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September 21-25 - Fall Break, No School

October 2 - All Pro Dad

October 12 - Holiday, No School

October 14 - Vision Screening (Grades 1, 3 & 5 only)

October 14 - PTA Dining for Dollars, Marlow's

Happy Friday, Explorer Families! Piggy Palooza Week was a huge success! The kids loved all of the dress-up days, but today's Fancy Friday was a favorite. Thank you for supporting the amazing Northwood PTA through your donations! A special thank-you to Allie Van Sant for all of her preparation and organization for Enrichment Fund Week, and to Ginger Crosbie for her support and help, too! We look forward to celebrating tonight from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. in the bus loop for Family Fun Night! There is no cost to attend the event; however, payment will be needed for concessions and some event stations.

On Thursday afternoon, the Reading Bowl Team was treated with a great surprise! Jerry Craft, author and illustrator of many books, including one of the Reading Bowl selections, J vs. K, joined the students via a virtual visit. He shared how the idea for the book, co-authored with Kwame Alexander, came about. He was witty and engaging, showed the group his Newbery Medal, and shared drawing tips with the students. Thank you to Mrs. Bauer, our METI, for arranging this special connection!

Enjoy Fall Break! Take time to relax with family and friends and, of course, enjoy lots of good books.

With gratitude,

Heather Q. Rucker, Principal

Thanks to the incredible generosity and enthusiasm of our Northwood community, we officially reached 100% of our Enrichment Fund goal! 🎉🎉🎉

A HUGE THANK YOU to every student who brought in donations, every family who contributed, and our amazing teachers and staff who helped make Piggy Palooza such a fun and successful week! From the daily raffles and Golden Piggy trophies to all of the prizes and school spirit, it was an incredible week from start to finish.

We also want to give a very special THANK YOU to Jeremiah’s Italian Ice for generously sponsoring Piggy Palooza and helping us make this week extra sweet for our students! 🍧🐷

We couldn’t have done it without YOU! ❤️🤍💙

And if you still have donations to turn in, bring them to Family Fun Night tonight — every dollar raised continues to support the programs and experiences that make Northwood such a special place for our students.

Thank you, Northwood, for showing up BIG for our school! 🐷🎉

We have been having a blast in second grade! We loved wearing matching pajamas on Monday and beginning two-digit subtraction. One of the best parts of second grade recently has been our skill groups. The teachers have enjoyed getting to know students from other homerooms, and the students have loved switching groups to experience a different second-grade teacher and classroom. We have also enjoyed completing one of our first AVID one-pagers on the states of matter.

Third grade students are having fun while learning through hands-on activities! In math, students have been using ducks, marbles, mini animal toys, frisbees, Brain Flakes, cups, cubes, and cacti galore to build multiplication equations. These manipulatives have helped strengthen their understanding of multiplication.

In social studies, students explored Native American cultures by creating teepees, snow goggles, and totem poles as part of their Native American unit. Students have also enjoyed interactive games and activities that help them build friendships, work together, and create a strong classroom community. These engaging experiences make learning exciting, encourage creativity and critical thinking, and help students retain what they learn.

The school day ends at 2:20 pm. Please avoid early checkouts as instruction goes on until 2:15 pm. If your child must be checked out early, please do so before 2:00 pm. After 2:00 pm, students will be sent using normal dismissal procedures so as not to interfere with the school-wide dismissal process. We appreciate your cooperation and consideration.

We’re excited to offer an optional way for you to support your child’s reading at home through Beanstack, our school’s reading log platform. You can help by logging your child’s reading minutes each time they read—it's quick and easy!

Each month, the homeroom from each grade level with the most logged minutes will receive special recognition and be eligible for quarterly prizes! Thank you for encouraging a love of reading at home!

Login Info:

• Download the Beanstack mobile app
• Search for Northwood Elementary
• Sign in With Classlink
• Search for Fulton County Schools to be directed to our Classlink site
• Username: Your child’s student ID
• Password: Your child’s date of birth (MMDDYYYY)

Click here for a video tutorial: ​​Logging on to the Beanstack App​

Northwood is proud to be an AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) school. AVID Elementary equips students with the foundational skills and mindset needed for future success. Our staff is focused on enhancing instructional consistency, fostering a college and career readiness mindset, increasing student engagement and building organizational and study skills.

As part of this, each week Northwood will be focused on one goal as a school. Be sure to ask your child about it!

Next week's (9.28.2026) AVID goal is: to say thank you when given something and to say please when asking for something.

Let's liven up Carpool on a Friday morning. Please review the available slots and sign up. Just check in with the front desk when you arrive, turn up the music and enjoy welcoming the students as they arrive.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D4AA4AB2AA2FA7-65661692-apddad#/

Northwood has partnered with PickUp Patrol to help us track dismissals. PickUp Patrol provides families with a convenient way to make changes to your child’s dismissal plans and helps ensure that students are accurately and safely dismissed each day.

If you need to change how your child should be dismissed, you should submit that information via PickUp Patrol before 1:30 pm on the day of the change, and our staff will be notified. We no longer accept dismissal requests via email or paper notes. Please do not email teachers directly.

All dismissal information and changes must be entered into PickUp Patrol.

If you have any questions, please first check the PickUp Patrol Parent Guide. If you need additional assistance, please reach out to Mrs. Robertson at Northwood’s front desk, robertsonl1@fultonschools.org.

Fulton County Schools uses SchoolCash Online as their preferred method of payment for school fees — from field trips and yearbooks to athletic fees and more. It's free, secure, and takes less than two minutes to set up.

Get started here: https://fultonschools.schoolcashonline.com

Looking to volunteer? All volunteers will need to complete the Fulton County Schools online registration process. For more information and to begin the process, please click the link below.

https://www.fultonschools.org/community/become-a-volunteer

Per District policy, ALL second-grade families are required to provide the school with two proofs of residency before entering second grade. Copies can be dropped off at the front desk or emailed to our Data Clerk, Amy Dulion, at dulionaw@fultonschools.org.

Did you know? Our school community has a Cafeteria Principal Account Fund. This account will be used to fulfill any meal costs for students that reach an account balance of zero. We often have families and extended family members that ask if or how they can pay off lunch balances or support our students in this way, now the process of doing so is easy!

Should you be interested in adding to the Cafeteria Principal Account Fund, just send a check or cash to school in an envelope to Mrs. Rosa Gutierrez, our cafeteria manager, and notate that the funds go to the Principal Fund. Please reach out to Mrs. Gutierrez, gutierrezabr@fultonschools.org, if you have any questions.

Parents may eat lunch with students after the first two weeks of school - starting August 17th. Teachers eat with the students during the first week, and the students are learning the routine the second week. We also encourage nutritious lunches; therefore sodas, canned drinks, fast food, candy, energy drinks, etc. are discouraged. We kindly ask that you refrain from bringing these items to school or sending them in lunchboxes.

The Fulton County School Nutrition Program is dedicated to serving all students nutritious, safe and customer acceptable meals in support of academic achievement. Click the link below to see what thery are serving up today.

Nutrition.fultonschools.org/MenuCalendar

Parents, please encourage your students to check regularly for lost items in the Lost and Found. Please mark all student belongings clearly with the child's name so that it can be identified. Unclaimed items are donated to local charities after the last school day of every month. September's date is Wednesday, September 30th.

The Infinite Campus Parent Portal provides quick and easy access to information for all enrolled students in their household. Find grades, attendance, assignments, schedules, ID numbers, school announcements and more. If you haven't already joined, please do so today as Fulton County Schools is transitioning to managing everything via the portal.

For more information, access the Parent Portal Booklet for Infinite Campus here.

The Dining for Dollars crew is back with another opportunity to send a percentage of every purchase back to Northwood! Kick back and let Marlow's do the work! As always, we thank you for being a part of the Northwood community.

Where: Marlow’s Johns Creek, 3719 Old Alabama Road, Johns Creek, GA 30022

Please be sure to mention Northwood when checking out!

Michelle Levine, Assistant Principal

Together We SHINE!

Email: NorthwoodAttendance@fultonschools.org
Website: https://northwood.fultonschools.org/
Location: 10200 Wooten Road, Roswell, GA, USA
Phone: 470-254-6390
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NorthwoodElementaryPTA/
Twitter: @FCS_NWES or @NWES_Principal