messages. A team member in the main

office would be more than happy to update your con-tact information.

Have you visited the

Reedy Creek Elemen-

tary Little Free Li-

brary? Did you know

that the library was

designed, built and

donated by a RCE

4th grade scholar and

her family? Everyone is invited to open

the door. It’s open 24/7, 365 days a

year! The Little Free Library is a “take

a book, return a book” free book

exchange. Scholars can keep the free

books as long as they wish or return

them to the free library. Infants

through 5th grade will find a variety of

authors, titles and interests. Books are

always changing so be sure to visit

often! Questions or for more infor-

mation about the Little Free Library,

email RCELittleFreeLibrary@gmail.com.

Warmest Regards,

Orlando Robinson

My how time has flown! One half of the

school year is complete. We have many opportunities for you to support our

school this coming month like our second quarter awards ceremonies, Daddy/

Daughter Dance, Book Fair, and our International Festival.

I am grateful every day for the opportuni-

ty to be called “principal.” I strongly believe that all parents want the best for

their children and want them to be suc-cessful in school. Our teachers and staff need your help and partnership to make

this happen as we focus on this second semester. Children benefit greatly when

parents/guardians take an active role in their child’s education. Research proves

that when students have parental support at home, they enjoy their learning and

school life even more. Please support our efforts to finish strong

by making sure your child at-tends school daily and on time. Classes begin at 8am.

We need your help to reduce daily tar-dies. Also, please re-member report cards

go home on February 9th, please take time to review your child’s report card and

contact their teacher if you have any questions or concerns.

CALLING ALL FAMILIES!! Saturday, February 24th is our 6th

annual International Festival! The festival is from 11am-2pm and admission is $2 per

family. We are celebrating the diversity in our school community. We are looking for volunteers to share a cultural talent or

skill. If you or your child would be willing to share a talent or skill (i.e. dance, play

African drums, sing, etc.,) please notify your child's classroom teacher, or com-

plete the form sent home by your child's teacher to confirm that you will be able to

perform during our International Festival. Thank you for helping to strengthen our

home-school partnership, and for making our International Festival a continued

success! If you have any questions, please contact Mrs. Bourguignon or

Mrs. Graham at 980-343-6480.

I will continue communicating information about school events, dates and activities

using email and phone connect-ed messag-es. Please contact the school if you are

not receiving our emails or connect-ed

A Message From Principal Robinson...

February 2018

10801 Plaza Road Ext., Charlotte, NC 28215

(980) 343-6480 Fax: (980) 343-6529

Raccoon News

2017-2018

SCHOOL PARTNERS

cmstp://schools.cms.k12.nc.us/reedycreekES/Pages/Default.aspx

AXA Advisors

Bringing the Word Forth Ministries

CiCi’s Pizza University Area

Chick-Fil-A –Albemarle Road

CPCC-Cato Campus

Dollar General –Albemarle Road

Food Lion-Cambridge Commons

Golden Corral-University Area

Home Depot

Keller Williams

Living Faith Church

Lowes

Movement Mortgage

New Beginnings Community Church

Northridge Middle School

Olive Garden

Rocky River High School & JROTC

Wendy’s-Cambridge Commons

YMCA—Simmons Branch

VOLUNTEERS/

DONATIONS

NEEDED

Media Center Volunteers

Shelve books

Check out books

Health Room Volunteers

Give Band-Aids/ice

Help secretaries

Lunch Room Volunteers

Help supervise lunch

Classroom Volunteers

Check our website to see what each grade level needs help with.

Donation Request

New/unused children’s

underwear

Children’s pants

Band-Aids

New and gently used chil-

dren’s books

Eliseo Ramirez Simone Davis

McKinley Sutton

4th Grade

Carmen House Rhakym Thomas

Aissa Remigio Amarie Baldwin Synorah Trapp

Alexandra Portillo

5th Grade

Pierre Gardner

Quintel Wilson Kennedi Robinson Jayden McCauley-Rivers

Hadeel Hassan

Character Students

of the Month

Pre-K

Yadiel Gonzalez-Martinez Charlie March

Tatiana Nkouyate Kindergarten Brissa Torres

Kamden Green Deena Ardestani Zemmie Pendergrass

Arthur Pham Yaireliz Gonzalez

1st Grade

Mallory Hetrick

Akylah Osborne Christopher Santibanez

Domenic Baker Kaylan Hodges

Avery Carmack

2nd Grade

Madison Hunt Tim Vaipan

Vanadi Moales Katherine Rutto Madison Balgrove

Sarai Bermudes Miranda Torres

3rd Grade

Kimora Rogers

Rosse Garcia Valico Xavier Foxx

REEDY CREEK STUDENTS!!

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February: 2/1: COGAT Testing Begins 3rd-5th

Grade

2/5: CMS ACCESS/Alternate ACCESS

State Testing Begins for select schol-

ars

2/7: CMS Early Release Day @12pm

2/8: K-2 Q2 Achievement

Recognition @8:30-9:30 am; HOME

B-ball game @4:30

2/9: Update—Report Cards go home;

3-5 Q2 Achievement Recognition for

grades 3-4 @8:30-9:30am and 5th

grade @10am

2/10: Daddy/Daughter Dance 4-6pm,

Location: Rocky River High School

2/15: Class Group Pictures;

HOME B-ball game @4:30;

SLT Meeting @6pm

2/22: HOME B-ball game @4:30

2/24: BIG FAMILY EVENT—

International Festival—Celebration of

Cultural Diversity @ 11-2pm, School

Book Fair Opens Today!!

2/26—3/2: School Book Fair Week

2/27: Progress Reports Go Home

March: 3/1: 1st Grade Field Trip to Ovens-

The Cat in the Hat; AWAY B-ball

game at Piney Grove@4:30

3/2: Hornets Book Bus K-3

3/5: Iowa Testing for Select 3rd-5th

Graders, COGAT Testing begins for

Select 2nd Graders

3/8: HOME B-ball game @4:30; SLT

Meeting @6pm

3/15: AWAY B-ball game at Windsor

Park @4:30pm

3/22: AWAY B-ball game at Briar-

wood @4:30pm; PTO Family Enrich-

ment Night 6-8:00pm

3/26-3/29: 5th Grade Field Trip to

Washington, DC

3/28: 3rd Quarter Ends!!

3/30: Holiday—NO SCHOOL (SPRING

BREAK BEGINS)

CMS Early Release

Days @ 12:00pm:

Oct 18 Dec 6

Feb 7 Apr 18

February

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

Big Event

on Feb

24th!!

1 COGAT

Testing Begins

2 3 BIG EVENT ON SAT

FEB 24th!!

4 5 ACCESS

State Testing

6 7 Early Release

Day @12pm

8 K-2 Awards; Home

B-ball game

9 3-5 Awards

Ceremony;

10 Daddy/Daughter Dance

@RRHS 4-6pm

11 12 13 14 Happy

Valentine’s

Day

15 Class Pictures; Home

B-ball game; SLT @ 6

pm;

16 17 BIG EVENT ON

SAT FEB 24th!!

18 19 20 21 22

Home B-ball game

23 24 BIG EVENT TODAY!

International Festival &

Book Fair!!!!

25 26 Book

Fair All

Week!

27 Progress

Reports;

Book Fair!

28

Book Fair!

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 3rd Grade Field

Trip; AWAY Bas-

ketball Game

2 Hornet Book

Bus;

Book Fair Ends!

3

4 5 Iowa &

COGAT Testing

Begins

6 7 8 HOME B-ball

Game; SLT @6pm

9 10

11 12 13 14 15 AWAY Basket-

ball Game

16 17

18 19 20 21 22 AWAY Basket-

ball Game; PTO

Family Night

23 24

25 26 5th Grade

DC Trip!!

27 5th Grade

DC Trip!!

28 5th Grade

DC Trip!!

29 5th Grade DC

Trip!!

30 NO

SCHOOL

31 SPRING BREAK

BEGINS!!

March

During the month of February, our scholars will be learning about China and its culture for our International Festival on February 24th.

For reading, they will be encouraged to use all reading strategies, work more on being able to identify the main idea, and

retell key details of the text that they

are reading. Our focus in reading will be to understand non-fiction texts and

how that type of genre helps us to gain information about the topic that we are reading about. Our scholars will also be

able to write “How to…” stories for others to read. They will be using the words that show order (First, Next,

Then, and Last) to transition from one step to another. For math, our scholars will be working on both addition and subtraction, being able to decompose a

set of objects within 10 in more than one way and to demonstrate an under-standing of making combinations for a

given number using pictures and/or equations. They will learn to add and subtract within 5 using mental strate-

gies. Please help your child daily at

home to practice using the skills and strategies that they have learned in

school. Thank you for your support!

Our Reader’s Workshop lessons are

teaching strategies to study character’s actions and examine their traits. When reading with your child, ask them to use

evidence from the story to describe the

character's personality. Scholars will begin writing realistic

fiction stories in Writer’s Workshop in which they will create pretend charac-ters and come up with small moment,

real-life adventures for the characters. In mathematics, scholars are learning strategies for solving subtraction facts

to 20. These strategies include counting to subtract, subtract 10 to subtract, and using addition to subtract. These strate-gies will encourage deeper understand-

ing of the relationship between addition and subtraction.

We look forward to seeing you on Saturday, February 24th for Reedy Creek’s Annual International Day!

First grade will educate you with won-derful projects and creations about the

great countries of Australia and New Zealand! Mark your calendars for this exciting event!

Kindergarten (2030) First Grade (2029)

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Third Grade (2028)

Thank you for purchasing the EOG prep book for $20. Your child’s

teacher is still accepting payments.

In literacy we are finishing up our biog-raphy unit and moving into our unit on International Studies. Our students will

focus on South America, with each class-room looking at a specific country in more depth and detail. This will prepare

students for our upcoming International Festival. After this unit we will then focus our attention on mysteries. In math, we are starting our unit on

fractions and continuing to build on the skills we have learned previously. Stu-dents will learn to recognize fractions as

part of a whole, read them, write them, order them on a number line, find equiv-alent fractions and compare them ac-

cording to size. Please continue to make sure that your child is reading each night and completing

his or her reading log as well as studying math facts.

Can you believe we are halfway through the school year?! Mid-year

testing is coming to a close. Report card grades were submitted prior, so teachers will communicate scores as

tests are completed. In reading, we are wrapping up our

character study unit and will soon be focusing on nonfiction. In writing, we are finishing up our opinion pieces. In math, we are continuing to work on

strategies to solve various problems and are using regrouping. We just finished our science unit about weath-

er. In social studies we are beginning

on our biography research unit.

Please continue to support your child’s academic growth during second se-mester. Continue reading with your

each night. Monitor that your child accurately answers comprehension questions as well as writing response

questions about both fiction and non-fiction books. Please practice telling time, counting collections of coins, and reviewing the concepts on math sheets

sent home. Please continue to check and sign your child’s agenda nightly, and to return their Friday Folder

weekly.

Keep a lookout for information re-garding our Valentine’s Day party!

Thank you for your continued support!

Second Grade (2028)

Student Portal Login: http://www.cms.k12.nc.us/Pages/StudentPortal.aspx CMS students are able to access the following online applications without extra login! After logging in the first time, users have option to save their username &

password. This will allow for fast speed login without having to enter their

username & password in the future.

Canvas

Dream box

Discovery Education

Edgenuity (Former Compass Learning)

Learning A-Z

MasteryConnect

Pearson

Schoolnet

Studies Weekly (Social Study and Science)

Thank you for purchasing the EOG prep book for $20. Your child’s

teacher is still accepting pay-

ments.

This month in Math we will be continu-ing with our Fraction/Decimal unit. This

unit is very important because Fractions and Decimals makes up close to 30% of the questions on the EOG! This is the

first time that students will be adding and subtracting fractions and mixed numbers. In 4th grade adding fractions is limited to like denominators, e.g. ⅖ +

⅕. We will continue expand our knowledge by multiplying fractions and

plotting fractions on a line plot. Stu-

dents will be introduced to the relation-ship between fractions and decimals. As you can see, this month is jammed

packed! Be sure to ask your child’s teacher ways you can help them be successful. With your support, these

challenging concepts will be a breeze!

Social Studies- Native Americans and

Early Explorers

After learning about the 3 regions in North Carolina, we will be figuring out how the early settlers of North Caroli-

na cultivated the land and why they

chose to live near waterways.

Writing- Informational Writing

This month we will be finishing up our

final drafts of our informational piece

that we have been working on.

Reading- Historical Fiction

We will be delving into our historical

fiction unit. Students will be working on the importance of setting and how

setting drives a story.

Fourth Grade (2026)

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The Encore Team

Ask your children, what kind of

responsibilities does a good

digital citizen have?

In technology class we discuss the Rings

of Responsibility...

• reflect upon their offline responsibili-

ties within their self, family, and commu-

nity.

• examine their online responsibilities

within their self, family, and community.

• learn that good digital citizens are

responsible and respectful in the digital

world.

Thank you for purchasing the EOG

prep book for $20. Your child’s

teacher is still accepting payments.

In reading students are beginning nonfiction research

projects to compare and contrast multiple accounts of a topic, or event and analyze how point of view is con-

veyed. In math students will continue their

work with fractions. We will be focus-ing on dividing fractions and reviewing all fraction operations. We will dive

deeper into analyzing and solving multi-

step word problems.

In Science we will focus on our ecosys-tems unit. We will then move into cells and genetics.

Students will be completing a unit project on Africa. This project will be focused on science and social stud-

ies. It will also allow students to re-search Africa for the International Festival.

Fifth Grade (2025)

School Counselor Spotlight

We are very pleased to announce our new K-

2 School Counselor, Ms. Shanice Clinton. Ms.

Clinton is from New York. She attended

North Carolina Central University and gradu-

ated with a M.Ed. in School Counseling and a

M.A. in Clinical Mental Health.

Help us welcome Ms. Clinton to the Reedy

Creek Elementary School family.

Thank You Parents for getting your scholars

to school on time and ready to learn for the

Perfect Attendance Spirit Week in January. The Perfect Attendance Spirit

Week was a success! Our scholars had their name put into a daily drawing

during Perfect Attendance Spirit Week for a special prize if they were in

school, on time and ready to learn by 8:00 a.m. We want to continue to teach

our scholars the importance of attendance and how it is the baseline factor for

their success. Again, thank you parents for your commitment to the success of

your children. As always, please let us know if we can help with any issues you

may be having with getting your scholar to school on time and ready to learn

by 8:00 a.m. each day.

Ms. Clinton – K – 2nd grade Shanice1.clinton@cms.k12.nc.us

Ms. Johnson – 3rd – 5th grade Vacher.davis-johnson@cms.k12.nc.us