Our student leadership team spent the day caroling in the community yesterday. We are proud of these Colts and their work to give back to our community. Thank you to Nurse Amanda and Ms. Bates for organizing this and working with our student leaders.

We have Reindeer Readers today! Mrs. Montoya's class enjoyed listening to a story from their reader.

Please take a moment to look at our lost & found. We would love to get this cleared out and belongings returned before the holiday break. If you see something that belongs to your Colt please reach out to their homeroom teacher.

Yesterday we were able to spend a little time in our houses. The house of dreamers had a great time decorating a waffle cone to turn it into a tree!

Check out our school's Beanstack Mid-Year Progress Report. Our Colts have logged 301,976 minutes! Way to go, Colts!

The deadline to log 1000 minutes for a Rock Lobster ticket is quickly approaching! Mrs. Crowder has sent home half sheets of paper for students who have already met this goal. This paper must be returned to Mrs. Crowder by the end of the day on Friday, December 19th, for your information to be submitted to the Rock Lobster team. Mrs. Crowder will continue checking to see who has met this goal through Thursday. Please be sure to send in the paper by Friday. If you have misplaced your paper, please reach out to your child's homeroom teacher so we can send another copy home.

Colt Connection 12/16/25

#ColtsCanRead
Congratulations to these remarkable readers! These Colts logged their reading on Beanstack every day last week. Way to go, Colts!

Do you have the Beanstack App? At DES, we love to celebrate our students and their successes! Logging your child's reading at home is one way we can reward their efforts! Please see the image for instructions on logging in to Beanstack.

For December, we have a bingo challenge on Beanstack. There is a digital bingo board on Beanstack. Please see the image for more information on logging your FROSTY books!

Students who complete the FROSTY challenge will receive a prize from the library!

We love seeing our Colt Families in the community! The Kirk family enjoyed the Elberton Christmas Parade this past weekend.

Please send any pictures of your family enjoying community events to Ms. Bates.
jbates@madison.k12.ga.us

Our Fifth Grade Leadership Team enjoyed singing Christmas Carols at the Madison County Early Learning Center and Board of Education. So much joy was seen and felt with our school neighbors!

#ColtsCanLead

After School Reminder- No ASP this Friday. Friday is an early release day. All after school balances need to be paid by this Thursday.

Our students showed great school spirit for Grinch Dress-Up Day! 💚 We loved seeing our Colts participate and have fun together.

Check out these two remarkable readers! We had our first two Colts to complete a genre card today. Way to go, Colts!

Our Colt Chorus performed at Christmas in Danielsville on Saturday. They did great! Way to go, Colts!
#ColtsCanSing
#ColtsCanShine

We hope to see you TONIGHT!

Have you ordered a yearbook yet? The price of yearbooks will increase to $40 on 1/1/26. The deadline for 5th-grade Recognition Ads is 2/12/26.

Our PTO will be selling candy canes again!

Our Colts look forward to watching The Grinch in the gym each year. Thank you to our activity teachers and Ms. Crawford for hosting and popping popcorn!

The Colt Chorus will be performing at 6:30 at Gilead Baptist on Saturday as part of Christmas in Danielsville.
#ColtsCanSing

We are so excited for our fourth annual Holiday Market. We hope you will join us THIS FRIDAY!