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, February 25, 2013

Newsletter volume 27

President’s Day- We continued to learn even more facts about George Washington- “The Father of our Country” and Abraham Lincoln-“The Log Cabin President”. We made Venn diagrams comparing the two presidents and even talked about how they are alike and different from us.

Math- We continued working on addition facts. We worked on adding doubles plus 1 more. If we know that the answer for doubles has to be even, we know that doubles plus 1 will give us an odd answer. We also worked on making a ten. For example, if we had the addition equation 8+3, we know that we need 2 more to add to 8 to give us ten, so we have 10+the left over 1 to give us 11.

Wilson Fundations- We have been working on digraph blends. These are words that have a digraph in the word, with a consonant before or after the digraph. For example: shrug. The digraph /sh/ is underlined together and then the consonant /r/ is underlined by itself. The word shrug would have 4 taps. /Sh/ would be tapped together since it’s a digraph, then /r/ would be tapped by itself, followed by /u/, and then /g/.

Geo-Animals- I am soooooo impressed with how all of the animals turned out! They look AMAZING!!!! Last week, students started to type up the facts they learned and inserted a picture of their animal. On Friday, for the Geo-Animal Zoo, students will be able to share facts that they learned about their animal. Hope to see you there!

Important Information:
-Geo Animal Zoo- You are invited to our Geo-Animal Zoo, next Friday, March 1st from 12:00 to 1:00 in the Media Center. Hope you can join us!
- Boosterthon- Keep on getting pledges for our laps for the Fun Run. Parents you are welcome to cheer us on and run with us on Thursday, February 28th from 9:30 to 10:30 for our Fun Run!
- Box Tops- Keep on turning in Box Tops before we track out. Make sure my name is on it, along with the college team of your choice. The “Banks Road Basketball Classic” will end on Friday. The regular Spring BoxTop contest will run through May with the top 3 classes getting a popcorn party.
- Math Masters and Word Lists- We track this Friday, so make sure you are practicing both of these!
- End of 3rd quarter- Friday is the end of our 3rd quarter. The 3rd quarter report card will be coming home. In addition, coming home on Friday will be an optional Track Out Packet. It will have our March Book-It! reading log in addition to other activities.
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