Specials: Our special is PE. Please make sure your child wears comfy shoes.

Kindness Day:

We are about a week away from celebrating Kindness Week and Kindness Day (aka Valentine’s Day) or Wednesday, Feb. 14.  Reminder, our students do not exchange Valentine’s Day cards/candy/etc. so please do not send your student to school with valentines or treats.  Instead, our students are going out into the community to distribute hand-made Kindness cards to our neighbors.  All companies that participated in previous years are excited to restart this tradition and the new companies are looking forward to hosting our students.

Our class will be going to the Murphy Company which is right down the street from Westgate. They are a mechanical contractor delivering innovative solutions to the commercial, industrial, and institutional markets.

We will head over at 9:00 AM and return by 11:00 AM at the latest. We will not need chaperones for this day.  We will, however, need permission slips for each student.  Please follow the link below to submit a permission slip for your child if you haven’t done so already.  These are due by Tuesday, February 13th.  

Kindness Day Field Trip Permission Slip

 

Arvada Center Field Trip:  On February 21^st our 1^st and 2^nd grade students will be going to the Arvada Center to continue learning about oral expressions in literacy. Students will have a great opportunity to tour this theater and then see the play "A Year With Frog and Toad".

We will leave Westgate at 9:30 AM and plan on returning at 2:00 PM.  As with our previous field trips, students need to be prepared for our day's adventure.

To visually connect all of our students on the field trip, have your child wear their red Westgate shirt or another red shirt.

Students need a disposable sack lunch and a water bottle.  There will not be access to microwaves, please do not send anything that requires heating.  

Please have them wear comfortable walking shoes and be prepared for Colorado weather.  

Please sign the following permission slip by Friday, February 16th: 

Arvada Center 1-2 Pod Field Trip

Please keep in mind that students without a permission form will remain at the campus. 

Should you have any questions, please let us know. 

Important Message from Nurse Hopson:

It's cold and flu season!  Remember: washing your hands frequently is the best way to prevent spreading germs and getting sick.

Wondering when to keep kids home?

• Fever (a temperature of 100.4 or higher): must stay home until fever-free for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medication.
• Vomiting/Diarrhea: must stay home until vomiting/diarrhea has stopped for 24 hours without the use of medications.
• Coughing: must stay home if cough is severe, uncontrolled, rapid, interferes with student's ability to participate, or if wheezing is present.
• Strep Throat: must stay home until 24 hours after starting antibiotics for strep throat.
• Flu symptoms (fever, cough, congestion, runny nose, fatigue, body aches): must stay home until fever-free for 24 hours without the use of medications, and all other symptoms are improving, and the student feels well enough to participate in normal activities.

• Volunteers
  • Thank you, volunteers! Your help is greatly appreciated.
  • Complete an online Volunteer Interest Form
  • Complete a background check. Cost is $20.95
  • Complete a Volunteer Agreement Form

 

February’s Advocacy Theme:  Empathy for Others 

In February, we continue our work with EMPATHY. This month is about looking at EMPATHY in the form of caring for others. Kindness week fits in perfectly with this theme as we plan to be kind to others in different ways: Words of affirmation, Acts of Service, Quality Time and Giving.  

Learning Goals 

Students will learn skills to communicate their feelings and needs to others, while also learning skills that allow them to listen and respond to the feelings and needs of others.     

Students will practice receiving and providing feedback.