Westside Elementary

It's National School Lunch Week! 🥗🥪🌯 Did you know that students are offered a wide variety of nutritious foods that meet the Federal and state nutrition standards?

🍁 REMINDER - FALL BREAK IS NEXT WEEK🍁

CPS will be closed for FALL BREAK on October 16-17, 2025. Enjoy the time with your family, make a memory, and we will see you on Monday, October 20th.

Need something to do? Show your #CPSZEBRAPRIDE and support our 🏈 Varsity Football @ Collinsville on the 16th.

Westside's top 2 sellers for the fall fundraiser are: Hunter Clark, 4th grade, selling $855! Faith Eaton, 3rd grade, selling $818! Amazing job and thank you for every family and student that contributed to this fundraiser. ❤️

Ms. Peterson's class learned about the Water Cycle, and then created a terrarium that will survive by itself, using the water cycle! 🔄💧

October Word of the Month: Integrity- acting according to a sense of right and wrong. 😎

This Friday, October 10th at Lantow Field our Westies have the opportunity to "Dunk a Principal"! Mr. Grisham will be at the dunk tank from 7:00-8:30pm. For 3 balls, $5. Cash only. Proceeds benefit CHS gradbash!

Whiteboard math in Mrs. Stones class! These young mathematicians are using whiteboards to solve math problems, explain their thinking and solve problems as a class. ✖️➕➖

Yesterday was National Taco Day and students had Chicken Tacos for lunch! 🌮

Exciting Fundraiser News! 📣📣 As seen in the Westside Weekly Newsletter, our incredible Westside community exceeded our goal of $25,000 and raised $29,000! This incredible act raised funds for our school that will purchase much needed items and instructional materials for our teachers and students! A huge THANK YOU to our community for helping our Westies reach this goal! And a huge thank you to our PTO for helping set up this fundraiser- we truly couldn't do it without them!

Westside wants to thank BancFirst for supporting our school as our partners in education! 🏫 During parent night, they grilled hotdogs for our families and rallied around our community. Thank you, BancFirst! 🌭🙏🏻

Fall Parent/Teacher conferences are coming up quick! If you haven't scheduled your conference with your child's teacher yet, visit myconferencetime.com to reserve a slot. Conferences are Thursday 10/9 & Tuesday 10/14 from 4-7:30pm. Check your email for the Westside Weekly Newsletter that gives more detailed information about conferences.

The Book Fair is here! Beginning on Wednesday, 10/8, students will be able to visit the library for the book fair. It remains open during school hours and ends on Wednesday, 10/15. 📚 •open during both Parent Teacher Conferences •No JOM offered at this fair

Westside's Teacher of the Month for September is Mr. Levesque! 🦓 Mr. Levesque is the music teacher at Westside and always has something fun planned for his students. Congratulations Mr. Levesque!! 🥳

Twin Tuesday featuring Mrs. Williams, Mrs. Kurth and Mrs. Burkett 🦓❤️

These 4th grade girls took their reading skills to the next level and read to their previous teachers class! Ms. Palmers third graders got to hear the story "I Found a Kitty" by Troy Cummings. What a treat! 📚

Reading at Recess? I spot a couple of Westside scholars! 🤓📖

Dress up day #3: Red, White & Zebra Day + Homecoming Assembly!📣📣📣 Westside rallied around our high schoolers and cheered them on for Homecoming tomorrow! Students made their own signs and noisemakers. 🦓❤️

Today is School Custodian Appreciation Day! Westside has one of the best, Ms. Alejandra, we are so thankful for you!

Day 3 of HoCo dress up days! 🦓❤️ CAMO day! Whether you can see them or not, these Zebras are rocking their camouflage gear! Wear red, white, or Zebra stripes tomorrow! ❤️🤍🦓

Curious minds in action! 🦋🐍 Students love to explore bugs and nature at recess- learning never stops when curiosity leads the way!