Melanie Smith

Wife•Mom to 2 amazing children•Principal of Williams Elementary School•2017 NASSP Assistant Principal of the Year for Maine•Yankees Fan• Angler•Runner•Skier

[Melanie Smith @Prin_Smith]

Our family loves LL Bean and couldn’t pass up a photo op in the warmest jacket ever. #Beanoutsider

[Melanie Smith @Prin_Smith]

WES wrapped up a successful Read-a-thon with a total of 110,169 minutes read. Congrats to our top readers-Raegan (2,057 min),Peyton (3,292 min) & Joshua(3,180 min).They were awarded gift certificates to shop at our book fair. We appreciate the support of our families. #WeAreRSU18

[Melanie Smith @Prin_Smith]

Our final Scholastic Book Fair of the 24/25 school year is all set up & ready for students to preview it on Friday! We hope you’ll stop by to pick out some new books to read this summer. So many great titles & series to select from. Shopping hours are pictured below. #WeAreRSU18

[Melanie Smith @Prin_Smith]

Our final Scholastic Book Fair of the 24/25 school year is all set up & ready for students to preview on Friday! We hope you’ll stop by to pick out some new books to read this summer. So many great titles/series to select from! Shopping hours are pictured below. #WeAreRSU18

[Melanie Smith @Prin_Smith]

What a fun way to celebrate two of our PTA BINGO winners with a Korner Store luncheon with the Dean & Principal! Our 2 winners invited friends to join us & they happily shared their pizza! 🍕 💛Having lunch with this crew was a highlight of my day. 💫🌟 We ❤️ Our PTA! #WeAreRSU18

[Melanie Smith @Prin_Smith]

We had the BEST morning at WES celebrating this year’s top 2 books in our Nonficton March Madness Tourney. “Wat Takes His Shot” by Cheryl Kim was crowned this year’s champion. Our assembly kicked off with a knockout battle between students, staff & MHS bball players. #WeAreRSU18

[Melanie Smith @Prin_Smith]

We were so grateful to see so many of our parents & grandparents in attendance at our Math Mornings this week. We hope you had a blast playing treasure hunt! Thank you to our amazing Title 1 staff for hosting this fun family event for our whole school community. #WeAreRSU18

[Maggie Solis @SolisDeanofWES]

Another fun afternoon of Crazy 8’s Math Club! We had fun discussions about order of operations &probability, made a human bar graph and played Radical BINGO! BINGO with a twist where teams battled it out choosing operations to complete a row of 5 to get BINGO!🎲📊 🌟#WESProud18

[Melanie Smith @Prin_Smith]

Our students had the pleasure of meeting Shihan, Head Karate Instructor at Club Naha Karate at the AYC, & enjoyed seeing demonstrations by his students.Students had opportunities to participate in activities led by Shihan. The spring session at the AYC runs 4/28-6/14. #WeAreRSU18

[Melanie Smith @Prin_Smith]

We were able to offer a ride to school in a fire truck and police cruiser as special prizes for BINGO last week thanks to our amazing Oakland Fire Dept. & Police Dept. 🚒💙🚔What a memorable morning for these two students today. Thankful for our supportive community! #WeAreRSU18

[Melanie Smith @Prin_Smith]

The WES student council has been busy preparing special welcome gifts for our Atwood 2nd graders’ step up day at WES and have also planted lots of flowers for a special community treat. Spreading kindness like confetti throughout our community. ☀️#WeAreRSU18

[Melanie Smith @Prin_Smith]

WES 3rd/4th graders had a blast at their first day of Crazy 8s Math Club after school on Monday. The focus was Glow Stick Geometry. Students enjoyed creating 3D glowing shapes. We are excited to share that we had 34 students interested so we were able to have 2 clubs! #WeAreRSU18

[Melanie Smith @Prin_Smith]

What a beautiful picture of our playground with the sunrise this morning. It’s going to be an amazing day. 📸 credit: our wonderful custodian Donnie Sheets. #WeAreRSU18

[Melanie Smith @Prin_Smith]

I love it when our spectacular student council joins me in the morning to greet our students and staff. They brighten the morning for our families, students and staff during morning drop off. I know they will continue to spread sunshine throughout our school. ☀️#WeAreRSU18

[Melanie Smith @Prin_Smith]

Thank you to our amazing WES/ATW PTA for providing our students an opportunity to visit the Waterville Opera House to see Once Upon a Time: Cinderella and Jack & the Beanstalk. Our students & staff had the best time and loved the performance. #WeAreRSU18

[Melanie Smith @Prin_Smith]

Ms. Desmarais & Mr. Polley team taught a lesson that enhanced their students’ understanding of solutions and mixtures by creating lava lamps. Students did a nice job explained their observations & why things happened. An awesome hands on activity to solidify concepts. #WeAreRSU18

[Maggie Solis @SolisDeanofWES]

Williams Elementary gave the Messalonskee Boys Basketball Team a start to their day the WES community hopes they will remember forever! We are so proud of their accomplishments and wish them all the best in the State Championship tonight!! Let’s GOOOOO! 🏀🦅🎉 ❤️

[Melanie Smith @Prin_Smith]

The Williams gym was electric as our staff/students gave the Messo Boys Bball team a wonderful WES send off for tonight’s State Championship game. From minute to win it challenges to Thuderstruck with rhythm sticks-fun was had by all. We wish them all the best! #WeAreRSU18 ❤️🏀🦅

[Melanie Smith @Prin_Smith]

The Williams gym was electric & Mr. Mac’s energy & dance moves were off the charts as he announced the 16 nonfiction titles for our 10th annual Nonfiction March Madness Tournament. 📚❤️🏀📚So excited to see who our students crown as the 2025 champion! #WESproud18 #WeAreRSU18

[Melanie Smith @Prin_Smith]

What a beautiful day 🌞for our Principal’s 100 Club reward! We had a fabulous time sledding & after sledding we enjoyed warming up with hot chocolates topped with lots of marshmallows. Congrats to this wonderful group of kiddos. Sun, snow & smiles -a perfect morning!🩵#WeAreRSU18