Westside Elementary

🦓👮‍♂️ Happy National School Resource Officer Appreciation Day to our fantastic Zebra-protecting hero! 🎉👏 Today, we extend our heartfelt gratitude to Officer Hagen, our dedicated Resource Officer at Westside Elementary School. 🏫 Thank you for your unwavering commitment to keeping our school safe and fostering a supportive environment for our students to learn and thrive. Your dedication and service are truly appreciated! #SchoolResourceOfficerAppreciationDay #ZebraPride 🦓💙👮‍♀️

It's Kindness week at Westside and Secret Agent Lyons has a special mission from the SKLCA for each class: spread kindness throughout the school. 🏫 We've already seen several classes making others smile by gifting stickers and passing out handmade cards! ❤️🫶🏻 Keep spreading kindness like confetti, Westies! 🎉🎊

Mrs. Frost's 4th Grade class is using math and cooking up a storm for the Super Bowl! 🏟️ They're creating mouthwatering menus filled with game day favorites and hunting down the prices for each item. 🏈 From hot dogs to chips and dip, these young mathematicians are mastering the art of finding prices while planning the ultimate Super Bowl spread. 🌭🍔💲

First grade loves science- snow globe edition! ☃️ Mrs. Classen and her first graders worked together to create a snow globe by using regular household items like baby oil, antacid and glitter. ✨ It's amazing to see their creativity in action!

Mrs. Whitaker's AM pre-k class soaking up some Winter sun! 🌞 Our students are soaking up the sun on the big playground. With laughter and smiles, they're making the most of this beautiful weather! 🛝 Keep shining, little ones! ☀️

REMINDER - In honor of Presidents Day, Claremore Public Schools will be closed on February 19, 2024. You can find the full academic calendar on our website: https://www.claremore.k12.ok.us/page/academic-calendars

EARN CASH FOR HOURS SERVED - LIMITED TO $200 GET OUR CHEROKEE YOUTH INVOLVED. Cherokee Nation will pay Cherokee youth ($200 for 20 hours)of service to help the elderly or non-profit organizations with special projects from yard work to trash clean up etc... Applicants must be 10 years of age or older. See application pages 1-4 in post below or use the download link to download pdf http://tinyurl.com/3ybdyxa2 for printing out and returning via mail or in-person. You can call Cherokee Nation 918-453-5000, ask for“Cherokee First” for more information. #cherokee, #cherokeenation, #community

We are hiring individuals passionate about positively influencing children's lives by bringing a smile, a kind word, or a friendly high five. Our top priority is recruiting applicants dedicated to helping all students reach their full potential. These flexible career opportunities offer a schedule with nights, weekends, and holidays off. We believe that our employees and students are our most valuable resources, and we strive to build a community, a team, and a family. We encourage you to apply today if you want to join our team. We are looking for substitutes and bus drivers, and we also have openings in child nutrition. You can find the application links below. Substitutes & Bus Drivers ➡ https://www.claremore.k12.ok.us/article/972944 Child Nutrition ➡ https://us.sodexo.com/careers #CPSZEBRAPRIDE APPLY TODAY #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

We know basketball season is going strong & Coach Faulconer had students building up their ball handling skills all week! 🏀⛹🏽⛹🏼‍♀️⛹🏾‍♂️⛹🏻‍♀️🦓 After practicing slaps, taps, wraps & more students played Dribble Knock Out. The ballers would keep their dribble while trying to knock other dribbler’s ball away. The last one dribbling (who didn't lose their ball) was the winner! What a super fun way to develop new skills & strengthen hand eye coordination!!

✨ My school counselor helps me dream BIG ✨ Students all over Westside are showing their appreciation for Mrs. Lyons and how she inspires them and helps them succeed! 💭📓 From goal-setting sessions to empowering pep talks, our school counselor is here to ignite dreams and turn them into reality! 💫

Superior Land Designs, based out of Georgia, wanted to give back to the communities of their employees through a matched donation pool. Mrs. McGill’s husband, Shane, works for this company & Westside generously received $4,000 which has purchased brand new shoes, socks & other often overlooked items for our students. The smiles and confidence Superior Land Designs has given our kiddos is priceless. These shoes are a gift that keeps on giving. Our counselor Mrs. Lyons said, “The smiles make me smile and I love spying them showing off their shoes to their teachers and walking down these halls with a brand new confidence!” Thank you Superior Land Designs!!!

Mrs. Sweet & Ms. Brown’s 2nd grade classes are doing a deep dive on learning about the Chinese New Year. These lessons are incorporating reading, art, math, geography, comparing & contrasting cultures and traditions & more, WOW! These 2nd grade students are even getting a Chinese food experience with snacks, candies & they are even learning to use chopsticks! 🥢🦓❤️ We need these second graders to come teach us how to use chopsticks next! Keep it up 2nd grade, absolutely love it!

🌈 We are celebrating National School Counselor Week!🌟 Meet our incredible school counselor Mrs. Lyons– the guiding force behind supporting students' well-being and academic success. Thank you for your dedication and empathy! 📚💙 #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Happy 100th day of school! 100 days of reading. 100 days of math. 100 days of problem solving. 100 days of procedures. 100 days of specials. 100 days of school lunches. 100 days of daily kindnesses. 100 days of building friendships. 100 days of growing our strongest & best versions of ourselves together at Westside! It truly is, a great day to be a Zebra! 💯🦓❤️

EARN CASH FOR HOURS SERVED - LIMITED TO $200 GET OUR CHEROKEE YOUTH INVOLVED. Cherokee Nation will pay Cherokee youth ($200 for 20 hours)of service to help the elderly or non-profit organizations with special projects from yard work to trash clean up etc... Applicants must be 10 years of age or older. See application pages 1-4 in post below or use the download link to download pdf http://tinyurl.com/3ybdyxa2 for printing out and returning via mail or in-person. You can call Cherokee Nation 918-453-5000, ask for“Cherokee First” for more information. #cherokee, #cherokeenation, #community

The other day, we found 4th grade teacher Ms. Johnson sharing lunch & just catching up with her students on what's up in their world. Sometimes the biggest impact we have at school are the relationships we build with one another - big & small. These relationships & friendships are where we find a sense of belonging & connection. Keep it up, Westies. ❤️🦓

We cannot wait to see the finished product on this one! Mr. McClurg & every student at Westside, kindergarten through 5th, are creating huge murals together as a team to hang in the halls. The students are using oil pastels to create the big beauties! We will check back in when these are displayed and completed. Yay, Westside Art, we are so excited for this!

In Mrs. Barbees kindergarten class, students are learning their site words in a super fun way. Sight word Jenga! Each wood piece has a sight word on the sides. Students choose the piece they want to pull, then they read the sight words & put it back on top of the tower. The students keep playing until it falls over. Keep building those reading skills (and tall towers), kindergarten!!

Westside was recently represented by members of our Honor Choir who were selected for participation & performed in the annual Circle the State with Song concert in Owasso alongside other 4th - 8th graders from many other schools throughout the region. Mr. Levesque & his Honor Choir students have worked many hours outside of school preparing for this event. Our students did an amazing job & gave a wonderful performance with confidence! We are very proud! Mr. Levesque even joined the choir on stage for a few songs as an instrumentalist!

Check out these 5th grade reading superstars! Mrs. McGill, our 5th grade ELA teacher, has found some highly motivating tactics with our kids. Students have a goal, that for every 40 books they read, they can earn a fast food lunch with Mrs. McGill! What a generous & fun way to help nurture our growing readers! 📚🦓💪🏽 Congrats to these students who have already reached this goal!