Community Partners Shout

Out!

Please look at the list of communi-

ty partners on the left side. They

invest time, money, events,

resources, services, supplies, etc.

for our scholars, staff and families.

As you visit these various busi-

nesses and organizations, thank

them for their support of Reedy

Creek Elementary.

They continue to be community

heroes in education!

I have witnessed incredibly proud moments

watching our scholars overcome obstacles

through effort, hard work and courage. We

have had a fantastic start to the new school

year thanks to the great work of our staff

and active parents. It was so nice to see so

many of you at our Curriculum Night.

For our AM car riders please, continue to

get to school early and drop your child off

prior to 8:00 am. This year I want to chal-

lenge you to take an active role at Reedy

Creek. You can shape the educational expe-

rience for your child through your active

participation and advocacy.

One way to actively participate and advocate

for your child and the school is to participate

at our PTO events and meetings and to

attend our SLT (School Leadership Team)

meetings—see dates in section below. Please

make sure you join the PTO. Our PTO is a

strong force in shaping and supporting our

school. In addition to providing supplemental

resources for our scholars, the PTO pro-

vides a variety of parent and scholar enrich-

ment opportunities. We ask you to not only

learn about what is happening with your

child’s education, but to also develop those

advocacy skills to support your child through

his/her educational career.

Also, your participation in many of our “fun”

family activities also support the building of

our school community. We hope you can

join us for our annual Fall Festival on Satur-

day, October 12th from 11 am—to 2 pm,

our first semester PTO Family Literacy Night

on Thursday, October 17th at 6:00 pm, and

our PTO sponsored Glow Party on Friday,

October 25th. Look for additional infor-

mation in your child’s agenda & weekly RED

folder.

We use connect-Ed messages to communi-

cate with our parents & community. It ena-

bles us to send a short voicemail or email

message about important school information.

The information you provide the school on

the Scholar Information Form (when enrol-

ling) & BLUE information card is what the

software accesses. Please contact the main

office staff directly if you need to update

contact information.

Please feel free to call me at 980-343-6480

or email me:

orlando.robinson@cms.k12.nc.us.

Take care,

Principal Orlando Robinson

A Message From Your Principal...

October 2019

10801 Plaza Road Ext., Charlotte, NC 28215

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

Rocky’s Newsletter

2019-2020

SCHOOL PARTNERS

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

Thank you for supporting RCE! AXA Financial Advisors

BCDI-Charlotte

Bojangles Rocky River Road

Brookdale Pediatric Dentistry

Center of Chasse Dance

Chick-fil-A Harris Square

CMPD

CMS Schools—NRMS, RRHS & JROTC

CPCC-Cato Campus

Fairfield Inn Suites Uptown Charlotte

Food Lion-Cambridge Commons

Frozen Kups Yogurt-Harrisburg

Harris Teeter-Cambridge Commons

Hickory Grove Baptist Church

Home Depot

Keller Williams Realty

Kingdom Church

Laurel Baptist Church

Living Faith Church

Life Changing Church

Lowes

Mr. Charles Chicken & Fish

READ Charlotte

Uplift Ministries

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

Parents—You are invit-

ed to attend any of our

School Leadership Team

(SLT) Meetings to help

make important deci-

sions that affect our

entire school.

We meet at 4pm in

the media center on

the following dates:

October 10

RCE Spirit Rock

Promotes school spirit

for RCE scholars and

raises funds

Reservation fee is $10 and must be paid up

front

$10 fee reserves the

rock for 48 hours

Contact our school

for more info

Orlando Robinson, Principal

Arlana Graham, Assis-tant Principal; 3-5 Math

Stefanie McBryde-McNair, Dean of Stu-dents; K-2 Math

Nicki Dudley, K-2 Literacy Facilitator

Shawanna Green-Brock, 3-5 Literacy Facilitator

Sherman Ward, BMT, Discipline & Behavior Support

November 7

January 9

February 6

March 12

May 14

June 4

School Theme...“It’s Not About Me, It’s About We”

Page 2

Please make a

note of the dates

on our calendar

for school events.

Saturday Family Event—Fall Festival is Saturday Oct 12 from 11am—2 pm. Please join us for a fun filled day!!

Rocky’s Newsletter will be sent home with scholars monthly during the 1st week of the month.

Please also visit RCE school webpage!! https://

reedycreekelemen-

taryschool.wearecms.com/

2019-2020 CMS Early

Release Days @ 12:00pm

Oct 16, Jan 8, Mar 4, Apr 29

October 2019

Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri

30 1 2 3 4 College

Awareness Day—Wear

college gear to school

7 This week is Bul-ly Prevention

Week Oct 7—Oct

8 9 Teacher Workday

(Optional) 10 SLT Meeting @

4pm in Media Cen-

ter

11 Our Fall Festival is tomorrow !!! Saturday

Oct 12 @ 11am—2 pm

14 National Theatre for Children—Energy

Endgame

15 16 CMS Early Release Day at 12 noon; Fall

MAP Testing Ends!!

17 18 Fall Pictures

21 This week is Red Ribbon Week

Oct 21-Oct 25

22 Grades 3-5 NC Check Ins testing this

week

23 24 PTO Family Literacy Night @ 6-

8 pm

25 GLOW PARTY—

PTO SPONSORED!!

28 Teacher Workday 29 Spirit Day 30 Spirit Day; RTA Testing for Select 4th

graders

31 Spirit Day;

HAPPY HALLOW-

EEN

November 2019

Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri

1 Spirit Day

4 5 Teacher Workday; Voting Day—

General Election

6 Report Cards Go Home

7 K-2 Quarter 1 Awards

@ 8:30 am; SLT Mtg @

4pm Media Center

8 3-5 Quarter 1 Awards:

3rd & 4th @ 8:30 am

5th @ 9:30 am;

Coffee with Counselors

11 Veterans Day Holiday—No School

12 13 14 Duke Endgame Presen-tation

15

18 This week is Starbase STEM

Camp—EOG Prep Oct 18-Oct 22

19 Fall Pictures Makeup Day

20 21 3rd Grade Fire Safety Program

22

25 26 27 Thanksgiving

Break

28

Thanksgiving Break

29

Thanksgiving Break

First quarter will end on October

25th. It is our goal to have a

conference with 100% of our

parents by the end of the quar-

ter. Please be on the lookout for

notes about conference sign ups, in

your child’s agenda. This is a great

time to ask questions about your

child’s progress and our curricu-

lum. Should you need to meet with

your child’s teacher before this

time, please call or email to sched-

ule an appointment. Our schedules

do not allow time to meet with

parents in the mornings as children

are arriving or during afternoon

dismissal. Also, permission forms

for the field trip need to be turned

in by the 4th. Check your child’s

agenda daily.

—The K Grade Team

Thank you for a successful start to

the school year! We appreciate the

strong home and school connec-

tion that has been established and

look forward to building on this

relationship to best benefit our

scholars.

Our math focus this month will be

to use strategies to develop fluency

with adding and subtracting within

10. Some strategies include count-

ing on and counting back, and using

doubles and near doubles. In litera-

cy, we will build on our under-

standing of tools and work by con-

sidering how habits of character

also help us do work. We will learn

how to become effective learners

as we study habits of character

through literature and experience.

We will have parent-teacher con-

ferences this month. We will dis-

cuss your scholar’s progress for

first quarter. We look forward to

meeting with you!

—The 1st Grade Team

Kindergarten (2032) First Grade (2031)

Page 3 Rocky’s Newsletter

Third Grade (2029)

Reading—We are finishing the first

module in our new literacy curriculum,

which focuses on overcoming learning

challenges near and far.

Math—We are working on multiplica-

tion strategies, one-step word prob-

lems and interpreting data on a graph.

Home—You can help your child at

home by practicing basic math facts and

ensuring that your child is reading for at

least 30 minutes.

Please be on the lookout to sched-

ule your child’s parent teacher

conference in October.

—The 3rd Grade Team

We are off to a very promising start to

the 2019-2020 school year! We are building a growth mindset, engaging in grade-level activities, and anticipating a productive 2nd grade experience.

Please continue to read with your child daily and practice math concepts using

CMS’ digital platforms mentioned in

the Homework Extensions notice during Curriculum Night. It is ex-

tremely important that your child share their strategies and thinking with you while you are reviewing their

work. Our scholars are required to express their strategies in writing for most assessments. Practice basic facts

to 20 and solving double-digit addition and subtraction story problems. You should also check the Friday Folder and use the problems that were not

assigned during class as additional practice of new and ongoing math skills. Don’t forget to check and sign

your child’s agenda each day! Thank you for your continued support

of our “Superhero Scholars!” Please

keep a lookout for parent-teacher conference invitations.

—The 2nd Grade Team

Attendance Counts! The attendance rate is important

because scholars 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 scholars 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-

ance.reedycreek@cms.k12.nc.us.

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.

Thanks for your support!

Second Grade (2030)

The Technology Services team has worked diligently to streamline scholar access to digital tools.

Scholar logins have been updated to a more consistent format using the scholar’s state ID and unique

password. Scholars 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 scholars from

any computer with Internet. Please review the table below for updated login information.

Grade NCEdCloud Chromebook/Google Apps for

Edu

K-4 Username: Scholar 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: Scholar email Password: Cmsx0000 (0000=grade level grad yr.) Example: Username:

12345678@scholar.cms.k12.nc.us Password: Cmsx2030 K Cmsx2029 1st gr. Cmsx2028 2nd gr. Cmsx2027 3rd gr. Cmsx2026 4th gr.

5-12 Username: Scholar ID Password: Unique passwords created by scholars last year. Note- Any teacher

of record can change scholar password

from their NCEdCloud portal. Scholars in

grades 5-12 new to CMS as of August 25

will need to claim their accounts and set

their password.

Username: Scholar email Password: 8 digit birthdate yyyymmdd Example: Username:

12345678@scholar.cms.k12.nc.us Password: 20101125 (scholar born November 25, 2010)

In Social Studies, the students will

work on a project about the three

regions of North Carolina.

In Reading, we will continue reading

a variety of nonfiction texts. They will

dive into articles and books about

healthy living. Students will explore

pictures and data about our cultural

beliefs on living a healthy life and

make connections to how they are

interdependent.

In Math, our scholars are learning to

represent an unknown number in an

equation by using a symbol or a let-

ter. They will also solve word prob-

lems with multiplicative comparison

by using bar models and multiplicative

sentences. A great site were your

child can practice these skills is http://

www.mathplayground.com/ think-

ingblocks.html. On the site, the stu-

dents are able to manipulate model-

ing tools as they solve various types

of word problems. Also, they will

apply the area and perimeter formu-

las for rectangles in real world and

mathematical problems. For example,

find the width of a rectangular room

given the area of the flooring and the

length, by viewing the area formula as

a multiplication equation with an

unknown factor.

In Science, our scholars had lots of

fun during our hands-on rock and

mineral unit. Our current exciting

unit is on fossils. During the unit,

students will understand the use of

fossils and changes in the surface of

the earth as evidence of the history

of the Earth and its changing life

forms.

—The 4th Grade Team

Fourth Grade (2028)

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The Encore Team Presents...

Thank you for supporting our Spe-

cials/Encore classes:

Art

Computers

Dance

Health/PE

Math Lab

Media

Music

Science Lab

We look forward to seeing you at

our Family Events this year!

—The Encore/Specials Team

Reading—

How do relationships affect a

healthy life? This will be our focus

question as we move from learning

about body systems to a discussion

and study of physical and social rela-

tionships and identifying how those

relationships affect a character’s

“quality of life”. Our anchor text

will be Rules by Cynthia

Lord. Scholars will be paying close

attention to the characters in the

text to answer our focus question as

we read. Scholars will be asked to

write an informative piece at the end

of our unit using the information we

learned to write a focused and orga-

nized essay. Please help your scholar

at home by providing them a quiet

environment where they are able to

build their reading stamina by read-

ing at least 20 uninterrupted minutes

daily.

In Math this month, we start with

multiplying and dividing whole

numbers. Scholars will learn new

strategies to find a product or

quotient. Once we become expert

scholars at multiplying and divid-

ing, we will review place value, as

well as learn decimal place val-

ue. This will help prepare us for adding and subtracting decimals.

In Science, we learn about the

different types of energy trans-

fer. Scholars will be able to identi-

fy radiation, conduction, and con-

vection, as well as the difference

between conductors and insula-

tors. We then start our unit on

Forces and Motion.

—The 5th Grade Team

Fifth Grade (2027)

Parents as we move into October, it is very important that you ensure your schol-ar is at school and ready to learn by 8:00 am each day. Thank you for collaborating

with us to increase daily attendance. Below are some helpful tips to ensure your scholar comes to school on time every day.

· Set a regular bed time and morning routine

· Make sure your scholar is in school unless they are sick · Develop a backup plan for getting your scholar to school if something comes up

· Avoid extended trips when school is in session

October is Anti-Bully and Drug free month. As a school, we will have our bully prevention week from October 7th through October 11th. Our goal is to

work together to prevent bullying by bringing awareness to its occurrence. Reminders Ø Anti-Bully week – October 7th- October 11th

Ø Red Ribbon Week (“ Send a message. Stay Drug Free”) – October 21st- 25th Grades K-2 Ms. Clinton- shanice1.clinton@cms.k12.nc.us Grades 3-5 Ms. Davis-Johnson-

vacher.davis-johnson@cms.k12.nc.us