Gateway School - OCPS

11/09/2020

November is National Family Literacy Month

Here are some activities to do with your family

1.Take time to read aloud

2.Carve out some time to go to the Public Library

3.Talk with your children about what they might find in the school library. By using Destiny Discover, families can log in together at home to search for books and to view Recently Added Books, Popular Titles, and others within various categories within our school library collection.

4.Check out Biblionasium for suggested titles at https://www.biblionasium.com/ /content-fall-picks

5.How about making your own digital book. With Buncee, digital stories and projects can be created using digital stickers, animations, backgrounds, text, images and much more. There are dozens of templates to choose from which make it easy to find those home and family connections.

Excite, encourage and engage kids to read! Check out Biblionasium, where young readers connect & share book lists and good reads with friends, teachers & parents. Look up the reading level difficulty of thousands of books and find the right fit books. A powerful teacher tool and valued parent resour...

08/06/2020

School Starts virtually Monday, August 10th. Get your Back-To-School supplies this weekend during the Tax Free Holiday.

07/30/2020

Pre-Planning starts Friday, July 31st.

Students first day is August 10th

04/20/2020

Helpful Resources:

For Food Assistance contact Feeding Florida
Food bank network by city/county
feedingflorida.org

Need Help Paying Bills
National organization that provides resources on almost everything by state/county
needhelppayingbills.com

United Against Poverty
Provides member grocery store and various other supports
unitedagainstpoverty.org

04/17/2020

Neighborhood Centers for Families have Counselors that operate from the 13 Neighborhood Centers across Orange County, Florida. We are here for you during this time of stress, transition, and uncertainty. We are offering remote counseling services for Orange County, Florida residents. No insurance needed.



To get connected with a counselor within 24 hours, call 407-294-3519. We are glad you are here and we look forward to talking to you.



If you or someone you know is experiencing a mental health emergency, call 2-1-1 anytime for immediate assistance. If you have any questions about NCF services, please let me know.

03/31/2020

Students:

To access books and magazines through the Orange County Library System, Click on the link below:
http://kids.ocls.info/virtuallibrarycard.asp

Click on Tumblebook Library and you can read a book or it can be read to you.

Do you like Graphic Novels? Click on TeenBookCoud to access online Graphic novels.

03/10/2020

Spring Break Starts Friday, March 13 through Friday, March 20th. See you all back at school on Monday, March 23rd to finish the school year strong!

11/19/2019

Spirit Week continues with Twin Day.

11/18/2019

Winners of the crazy sock contest were Desmond for 6th grade and Joyce for 7th grade. Congratulations!

11/12/2019

Next week we celebrate Spirit Week here at Gateway.
Monday- Crazy Sock Day
Tuesday Twin Day
Wednesday- Super Hero day
Thursday Throwback Thursday
Friday- College Day

11/12/2019

Spirit Week is Next Week!
Get Ready!