Saturday, November 12
RCS Inaugural Ball Dance and Auction
6:00 - 11:00 p.m.
November 15-18
Little Creek Conferences
Wednesday, November 16
No Homework Club
RCS K-7 Conferences
Friday, November 18
Spirit Day!
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The 2016 Presidential Election and the Radcliffe Creek School Inaugural Ball and Auction is just two days away! The catalog is now available online
here.
With more than 34 amazing packages valued at over $20,000, this is sure to be our most exciting benefit ever.
This year's event features Silent Auctions as well as our traditional Heads or Tails Raffle (for an Apple Watch!), a "Golden Circle," and many other fun events throughout the night.
See something you like but can't make it on Saturday? Contact
Laura Kurz, and we'll set up a "silent bidder" to place your bid(s) for you!
Tickets for the event are still available and can be purchased
here, as well as voting for our RCS Presidential Candidate (THAT race is still on!)
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PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT - INTEGRATED STUDIES!
Each week, we will be highlighting one of our programs or offering resources for parents to illustrate The Radcliffe Way!
Integrated Studies classes at RCS cover a wide variety of topics including: Design Lab, Reading, Writing, Computer Lab, Bay Studies, Social Thinking, and Mindfulness. We're taking the opportunity this week to tell you about two of these topics: Social Thinking and Design Lab.
SOCIAL THINKING
Social Thinking classes focus on developing friendships, improving communication skills, and exploring ways to become self-advocates. Mindfulness is an active process which activates our attention and focus. It involves being aware of our environment such as sights, sounds, and smells, as well as to internal bodily sensations, thoughts, and feelings. Physical activities, sensory awareness activities, and art activities help develop an awareness of the present in a non-judgemental way.
The "Rainbow Walk" project involved taking time to notice things around them as they strolled around outside of the school. Then each of them were to visualize something pleasant that came to mind when each color word was mentioned.
Listening to "Morning in the Forest" music, this group shares their daily gratitudes and spends two minutes of daydreaming before starting our project. Each one is making booklets showing things that make them happy and contains doodling and coloring sheets, as well.
DESIGN LAB
Design Lab classes teach students to view the world as designers. Students are encouraged to closely examine their school day and search for opportunities to improve the school through design.
Thomas spearheaded the distribution of ceiling hooks developed by the first period Design Lab Class. The hooks are designed for the display of projects in classrooms. Mr. Boyle is pictured accepting the gift from the class.
Charlie and Douglas used calipers to take precise measurements that were incorporated into a project created in 3D design software. The projects were eventually printed on the Design Lab's 3D printer.
Design Lab students strength test their ceiling hook design. They collected data on the strength of each design and compared results.
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CONFERENCE REMINDER
K-7 Conferences for November 16 have been finalized. If you have any questions about your conference, please contact
Debbie Cohee-Wright. As a reminder, child care is
NOT provided during conferences. Thank you.
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BOX TOPS THANK YOU!
Our families turned in more than 4,100 Box Tops for this round! Amazing! Congratulations to the Pocomoke Homeroom who turned in 1,742 Box Tops to win a Dress Down Day!
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GUNSTON SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE
The Gunston School in Centreville will be holding an Open House for prospective students this Sunday, November 13 at 3:00 p.m. For more information, click here.
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AROUND THE CREEK
On Monday, Little Creek's Three's Class learned the Humpty Dumpty rhyme and tried to save their very own Humpty Dumptys! Each child got their own egg and got to choose from cotton balls, rice, beans, and bubble wrap to help save their eggs! Prior to dropping their eggs, the children made predictions on whether or not they thought their eggs would survive the fall with their chosen material. After they dropped their egg, they checked to see if it cracked. If the egg cracked, the class discussed why they thought it cracked.
Roman shows off his favorite book, Henry and Mudge and the Sneaky Crackers in Ms. Rybas' Language Arts class. 
Charlie uses a spring scale to weigh his rock in Mrs. Johnson's Discovery class!
Look at those adorable faces all lined up in Little Creek's After Care!
Claire in the Little Creek Four's Room painted her hand to make a special Thanksgiving placemat!
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