PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT - MATH!

Each week, we will be highlighting one of our programs or offering resources for parents to illustrate The Radcliffe Way!

The Math team has been using kinesthetic movement during class to prepare the brain for learning, providing brain breaks, reviewing content, and developing class cohesion. Below are a few videos which show preparing the brain with crossing the midline activities, as well as rock, paper, scissors with addition (with one hand and then two). 

RADCLIFFE CREEK WISHING TREE

Radcliffe Creek School teachers have a Wishing Tree hanging in place of the Giving Board in the Lobby. On the tree are stars with items needed for classrooms. Radcliffe students visit many teachers and classrooms throughout their day and the Wishing Tree provides suggestions to you as an option to in lieu of individual gifts for all of your child's teachers. This is a way for you to show your appreciation with a gift that will enhance your child's school experience.

If you choose a star from the Wishing Tree , please place your full name and your child's name on the back of the star and leave it with Nan Norris, in the business office. Also, leave a check for the amount listed on the star ornament. Checks should be made out to Radcliffe Creek School.

Families are encouraged to partner with other families on larger gifts. We hope the Wishing Tree helps you identify what our teachers need during this holiday season and throughout the school year. Happy Holidays from our Radcliffe Creek Family to yours!

"CREATE NIGHT" AT RADCLIFFE CREEK!

Please, join us as we continue to celebrate The Radcliffe Way!  The Radcliffe Way embodies our uniqueness as a school, where  Discover.Create.Thrive happens daily. This is an on-going series that started on our Back to School night with "DISCOVER." Our upcoming event will highlight how the teachers and the students CREATE together at Radcliffe.

To ring in the holiday season, Radcliffe is offering its families a chance to experience what it is like to create  The Radcliffe Way, on December 15 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Please bring the whole family to Radcliffe to enjoy a night of creativity, kindness, and celebration. Radcliffe's Design Lab and Art Room will be open for creating several craft activities that have been planned for you by Radcliffe teachers.  

Additionally, that night, Radcliffe's Scholastic  Book Fair will be open for business! A pizza dinner will be provided for all who attend and we hope that the whole family will come and enjoy a Radcliffe Creek style "Create Night."

A Special Note: Radcliffe Creek School's K-8 program will open with a 90-minute delay on Friday, December 16; doors will open at 9:30 a.m.

To RSVP to CREATE NIGHT, please e-mail Julie Blyman. See you there!

ALEX AND ANI CHARMED BY CHARITY EVENT

FOOD BANK THANK YOU

The Susquehanna Homeroom visited the Kent County Food Pantry this morning to drop off the donations from our Thanksgiving Food Drive. The final count is in and Radcliffe donated 978 pounds of food this morning! WAY TO GO RADCLIFFE!! AND congratulations to the Sassafras Homeroom who collected the most items!

PARENT SPEAKER - DR. DUANE ISAVA

On Tuesday, December 20 from 9:00 - 10:00 a.m., Dr. Duane Isava ("Dr. D.") will present a Parent Education Seminar.

Dr. D. is executive director of the Halcyon Wellness Center who specializes in neuro-developmental disorders and during his presentation he will:
-Explore reasons why your child may challenge or resist your good parenting skills;
-Talk to parents about different approaches to strengthen your relationship with your child;
-Teach parents some strategies that will help your child become more motivated and compliant to your directions and expectations;
-Help parents understand developmental and gender differences that promote socially and emotionally adjusted children.

This event is free and open to the public; please either RSVP on Facebook or e-mail.

RADCLIFFE 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 and big school lobbies through December 20 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. Students who bring in an item or items by Friday, December 16, earn a dress down day that day. To learn more about the organization, click here.

SCHOOL PICTURES REMINDER!

REMINDER! School picture orders are due TODAY. Payment must be received for you to receive your child's pictures. If you have any questions, please contact Gibson Anthony.

MOTHER SMUCKER SALSA THANK YOU!

A tremendous thank you to everyone who supported the Kirby Allen Councell Scholarship Fund by purchasing salsa from  Mother Smucker Salsa earlier this year ! Thanks to tremendous sales, more than $850 was raised for Kirby's scholarship fund. Thank you to everyone who participated and to  Amber Smucker  for making this possible.

ORNAMENT CONTEST!

AROUND THE CREEK

Ms. Rybas' sixth period language arts class works on editing sentences.

Little Creek's Three's Class is getting in the holiday spirit by building its very own lifesize gingerbread house, complete with decorations that they add to daily!

The Three's Class has also been busy celebrating their own Kindness Week, with each day prompting a new random act of kindness!  On Monday , they visited classrooms in the K-8 program to pass out candy canes in hopes of putting a smile on someone's face and boy did they get a lot of smiles (and hugs and high fives too!) Once they completed our act of kindness, they challenged the whole school to do something kind for someone else. Go Three's!

Gunner works on his text mapping during Ms. Usilton's Discovery Class.

Go Radcliffe Basketball!