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, April 1, 2013

Newsletter volume 29

-   Reading- Last week we started reading lots of wonderful Spring books, hoping that would bring on the warm weather. We also focused on literary, or fiction, books and focused on analyzing the character. We don’t want to describe them as just a boy or girl or a person or an animal. We want to describe them with characteristics that describe their personality, like energetic, talented, silly, stubborn, crazy, etc.
-   Math- Last week we were working with pennies, nickels, and dimes to show a given amount. We worked on showing amounts with different combinations- like no nickels, the most amount of coins and the least amount of coins. We also worked on trading in 7 pennies for a nickel and 2 left over pennies.
-   Wilson Fundations- Last week we finished up our unit with blends and the suffix –s. Blends are two consonants that are side by side, that get their own tap. We never tap out the suffix –s, so we have to add the –s when we are blending in the word. An example would be the word “flags”. The /f/, /l/, /a/, and /g/ would each get their own tap and blend it together to say “flag”, and then blend it again to add the suffix –s for “flags.”
-   Easter- We celebrated Easter and spring by doing a few fun activities.  We worked very hard on making beautiful egg mosaics and read lots of colorful and fun Spring and Easter books.  It was so much fun!
-   Important Information:
-   Scholastic- March and April Scholastic book orders went home last week.  If you are interested in buying, order form and money needs to be turned in no later than Friday, April 12th. 
-   Conferences- I have received conference sign up from all but 3 people. Please return these as soon as possible, since conferences start this Thursday. I can’t wait for your child to show you how much they have learned and improved this school year.
-   Field trip- Thank you so much for our wonderful volunteers (Kaitlyn’s mom- Mrs. Perez, Hayden’s mom- Mrs. Bakogiannis, and Seth’s grandma- Ms. Stocksdale) that we had on the field trip to make it such a fantastic day.
-   Spring Pictures- We will be having our Spring pictures on Tuesday, April 9th. This will be individual and the whole class. If you are interested in the class picture, you will need to return the form and $12.00 before next Tuesday. You will not pay for the individual picture till later, however if you would like to specific background or stance, you can return that form before the 9th. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!

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