It is March Madness for Reading and the Atlanta Hawks wants to celebrate Reading with our school!

🏀 Join the March Minutes Madness reading challenge in Beanstack! (*There is no specific challenge.) Log the most minutes schoolwide for the Atlanta Hawks to host a reading pep rally at your elementary school. We are looking for highest participation percentage AND minutes logged from March 3rd-March 28th! Check out the video below. Let's Go Drew Eagles!

On Thursday, March 6 we will celebrate our version of Read Across America Week with Read Across Drew! Our high school book buddies and some of our 5th graders will read diverse books to our lower grades. Read Across Drew was a huge success! We featured our very own Mrs. Lauren Myers and Dr. Kendrick Myers' book, Sugar Goes To School. Our 5th graders read the book to our PreK students, and our Book Buddies read the book to our KDG and 1st grade classes! We had an amazing day and Mrs. Myers joined in the fun and met with the Prek classes!

March is Women’s History Month which is a focus on the contributions women have made towards society, culture and history. Its principles focus on celebrating women's achievements and the remarkable contributions of generations of women leaders & and girls everywhere!

The 2025 theme is ‘Moving Forward Together,” spotlighting “women educating and inspiring generations.” This theme is meant to highlight and support women who have dedicated their lives to education, mentorship and leadership to shape the minds and futures of all generations.

But where did it all start?

It began with a single day. International Women’s Day started in 1911 as a worldwide recognition of women's economic, political, and social contributions. Women’s History Month originated in 1978 from a weeklong celebration in a Sonoma, California school district, highlighting women's contributions to culture, history, and society. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter proclaimed the week of March 8th as National Women’s History Week. The U.S. Congress took it a step further in 1981, passing a resolution to establish a national celebration. Six years after that, the National Women’s History Project successfully petitioned Congress to make it the whole month of March, according to History.com

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Let's save the date as the Spring Book Fair is coming March 24-March 28, 2025. Stay tuned every week for more details

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Happy New Year and welcome back Drew Eagles! It is time to recharge our reading goals to start this semester strong and get back in the game of Reading! That's right Drew Eagles it is not too late log in those minutes and take those AR quizzes. Drew Eagles, we met our goal as trailblazers on Beanstack and we have 81% of our students participating in our Beanstack/Race2Read program. Further down in the newsletter there are instructions on how to get started with Beanstack and AR! Drew Eagles as we are preparing for our Top Reader end of year celebrations, we do not want to leave anyone out of the fun! Let's get those minutes logged in K-2 and 3-5 let's get those AR quizzes in! Don't Delay Log your reading today!!

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We are so excited to announce that we have 24/7 Access to Epic School Plus! Our scholars can access Get Epic Books after 3pm now. So please check with your child's homeroom teacher to receive their code! Check out the fun monthly calendar below.

My students love to read using Epic, a reading app that gives 24/7 access to a digital library of over 40,000+ premium books. It’s great for their daily reading and for keeping up the momentum on weekends and during school breaks. Here are the login instructions:

𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗟𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗽𝘀: Open browser and

1. Go to 𝗸𝗶𝗱𝘀.𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗽𝗶𝗰.𝗰𝗼𝗺/𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀

2. Enter class code to log in.

𝗶𝗢𝗦 & 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗶𝗱: Download & open Epic for Kids app

1. Tap on “Students”

2. Enter class code to log in.

https://www.fulcolibrary.org/class/

Username: first initial last name(up to 7-Digits) and last 4-digits of your student ID number

Password: Birthdate: Month and date, ex. 1220

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Website: www.drewcharterschool.org
Location: 301 Eva Davis Way Southeast, Atlanta, GA, USA
Phone: 404-687-0001
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