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As always, if you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact me
at 980-343-6480 or at [email protected].
Warmest Regards, Orlando Robinson
Happy New Year!! I hope every-one had a restful winter break! I want to thank everyone that partici-
pated in our Reedy Creek Cares Initia-tive. Through your generosity we col-lected over 42 blankets for Crisis Min-
istry, we collected over 600 canned goods & perishables for Loaves and Fishes, we also collected 46 toys for
Toys for Tots and finally we collected some boxes of school supplies & toilet-ries for Queens Creek Elementary
School in eastern North Carolina. We should all be proud of the impact that our donations will make throughout
our community and beyond. Thank you for making Reedy Creek the school with the big heart. Way to go Rac-coons!!
We are now entering the second part of the school year and headed toward
our final stretch. It is extremely im-portant that you know how your child
is performing academically. Your child’s report card only gives you part of the whole picture. We believe in giving
scholars every opportunity to do their best work. This includes turning in late work, correction of wrong answers as
well as opportunities to retest and re-work assignments. Additionally, teach-ers provide a high level of differentiated instruction to accommodate
scholars’ varied learning levels. As the second quarter report cards
come out in the next month, I encour-age you to closely examine your child’s report card. If your child is performing
below grade level, contact your child’s teacher for a conference and/or sugges-tions on ways to reinforce learning at
home. Remember, success comes from a partnership between school and home. Your support and follow
through at home is vital to your child’s school success.
A Message From Your Principal...
January 2019
10801 Plaza Road Ext., Charlotte, NC 28215
(980) 343-6480 Fax: (980) 343-6529
Raccoon News 2018-2019
SCHOOL PARTNERS
cmstp://schools.cms.k12.nc.us/reedycreekES/Pages/Default.aspx
AXA Advisors
BCDI-Charlotte
Bojangles Rocky River Road
Bringing the Word Forth Ministries
Capriccios
Center of Chasse Dance
CMPD
CPCC-Cato Campus
Fairfield Inn Suites Uptown Charlotte
Food Lion-Cambridge Commons
Golden Corral-University Area
Hickory Grove Baptist Church
Hilton Garden Inn Charlotte/Concord
Home Depot
Keller Williams
Living Faith Church
Life Changing Church
Lowes
Movement Mortgage
Mr. Charles Chicken & Fish
Northridge Middle, RR High & JROTC
READ Charlotte
Uplift Ministries
Sonic Automotive-Infiniti of Charlotte
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/gently
used children’s books
Scan the QR code to follow the excitement and learn
more about the RCE team stats, giveaways and spon-
sors.
What: RCE vs Harlem Wizards Basketball Game
When: Wed 2/13/19 @ 7 pm Where: Rocky River High
The biggest event this year is just 6 weeks away! Did
you get your tickets yet? The RCE Staff will be going
head to head with the world
famous Harlem Wizards in a fundraiser basketball game on February 13, 7:00pm at
Rocky River High School.
All proceeds for this event benefits Reedy Creek Ele-mentary. Watch your
scholar’s backpack for ticket
order forms!
Contact Charlene for more
information at
We have enjoyed
getting to know
you and your
scholar this first
semester. Your
communication,
feedback, partici-
pation and partnership is critical to
the success of our school and
scholars. Together—we will make it
a GREAT year!! It’s Not About
Me...It’s About We!!!
Arlana Graham—Assistant Principal
Stefanie McBryde-McNair—Dean of
Students
Nicki Dudley—(K-2) Facilitator Lashay Morgan--(3-5) Facilitator
School Theme...“It’s Not About Me, It’s About We”
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January: 1/2: Optional Teacher Workday
1/7-1/11: Starbase STEM Camp (Select 5th graders)
1/8 & 1/10: NC Check-Ins #2
1/8, 1/10 & 1/15: Bears Behind the Badge Date
1/9: CMS Early Release @ 12pm, HOUSE
Celebrations (Wear Your HOUSE colors)
1/10: SLT Meeting @ 6pm
1/14-1/18: Perfect Attendance Sprit Week
1/14-1/29: MAP Testing-Winter Window Opens
1/17: RCE Basketball Game vs David Cox
@4:30, Family Literacy Night
1/21: Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday
1/22: Teacher Workday
1/24: RCE Basketball Game AT Piney Grove
@4:30pm
1/28-3/1: ACCESS Testing for ELLs Online
1/31: K-2 2nd Quarter Achievement
Recognition@8:30-9:30 am, RCE Basketball
Game AT Briarwood @ 4:30pm
February: 2/1: 3-5 2nd Quarter Achievement Recognition
3rd-4th@8:30-9:30am & 5th@10am, Report
cards go home
2/4-2/8: Counselor Appreciation Week
2/5, 2/6 & 2/7: Bears Behind the Badge Dates
2/6: Promising Pages (1st Grade)
2/7: RCE Basketball Game vs JW Grier @
4:30pm; SLT Meeting @ 6pm
2/8: Kindergarten Fieldtrip to Discovery
Place-Huntersville
2/9: Daddy/daughter dance (PTO sponsored)
Rocky River HS @4-6 pm
2/11-2/15: Random Acts of Kindness Week
2/13: Harlem Wizards Basketball fundraiser @
Rocky River HS Gym @7pm, Classroom Group
Pictures
2/14: RCE Basketball Game vs Piney Grove
@4:30pm
2/18: Makeup Day for 10/10/18
2/19: Kindergarten 100th Day Parade, ASC
Assembly -Storyteller Linda Goodman (3rd-5th),
ASEP Black History Month Presentation@5pm
2/21: RCE Basketball Game vs Briarwood
2/22: Dress Rehearsal for International Festival
2/23: International Festival @11-2pm, Book
Fair Opens
2/25-3/2: Book Fair & Literacy Week, Progress
Reports Go Home, Dress Up as Your Favorite
Leader Day
2/26: Black History Program During Specials
2/28: ASC Assembly -Opera Express (PreK-2nd),
RCE Basketball Game AT JW Grier, Words are
Every "Wear" (Wear a shirt that others can
read!)
3/1: Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! (Dress up as
your favorite Dr. Seuss Character)
Please also visit our RCE school webpage!!
CMS Early Release Days @ 12pm
January 9 & March 13
January 2019
Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat
1 Winter Break
NEW YEAR’S
HOLIDAY!
2 Winter Break Ends; Teacher
Workday
3 Scholars Report
Back to School To-
day!!
4 5
6 7 STEM Camp
Week
8 NC Check-In
Testing (Reading 3-5);
Bears Behind Badge
9 Early Release Day
@ 12 noon; Wear
Your House Shirt!
10 NC Check-In Testing
(Math 3-5); Bears Behind
Badge; SLT @ 6pm
11 12
13 Perfect
Attendance
Spirit Week!!
14 MAP Testing
Begins!!
15 Bears Behind
Badge
16 17 Basketball Game; vs
David Cox; Family Liter-
acy Night
18 19
20 21 MLK Jr.
Holiday
22 Teacher Workday
23 24 Basketball Game AT
Piney Grove
25 26
27 28 Online AC-
CESS Testing
Begins!!
29 MAP Testing
Ends!!
30 31 (K-2) Awards Cere-
mony; Basketball Game
AT Briarwood
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
Online ACCESS
Testing for ELLs All
Month!!
1 (3-5)
Awards Cere-
mony
2
3 4 5 Bears Behind Badge 6 Bears Behind Badge;
Promising Pages
7 Bears Behind Badge;
Basketball Game vs
JW Grier; SLT @ 6pm
8 Kindergarten
Field Trip
9 Daddy/
Daughter
Dance
10 11 Random Acts of
Kindness Week!!
12 13 HARLEM WIZ-
ARDS B-BALL
GAME @ RRHS!!
14 Basketball Game
vs Piney Grove
15 16
17 18 School Make
Up Day!!
19 Several Events—see side notes
20 21 Basketball Game
vs Briarwood
@4:30pm
22 Dress
Rehearsal for
Festival!!
23 Inter-
national
Festival!!
24 25 Book Fair & Literacy
Week!! Several Events:
see side notes
26 Character Day (K-
1 LetterLand Day; 2-5
Book Character
27 DEAR (Drop
Everything And Read)
Day !
28 Several Events:
see side notes
1 Happy Birth-
day Dr. Seuss!!
February 2019
Happy New Year! I hope that you are enjoying a great start
to 2019! We are excited about all the learning that will be going on during the
winter months in Kindergarten.
With the winter season, we will see an increase in absences due to illnesses.
Please make sure you stress the im-portance of good handwashing with your
child, and practice at home.
As the temperatures drop, please make sure that your child is dressed for cold
weather. We will go outside daily.
The second quarter is coming to an end. Currently, we are conducting our mid-
year assessments, so please make sure that your child arrives on time to school each
day. Continue to have your child read to you daily, and remember to write the title
of the book in the agenda. Thank you for your support!
Happy New Year and best wishes for
a wonderful 2019! We hope that you all had a wonderful
restful break and are ready to get back to work. We are excited to begin the second
part of the year. Our reading lessons have taught features
of nonfiction text that include pictures, captions, maps, diagrams, labels, etc., that
provide new learning opportunities. Throughout the unit, scholars have
learned how readers can use nonfiction text to learn about our world and how to effectively share what they have learned.
As your child reads nonfiction books, please be sure to ask them what they have
learned through reading this book as well as the nonfiction text features. We hope
you enjoy spending time reading together with some fascinating informational books!
Our writers will begin writing all-about books this month. These books focus on
one topic, for example a book all about snakes, and tell information through text,
diagrams, pictures and more! In mathematics, scholars are continuing
their work on addition and subtraction equations. They will be using the strategies
they have learned so far to find the un-knowns, justifying if an equation is true or
false, and adding with three addends.
We are preparing for mid-year assess-ments in both reading and math which will
begin in early January.
Kindergarten (2030) First Grade (2029)
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Third Grade (2027)
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
In literacy we are finishing up our
biography unit and then moving
into our unit on International Stud-
ies. Our students will focus on
South America and Mexico. This
will prepare students for our up-
coming International Festival.
In math, we are continuing to work
on multiplication and division strat-
egies with a focus on multi-step
word problems.
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.
Welcome back
second graders!
We hope you had a
fun and safe break.
We are kicking off
the new year by
testing each child
for their new
reading level.
Students will be
tested on fluency,
comprehension,
and written re-
sponse. Your
child’s teacher will
send you more information upon test com-
pletion.
Scholars will also participate in MAPs testing
for literacy and math.
In reading we are getting to know characters
and their stories. We are learning how to
write opinion pieces during writing. In math
we are continuing to practice various strate-
gies to solve different types of equations and
word problems. In science, we are learning
all about weather and severe storms.
You can help your child continue to make
growth in the new year a few different ways.
Please continue reading with your child for
20-30 minutes each night. It is important
that he/she reads both fiction and nonfiction
books. Please monitor that your child accu-
rately answers comprehension questions as
well as writing response questions. Be sure
to review work sent home in your child’s
Friday Folder and practice the concepts your
child is struggling with.
As always, thank you for your support!
Attendance Counts! The attendance rate is important
because students are more likely
to succeed in academics when they attend school consistently.
It’s difficult for the teacher and the
class to build their skills and pro-
gress if students are frequently
absent. Please partner with us to
increase school attendance.
If your child will be absent from
school, please send an e-mail to
attend-
Please be sure to include the fol-
lowing information:
Your child's name and grade/
teacher
Parent name
The reason for absence
A callback phone number
You can also call the school at 980
-343-6480.
This will help us tremendously.
Thanks for your support!
Second Grade (2028)
The Technology Services team has worked diligently to streamline student access to digital tools.
Student logins have been updated to a more consistent format using the student’s state ID and unique
password. Students will be able to access more of the digital tools available in the NCEdCloud portal. This change is a big step in making digital learning and access to digital tools, easier for students from
any computer with Internet. Please review the table below for updated login information.
Grade NCEdCloud Chromebook/Google Apps for
Edu
K-4 Username: Student ID Password: Cmsx0000 (0000=grade level graduation year) Example: Username: 1234567890 Password: Cmsx2030 K Cmsx2029 1st gr. Cmsx2028 2nd gr. Cmsx2027 3rd gr. Cmsx2026 4th gr.
Username: Student email Password: Cmsx0000 (0000=grade level grad yr.) Example: Username:
[email protected] Password: Cmsx2030 K Cmsx2029 1st gr. Cmsx2028 2nd gr. Cmsx2027 3rd gr. Cmsx2026 4th gr.
5-12 Username: Student ID Password: Unique passwords created by students last year. Note- Any teacher
of record can change student password
from their NCEdCloud portal. Students
in grades 5-12 new to CMS as of August
25 will need to claim their accounts and
set their password.
Username: Student email Password: 8 digit birthdate yyyymmdd Example: Username:
[email protected] Password: 20101125 (student born November 25, 2010)
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
In reading, we will wrap up our
nonfiction unit. In the nonfiction
unit the scholars practiced finding
main idea, identifying text struc-
ture, using context clues to figure
out word meaning, and using text
features, such as photographs, cap-tions, subtitles, graphs and maps to
support their reading and under-
standing of nonfiction material.
In writing, we will be wrapping
up the informational writing
unit, by having a writing cele-
bration, where the scholars will
share their writing with their
peers.
In math, we will be starting our
division unit. We will be using a
strategy called the big 7. It is
important for you to continue
working on facts in all four op-
erations for your child to be
successful during this unit.
Fourth Grade (2026)
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The Encore Team Presents...
WELCOME BACK SCHOLARS!!
Reading: We will be reviewing
standards RI 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3 to
prepare for the NC Check-In
which will be the second week of
January. After the NC Check-In,
we will use that data to guide our
instruction for 3rd quarter.
Social Studies: In Social Studies
we will be focusing on various
topics. We will be using Social
Studies topics to address reading
standard RI 5.3.
Math: This month we will learn
how to divide fractions using mod-
els and equations, as well as re-
view all operations with frac-
tions. Once we wrap up fractions,
we will move on to Powers of 10
before learning how to multiply 3-
digit whole numbers by 2-digit
whole numbers.
Science: Weather and Earth Sys-
tems is the focus for sci-
ence. Students will learn weather
and wind patterns that affect the
United States and the globe.
Fifth Grade (2025)
Attendance is very important for academic success! As we go into the second half of the semester, please continue to ensure your
scholar is at school and ready to learn by 8:00 a.m. each day. We will continue to contact you if your scholar has 3, 6 or 10 absences. Please let us know how we can support you in being able to get your scholar to school each day and ready to learn
by 8:00 a.m.
The School Counselors will begin to offer small groups throughout the rest of the
year on a variety of topics to help scholars learn skills that will allow them to be more successful in school. Groups can help scholars with coping skills, finding positive ways to build self-esteem, learn conflict resolution strategies, develop
positive behavior patterns and learn decision-making skills. Scholars will learn to deal with personal issues and therefore, will continue to reach their academic potential. Groups could include Social or Coping Skills, Friendship, Family Changes,
Anger Management or Attendance. Groups are based on teacher, administrator, and/or parent/guardian referral. Parents must sign a permission form for scholars to participate in a group. If you would like to refer your scholar for a group, please contact the School Counselor.
Have a wonderful winter break and enjoy time with family and friends! Ms. Clinton: K-2 grade- [email protected]
Ms. Davis-Johnson: 3-5 grade – [email protected]
Parents, congratulate your scholars on completing their Digital Citizen-
ship Modules. RCE is recognized as a safe digital school through CMS
and Common Sense Media!!
