Today we celebrate our amazing custodians and all the hard work they do to keep our school clean, safe, and ready for our Wildcats each day! Thank you for all you do! 🐾❤️
Our Pre-K students received a special book in celebration of Georgia Pre-K Week!
Thank you to the Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning for helping our youngest Wildcats celebrate the joy of reading! ♥️🐾📚
Thank you to the Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning for helping our youngest Wildcats celebrate the joy of reading! ♥️🐾📚
Career Day is Coming! 💼
We’re looking for volunteers to share about their careers and inspire our students!
On Friday, October 30, come talk with our Wildcats about your job, what you do, how you got started, and why you love what you do. Our students would love to hear from you!
Interested in being a Career Day presenter? Please contact Stephanie Redding at stephanie.redding@dalton.k12.ga.us.
We’re looking for volunteers to share about their careers and inspire our students!
On Friday, October 30, come talk with our Wildcats about your job, what you do, how you got started, and why you love what you do. Our students would love to hear from you!
Interested in being a Career Day presenter? Please contact Stephanie Redding at stephanie.redding@dalton.k12.ga.us.
In celebration of Georgia Pre K week, Mrs. Saira Laruy, Dalton Public Schools’ Early Childhood Coordinator, visited Mrs. Smith’s Pre-K class to read with our Wildcats. We’re grateful for all she does for our youngest learners! ❤️🐾
Our 5th grade Recycling Team visited the Dalton-Whitfield Solid Waste Authority and recycling center to learn what happens after we recycle—and what happens when we don’t. They also learned ways to improve recycling at our school.
Our Wildcats are excited to share what they learned and put their new knowledge into action to help make our school and community a little greener! ♻️🐾
Our Wildcats are excited to share what they learned and put their new knowledge into action to help make our school and community a little greener! ♻️🐾
Check out this week’s Wildcat Weekly for important updates and reminders.
Wildcat Weekly
https://daltonpublicschoolsga.edurooms.com/newsletters/westwood-school/newsletters/wildcat-weekly-october-5-9-2026
Ms. Calsetta’s class read Fry Bread and then made their own fry bread to enjoy!
Great time connecting their reading to a hands-on learning experience!
Great time connecting their reading to a hands-on learning experience!
Congratulations to our Specials’ Students of the Month!
We are so proud of the positive example they’re setting for others.
Keep REACHing Wildcats! ♥️🐾
Join us next Wednesday for Walk to School Wednesday!
Meet us at the Creative Arts Guild between 7:45–8:00 a.m. We’ll start walking to school at 8:00 sharp. Be sure to eat a healthy breakfast before you come!
Parents are welcome to join us! ❤️ 🐾
Meet us at the Creative Arts Guild between 7:45–8:00 a.m. We’ll start walking to school at 8:00 sharp. Be sure to eat a healthy breakfast before you come!
Parents are welcome to join us! ❤️ 🐾
Our 2nd grade DLI students had a special visit from Mrs. Rodriguez, one of our Westwood parents, who shared about Hispanic heritage and culture. She talked about famous Hispanic figures and traditional foods, and students even got to taste Mexican marranito, a sweet bread shaped like a pig, along with some Mexican candy!
Thank you, Mrs. Rodriguez, for sharing your culture with our Wildcats! ❤️ 🐾
Thank you, Mrs. Rodriguez, for sharing your culture with our Wildcats! ❤️ 🐾
🐾 Walk to School Wednesday! 🐾
Join us Wednesday, October 7 for Walk to School Wednesday! We’ll meet at the Creative Arts Guild between 7:45–8:00 a.m. and head to Westwood at 8:00 a.m. sharp!
Start your morning with a healthy breakfast, some fresh air, and a little exercise! Parents are welcome to walk with us!
We can’t wait to see you there! ❤️🐾
Check this week’s Wildcat Weekly for important updates and reminders.
Wildcat Weekly
https://daltonpublicschoolsga.edurooms.com/newsletters/westwood-school/newsletters/wildcat-weekly-september-28-october-2-2026
📣 We want to hear from our students!
The 2026 Believe Greater Dalton Community Survey is now open, and our students have an important role in helping shape what comes next for our community.
Students, please take a few minutes to share your voice. Families, we encourage you to ask your student to participate!
The survey takes approximately five minutes, responses are anonymous, and participants may enter to win one of five $100 Visa gift cards.
Take the survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BGD2026
Your voice matters. Let’s help build the future of Greater Dalton—together!
For Hispanic Heritage Month, Mrs. Hinojosa and Ms. Gomez’s classes read the book “The Runaway Conchita” and then got to taste a traditional concha! Students connected their reading to Hispanic culture and traditions while enjoying a sweet treat .❤️
Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Camacho’s Pre-K students teamed up with their fifth-grade buddies in Mrs. Witten’s class for an activity inspired by the book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.
Together, they practiced reading, measurements, sequencing, and communication skills while making and enjoying edible cookie dough and cookies! 🍪❤️
Together, they practiced reading, measurements, sequencing, and communication skills while making and enjoying edible cookie dough and cookies! 🍪❤️
Students in Mrs. Holmes’s third grade class are learning how to write “How-To” books! With Ms. Miller, their student teacher, students followed classmates’ directions for making a sandwich and learned that details are important,, or you may not get the results you expect!
At the end students made their own sandwiches and enjoyed them!
At the end students made their own sandwiches and enjoyed them!
Our REACH Ambassadors and Mrs. Tighe’s second grade class helped restock the Wildcat Pantry, a special resource that supports our Westwood families.
A huge thank you to Cate Cody, a former Westwood student, for her generous donation! As part of a service project, Cate chose to give back to her former elementary school and make a difference in the lives of current Wildcats. 🐾
We are so proud of our students and grateful for Wildcats who continue to give back to their Westwood family!
A huge thank you to Cate Cody, a former Westwood student, for her generous donation! As part of a service project, Cate chose to give back to her former elementary school and make a difference in the lives of current Wildcats. 🐾
We are so proud of our students and grateful for Wildcats who continue to give back to their Westwood family!
To wrap up their Five Senses unit, Mrs. Smith’s Pre-K class had a fun five senses popcorn tasting! 🍿
Students used their senses to explore and describe the popcorn, what they saw, heard, smelled, tasted, and felt. They had so much fun being little scientists and sharing their observations!
Students used their senses to explore and describe the popcorn, what they saw, heard, smelled, tasted, and felt. They had so much fun being little scientists and sharing their observations!
We will have a Virtual Learning Day on Monday, September 28.
Students will complete their learning at home and will complete their virtual learning package sent home in their folders or access their assignments through Canvas.
Classes will resume on Tuesday, September 29. 🐾❤️
Students will complete their learning at home and will complete their virtual learning package sent home in their folders or access their assignments through Canvas.
Classes will resume on Tuesday, September 29. 🐾❤️
Hispanic Heritage Dress-Up Week! ❤️🌎🎉
Join us September 29–October 2 as we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a fun week of Dress-Up Days!
We’re excited to celebrate the cultures, traditions, and diversity that make our Westwood family so special. We can’t wait to see our Wildcats participate and show their spirit all week long!
Join us September 29–October 2 as we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a fun week of Dress-Up Days!
We’re excited to celebrate the cultures, traditions, and diversity that make our Westwood family so special. We can’t wait to see our Wildcats participate and show their spirit all week long!