Its two hours of family time where par-

ents, grandparents, and kids can all laugh

together. When you’re in the stands,

you’re more than a spectator; you’re part

of the show with loads of audience partic-

ipation. Throughout the game, fans will

experience a magical display of tricks,

coordinated ball handling, fancy passing

and aerodynamic athleticism combined

with high-energy comedy and audience

interaction. The experience can only be

summed up in two words: Awe-Inspiring!

Tickets are on sale now for the advance

price of $10 for scholars and $12 for

Adults. All proceeds benefits Reedy

Creek Elementary. Watch your scholar’s

backpack for more information! Ques-

tions? Email Charlene at

Charleneetters@gmail.com

As we move into the fall and leaves begin

to change color, our scholars have suc-cessfully transitioned into their new grade

levels. As I make my way through class-rooms, our scholars are engaged in excit-ing lessons that keep them motivated and

teachers are challenging scholars to con-tinually learn and perform at higher levels.

I would like to thank all parents and stakeholders that participated in our Fall

Festival. We had over 500 parents, schol-ars, volunteers, and community partners

attend our 2018 RCE Fall Festival.

Please make plans to join us for some up-

coming events like our SLT meeting on November 8th and our Winter Evening of

the Arts on November 6th. Also, please remember report cards go home on November 9th. Did you know that you

can keep up to date with your child’s grades on PowerSchool? You can use

your child’s login information or get a

parent login from the school office.

As always, if you have any questions or

concerns please feel free to call me at 980

-343-6480 or email me

at Orlando.robinson@cms.k12.nc.us.

Cordially,

Principal Orlando Robinson

Parents thank you so much

for your supporting our Raccoon Race Fundraiser! Thank you for your continual

support of our school, be-cause of your contributions

we will be able to do much more to impact our staff &

scholars. Coach Smith

Cheer on the RCE Staff vs world famous

Harlem Wizards on Wednesday, February

13, 2019 at Rocky River High School.

Game starts at 7:00pm. The evening

promises to be a fun filled event that is

great for kids and adults and will guaran-

tee to put a smile on your face!

A Message From Your Principal...

November 2018

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

Brookdale Pediatric Dentistry

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

Madison Balgrove

Jayden Ellis

Nevaeh Ramirez

4th

Jonathan Castro Medina

Kenyion Cunningham

Cole Reitz

Karol Rodriguez

Emily Cruz Martinez

Teagan Bell

5th

Omari Clough

Justin Tripp

Joselyne De Vaca-Fernandez

Pierce Davis

Eugene Yang

Paulina Mercado Moreno

Character Scholar of

the Month:

September:

Respect

Pre-K

Jaliyah Jackson

Asael Amaya Mendiola

Acevedo Valle

Kindergarten

Jace Lovins

Callista Foster

Xavier Setzer

Isabella Martinez Gonzalez

Phoenix Lowery

La’Riyah Brice

1st

Z’Nyah Williams

Kylie Hare

Brissa Torress

Jason Echegoyen

Carmelo Cabrera

Mia Fernandez

2nd

Giselle Santos Ortiz

Jacobi Frazier

RayChelis Tavarez

Luna Torres Cortes

Amar’e Roberts

Ariana Ramirez

3rd

Madison Hunt

Mya Hopkins

Jose Cabeza DeVaca

Get to know your

admin team! Your communication,

feedback, partici-pation and sup-

port of school wide programs is critical to the

success of our school and schol-ars. Together—we will make it a

GREAT year!!

Arlana Graham—Assistant

Principal

Stefanie McBryde-McNair—

Dean of Students

Nicki Dudley—(K-2) Facilitator

Lashay Morgan—(3-5) Facili-

tator

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

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November:

11/2: Kindergarten Dental Screening (will be

done within the classroom), Rocky River HS

School Appreciation Football Game@7pm

11/6: Voting Day-Multi-Purpose Room

11/8: Coffee with counselors 8:30-9:30am;

5th Grade Dental Screening (will be done

within the classroom), SLT Meeting @6-7pm

11/9: Report cards go home

11/12: Veterans day holiday (No School)

11/13: School Spelling Bee

11/15: K-2 First Quarter Achievement

Recognition@8:30-9:30 am

11/16: 3-5 First Quarter Achievement

Recognition 3rd-4th@8:30-9:30am &

5th@10am, Escape Room Night @5-7 pm

11/21-11/23: Thanksgiving Break

11/26-12/18: Penguin Holiday Shopping!!

11/29: 3rd grade fire safety program

December:

12/3: NELC Spelling Bee-Mallard Creek High

School @9:30 am

12/5: CMS Early Release Day @ 12:00

12/6: Progress Reports go home, Grades 4th

& 5th Evening of the Arts Performance

(Dance, Music, Art) @ 6-7 pm

12/7: Glow Party Time TBD

12/10-12/14: Winter Spirit Week

12/17: Staff Winter Luncheon

12/18: Winter Wonderland, Penguin Holiday

Shopping ENDS!

12/19-1/2: Winter Break—NO SCHOOL

Our Raccoon News will be sent home with scholars monthly during the 1st week of the month.

Please also visit our RCE school webpage!!

CMS Early

Release Days @ 12:00pm

September 12

December 5

January 9

March 13

November 2018

Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat

1 2 Dental Screening;

RRHS Football Game

3

4 5 K

Dental

Screening

6 Voting

Day

7 8 Counselor

Coffee; 5th Den-

tal Screening;

SLT

9 Report Cards

Go Home

10

11 12 Holiday

Veteran’s Day

13 Spelling

Bee

14 15 1st Quarter

Awards

16 1st Quarter

Awards; Escape

17

18 19 20 21Thanksgiving

Break

22 Thanksgiving

Break

23 Thanksgiving

Break

24

25 26 Penguin

Holiday

Shopping Begins

27 28 29 3rd Grade Fire

Safety Program

30 31

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1

2 3 NELC

Spelling Bee

4 5 Early

Release Day!!

6 Progress Re-

ports, Evening of

the Arts @6pm

7 Glow

Dance

Party!

8

9 Winter

Spirit

Week

10 Crazy Sock

Day

11 Festive

Sweater Day

12 Twins Day 13 Crazy

Hair/ Hat Day

14 HOUSE

Color Day

15

16 17 Staff Winter

Luncheon 18 Winter

Wonderland, Holiday

Shopping Ends

19 Winter

Break

20 Winter

Break 21 Winter Break 22

23

30

24 Winter

Break

31

25 Winter

Break

26 Winter

Break

27 Winter

Break 28 Winter Break 29

December 2018

November will be a busy and

exciting month! We have sever-

al special activities planned.

Please make sure that your

child is at school and on time

everyday so that he/she does

not miss any of our educational

experiences. School begins at

8:00. There is a 7:55 bell to

make sure that students arrive

in class before 8:00, anything

after 8:00 is considered tardy.

As the cooler weather ap-

proaches, please make sure that

all jackets, hats, gloves, etc. are

labeled with your child’s name.

for meaning.

Thank you for participating in our con-ferences, it was very rewarding to talk

about your wonderful children and discuss the growth and progress your child has made thus far in first grade.

We look forward to partnering with you for a productive and successful school year. Together, we make a great

team! J In writing, first graders are engaged in a unit called Small Moments: Personal

Narrative Writing. Scholars are learning to take the everyday events of their lives and make them into focused, well-

structured stories--doing their very best

to communicate those stories through pictures and more writing.

Our Reader’s Workshop lessons are teaching scholars how to tackle tricky

words – using all they know about letters, sounds, and word patterns to help them read. They will work on

fixing words when they know some-thing is not right with the goal of be-coming stronger readers. Remind your scholar that a good reader uses all the

strategies they know to decode unfamil-iar words and read for meaning.

Have a great month and a peaceful, happy Thanksgiving!

Kindergarten (2031) First Grade (2030)

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Third Grade (2028)

In math we are moving on to multi-

plication and division strategies. You

can help your child at home by prac-

ticing multiplication flash cards.

We are moving our focus from liter-

ature to nonfiction and informational

text. We are continuing to build our reading strategies by asking and

answering questions about the text,

identifying the main idea and sup-

porting details, looking at how infor-

mation is related and connected, and

using text features to clarify and

explain information.

It was a pleasure meeting

with you at parent/teacher

conferences! Second graders

have been working hard

first quarter. In reading, we

have been focusing on story

elements and tackling tricky

words.

In Writing, we are continuing to learn how to

plan, sketch, and stretch our small moment

narrative stories.

In Math, we are learning about place value,

how to use the hundreds chart and number

line to add and subtract, and strategies to

solve word problems.

As we move into the next quarter, there are

many ways you can help promote your child’s

academic growth at home. Read with your

child for 20-30minues each night. Check for

understanding by asking them questions about

what they read. Encourage them to write their

responses as well as go back into the book to

show where they found their answer. The

ability to find evidence from the text and put

it down in writing will help boost their com-

prehension and reading level. Please continue

to practice addition and subtraction facts, story

problem concepts, telling time, and counting

coins with your second grader at home.

Attendance Counts!

The attendance rate is important

because students are more likely to

succeed in academics when they

attend school consistently. It’s diffi-

cult for the teacher and the class to

build their skills and progress if stu-

dents 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 follow-

ing 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 (2029)

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:

12345678@student.cms.k12.nc.us 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:

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

In reading, the scholars will start reading

nonfiction/ informational text. Through the

use of various nonfiction/ informational text

the students will be able to summarize,

identify main idea, determine the meaning

of words (context clues), and describe the

overall structure (cause and effect, prob-

lem/ solution, comparison, and chronology)

of the text.

In writing the scholars will start working

on writing informational stories. The stu-

dents will be able to introduce a topic and

group related information and then develop

the topic, elaborating with some facts,

definitions, and details.

Scholars will be starting Place Value. Stu-

dents will learn how to compare numbers

and write numbers in standard, expanded,

and word form. Students will then begin

addition and subtraction. Students will use

the standard algorithm to add and subtract

numbers to 100,000. In Science students

will be learning about fossils and earth

changes.

Fourth Grade (2027)

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The Encore Team Presents...

Family mealtime can contribute to

greater academics success

Family mealtime is linked to fewer

behavior problems

Families who share mealtime at

least three times a week are more

likely to eat healthy.

Is your family ready for

#Device Free Dinner?

Don’t worry, you can do it at home, at a

restaurant, on the go, or anywhere that

adults and kids can share distraction-free

time.

1) Plan a mealtime when kids and

adults will be together. (It doesn’t

even have to be dinner. Breakfast

works, too!

2) Turn off the TV and put away all

electronics (phones, tablets, lap-

tops).

3) Talk to each other…and have fun!

During the month of November, fifth grade

scholars will be reading nonfiction books and

creating a Nonfiction Investigation poster

using a rubric. Fifth graders will make

inferences (RI 5.1), identify main ideas and

key details (RI 5.2), explore relationships

between ideas (RI 5.3), and create a glossa-

ry of relevant words (RI 5.4). Scholars will

also have the opportunity to read articles

related to their chosen topic to compare

and contrast the information in the article

to information in the book (RI 5.9). Please

encourage your scholar to read nonfiction

books and articles this month and discuss

any new learning that takes place.

This month we will be working with Frac-

tions. We have started by finding equiva-

lent fractions to add and subtract fractions

with unlike denominators. We then begin to

multiply fractions.

Don't forget if your child

would like to attend the

Washington DC trip

payments must be made

by the due dates. Please

contact your child’s

teacher if you have

questions.

Fifth Grade (2026)

The school year is already in full steam, we all want our scholars to feel successful in the classroom. Getting your scholar to school by 8:00 a.m. each day will set

them up for success. Scholars entering the building after 8:00 a.m. will be consid-ered tardy. Please let us know how we can support you with getting your scholar

to school each day by 8:00 a.m.

“The time is always right to do what is right.”- Martin Luther King Jr. Our

character trait for November is Honesty. Honesty means speaking the truth, ad-mitting to your actions even if you’ll get in trouble. As our scholars move through their school years, it is important they learn to do the right thing and make the

right choices. Please feel free to reach out to a school counselor for any questions

you may have.

Reminders

Coffee with the counselor – November 8th (8:30a.m.- 9:30 a.m.)

Ms. Clinton: K-2 grade- shanice1.clinton@cms.k12.nc.us Ms. Johnson: 3-5 grade – vacher.davis-johnson@cms.k12.nc.us