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 26, 2012

Newsletter volume 18

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! This week we will continue learning how to tell time on the hour and the half-hour. We will write about the Thanksgiving holiday and focus on comprehension and fluency in reading. We will also be having many assessments in math, reading, and writing to determine where we are with meeting our benchmarks. Report cards will go home on Friday!
Tomorrow our 4th and 5th grade friends on Tracks 1 and 3 will perform their winter musical “The Big Chill” at 2:45 and 6:30.  Come join us in supporting their hard work and enjoy some holiday spirit!
We need large squirt bottles of hand sanitizer! We are trying to keep the cold germs away and are on our last bottle! ThanksJ.
Friday November 30th is TRACK OUT day, but it is NOT an early release day! I would like to have a little “holiday celebration” Friday afternoon at 3:00. Please let me know if you would like to contribute to the fun! Remember, all food items must be store bought.
Important Information:
-       Field Trip Info- I am still missing quite a few permission slips and money for our Field Trips. If you need another form, please let me know and I can get that to you as soon as possible.
-       Volunteers for Friday- We are going to be learning about the holidays Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Las Posadas, and Christmas. We will be reading books about these holidays throughout the week and will be making a craft for each of these holidays on Friday. I will send out a Sign Up Genius this afternoon asking for volunteers. Thanks!

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