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💛🖤💛West Star Students of the week 11/6/25💛🖤💛

Students in Mrs. Rome's class are working with partners on reading fluency. ✏️📚📓

She PERSEVERED to finish her writing in WIN last week. ✏️

Happy Halloween! 🎃

This week in kindergarten, we’ve been exploring our emotions! On Wednesday, students practiced drawing different emotional expressions on their pumpkins. Learning about emotions helps children recognize their own feelings, understand how others might feel, and develop important social and emotional skills they’ll use every day, both in and out of the classroom.

💛🖤💛WEST ELEMENTARY STAR STUDENTS OF THE WEEK 10-30-25💛🖤💛

Mrs. Rudolph's class had fun reading CVC words with Splash reading.

Mrs. Smith presented to the Board of Education highlighting the many great things happening at West in reading. She shared student growth data, provided an overview of our reading curriculum, and explained the instructional structures that support strong literacy development across grade levels. Her presentation showcased the hard work of our teachers and students and the positive impact of our intentional focus on reading.

Friday evening West staff enjoyed each other's company unwinding from the week with some crafting and snacks. Thanks to AIM Dance studio for the space and to Madi Spellmeier for the fancy tinsel!

Enjoyed spending time at recess this morning with a couple of classes that earned THE GOLDEN SPATULA for showing great manners in the cafeteria this week.

West had a great day learning about fire safety! Thank you for the GFD for giving our students this opportunity. 🚒🔥

It was such a BEAUTIFUL day outside - - we just had to take our rest time outside. It was so fun and peaceful! We watched the leaves fall and even saw a couple of ladybugs in the grass. Mrs. Mason

Look at these smiles! This is two our newest readers at West. They just blended some of their first words to read!

Mrs. Kling's class had a mystery reader today! Mrs. Heiter from North Elementary came to share her love of reading and some great stories. 📚💕

1st and 2nd graders are working hard this afternoon in WIN (What I Need) time. They are working in small groups on the phonics and phonemic skills they need to become fluent readers.

Brooke Heiter, Intervention Specialist at North Elementary, lead the first of many LETRS (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) trainings to a group of teachers Friday afternoon. LETRS focuses on the Science of Reading. 📚✏️

✏️📚🚌Last summer, Ellouise and Brayden Short participated in The Great Sunflower Search a community game put on by the Sherman County Community Foundation. They chose West Elementary to receive a donation! We are so thankful to the foundation and the Short family! 💕

Thanks to all that joined us for Grownups Goodies this morning at West!