Westside Elementary

📚🧻 From the Papermill to Our Classroom! 🧻📚 Our 2nd graders have been learning all about how paper is made. We had the opportunity to welcome Bella Bass, a local papermill worker at Smurfit Westrock, who came and spoke to our grade about how the papermaking process works. Our students loved learning about what happens at the mill and getting to see examples of the many products they make that we use in our everyday lives! Then, we took what we learned and put it into action! 🙌🏼 When we returned to our classroom, our students got to make their very own paper! They loved getting hands-on and experiencing a small part of the papermaking process for themselves. It was such a fun way to connect our classroom learning to the real world and see how something as simple as a piece of paper goes from a process at the mill to something we use every day. 🌎📖

Mrs. Roark’s 2nd grade students have been learning all about solids, liquids, and gases! 🧪✨ They had a blast putting their learning into action by making root beer floats and identifying each state of matter along the way. 🥤🍦 Learning is always more fun when it comes with a sweet treat! 💙🐯

Our Pre-K friends have been learning all about the color GREEN this week! 🐸🌿🍀 From finding green things to fun hands-on activities, our little learners have had a GREEN-tastic week! 💚✨

As we celebrate Labor Day, we recognize and appreciate the hard work, dedication, and contributions of workers in our community and across our nation.

Monday, September 7 — Schools & offices are CLOSED in observance of Labor Day.

Tuesday, September 8 — Students are OUT of school while our teachers participate in a Professional Development Day.

We hope everyone enjoys the long weekend, gets some rest, and comes back ready for another great week of learning!

We are so proud of these amazing students for working hard, making great choices, and being wonderful examples at WES! 🐯💙

September @ WES!!

September is Attendance Awareness Month!

WES T-shirt order forms are going home in student folders today! 💙🐯
WES T-shirts are perfect for field trips, school events, and showing your WES pride throughout the year!
Order Deadline: September 11

Be sure to check your child’s folder and get your order in by the deadline. Go Tigers! 💙🐯

💛☀️ Pre-K was shining bright for YELLOW DAY! ☀️💛 Our little Tigers had a sunny, smiley, YELLOW-filled week celebrating the color yellow!

Mrs. Stewart’s class had so much fun making friendship bracelets with kind adjectives to describe one another! 💕 Each student secretly chose kind words for a classmate, and the person receiving the bracelet had no idea who had chosen them until the big reveal! 🤫🎉 It was such a fun way to spread kindness, encourage one another, and review adjectives! #SpreadKindness #Friendship #KindWords #MrsStewartsClass

DHS football kicksoff on Friday!

Be on the lookout for more information coming home next week!

Menu Change for WEDNESDAY!

Congratulations to last week’s and this week’s Leaders of the Week! 🌟🐯 What an amazing way to kick off the school year! We are so proud of our little Tigers and can’t wait to see them continue to lead, learn, and shine! 💙🤍

Mrs. Allen’s kindergarten class had a great time with Show & Tell today! They were so excited to share special things about themselves and learn new things about their classmates. It was such a fun and memorable day! 🩷

Mrs. Stokes & Mrs. Drake’s Pre-K class had the sweetest first week! 🥰 Here’s to a sweet school year full of learning, laughter, and lots of fun! 🍦📚

Ice cream nutritional and ingredient information

Ice Cream sells begin on Monday!!!

Learning is always fun at WES, but it’s even more exciting when 2nd graders explore new reading standards through Fairy Tales and Tall Tales. They wrapped up their study with a fun dress-up day!

Pre-K has been learning about the color orange this week! Today we celebrate by wearing something orange 🧡🍊🎃🥕