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

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Newsletter volume 2

Thank you to all of the parents who turned in the “Student Information sheet”. I enjoyed learning more about your child and will work very hard to ensure their first grade experience is a wonderful one!
This week in Social Studies, we worked on coming up with our class rules. And they are as followed: 1. Use your best behavior, 2. Keep hands and feet to yourself., 3. Use appropriate voice level., 4. Listen to the teacher the first time, 5.Use your manners., 6. Come every day ready to do your best., and 7. Be respectful when others are working. Together as a class we also came up with rewards and consequences and talked about how we can be good classroom citizens. That is someone who is a role model to others in our classroom and school.
In math, we have started our daily work with the money flip chart, the secret code cards, number flashes with our fingers, the number path, and number splash. Have your child tell you what we do with each of these items daily.
In reading, we have been discussing how important it is to read as much as possible, because “the more we read, the better we read!”  This can be books, signs, video games, things on television, the comics, or anything else they can find.
In writing, we have been focusing on using correct spaces in our story and adding more to our story because “When we are done, we have just begun.” It’s important to go back and add more to our picture, more to our writing, and then starting another piece.
Important information:
- I would first like to thank all of the parents for bringing in so many wonderful supplies for the beginning of the year.
- We went to the library last week and had a chance to check out 2 library books each.  I will allow students to go the library and check out new books in the morning before the bell rings and any free time throughout the day.
- Bus riders are required by Wake County to wear their bus tags for the first 20 days of school.  Please make sure your child returns their bus tag each day! We want to make sure they are getting off at the appropriate stop.
- Homework will always be due on Friday.  I will have students pull out their homework on Friday mornings, so it should stay in the folder till Friday.  I will not pull it out before then.
-Please keep the “Home-School Connection” in the homework folder.  I will collect those on Monday and keep for my records. Thanks for your understanding.

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