Friday, January 10: PJ Spirit Day
Students may wear their pajamas to school as long as they are appropriate for school. Students must also wear appropriate footwear, such as sneakers.
Also, during seventh period on Friday, K-8 students will celebrate Pajama Day with a Stare-Down Competition. This year, it will be Homeroom vs Homeroom!
Wednesday, January 15: GEO BEE
See below for more information.
Friday, January 17: RCS Family Movie Night
Looking for something cozy and fun to do on a Friday evening? Come join the RCS community for a family movie night!
Meet us in the Great Room for an evening of family fun! We will have hot chocolate, popcorn and a family friendly winter
movie
. Pajamas are encouraged! Please come at 6:15 to spread your blanket and get your cocoa and popcorn before the
movie
starts at 6:30!
Monday, January 20: No School for Martin Luther King Day
Little Creek holiday care is available.
Friday, January 31: Marsh Super Bowl Party
See below for more information and to RSVP.
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PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT - LANGUAGE ARTS
Each week, we will be highlighting one of our programs or offering resources for the Radcliffe community to illustrate The Radcliffe Way!
The Language Arts program is designed to provide multi-sensory instruction in the areas of writing, grammar, comprehension, and vocabulary. Students gain specific skills by following the systematically designed curriculum, which includes a review of previously taught skills before acquisition and mastery of new skills. Students are taught strategies designed to make them successful, independent learners.
In order to implement the goals and objectives, which are derived from Maryland State Standards and current research findings, a variety of programs are utilized to meet the individual learning styles of the students. Such programs include
Step Up To Writing
,
Language!
,
Framing Your Thoughts
, the
Write Source
series, and Houghton Mifflin's
English
. Interactive Whiteboards in the classroom also give students access to internet resources and activities. In addition, students in grades 5-8 are issued Chromebooks to use for writing across the curriculum.
For Orton-Gillingham students, a variety of literature selections are used in the classroom to support vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency.
For students placed in Literature classes, the focus in Language Arts is writing and higher-level grammar.
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| Josephine and Anthony work on finding and labeling direct and indirect objects |
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| After reading The Tale of Despereaux, students created character trait mobiles using text evidence for support |
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Radcliffe Creek School will be holding the National Geographic Bee on
Wednesday, January 15th!
Our students in the fourth through eighth grades will join nearly 10,000 schools across the United States to compete in the 2019 National Geographic GeoBee for a chance to win college scholarships and the glory of being the National Geographic GeoBee Champion.
Participants will be asked a series of questions in the Preliminary Competition which consists of seven rounds of questions. Based on the Preliminary Competition, only 10 students will advance to the Final Competition. The Final Round questions will reduce the number of contestants to two for the Championship Round.
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The winner of the Radcliffe Creek School
Bee will advance to the next level of competition, a written examination to determine state competitors. Only the top 100 scores on the qualifying test for the state competition are the students who advance to the state level. State qualifiers compete in an oral competition at the state level, which is usually held in late March or early April. Radcliffe Creek School has had two students advance to the state level in the years we have participated in the National Geographic
Bee!!
This is a wonderful opportunity to do things at home with family to help prepare. Use the following internet resources as a fun way to work on geography skills with your children:
- https://www.nationalgeographic.org/bee/study/
- http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/
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KENT COUNTY LIBRARY ART DISPLAY
Radcliffe Creek students have artwork on display at the Kent County Public Library for the month of January! Please stop by to see the work and read a book!
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MARSH SUPER BOWL PARTY
Date: Friday, January 31, 2020
Time: Dismissal - 6:00 p.m.
Dress: Please bring options for clothes to play flag football in the gym
or outside (weather permitting)
Schedule of Events: Snack after school, Flag Football Game,
Informal Bets on the Super Bowl Game, Pizza Party!
Who: Marsh Students (Pocomoke, York, Potomac, Susquehanna)
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AROUND THE CREEK
The Miles homeroom and 4-H thank you for your toy donations! Sawyer helped deliver them to QAC Social Services!
Mr. Reynold's class works on mapmaking in Discovery class!
Quinten and Gabe are working with simple texts to practice using the Notice and Note signposts to aid in character analysis.
Liym, Aidan, and Grace work on reading and spelling words by creating crystals in Mrs. Moorman's Orton Gillingham class.
Students work on creating a new school sign in their STEAM class!
 
Jace and Flora practice gluing red pom poms!
Chase practices spelling sight words with Wiki Stix.
Grace, Mattox, and Aidan have perfected the art of omelet making with Mr. Reynolds in STEAM class. |
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