West Hardin Elementary

🍂🍁 Wishing you all a safe, fun, and relaxing fall break with your family! Students return to school on Monday, October 16th 🍁🍂

📚 Check out Mrs. Lyndsay's Library Newsletter for October 🤓

🚜🧑‍🌾 Third Graders at West Hardin enjoyed a morning at Farm Day! Thanks to all the organizations that helped to support and provide activities for this event every year! 🌽🐓

📚 Ms. Kelly Smith from the Hardin County Public Library visited with our 3rd graders today during library time to share some exciting information about Libby, an app that gives readers access to free ebooks and audiobooks that they can borrow, download, and read/listen to at any time.
📒 Students will be bringing home yellow cards that can be filled out and returned to school if they are interested in being signed up for a free Libby card.
🧡We appreciate Ms. Kelly and the library for all they do to support lifelong reading in our students!

🎃 October Lunch and Breakfast Menus 👻

🐅 West Hardin 5th graders enjoyed a special treat on September 23rd! They earned a trip into Savannah to watch the HCHS Homecoming Parade! They loved cheering on the Tigers and experiencing this fun activity for the first time! 🧡

🍭🍬 Attendance is SWEET!!!🍬🍭
🏆 Congratulations to Miss Kelly Gannon's 1st grade class for winning our September "Attendance is Sweet" contest! They had classroom perfect attendance the most days in September! They enjoyed eating all the candy in their candy jar as a reward!
👏👏 Thank you parents for getting your children to school every day! We appreciate you!
🧡 October's contest starts on Monday!!!

👏👏 The West Hardin Student Council members treated the teachers and staff to some extra special goodies this week! Thanks kiddos for delivering room service snacks today!!!! And thanks to Mrs. Makaya for leading this great group of kids.🧡

📸 Please return picture orders to school by October 18th!!!

👏👏 Congratulations to all of these students for winning the poster contest for their grades for World School Milk Day! They were all awarded ribbons and goodies from the UT Extension Office. Congratulations kids!!! 🧡

🥛Mrs. Kristen's Pre-K Class celebrated World School Milk Day today! 🐮
🐄 Students dressed as milk cows and then got to experience 6 different activities to promote the importance of drinking milk and to have a lot of fun! Students made cow headbands, taste tested different kinds of milk - Oat Milk was their favorite, made frozen yogurt banana splits, learned how to milk a cow, played pin the tail on the cow and made magic milk art! They ended the morning with a milk mustache contest 😄
🖤🤍 We want to send a HUGE Thank You to Mrs. Kristy and Mrs. Myra from Coordinated School Health and Mrs. Sondra, Ms. Michelle & friends from the UT Extension Office for bringing the activities along with lots of goodies for each student! 🧡

👏👏We have three West Hardin students that have accomplished extra-curricular success this weekend!
🎨 5th grade students at West Hardin participated in the Saltillo River Day Art Contest. They worked on their art entries at school during creative dramatics class with Mrs. Tammy Chrestman. All entries were submitted for the River Day committee to judge.
🏆 Congratulations to Cadence Thomason who won 1st place, Jaden O'Steen who won 2nd place and Mazie Harville who won 3rd place. All three art pieces were displayed at River Day in Saltillo today. Cadence's 1st place submission has been framed and will hang in Saltillo Town Hall.
🐓 In addition to her River Day artwork win, 5th grader Mazie Harville won the Reserve Champion Ribbon at the 4H Chick Chain Show today!
🧡 Way to go girls! We are so proud of you! 🧡

👮🏼‍♂️ This was Officer Blake's last week at West Hardin as our School Resource Officer. We are extremely thankful for his service to our school, faculty, students & community over the years! We wish you the very best as you continue your deputy work in Hardin County!
🧡 We would like to welcome Officer Shamas Lewis as our new SRO! Officer Lewis has been training with Officer Blake & we are so happy to have him joining our West Hardin family. Make sure you welcome him if you see him around school 🤗

📣 We celebrated Attendance Awareness Month with a pep rally & lots of fun on this beautiful Friday afternoon!
🍿 It definitely pays off being at school every day! Students with perfect attendance from September 1st - September 15th received a ticket for a free item from the concession stand.
🏐 Everyone enjoyed watching & playing Nine Square in the Air! Thanks to Mrs. Kristy Barlow & Mrs. Myra Willoughby for bringing it to set up & letting us use it!
🧡 We love our students and want them to BE PRESENT!!! Thank you parents for making sure your kids are at school with us every day!!!

Check out the September Counseling Corner newsletter from Mrs. Makaya!

📣 There's lots of fun to be had this Friday!!! We're halfway through Attendance Awareness Month & we're celebrating!
🍿 Students who have had perfect attendance from September 1st - September 15th will receive a ticket for a free snack at the concession stand!
💲 Concessions may be purchased during the pep rally. Items will be $1 each. Please send money in a labeled envelope or sandwich bag to help keep it organized.
🧡 And always remember we want you to Be Present!!!

📸 Don't Forget!!! Picture Day is TOMORROW, September 13th! Wear your brightest smile, but do not wear green! These pictures will go in the yearbook. 🧡

🧡 We would like to welcome Brittany Finley to the West Hardin family! Brittany is joining us as our Bookkeeper and we are so excited to have her!
🧡 Mrs. Jennifer Mahler is moving to a new position as an interventionist. We are so happy to have her moving into this roll and know she will do a great job!

📣 Don't forget that Hardin County students do not attend school tomorrow, September 11th.
🤓 Faculty & staff will be involved in professional development in the morning.
👩🏼‍🏫 Parent Teacher Conferences will take place from 1:00-6:30. We hope to see you there!

👩🏽‍🏫 We hope that you'll make plans to attend Parent Teacher Conference next Monday, September 11th. Students do not attend school on this day. Contact your child's teacher for an appointment time 🧡

🗳️ Fourth & Fifth Grade Student Council Elections will be tomorrow, Friday, September 8th.
🗣️ Candidates will give speeches at 1:00. Parents of candidates are invited to attend.
🧡 Good Luck to all candidates!

🍭At West Hardin we believe "Attendance is Sweet!" 🍭
🍬We started classroom attendance competitions this month! Every day that a class has perfect attendance, a student will go to Mrs. Angela to get a piece of candy to put in their class candy jar! The classroom that has the most candy at the end of the month will be the winners and they will get to eat their candy in class! 😋🤩
🧡 We love our students and want them to be at school every day!!!

👩🏽‍🏫 We hope that you'll make plans to attend Parent Teacher Conference next Monday, September 11th. Students do not attend school on this day. Contact your child's teacher for an appointment time 🧡

No School tomorrow in observance of Labor Day! Enjoy your day!

📘 Library News from Mrs. Lyndsay 📖

🍁 September Lunch and Breakfast in the Classroom Menus 🍂

📣 September is Attendance Awareness Month! We are encouraging good attendance from everyone! Be on the lookout for info about incentives for students who hold a good attendance record! More info to come!

📸 Picture Day is Wednesday, September 13th!!! 😁

🌞 We're looking for bright and cheery faces to volunteer as Morning Greeters and Flag Attendants for this school year. 4th and 5th grade students that are interested need to turn in applications by Thursday!

🏁 What a fun day and evening!!! We are so thankful to JJ Da Boss and crew for a wonderful event and fundraiser for Hardin County Schools! Here are some pics from the Back to School Party at the Pickwick Dragway! A huge thanks to our West Hardin Teachers & Staff plus members of HCMS and Pickwick Southside School for showing up and working this event! 🧡

🏎️ Today is THE DAY!!!! We hope to see you out at JJ's Arm Drop Back to School Party benefiting Hardin County Schools!!! Info on the link below! Bring the family out for a great day of fun! 🏁

JJDABOSS JJ’S ARMDROP “BACK TO SCHOOL” PICKWICK DRAGWAY tickets Buy tickets for JJ’S ARMDROP “BACK TO SCHOOL” PICKWICK DRAGWAY hosted by JJDABOSS

📣 As we continue to roll through the month of August, we want to remind you of our new attendance campaign! Regular attendance is of utmost importance to school success and we encourage everyone to "Be Present" this school year! 🧡

🏎️ Get your motors running and head on over to the Pickwick Dragway next Saturday night! Proceeds going to Hardin County Schools! Share and spread the word!!! 🏁

🧡 Parents and Families, we would love for you to partner with us this school year! Join us for our first Parent Engagement Committee meeting today at 3:30!

📣📣 ATTENTION ALL KINDERGARTEN PARENTS!!! 📣📣
Kindergarten Staggered schedule will now extend through the remainder of this week.
👦 Kindergarten Boys will attend on Tuesday & Thursday
👧 Kindergarten Girls will attend on Wednesday & Friday
🏫 All Kindergarten students will attend on Monday, August 21st.
🧡 Please share with other Kindergarten parents!

🧡 We celebrated the first week of school by giving our newest staff members a little "Welcome to West Hardin" happy ☺️
They each received a gift bag of items from The Soap Factory located in downtown Savannah. We are so happy that you all are part of the West Hardin family 🤗🧡
Pictured Back Row L-R: Kelly Smith, Leigh Ann Jerrolds, Cinda Walz, Hannah Johnson, Sarah Carothers
Bottom Row L-R: Alyssa Reynolds & Charisse Demeo
Not pictured: Mrs. Sarah Bricker

🤓 Please see this note & meeting invitation from Mrs. Makaya. We would love for you to join our Family Engagement Committee! Make plans to attend our first meeting next Tuesday, August 15th at 3:30 🧡

☮️😍 We are SO EXCITED to see our students back at school this week!!!! Swipe through the pics for each grades beginning schedule, requested supplies and car rider reminders.

👩🏼‍🍳 Back to School Cafeteria Information 😋