Faculty and Staff Form Relay for Life Team

Wallace Middle School's Relay for Life team of faculty, staff, and PTO members has taken the name Lion's Pride. Please support this school-wide effort to raise money for the American Cancer Society by visiting our page on the society's Web site here and making a donation.

Origami Club Supports 'The Butterfly Project' with its Handiwork

Students in Wallace Middle School's Origami Club who folded butterflies last week agreed to send their creations to the Holocaust Museum Houston (Texas) to be part of an exhibit called The Butterfly Project. The project will honor the 1.6 million children who died in the Holocaust.

"The butterflies will eventually comprise a breath-taking exhibition, currently scheduled for Spring 2013, for all to remember. The Museum has already collected an estimated 600,000 butterflies," according to its Web site. 

The last, the very last,

So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellow.

Perhaps if the sun’s tears would sing

against a white stone....

Such, such a yellow

Is carried lightly ’way up high.

It went away I’m sure

because it wished

to kiss the world good-bye.

For seven weeks I’ve lived in here,

Penned up inside this ghetto.

But I have found what I love here.

The dandelions call to me

And the white chestnut branches in the court.

Only I never saw another butterfly.

That butterfly was the last one.

Butterflies don’t live in here, in the ghetto.

(Pavel Friedman, June 4, 1942. Born in Prague on Jan. 7, 1921. Deported to the Terezin Concentration Camp on April 26, 1942. Died in Aushchwitz on Sept. 29, 1944.)

CMT Spirit Day Photos

As part of Wallace Middle School's efforts to gear up for the CMTs, we had a Spirit Day on Friday, march 4. Students wore the school colors of red, black, and white and were allowed to wear hats for the day. Spirits were high, and it was a great day.

Also in an effort to drum up enthusiasm for the CMTs, the PBIS and Leadership committees held a CMT slogan contest. Homerooms competed for an ice cream or pizza party. Yeshion House 8th Grade Science Teacher Mel Rusnov's homeroom won with:

We are the lions,

Hear us roar!

We can score

A four or more!

(Thanks to Hammond House 8th Grade Language Arts Teacher Patricia Capobianco for contributing photos to this slide show.)

Alice in Wonderland Onstage April 1

Under the direction of theater arts teacher Susan Smyth, Wallace Middle School students will perform Alice in Wonderland for the public in the Crosby Auditorium on Friday, April 1, at 7 p.m. and Saturday, April 2, at 4 p.m. Tickets are $3 for children and $5 for adults on Friday and $2 for children and $4 for adults on Saturday.

Hammond House Eighth-Grader Jolee Iannanutoni is an Elks Essay Contest Finalist

Jolee Iannantuoni, an eighth-grade student from the Hammond House, is also a finalist in the Elks essay contest in the 7th and 8th Grade Division.

Wallace Sixth Grader is a Finalist in Elks' National Essay Contest

MSAA student Terrell Patterson shares the good news of his achievement with MSAA reading and language arts teacher Evelyn LeVasseur.

Terrell Patterson, a sixth grade student in the accelerated academy, came in as a finalist for the "Why I Am Proud to be an American" essay contest sponsored by the Elks' Lodge. He will be honored at a banquet on May 1st. His family will join him. He is pictured here with accelerated academy reading and language arts teacher Evelyn LeVasseur.

Wallace Announces February Students of the Month

Wallace Middle School has a student-of-the-month program. Each month, one student per grade per house is selected based on the following criteria:

Positive - Is respectful

Attitudes - Accepts responsibility

Working - Completes a high percentage of class work and/or homework

Safely - Follows school rules

February Student of the Month

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Yeshion House

Grade 6 – Alexyss Mosman

Grade 7 – Iris Correa 

Grade 8 – Camille Dorset

Huckins House

Grade 6 – Richard Anderson

Grade 7 – Eileen Escobar

Grade 8 – Marilyn Orellana

Hammond House

Grade 6 – Raynard Doughty

Grade 7 – Lirjeta (Lily) Klenja

Grade 8 – Hugo Bravo-Rodriguez

Theatre Arts

Student 1 –Miglyza Medina

Student 2- Javen Harris

Accelerated Academy

Student 1 – Marlon Monts