Calendars: Secondary Picture Day is Coming Soon! WCHS/WACC: Sept. 15 & Sept. 16 Lakeview: Sept. 17 Edgewood: Sept. 24 Gateway: TBD #wcsmission #togetherwearewarsaw