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.
Friday, February 14: Friends of Radcliffe Day
Save the date for Friends of Radcliffe Day 2020! We will open our classrooms to our friends in order for them to experience The Radcliffe Way. All are welcome: moms, dads, aunts, uncles, grandparents, neighbors, and friends of the family! Please click this link to RSVP. If you would like an invitation mailed to a friend or family member, please contact Kelsey Aburn.
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PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT - ORTON-GILLINGHAM
Each week, we will be highlighting one of our programs or offering resources for the Radcliffe community to illustrate The Radcliffe Way!
The Orton-Gillingham method is language-based and success-oriented. The program provides students with immediate feedback and a predictable sequence that integrates reading, writing, and spelling. Research indicates that this comprehensive approach to reading instruction is highly effective and beneficial to those students having reading difficulties. Radcliffe Creek School has successfully helped many students diagnosed with reading difficulties over the years; the use of the Orton-Gillingham methodology has provided them with the skills to become successful readers.
One of the components of this methodology is Phonological Awareness, which is the understanding of different ways that oral language can be divided into smaller components and manipulated:
Phonemic Awareness is one major component of Phonological Awareness; it is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words.
Before learning to read, it is necessary for students to be aware of how sounds in words work. Developing these skills can be accomplished through various activities, such as, counting sounds in words, identifying and categorizing sounds, blending sounds to form words, deleting or adding sounds to form new words, segmenting sounds and syllables in words, and substituting sounds to make words. Without these skills, it is often very difficult for students to make the connection between the actual written letter to the sound of that letter(s), therefore making it even harder to read connected text.
"One of the most compelling and well-established findings in the research on beginning reading is the important relationship between phonemic awareness and reading acquisition." (Kame'enui, et. al., 1997)
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ART SHOWS
Kent County Public Library
Reminder: Radcliffe Creek School students have artwork on display at the Kent County Library until January 31st. Please go take a look!!!
Walter's Art Museum
Ella Daining, Lorenzo Lictao, and Mariner Schut have artwork on exhibit at the prestigious Walter's Art Museum in Baltimore, MD. Their work is part of the AIMS Annual Art Show. The art show features work from over 100 independent schools in Maryland and DC. A reception will be on Sunday, February 2, 2020 from 1:00-3:00pm. All are welcome to attend. Please click here
for more information.
KidSPOT
On Friday, February 7, 2020, artwork made by our preschool and K-8 students will be featured during First Friday at KidSPOT from 5:00-7:00pm! Artwork will also be displayed in the KidSPOT windows for the month of February. KidSPOT offers art programming for kids and is a subsidiary of Riverarts. It is located next to the Dunkin Donuts in Chestertown, MD.
Student art being displayed at The Kent County Library.
Ella Daining is one of the students who has a piece of art displayed at the Walter's Art Museum.
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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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GEO-BEE
Congratulations to all students that participated in this year's National Geography Bee! Of 27 total competitors, Mary Jane Joiner, Collins Rhoe, Owen Bamford, Aiden Dunlap, Ben Gilbert, and Caden Quirion made it to the final competition. This year, Owen Bamford came in 3rd place, Collins Rhoe was the runner-up. Mary Jane Joiner is this year's National Geography Bee champion!
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AROUND THE CREEK
Mr. Reynolds' Discovery students have been working on Westward Expansion murals!
Michael and Caroline make their own sensory bins while working on social pragmatic language.
Students gather herbs to use in their Culinary Arts studies!
Students and teachers enjoyed the PJ Day staring competition!
Owen's Passion Project, "Jingle Those Pringles," raised nearly $125 for the American Red Cross!
Students in Little Creek enjoyed celebrating Football Friday!
A little recess fun with learning in Mrs. Holmes' class. Nothing better than a marble track to get the creative juices flowing!
Check out these princesses in the Three's Room!
Julia makes shaving cream snowmen while reading the story, Snowmen at Night with Mrs. Dinnis in Speech. |
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