West DeFuniak Elementary School

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New teachers have had a busy day today! They started their day off with one of our district reading coaches learning all about the different reading intervention programs that the...

Little Miss DeFuniak Springs, Finley Bell, wanted to make sure that every student had a snack during the first few days of school. So, she set up a lemonade stand and raised enoug...

WDE had their first faculty meeting of the year on Monday where they went over procedures and protocols, received safety training, made their own staff "social contract", and even...

Walton County School District Receives A District Grade for 8 th Consecutive Year WCSD Ranks Among Top 4 Districts in the State of Florida for School Grades The Flo...

Please see the small change in start time for next year! Dismissal times will not change.

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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...