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es. Please contact the school if you are

not receiving our emails or connect-ed

messages. A team member in the main office would be more than happy to

update your contact information.

Warmest Regards, Orlando Robinson

One of the biggest events this year is on Feb

13th! Did you get your tickets yet? The RCE

Staff will be going head to head with the

world famous Harlem Wizards in a fundrais-

er basketball game on February 13, 7:00pm

at Rocky River High School. Scan the QR

code to follow the excitement and learn

more about the RCE team stats, giveaways,

and sponsors. All proceeds for this event

benefits Reedy Creek Elementary. Watch

your scholar’s backpack for ticket order

forms! Contact Charlene for more infor-

mation at [email protected]

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

7th annual 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 scholars 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 remember 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 23rd is our 7th 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 Ms. Bourguignon or Ms.

Graham at 980-343-6480.

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

using email and phone connect-ed messag-

A Message From Your Principal...

February 2019

10801 Plaza Road Ext., Charlotte, NC 28215

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

Raccoon News 2018-2019

SCHOOL PARTNERS

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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

warm-up, contests, comedy,

awesome slam dunks, audience

participation, merchandise

giveaways, and more. The game

will conclude with the Wizards'

signature dance extravaganza

that will have the crowd on

their feet!

Founded in 1962, the Wizards

have played over 15,000 games

throughout the US that have

raised over $25 million for

schools and charitable causes.

The Wizards have also played in

over 25 foreign countries on

five continents.

Tickets are priced as follows:

Student Admission $10/advance

$12/door, General Admission

$12/advance $15/door, Re-

served $25, Courtside Plus $40

What: Harlem Wizards

Basketball Game

When: Wed 2/13/19 @ 7pm

Where: Rocky River High

School 10505 Clear Creek Com-merce Dr., Mint Hill, NC 28227

Get ready Charlotte! A high

-flying, slam-dunking, rim-

rattling basketball show is

coming to town!

The world-famous Harlem

Wizards will visit Rocky River

High School on Wednesday,

February 13, 2019 at 7:00pm for

an evening of great fun and

fundraising.

The Wizards will play a game

against a team of Reedy Creek

Elementary, Northridge Middle

and Rocky River High School

administrators, teachers and

staff. Proceeds will benefit

Reedy Creek Elementary.

The event will feature a variety

of fun interactive extras to

complement the Wizards'

dazzling demonstration of hoops

artistry: Pregame "Wiz Kids"

Courtside Plus ticket holders re-

ceive first or second row seating

and meet privately with selected

Wizard players before the game for

a meet-and-greet and show. Only

50 Courtside Plus tickets are availa-

ble.

To purchase tickets, and for more

information, visit

www.harlemwizards.com or visit

Reedy Creek Elementary School on

Facebook.

Quick link to tickets!

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

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

2/7: SLT Meeting @ 6pm

2/8: Kindergarten Fieldtrip to Discovery

Place-Huntersville

2/9: Daddy/daughter dance (PTO spon-

sored) Rocky River HS @4-6 pm

2/13: Harlem Wizards Basketball fundraiser

@ Rocky River HS Gym @7pm, Class-

room Group Pictures

2/18: School makeup Day for 10/10/18

2/19: Kindergarten 100th Day Parade, ASEP Black History Month Presentation@5pm

2/23: International Festival @11-2pm,

Book Fair Opens

2/25-3/2: Book Fair & Literacy Week,

Progress Reports Go Home

2/28: 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)

March: 3/7 & 3/8: NC Check In #3 (3rd-5th)

3/13: CMS Early Release Day at 12 Noon

3/14: SLT Meeting @ 6pm

3/21: PTO Family Enrichment Night @

6-8pm

3/26-3/28: Autism Awareness

3/29: School makeup Day for 10/11/18

Please also visit our RCE school webpage!!

CMS Early Release Days @ 12pm

March 13

PLEASE ATTEND THESE

MAJOR FAMILY &

COMMUNITY EVENTS:

Wed Feb 13th—Reedy Creek, Northridge and Rocky River High will take on the Harlem Wizards at RRHS at 7pm

Sat Feb 23rd—Annual Inter-

February 2019

Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat

Online ACCESS

Testing for ELLs All

Month!!

Basketball games start at

4:30 pm

31 (K-2) Awards

Ceremony

1 (3-5)

Awards

Ceremony

2

3 Show love

for our

counselors!!

4 Counselor

Appreciation

Week Begins!!!

5 Bears Behind Badge 6 Bears Behind

Badge; Promising

Pages

7 Bears Behind Badge;

Basketball Game vs JW

Grier; SLT @ 6pm

8 K Field

Trip

9 Daddy/

Daughter

Dance

10 11 Random

Acts of Kindness

Week!!

12 13 HARLEM

WIZARDS

BALL GAME

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

22 23

International

Festival!!

24 25 Book Fair &

Literacy Week!!

26 Character Day (K-

1 LetterLand Day; 2-5

Book Character

27 DEAR (Drop

Everything And

Read) Day !

28 Wear a shirt oth-

ers can read Day; B-

ball Game AT JW Grier

1 Happy

Birthday

Dr. Seuss!!

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

Basketball games start at 4:30 pm

1 2

3 4 5 6 7 Reading NC Check In;

Basketball Game AT

Piney Grove

8 Math NC

Check In

9

10 11 12 13 Early Release

Day at 12:00

14 Basketball Game vs

Briarwood; SLT Meeting

@ 6pm

15 16

17 18 19 20 21 Basketball Game vs

JW Grier; PTO Family

Night @ 6pm

22 23

24 25 26 Autism

Awareness Hat

Day!!

27 Autism

Awareness Super

Hero/Twins!!

28 Autism Aware-

ness Blue Day; Bball

Game vs David Cox

29 School Make

Up Day!!

30

31

March 2019

PLEASE CELBRATE WITH US AT

OUR INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL

ON SAT FEB 23RD FROM 11AM-2PM!!

We have a lot of celebrations in the month of February. We are celebrating

Groundhog Day, Valentine’s Day, Presi-dent’s Day, Black History Month, and

Dental Health.

We are also going to learn a lot about China and celebrating the culture for the

International Festival. Your child will have lots of exciting news from the classroom

to share each week about what we have learned.

Please have your child at school every day by 8 am, and please help us encourage

your children to be independent learners and be on their best behavior.

Continue to read each night with your

child, and sign their agenda. Thank you for your support!

The Kindergarten Team




Welcome to Third

Quarter! Wow, it is

hard to believe we are

halfway through the

school year! We appre-

ciate all that you have

done to help your child

have a positive year in first grade!

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.

In mathematics, we are working on identifying

2-D & 3-D geometric shapes based on their

attributes. You can help you child by remind-

ing them that shapes are everywhere! Get in

the habit of pointing out the shapes in your

world, and very soon your child will be doing

the same. Some examples include a cone-

shaped Christmas tree, cylinder shaped pipes,

or a rectangular prism TV. Ask questions

about the shapes: Which ones could you

stack on top of each other? Which ones have

a curve? Which have only flat faces? What

rolls? How many corners does each shape

have?

We look forward to seeing you on Saturday,

February 23rd for Reedy Creek’s Annual

International Day! First grade will educate

you with wonderful 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 (2027)




In literacy we are finishing up our biog-

raphy unit and then moving into our unit on International Studies. Our students will focus on South America

and Mexico.

This will prepare students for our up-coming International Festival.

In math, we are finishing up our focus on multiplication and division and start-ing our unit on fractions.

Students will learn to recognize frac-tions as part of a whole, read them,

write them, order them on a number line, find equivalent fractions and com-pare them according to size.

Please continue to make sure that your child is reading each night and studying

math facts.



ON SAT FEB 23RD FROM 11AM-

2PM!!

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.

We are so excited to be participating in the

MORE study curriculum where we are

integrating reading and writing with science

and social studies! We are learning all about

dinosaurs and are writing opinion pieces

based on information we’ve gathered

through research. In math, we are continu-

ing to work on strategies to solve various

problems and are using regrouping.

Please continue to support your child’s

academic growth during second semester.

Continue reading with your each night.

Monitor that your child accurately answers

comprehension questions using details from

the text as evidence. 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 regarding

our Valentine’s Day party!

Thank you for

your continued

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 progress if students are frequently ab-

sent. Please partner with us to increase school attendance.

If your child will be absent from school,

please send an e-mail to [email protected].

Please be sure to include the following 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 support 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)




Math—Students have been working on multi

-step word Problems, along with Interpreting

Remainders. Students have participated in

various activities at school where they have

had the opportunity to practice these skills. In

February, the students will moving into a

study on fractions. Some of the topics in

fractions include, equivalent fractions, com-

paring fractions, adding and subtracting frac-

tions.

Writing—Informational Writing

This month we will be finishing up our final

drafts of our informational piece that we have

been working on.

Reading—Non-Fiction/Fiction

We will continue delving into non-fiction text

and fiction text. The scholars will continue to

use their reading strategies to comprehend

the text.

Fourth Grade (2026)

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The Encore Team Presents...



ON SAT FEB 23RD FROM 11AM-

2PM!!

Math—February is a busy month full of

learning new math concepts. We will begin

by adding and subtracting decimals to the

thousandths, transition into multiplying multi

-digit whole numbers, and end by multiplying

decimals. Scholars are encouraged to prac-

tice multiplication fact families at home to

aid in their success this month.

Reading—During the month of February,

fifth grade scholars will be reading Historical

Fiction books to practice applying fiction

reading strategies. Scholars will spend time

noticing the setting, and how the time peri-

od affects the story line and the characters’

actions. Scholars will make inferences about

daily life and make connections to nonfiction

information about that time period.

International Festival—This month, we

will also begin to prepare for our Interna-

tional Festival by reading, discussing, and

completing activities about African folktales

and fairy tales. We hope you’ll join us on

February 23 to see our hard work on dis-

play.

Fifth Grade (2025)

Good attendance helps scholars set a solid foundation for them to be successful the rest of

their lives. Thank you parents for continuing to ensure your scholar is at school by 8:00 a.m.

each day. If your scholar is out due to a sickness, please be sure to provide documentation

when they return to school. Please let us know how we can support you in making sure your

scholar is in school each day.

“ I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people

will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou

During the month of February, we will be celebrating Kindness. We will be celebrating Ran-

dom Acts of Kindness week during February 11- 15th. Kindness is about being considerate,

friendly and celebrating someone else’s success.

5 Acts of Kindness

1) Offer to let your classmate go first 2) Give a friend a compliment

3) Color a picture for a family member 4) Hold the door open for someone 5) Write a thank you note for a friend or family member

Ms. Clinton: K-2 grade- [email protected] Ms. Davis-Johnson: 3-5 grade – [email protected]

PLEASE CELBRATE WITH US AT OUR INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL ON

SAT FEB 23RD FROM 11AM-2PM!! Scholars will perform songs & dance!

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