West DeFuniak Elementary School

Last week, our students had fun celebrating Read Across America Week! Throughout the week, students enjoyed participating in our dress-up days, showing their school spirit and lo...

Our Read Across America Tissue Box Contest was a big success! We had so many creative and colorful boxes turned in from students across the school. Choosing winners was definitely...

Last week, WDE was turned into Ellis Island for our 2nd grade students. Students were able to role play to experience the life of an immigrant child. They completed a class immigr...

Third grade students at West DeFuniak Elementary enjoyed an exciting, hands-on science experience this week thanks to a visit from the Emerald Coast Science Center . The progra...

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Our 4th grade scientists have been hard at work exploring the fascinating world of rocks and minerals! Students learned how rocks and minerals form and how they change and move ov...

Our third grade scientists explored energy in action this week as they modeled sound energy and investigated how mechanical energy can affect an object. Using simple materials, st...

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Thank you to all of our families who joined us for Donuts with Grown-Ups! Our students loved having their grown-ups in their classrooms, and it was such a special way to start the...

We are proud to recognize our January and February Students of the Month!

Our West DeFuniak Kindergarten students have been busy learning all about Community Helpers! They had so much fun participating in a Writing the Room activity to identify special ...

Students at West DeFuniak Elementary enjoyed a trek into “Nocturnal Nature” last night at WDE’s annual Title 1 Family Night for Math and Science. The students and parents particip...

Last week, we had such a fun and meaningful time celebrating literacy across our campus! Students enjoyed our dress-up days, reading contests, and special reading challenges throu...

Yesterday, our 1st grade students had a very special treat during Literacy Week! We were excited to welcome three wonderful guest readers — all of them pageant queens! A big th...

These WDE students recently participated in the 82nd Annual Florida Music Educators Association Professional Learning Conference—the largest music convention in the United States,...

We are so excited and proud to congratulate our very own Assistant Principal, Mrs. Hope Allen, on being named Walton County Assistant Principal of the Year! Mrs. Allen’s dedicatio...

First Grade students at WDE participated in science investigations during the second quarter of the school year. Students raised questions about the natural world around them, det...

Our 2nd Graders at WDE Are Becoming Scientists! Science isn’t just about answers—it’s about wonder! Last week during our science fair, our curious 2nd graders stepped into the ...

West DeFuniak 5th grade students have been combining scientific knowledge with technology this week by creating their own PowerPoint presentations on planetary objects in our sola...

Congratulations to our December Students of the Month! Keep up the hard work!!