The Fort Report Weekly News
September 27, 2019
From the Principal's Desk
Hello FDES Families,
The PTA Fundraiser kicked-off this week! Students have enjoyed the daily prizes! Your support in raising funds to support our school is greatly appreciated. This year our awesome PTA is focusing on raising funds for 2 sun shades to be installed on our playground. This will provide much needed relief for our students on hot days. This could not happen without your support. Thank you so much!
On another note, Coach G’s gym is the classroom highlight of the week! His warm-up activity for this week’s kindergarten classes was the ABC Game. Coach G announced a letter, while also writing it on the board. Once the signal was given, students raced around the gym to locate the correct letter hidden beneath a cone. The students had fun and did a great job recognizing their letters. Afterwards, students headed outdoors for more exercise and fun. Thanks Coach G! (See photos below)
In closing, I am continually reminded that our greatest resource in our schools and communities is each other. Together we create a school we all love. Please feel free to reach out to us! We look forward to continued feedback and collaboration.
Together Everyone Achieves More = TEAM!
Proud to Be Your Principal,
Barbara
Administrative Team:
Barbara Tucker, Ed.D., Principal
Jennifer Hicks, Assistant Principal (Pre-K/Kinder, 2nd and 4th Grades)
Candace Williams, Assistant Principal (1st, 3rd, and 5th Grades)
INK Field Trip
Our Pre-K students had an opportunity to go on a field trip to INK! This Interactive Neighborhood for Kids provided our youngest mountaineers with exciting hands-on learning. Thanks to our awesome Pre-K Teachers!
From the Media Center- Reading Rewards
We are so proud of the first two students who earned their Fort Daniel Readers Hat. Congratulations to Madison and Sam for reading and logging minutes using Reading Rewards! We hope to award many more hats this year!
If you or your child needs help logging minutes or redeeming rewards, please visit the Fort Daniel page on your child's eclass page to watch a video tutorial. To get to video tutorials, click on the eclass button, look for the Fort Daniel Media Center page on the left side. After clicking that button, look at the top and click content. Then look in the table of contents for Reading Rewards and click. There are two separate videos to watch, one on logging and the other on rewards. Please also feel free to email beth_martinez@gwinnett.k12.ga.us or call (678) 765-4939 with any questions.
Sun Run Update
Kindergarten:
ELA: I can recite short poems, rhymes, songs, and stories with repeated patterns and illustrate them.Math: I can identify coins and their values and find similarities and differences between coins.
1st Grade:
ELA: I can describe key ideas using illustrations in an informational text.
Math: I can compare two digit numbers using <,>, and =.
2nd Grade:
ELA: I can ask and answer questions about key details in an informational text.
Math: I can use math strategies to add or subtract within 100 to solve one and two-step word problems.
3rd Grade:
ELA: I can I identify main idea and supporting key details.
Math: I can draw and interpret a picture and bar graph.
4th Grade:
ELA: I can explain how key details in the text support the main idea.
Math: I can multiply two digit by two digit numbers using an area model.
5th Grade:
ELA: I can explain in-depth how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fit into the overall structure of particular poems and describe the meaning of the text.
Math: I can round, write, order, and compare decimals to the thousandths.
Parent Portal
Gwinnett County Public Schools provides parents with a wealth of resources through the Parent Portal. If you have not yet registered, please click the below for more information.
My Payments Plus is a multipurpose website we use here at Gwinnett County Public Schools. Once you create an account, you can use the site to pay for school lunches and field trips or to review and sign important documents. For help registering for an account, you can watch this quick video.
Fort Daniel Elementary
Website: https://www.gcpsk12.org/FortDanielES
Location: 1725 Auburn Road Dacula, GA 30019
Phone: 770-932-7400
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FortDanielES/
Twitter: @FortDanielES1