West DeFuniak Elementary School

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Get ready to embark on an exciting literary journey with our Summer Reading Challenge! 🏝️✨ Students in grades K-4 will be bringing home the Summer Reading Challenge with their rep...

ATTENTION EVERYONE! 🐔🦶 We just had to share the most hilarious and fantastic sight here at WDE today! Our awesome Principal, Darlene Paul and our incredible TSA, Assistant Princi...

WDE participated in the Read to Feed program this school year. For every A.R test that students passed, the St. Joe Foundation donated twenty-five cents to the Food for Thought pr...

We are thrilled to announce that both Ms. Adams and Mrs. Childs successfully wrote grants to start up an AG club this school year, and both grants have been funded! Ms. Adam's g...

Last Friday on the morning show, we had the pleasure of recognizing some amazing students who tripled and quadrupled their A.R points this school year! To celebrate their hard wor...

May is National Water Safety Month, and WDE’s PE Department is collaborating with the American Red Cross to provide students with water safety strategies to put into practice this...

Former West DeFuniak Elementary Students, who will be graduating from Walton High School tonight, came to WDE yesterday for the last time as WCSD students! They enjoyed catching u...

Third grade students in Mrs. Carroll and Ms. Rehberg’s classes used * WICOR (an AVID strategy used daily in the classroom) in completing a hands-on rotation reviewing theme. St...

In Music class here at WDE, students are learning about Folk Music and Folk Dances. Working together as partners and in whole group, students Sashay, Dosido, Turnabout and dance a...

Ms. Rockett's class participated in a Socratic Seminar using one of the B.E.S.T. books, Volcano, in preparation for their upcoming F.A.S.T. Reading Assessment. The leader of the g...

Mrs. Smith and Ms. Adkinson's fourth grade students have been learning about line plots, a visual way to represent data values. Teachers facilitated a Real-World Connection wherei...

On Friday, April 12th, students from Mrs. Anderson, Ms. Ealum, and Mrs. Kyzer's classes participated in the Special Olympics held at Emerald Coast Middle School. The event brought...

This week Mrs. Carlan and Mrs. Hicks' first grade students read One Classroom, Many Cultures . This fictional text is set in “Mr. Tucker’s” first grade classroom that contains ma...

Second grade teachers Mrs. White and Mrs. Owen shared about the exciting adventures their students experienced this week. Mrs. White—"Students are learning about the life cycle o...

Last week, students in Mrs. Willcox and Ms. Taylor's kindergarten classes explored the law of gravity by investigating how objects are pulled toward the ground unless something ho...

National Assistant Principals Week is celebrated every April to recognize the significant role assistant principals (APs) play in the overall academic achievement of students nati...

Tomorrow, March 29th, is an early release day. We will begin releasing car riders at 11:30 and buses will load as they arrive, beginning at about 11:45. If you are checking out st...

EGGciting things were happening at WDE today! 5th grade students were fully engaged in a Math EGGstravaganza! Students looked for eggs filled with math challenges. Once they com...

Walton County Superintendent of Schools, A. Russell Hughes, gave an informative, passionate, and inspiring lecture on education in Walton County at the Florida Chautauqua's 2024 B...