Families,
As we expect inclement weather and freezing temps during winter mornings, please be sure to follow these procedures in the morning for car drop-offs.
Get in the line as normal and wait until your vehicle is at the covered portion of the entrance. Staff will be under this covered area, monitoring and assisting but may not be out in the direct rain. Have your student/s gather their belongings while you wait in line. Your student will need to open their door and exit quickly and carefully once you are at the covered area.
Additionally, many students who are typically bus riders or walkers will be car riders on these mornings which means that the line will back up. Please do not send your students up the sidewalk OR create a second row of cars and send students across. These are not safe practices and jeopardize our students.
Thank you for your patience and assistance in keeping our students and staff safe!
#ColtsCan #BeSafeandResponsible
Congrats to these two awesome spellers, Aremontaye and Aiden! Our school runner-up and winner were each awarded a one-year subscription from Encyclopedia Britannica to their online kids research site.
#ColtsCan #BeAwesomeSpellers
It's January 4: the perfect time to start (or continue) the habit of daily reading. Read for 20 minutes with your child. Look at the pics to see how many words they will have read by the end of 2024!
Do you have a favorite book or series to read with your child?
#ColtsCan #BeAmazingReaders
Looking forward to our students returning on Monday, January 8. Reminder: school starts at 7:45 am!
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Happy New Year! We look forward to seeing staff on January 3 and students on January 8!
Third grade classes went to the Alliance Theater in Atlanta to watch "Into the Burrow: a Peter Rabbit Tale".
#ColtsCan
We had our school Spelling Bee last week. Each of these students won their classroom bees and competed. Our school winner (pictured 3rd from the right) is Aiden and the runner-up is Aremontaye (4th from the right). Aiden will compete in January, representing our school. #ColtsCan
During their study of the five senses, students in Ms. Stratton and Mrs. Holland’s Kindergarten classes experienced the sense of touch while blindly placing their hands and trying to determine what they were touching.
For November, we had a reading challenge for grades 2-5. Fourth grade won with the highest circulation of library books. The 2 students from each homeroom with the highest circulation each received a token for the book vending machine to help build their libraries at home. #ColtsCan
All GSCS schools & offices will be closed Dec. 18, 2023 - Jan. 2, 2024, for holiday break. GSCS staff return on Jan. 3, 2024, for professional learning & planning. Students return on Jan. 8, 2024. Happy Holidays!
This promises to be fun! There will be hidden elves at the skating rink! If you find one, hold onto it and bring it to school the next day to receive a prize! #ColtsCan
Next week is our Holiday Fun week with dress-up themes each day! No pressure, don't spend lots of $; just find something fun to fit the theme. Everything is designed in a way that you can probably find something at home to work!
The QR code takes you to pre-purchase hot cocoa from the Travelin' Tom Coffee truck for Polar Express Day (this is instead of Kona Ice this month) for $3. Or...just go here: https://customer.travelintomscoffee.com/#/T87833496479
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First grade students worked through a series of exercises and movements on the mats during PE with Coach Cofield. #ColtsCan
The Board of Education approved the 2024-25 school calendar at the board meeting on Dec. 5. View the approved 2024-25 GSCS School Calendar here: https://5il.co/2afnj
These 3rd-5th graders competed yesterday for GSCS Literacy Days. we are proud of them all. #ColtsCan
These four students competed for the GSCS K-2 Literacy Days yesterday. They did awesome! #ColtsCan
We hope you will save the date and plan to join us. Huge thank you to Carver Road Baptist by allowing our Chorus to use their building for the concert. #ColtsCan
Day One of 5th grade Christmas Fun! #ColtsCan
Blackshear Photography is bringing Santa to Cowan Road on Tuesday, November 28. This is a pre-paid event for only students who want a visit. If you would like to purchase photos, follow this link and see the available packages. You can pay online OR in person the day of the event.
https://www.blackshearphotography.com/marketing/cowanrdsanta
November 17 is Substitute Educators Day. THANK YOU to these individuals who arrive with very short notice, learn and assign lesson plans on the fly, and make sure our students never miss a beat in their education! #aew2022 #SubstituteEducatorsDay
