West Elementary News

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The Emmetsburg CSD believes we will create an environment of promoting growth and serving others.

First Grade

First graders had a great time on their field trip to the Dickinson County Nature Center and the Estherville Pool. Thank you to PIE and our sponsors for making this field trip possible!

4 Year Old Preschool

Donuts with Grown Ups was a success! We played, ate, and read with our grown ups. Literacy Day was so much fun to attend! The children were able to visit mulitple stations and work on literacy activiites while playing. A huge thank you to all our community members and high school students who helped make this a success!

Kindergarten Readiness

On April 1st, Readiness Kindergarten students enjoyed their PIE field trip to the Dickinson County Nature Center to learn more about insects and explore the Pollinator Paradise. Then they traveled to Estherville to the Regional Wellness Center for some play time in the gym, pizza for lunch and an afternoon of swimming. Thank you PIE! We also enjoyed having Donuts with Grown Ups this month and taking a walk by our lake to check on the habitat of the lake.

2nd Grade

Mrs. Saxton's class recently earned DEAR (Drop Everything and Read) time in the classroom with their stuffed animal friends. They enjoyed it very much!!

Kindergarten

Kindergarteners recently celebrated Earth Day! Great conversations were had about taking care of our Earth!

Third Grade

With the weather being so nice lately 3rd graders have been able to enjoy some time outside reading. Mrs. Goodchild's class recently celebrated reaidng 1,000 pages for their class reaching challenge and earned a pj/ stuffy day. Great job 3rd graders!!

3 year old Preschool

We celebrated our youngest learners at West by holding Preschool Literacy Day! We went to the gym where we participated in 8 different literacy activities. The students enjoyed all of the activities and all of the helpers who led the activities. We worked on identifying letters, retelling stories, building Mat Man, fine motor skills, gross motor skills, drawing and listening to stories. It was a great day of learning with the E-Hawk preschoolers! A HUGE shoutout to Mrs. Kenyon for organizing this special day!!

4th Grade

4th graders recently went to the Science Center in Sioux Falls and did many different activities and saw an IMAX on Trex. Thank you to PIE and our sponsors for making this possible! 4th graders also enjoyed Donuts with Grown- Ups! Thank you to PIE for organizing this! It was great to have some high school students also join us to help with distributing donuts and juices.

Contact Info

If you have any questions feel free to reach out to grade level teachers or Mrs.Menefee. Below is contact info.

Building Principal

Kari Menefee kmenefee@e-hawks.org

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