Mamie P. Whitesides Elementary School

Happy 50th Birthday to the one and only Mr. Bloomfield!!! We are so grateful for everything you do for our school. We sure hope you are having a great day celebrating this milestone birthday. Now, if we only had his song writing and singing skills, we could make up a birthday rap for him. But, since we don’t, please leave him a birthday wish in the comments to help him celebrate! 🎉🎂🎈

Happy last day of school, Wildcats! We hope you all have a wonderful and safe summer. We cannot wait to see you back here in August.

Parents/Guardians, don't forget we dismiss early today! 10:05 (CD), 10:15 (K) and 10:25 (1st-5th).

Congratulations to the WES class of 2024! We will miss you next year. Thank you to our PTA and 5th grade teachers for making this such a great celebration.

We have a few yearbooks left for sale! They are $50. Please bring cash or check to the office. Come get one before they are gone.

4th grade field trip to the International African American Museum!

Congratulations to our 5th grade kickball champions… Mrs. Wimmer’s class!!!

Whitesides class of 2017, High School Class of 2024!!! Congratulations & thank you for visiting today!!! 🎓🎓🎓

Some neighborhood friends decided to bike to school today to celebrate the end of the school year. What fun!! 🚲 🏫 ☀️

Please check out the lunch menu for the rest of the week, June 5th - 7th. The menu is different than what is on the CCSD website due to the supplies our kitchen has in stock!

NO lunch on Monday, June 10th due to the half day schedule.

THANK YOU!

Thank you to our art teacher, Mrs. Goodall, for putting together an Art Showcase this year! There were over 2,000 pieces of artwork featured throughout the building and everything looked amazing. Thank you to everyone who came out to see our Wildcats art work.

Field Day 2024 was a success! Thank you to all of our awesome staff, parents and volunteers for helping make the day great. The kids had a blast! 💥🏃‍♀️🎉

See you tonight for the incoming Kindergarten meeting! Please help us make sure your neighbors and friends know about it too!

Learning how to garden with Mrs. McCall is the best!

Last Student Council meeting of the year! This awesome group of students and teachers did a great job this year - fundraising, grounds clean-up, serving as ambassadors for our school and much more. Thank you to Mrs. Riggs, Mrs. Rodewoldt & Mr. Green for all you did to support these students

The is week is the Whitesides Art Show! It will be held on Thursday, May 23rd from 4pm to 6pm.

Our art teacher, Mrs. Goodall, is working to ensure all students, grades CD-5th, will have art in the show. In addition, she's arranged for Fairy Hair, Face Painting and Balloon Animals (for cost) to make it a an extra fun night. There will also be a free, fun family art activity in the art room. Immediately following the Art Show we will host the May PTA meeting AND the Kindergarten Music Performance.

See you there!

Way to go Girls on the Run! They all did such a great job on their 5k today!

Third grade is learning about forces and motion in science. They did an experiment to apply their knowledge of patterns in motion to build ramps to see who could get a ball to roll the farthest!

Last week the Lucy Beckham High School football team & mascot helped welcome our students to school!! Such a fun way to start the day. 🐯 🏈 🎉

Happy School Nurse Appreciation Day to our awesome nurse, Sandra Zambetti! Thank you for all you do for our WES students, teachers and families!

The 2023-24 School Improvement Council Report can now be found on our website at https://www.ccsdschools.com/Page/8938.

The end of the school year is coming quick, and we have a lot of important events coming up. Check out these calendars and save them to your phone for quick reference. 😎🏖🤸‍♀️

Tomorrow is the last day to bring in your change for Jar Wars! Thank you so much for all of your support!

And thank you to Mrs. Lentz, the mom of a WES student who has CF, for spending time with us over the last couple of weeks & teaching our students about CF! The students especially loved trying out her daughter’s vest that she wears daily to keep her lungs healthy.

The winning classroom wins a Star Wars themed pizza party! We can’t wait to see who wins.

Join us in raising funds for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in support of one of our 1st grade students, Aubin!

Cystic Fibrosis, or CF, is a genetic disease that affects all organs in the body but is most detrimental to the lungs. Not so long ago this disease was categorized as a childhood disease because they never made it out of elementary school. There have been advancements in treatment but there is no cure.

To help raise money to find a cure, Whitesides is participating in JAR WARS from now until May 4th! Just bring in your spare change or donate to your classroom jar. Each classroom will compete and see who can bring in the most donations. On May the 4th (be with you) we will tally it all up and whoever has the most wins a Star Wars themed pizza party!

We are so thankful for the Wildcats to be joining our fight for a cure for CF!

Our 4th graders visited Fort Sumter today to learn more about Charleston’s history and the Civil War.

5th grade had an awesome field trip to the USS Yorktown this week.

They learned about WWII, energy and ecosystems, and they participated in a mission simulation where they had to defend an approaching attack!

Mrs. Smoot’s 4th grade SAIL students held their “At the Mall with Algebra” year end project this week. Students used their talents to create items to sell at their “store.” The students had to figure out the prices by solving algebraic equations. We love the creativity that went into these projects - pencil holders, body scrub, paintings, cards and so much more. Well done, 4th graders!!

Students in Mrs. McCall's science classes completed research on an assigned scientist and wrote very impressive research papers. For a culminating activity, each student completed a quilt block that represents their scientist and these were then sewn into a class quilt by Mrs. McCall. We are so impressed with these 5th graders work - and Mrs. McCall’s sewing skills! 🤩

Congratulations to our top 25 second-grade readers who won the Reading Around the Bases Challenge. They had the opportunity to go on a field trip to see the RiverDogs play today for Education Day. ⚾️📚🍿

Save-the-date for the Whitesides Art Show! It will be held on Thursday, May 23rd from 4pm to 6pm.

Our art teacher, Mrs. Goodall, is working to ensure all students, grades CD-5th, will have art in the show. In addition, she's arranged for Fairy Hair, Face Painting and Balloon Animals (for cost) to make it a an extra fun night. There will also be a free, fun family art activity in the art room. Immediately following the Art Show we will host the May PTA meeting AND the Kindergarten Music Performance.

It will be a fun and busy night!!