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, November 19, 2012

Newsletter volume 17

In writing, we continued to work on persuasive letter writing. We are becoming really good at convincing people to feel the same way we do! We need to continue to make sure we are putting capitals at beginning of sentences, periods after complete thoughts, and checking over our work to make sure words are not missing and the sentence makes sense.
In math, we started working on telling time. So far, we have really focused on the difference between an analog and digital clock. This week, we will go into more depth about telling time to the hour and half hour.
Special guest- On Friday we had a special guest come to our classroom. We had Lieutenant Chris Jackson visit our classroom from the U.S. Navy. He is stationed in Saratoga Springs, New York. He told the class about living on a submarine and told us all about his medals. The kids were great listeners and had some awesome questions to ask Lieutenant Jackson.

Important Information:
-    Field Trip Info- Please make sure you are returning the permission slip and the payment of $20.50 as soon as possible. The lunch order form will not be needed for the first field trip since it will be at school, so lunch will only need to be ordered for our 2nd field trip that is in March. We will have lunch as normal for the January trip. Thanks!
-    Homework for the week- The only official homework is disguising Tom the Turkey and the story that goes along with him. However, it is a good idea to continue working on word lists, Math Masters, and reading every night, since the quarter ends in 7 school days!

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