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

Monday, October 22, 2012

Newsletter for October 22nd

   In writing, we finished up the unit on Small Moments.  We will next be entering into persuasive letter writing!
  In math, we are continuing to work on grouping numbers into 10’s and then left over ones.  In class, we have dry erase boards that have a number path of 1 to 100 going around the outside of the board. We have worked with this number path, making 10 sticks and doing dots for left over 1’s.  For example, with the number 52, we could make a 10 stick through 1-10, 11-20, 21-30, 31-40, and a final one through 41-50.  Then we would do 2 extra dots for 51 and 52.  We could then write a number sentence 50+2=52.  This is just another cool way we have been working on showing groups of 10.
    In Wilson Fundations, we continued working with the double bonus letters: f, l, s, and sometimes z. These letters are found at the end of the quadrant, which helps us to remember that we need to double it up. We do not sound out of tap out the double bonus letter. We assessed this unit today and will start a new unit tomorrow.
Important Information:
- JDRF Walk- Our school goal was to raise $5,000.00. From just tracks 1 and 3 we raised $6,364.00!!!! That is amazing!!!! Way to go!!!
- Box Tops- Our class is in the lead for the contest!!!!! Keep on cutting out the little rectangles and turn them in! I think the contest runs through the end of the month. Every Box Top turned in is 10 cents for our school.
- Items for the Pet Basket- Thank you so much for all if the items that were donated for the track 1 pet basket. Mrs. Rodgers and I put all of our stuff together this morning, and we have enough for 2 baskets! We have some really awesome things in there! Make sure you find our baskets are the Fall Festival and purchase tickets to try to win it. A special thank you goes out to Mrs. Axman for putting the baskets together!!!

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