Friday, November 18
Spirit Day! (See below for more information)
Tuesday, November 22
RCS and LC Thanksgiving Celebrations (See below for more information)
12:45 K-8 Dismissal
Regular dismissal for LC
Wednesday, November 23 - Friday, November 25
RCS and LC Closed - Thanksgiving Break
Saturday, November 26
Train Show and Lego Competition
11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
535 Morgnec Road
Click
here for more information
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PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT - LITERATURE!
Each week, we will be highlighting one of our programs or offering resources for parents to illustrate The Radcliffe Way!
Literature classes have been busy this fall! We have been reading and discussing many types of genres- fiction (short stories, novels, novel excerpts), nonfiction (biographies, autobiographies, essays, scientific and historical accounts,and reports), and poetry. Literature circles have been a popular form of discussion in several classes. Choral and round table reading have been helping to build fluency. Hands-on activities and student-created visuals are an integral part of Literature classes in all goal areas. Student creativity has been wonderful! Below are pictures of Mrs. Bushby's class working on accented syllables for spelling, vocabulary, and fluency. Mrs. Blyman's classes have had a great time creating their visuals for follow-up comprehension activities.
Following the reading of an excerpt from To Live in Two Worlds by Brent Ashabranner, Mrs. Blyman's students made Hogans out of salt dough. In the story, the main character, Lynn, grows up on a Navajo reservation in a Hogan and travels to Vermont for boarding school in ninth grade. Students focused on the details of the settings in this story.
Students also studied the five elements of the plot structure. Each student chose different textiles to represent each part of the plot based on what happens in the story during that element.
Noah works on syllabication and stress for applying the doubling II in Mrs. Bushby's Literature class.
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THANKSGIVING AT RADCLIFFE
Each year Radcliffe Creek School's K-8 program celebrates Thanksgiving with a unique and meaningful experience. Our focus is on Giving, Mindfulness, and Fellowship. This year, our Nest (Chester, Sassafras, Miles, Choptank) students will participate in several activities at school, including sorting our Food Drive items, making cards for servicemen and women, and a Thanksgiving craft. During this time, our Marsh (Pocomoke, York, Potomac, Susquehanna) and Drama Enrichment students, will travel to Heron Point, a local retirement community, to share conversation and talents with the residents of this facility. Following these activities, all students will gather for a whole school activity.
Our Thanksgiving Celebration will occur between 9:40 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. We welcome parents and family to attend this celebration! Homeroom parents will be in touch with their homerooms for any additional help or items.
If you have any questions, please contact Julie Blyman.
Our Little Creek students (Two's, Three's, and Four's) will have a Thanksgiving performance starting at 11:30 in the Great Room, followed by a Thanksgiving Feast for all the families! The children are hard at work rehearsing, as shown below!
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SPIRIT DAY!
On Friday, November 18, wear your favorite Sports Team attire: jersey, hat, sweatshirts, and/or socks. GO ALL OUT!!!! BUT WAIT....you must bring into school, one food item for our FOOD DRIVE! If you bring in a food drive item, you may dress down in support of your favorite Sports Team!!! GO RADCLIFFE!!!!
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POINSETTIA SALE
 The Parent Teacher Committee of Radcliffe Creek School is happy to offer poinsettias for sale to our friends in the local community again this year!
Tidal Creek Growers of Earleville, Maryland is providing beautiful, high-quality plants in three colors and sizes. Deliveries can be made for large orders to Anne Arundel, Kent, Queen Anne's, and Talbot Counties (please call 410-778-8150 for details).
All proceeds from this sale go to benefit the School. Click
here
to order your poinsettias by dismissal on Tuesday, November 22. Poinsettias will be available for pickup on Wednesday, November 30 from 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Please feel free to share this with your friends, family, and colleagues - thank you for your support!
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LITERACY TERMS ALL PARENTS SHOULD KNOW!
With
Parent/Teacher Conferences
this month, parents may have questions about terminology that teachers use to discuss a child's progress. Reading terminology, for example, can easily become confusing. It's important that a parent understand the reading terminology so that there is an understanding about their own child's reading ability or reading goals for the school year. It's not expected that parents would speak the same reading language that teachers do! Below are some reading terms that are often used to describe a child's reading level or what is being worked on in the classroom.
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Decoding:
the ability to break down words down into syllables and sounds in order to read words, phrases and sentences.
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Encoding:
the ability to spell sounds, words, phrases and sentences.
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Phoneme:
means sound. For example, in the word bat there are three phonemes, "/b/-/a/-/t/."
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Grapheme:
means letter(s) that make up a sound.
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Sight Words:
(high frequency words) commonly used words that typically cannot be sounded out. Children are encouraged to learn these words by sight so they can be recognized without using a phonetic approach to reading the word. For example: once.
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Word Families:
Groups of words that have a common feature such as sounds, or combinations of letters. For example,
at, bat, cat, fat and mat
are a family of words with the "
at
" sound and letter combination in common.
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Fluency:
the ability to read with accuracy, speed, and expression.
Please ask your child's reading teacher about any of the above terms as they relate to your child, we welcome the conversation about your child's reading skills and reading development.
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TRAIN SHOW AND LEGO COMPETITION
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LITTLE CREEK MITTEN TREE
In connection with Little Creek's holiday theme of "Christmas Around the World," Little Creek parents will be coordinating a "Mitten Tree," collecting donations of cold weather items like hats, scarves and mittens for refugee children and their families who have recently been resettled in Maryland. These families have not only survived terrible humanitarian crises, but they arrive here with only the clothes on their backs. Your donations would keep them warm throughout the winter season.
Donations will be collected in the Little Creek Lobby through December 13 and then taken to the
International Rescue Committee Headquarters in Baltimore, an organization that helps about 1,100 people every year who are fleeing from war and persecution in their home countries. To learn more about the organization, click here.
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AROUND THE CREEK
Students in Ms. Usilton's Discovery class busy at work making DNA and chromosomes models.
The RCS Art Gallery is exhibiting student work from the first quarter! Please stop by and take a look!
Elle removes sand from her fossil that she created in Discovery class!
Social Thinking students build a tepee as part of a team building exercise.
Children in the Little Creek Toddler Classroom enjoy mashed potato play-doh!
Ms. Serio's second period math class practiced adding numbers together while shopping for Thanksgiving dinner. They only had $25 to spend, so they had to choose items wisely and keep checking their amounts to make sure they were not going over the $25!
Last week, the Kindergarten class traveled to Turner's Creek after reading Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert. They collected signs of fall so that they could create their own Leaf Men!
Tommy works on number sequencing while wearing his math glasses!
Quinten and Noland made a "Ch" out of change to practice the /ch/ sound.
Ashling, Owen, and Ella enjoy a new game donated to the Speech and Language Department through the Giving Board! Thank you to everyone who supports the school through the Giving Board - click here for our online Giving Board!
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