West Elementary News

March. 2025

EMMETSBURG DISTRICT MISSION

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

4 yr Old Preschool

Four year old preschoolers enjoyed a visit from The Cat In The Hat for Read Across America Day! A huge shout out and thank you to our PIE group for organizing this event and funding the smencils for each student!

Kindergarten Readiness

Readiness students enjoyed their PIE sponsored field trip to the Dickinson County Nature Center to learn about insects and play time in the Pollinator Paradise. They also enjoyed a pizza party lunch and an afternoon of swimming at the Regional Wellness Center in Estherville. Thank you PIE group for the best day ever!!

Kindergarten

As part of Read Across America Day we had guest readers in each classroom. Thanks to all the volunteers who came in and read to classrooms!

2nd Grade

The snow in March was the perfect snow for building snowmen at recess! It was so fun to play outside in the snow with friends.

Third Grade

3rd graders had a busy month! They started the month with Read Across America, enjoyed St. Patric's Day with a Dodgeball tournament with 4th graders, and wrapped up March with their spring music concert! Thank you Mrs. Gustafson for a wonderful concert!

Fourth Grade

4th grade artists are working on creating some hanging sculptures for the art classroom. Fourth graders recently had their spring music concert and did such a wonderful job on their recorders! Thank you Mrs. Gustafson for all your work!

First Grade

First graders enjoyed the snow in March. They also celebrated 120 days of first grade with lots of fun activities! Ask a first grader what their favorite activity was!

3 year old Preschool

The 3-year-old preschool students were excited to visit Pizza Ranch and learn about how they make their pizzas. The students have been engaging in a baking study and learning all about baking and recipes! This field site visit gave us information on how restaurants bake their foods and how they measure their ingredients. The preschoolers loved seeing the oven with a continuously moving belt to move the pizzas all the way through and bake. They also enjoyed eating the finished product, a delicious cheese pizza!

March Events

4- 2 hr. early out

11- 2 hr. early out

18- No School

21- No School

25- 2 hr. early out

May 2 (West Elementary Track and Field Day) - more information to come

May 9 (Rain Date Track and Field Day)

Contact Info

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

Building Principal

Tyler Bjustrom tbjustrom@e-hawks.org

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