Westside Elementary

Throwback Thursday featuring pre-k on the first day of school!

Readers are leaders! 📚🌟 These incredible 4th graders read to Ms. Palmers class.

Claremore Public Schools Coat & Hoodie Give-Away

📅Wednesday, November 19, 2025
🕐8:00AM–10:00AM and 4:00PM–6:00PM
📍CPS Enrollment Center – Gym (101 W. 11th Street, Claremore)

First-come, first-served, while supplies last.
Students must be enrolled in Claremore Public Schools.

Register ➡️ https://forms.gle/aaDPTNYgChUxEgt4A

This event is brought to you by CPS School-Based Social Workers.
There will be a box for anyone who wants to drop by and donate clean, gently used clothing or coats for future use.

Twin Tuesday featuring Mrs. Hink and Mrs. Barnett

3rd graders in Ms. Peterson's class have been working on synonyms and antonyms. They created a spooky spider 🕷️ that they colored to display their own words!

Just a reminder that food drive items are still needed! The deadline is November 21st. The wing that collects the most items wins a pizza party! 🥫

❤️Pouring Love into Education

This holiday season, add a little extra sweetness to your celebrations with Chick-fil-A sweet tea and lemonade. Chick-fil-A donates $2 to the Claremore Public School Foundation for every gallon you take home. Help us surpass last year's donation for classroom and teacher grants district-wide. #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Starting the day the best way — with student voices! 🎙️ Each morning, students join Mr. Grisham and Mrs. Gelnar for the announcements and help kick off a great day at school.

Ms. Lang's first book club meeting. These ladies started reading Backcountry by Jenny Goebel: a story about a girl with diabetes and her dog that get stranded by an avalanche. 🐕📚

First grade WIN (what I need) wrote a book! After brainstorming characters, vocabulary, and plot, students dictated the story to Mrs. T., then produced illustrations. 📕

Throwback Thursday featuring the first day of school in Kindergarten! Mrs. Barbee, Mrs. Eckert and Mrs. Armbristers classes getting to know each other!

Mrs. Reynolds class painted pumpkins and learned all about the pumpkin life cycle. 🎃 🌱

5th graders got to learn about storm water management in the Library. They used hands on learning during this presentation to learn about what happens during this process!

First Presbyterian Church and Claremore Rotary Club have teamed up to support our students in a huge way. They send snacks regularly to help out our students in need while they are at school! 🏫

Twin Tuesday featuring the after-school car duty crew! 🦓🚗

Vietnam veteran Don McGuire spoke to Westside 3rd-5th grade GT classes. He explained a bit about his service in the Army military police and Air Force service police in the early 1970’s. 🇺🇸 Mr. McGuire focused on choosing the military as a means of attending and graduating university after his duty tours. He also encouraged students to think wisely when choosing friend groups and look for ways to give back to their community. Eight of Mr. McGuire’s classmates from McLain High School, Tulsa, including two close friends, were among the over 50,000 Americans who perished in Vietnam. 🇺🇸

In the Library, Ms. Lang showcases an author of the month. October was J.K. Rowling, and students were sorted into Hogwarts Houses from Harry Potter! ⚡️📚

Westside teachers received nearly $8,400.00 in grants to enrich the quality of students’ education. 💰📝 These grants were awarded by Claremore Public Schools Foundation, which works diligently to provide funding opportunities to serve students Pre-K through 12. Westside is grateful for this support! 🙏🏻

Please join us this Veterans Day. Tuesday, November 11th at 7:00pm. 🇺🇸 3rd grade has been working hard and will be performing at the Robson PAC, next to Claremore High School. 🏫