About Me

My name is Christie Bethel and I graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I have been teaching at Banks Road Elementary since it opened up in 2009. My current teaching experience includes teaching first grade at Willow Springs Elementary and 2nd grade at Lillington Shawtown Elementary. I am a Fuquay native, but now call Apex home. I love animals, especially my cat Bootsie and my parent's yellow lab Lucy. I completed my first half-marathon in April 2011. So when I'm not at school, you will find me at the gym or on a trail running or playing soccer with my friends. I was honored to be selected as Banks Road Elementary's Teacher of the Year for 2013-2014.

Meet our class!

Meet our class!

Class Schedule

8:45 to 9:15- Morning work, breakfast, and bathroom
9:15 to 9:25- Read Aloud/Calendar
9:30 to 10:15- Specials
10:20 to to 11:00- Writer's Workshop
11:05 to 11:30- Lunch- table 1
11:35 to 12:35- Math
12:40 to 1:00- Team Time
1:00 to 1:30- Recess
1:30 to 1:40- Snack/Restroom/Read Aloud
1:40 to 2:10- Science and Social Studies
2:10 to 3:35- Daily 5
3:40- Dismissal

Important Dates

- Friday, November 22nd- Jason Knowles’ birthday
- Wednesday, November 27th- Book-It! due for the month of November
- Thursday, November 28th- Thanksgiving- No School!
- Friday, November 29th- No School!
- Monday, December 2nd- Ansley Ayers' Birthday
- Wednesday, December 4th- Track out day

-Monday, December 16th- Hank Gozy's birthday
- Friday, December 27th- Will Poplin's birthday

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Newsletter for the week

This week in Social Studies, we learned that Social Studies is the study of “me”, being the individual, and “we”, being other people; like what they look like, what they do, and where they live.  We also made and colored our “Mini-Me’s” which will help the students learn about themselves, their families, our school, and our community throughout the school year.
In math, we have been focusing on the numbers 7, 8, and 9.  We have learned the partners for them and also the switch partners.  Even though we switch the numbers around, it still gives us the same answer.  For example, if we had 5 and 3 gives us 8; we could switch it to say 3 and 5 gives us 8.  We also learned the term equal.  For example, 8 can be equal because it can have the partner of 4 and 4.  But 7 and 9 cannot have equal partners.
In Wilson’s Fundations, we have worked on learning the letters o, g, d, s, e, u, l, h, and k this week. Once we have learned these letters, I expect the students to form them correctly in their name as well as in their writing.  Keep up the great work!
In reading, we worked on making reading goals for this school year. These are goals that we are going to be checking back on throughout the year to see the progress we have made.  We also learned how to take care of the books in our classroom library.
In writing, we have been focusing on stretching out words and writing down the sounds they hear.  This is a great tool to use for homework too.  As the year goes on, we will learn more about phonemic rules and our spelling will improve, but this is a great tool to always use.  The last thing I want a student to do is stay stuck on a word.
Important information:
-Please continue to bring bus tags back.  Students need to bring those back for 10 more school day.  Thanks!
-              Physical Education has a BLOG!! Follow the link below for news and information about the PE program. On this blog, Mrs. Williford will post bimonthly "Home Play Activities" for your children and family to try. Check it out!!! http://bankspe.blogspot.com/
- Visit the Banks Road Art Room blog! This blog will be a place to discover interesting online activities, and fun community arts happenings, as well as show off what our Banks Road Artists have been up to! Check it out at http://banksart.blogspot.com 
Important dates for your calendar:
- Wednesday, July 27th- Fredy’s birthday
- Thursday, July 28th- PTA meeting and Ice Cream social at 6:30
- Friday, July 29th- Early Release at 1:15
- Tuesday, August 9th- Picture Day for tracks 1 and 2
- Thursday, August 11th- Spirit Night at Pelican’s from 3:00 to 10:00
- Thursday, August 18th- Open House Tracks 1 and 3 are 5:00 to 6:00 and Tracks 2 and 4 are 6:00 to 7:00
- Friday, August 19th- Early Release at 1:15

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