Last month, Westside student council members attended leadership workshops at BYU. They learned about the importance of being effective leaders, and good examples to other students in the school. Westside's student council has opportunities throughout the school year to serve. They even organize a fundraiser in December to raise money for a local food bank.
Upper grade Westside students were entreated to a visit from Clark Planetarium. During this presentation, students learned about electricity, weather, and the solar system with several fun and entertaining experiments.
On Tuesday, October 21st, BYU education students came to Westside to teach grade-specific writing lessons. Students in 3rd and 6th grades were divided into small groups and taught important writing concepts.
On October 11th, the annual PTA sponsored the annual carnival and fun run took place at Westside. Westside students and their families were able to participate in a fun run in the morning, and afterward with carnival games and treats. Teachers and PTA volunteers, manned the various games and stations.
Recently, students in the fourth grade were treated with a visit from Mountain Man.
Recently, the Rotary Club visited Westside third-graders. During their visit, the students were each gifted with a dictionary.
On Tuesday, October 14th, Westside sixth-grade students had the opportunity to go to the Discovery Space Center in Pleasant Grove Utah. Here, students were challenged to work as a team to complete their mission on a simulator. They were also required to make group presentations on child slavery, how it is wrong, and what the effects of it are in the world. Part of the field trip involved the star lab, where students were able to learn where different stars and constellations can be located in the night sky.
On October 9th, Westside fourth-grade students traveled to This is the Place Monument in Salt Lake City.
Last week, the student council and many of the students at Westside wrote birthday cards for Rhett. Rhett is 8 years old and has Down syndrome. Over the past few years some of his Facebook friends and family have joined in in sending him Birthday cards. This year, however, Rhett wanted 999 cards!
On Monday, Westside sixth grade students discovered that you can find all kinds of organisms in a drop of pond water. Their experiment comes after a study of several different protist structures.
