Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Week of Sept. 3rd - 7th

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Here’s a peek at our week!

Responsive Classroom/Positive Discipline: Taking turns, uses for the talking stick, special
breathing, how to share, the ROCKETS' Way.
Zoo-phonics Friends: Review a, c, t, m, p, b, l, h, e, s, o, d, r, z, g, j, k, n, q...Practice our new
friends: u, v, w, x continue to practice formation of letters
Reading: Daily 5 implementation - Review Read to Self, Meet with Teacher,
Work on Writing, Word Work, Read to Someone, and
Listening to Reading.... Learn " Read to Someone"
Mentor Sentence: “I forgot my lunch today."-- Doreen Cronin
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L.Arts: parts of a sentence, identifying words/spaces and punctuation.... parts of a book,
author/illustrator, sight words, left to right and concepts of print.
Writing Workshop: Small Moment about what I like about me/ Letter
formation and sentence structure.
Social Studies: ROCKETS' Way--- Ownership.. Community Helpers


Math: Review 2-D shapes and 3-D shapes... CGI addition to 10.... positional words
and numeral formation

Homework: Practice sight words nightly and complete a square from the calendar




Upcoming PTO meeting
Our 1st PTO meeting is
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 at 10:00 am in the
PTO Room. This is the last classroom on the left down the 1st grade hallway!
Hope to see you all there!

FYI - If you know an RBES family member or friend that would like to join PTO, they can now join and pay online. 




DA$H For Excellence: T-shirt Design Contest 

All RBES students are welcome to participate in this year's DA$H for Excellence T-shirt Contest. Please see the details below:








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STEAM NIGHT: Calling all STEAMists!
 
Calling All STEAMists!  Sept. 11 from 5:00 pm-7:00 pm, Rocky Branch will be hosting our STEAM Night, Book Fair, and Ice Cream Social.   For this event, we would like to get members of our community and/or our parents to share his/her Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, or Mathematical expertise with our students.We would love to have you or someone from your business share your/their STEAM knowledge on STEAM Night!

It is our goal to have you or someone from your business set up a station with a short activity that students and parents can rotate to throughout the night. This may be an activity from your profession or a STEAM activity that interests you. You may bring in STEAM materials from your profession to have students use, plan a short STEAM activity or game for students to complete, or show a short 5 minute STEAM demonstration for students.We would love to cover a variety of careers.

If you are willing to participate in our STEAM night, please complete the form below.   Feel free to email Angela Harris, aharris@oconeeschools.org, with any questions.

We look forward to having you volunteer and support STEAM education!


Oconee County School System: Strategic Planning Process

The Oconee County School System is beginning the Strategic Planning Process to develop a plan for the next five years.  YOUR input is valued and needed!  The details are below:




Which school will have the most participation?  Rocky Branch of course!!!  Thank you for making the time to attend this meeting to help OCS continue on a path of greatness!


           
   Ice Cream Fridays!  

Ice Cream Friday began on August 31 and it was a BIG HIT!  Sales will continue each Friday, and we are asking parents for a little help so that we can better serve our students:
  • All purchases are $1.00. Please send exact change - when possible! 
  • Additionally please make sure to send money in an envelope or ziploc marked with your student's name and "ice cream money" 
  • If you are interested in helping with Ice Cream Friday, we have added two additional Sign-Up spots for each Friday.  Please click here to sign up!  
 Fall Book Fair
It is almost time for the RBES Fall Book Fair! The dates for this exciting event are September 10-14. The book fair will be open September 10-13 from 8:00 AM until 2:30 PM and on September 14 from 8:00 AM until 1:30 PM. The Book Fair provides you, as parents, an excellent opportunity to purchase great books that your children will love to read.

Remember Grandparents’ lunches each day! STEAM Family Event and Ice Cream Social on Tuesday evening!

For more information about the book fair, including this year's schedule, please click on the link below.

https://gallery.mailchimp.com/ed6b47c6630a6f9091134ab0e/files/2a08dce7-dc55-4077-8a87-9f3c6b77fc50/parent_letter_schedule.pdf
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We will have the opportunity to visit the library every Wednesday. Please encourage your student to read their book and place it back in their book bag so that they are ready to 
return it and get a new one each week. :) 



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We have 10 minutes in our schedule for snack time. Each student is encouraged to bring one snack to enjoy during this time. If you would please help your student pack them item in their book bag, this will help when they are trying to locate their snack. :)
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We love to celebrate birthdays! Snack time is the best time of the day to celebrate. If you would like you are welcome to send in a small treat to enjoy. Some easy things that students have enjoyed have been goodie bags or a donut or a cookie.

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We understand that changes in transportation are necessary from time to time. If you would please, either send in a hand written note for the office or call the front office with the transportation change. We can not accept email transportation changes. Thank you for understanding. :) 
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Please check their FISH book nightly for teachers notes, student work or messages from the office. All of the student work can be removed daily. Please check the student work to see if anything needs to corrected and returned. 

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When money is being sent to school, it would be very helpful if it came in a ziploc or an envelope with your student's name, my name, grade level and a brief description of what the money is for. ( lunch money, book fair, ice cream, etc.) Thank you for helping us! 

Upcoming Events
9/4- PTO meeting 10:00 a.m. 

9/10 - iMom (K-2)Breakfast
9/10-9/14 - RBES Book Fair and Grandparents' Lunch
9/11- Fall pictures make-up 
9/11- STEAM night 5:00-7:00 p.m.
9/14- Elementary Night at the NOHS Football Game  7:00 p.m. 

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