January 2021

We celebrated the 100th day of school today by dressing like a 100 year old.  Some of our remote second graders even participated!  Here are a few photos of our day.

Discovery Gateway came to do a Reaction Time with our fifth graders. They learned about science and did some chemical reaction experiments. 

This week we celebrated 100 Westside students who earned "Champion Notes." These students are recognized for being exemplary students in all different areas. We appreciate their hard work and being positive examples to others in our school. Wildcats ROAR!

Introducing Westside's Kindness Squad! Representatives from Ms. Price's class: Adrian Solis and Preston Kuhnz, representatives from Mrs. Herrmann's class: Ally Mammen and Owen Fagnant, representatives from Sra. Vargas's class: Aulia Leauane and Alex Mateaki, and representatives from Mrs. Litchfield's class: Brightyn Langhof and Lexi Lee. The Kindness Squad's main focus is to spread kindness and joy to our school and to help stop bullying. Remember, kindness is the mark we leave on the world.

The 1st grade Spanish DLI Green class had the most school spirit last Friday and earned a visit from Whiskers the Wildcat this week.

This Friday (January 29), to show our school spirit, we are dressing up like we are 100 years old. The class who has the most students dressed up will win a visit from Whiskers the Wildcat next week. 

We will celebrate the 100th day of school on Friday, January 29! We can't wait to see everyone dressed up for the big day! 

Last week, one of our younger students had glasses on in the playground. Somehow one of the lenses fell out into the woodchips. Some of our  student council members were outside at the time, and decided to help look for the lens. If you know how many woodchips are on the playground, you know that it was a major undertaking to go through them to find the lens.  These amazing kids found the missing lens and returned it to the student.  What great examples of kindness and perseverance these students exemplified. Thank you for being positive role models for all of us.

Sra Diaz's First Grade Dual Language classes celebrated a symbolic funeral for English in her class.   After putting their promises that they would not use English, into the casket, Sra. Diaz gave them a "promise necklace."

6th graders used their knowledge of insulators to attempt to insulate ice cream sandwiches in pencil boxes. These stayed outside of the freezer for 3 hours in the insulated boxes. Sadly, none of the groups reached success as each were mushy after 3 hours, but it was a great STEM learning experience.

6th graders have discovered that cold water is more dense than warm water proven by this experiment showing that cold water sinks and warm water rises to the top.