Mrs. Milham's Kindergarten Class

Fundations-Kindergarten

This is the Home Support Pack for Kindergarten. Please click on the appropriate unit. You may chose to print out the worksheets to support your child's learning at home.

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BRES is participating in JDRF!

Banks Road Elementary School values and promotes living a healthy lifestyle. Our active PTA supports these values with their programming with events such as our Boosterthon Fun Run and Family Fitness Night. This year BRES will participate in the Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund Walk Program. Students will attend a Kick Off Event on Monday, October 1st, where they will hear about healthy living strategies and Type I Diabetes. Materials will be sent home after the kick off event for tracks. This is a fundraising event for JDRF. 10% of the funds collected will go directly to BRES. Please follow the link to learn more about the mission, vision and work of the JDRF http://www.jdrf.org/. Please feel free to contact the school with any questions about this opportunity to support JDRF and BRES.

Kids Voting at BRES!

BRES students will participate in the National Kids Voting Program. Kids Voting North Carolina is a private, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that promotes voter participation by educating America's youth about the importance of being an informed citizen and the responsibilities of voting to sustain democracy.
Kids in a classroom

Kids Voting USA is the only organization that virtually replicates the voting process by taking students into official voting precincts on Election Day. Kindergartners through high school students register to vote and participate in an engaging classroom curriculum about the election process.

Kids Voting kids:
read newspapers
follow politics on television
talk to adults about candidates and issues more than other students do

To find out more information about the Kids Voting Program please follow this link: http://www.kidsvotingnc.org/.

(If you do not want your child participating in this program, please contact Mrs. Reed at 919-890-7336 or lreed@wcpss.net and your child's teacher.)

Volunteer Reactivation: Deadline is Approaching!

Reactivation for Continuing Volunteers

· All continuing volunteers approved for the 2011-2012 school year MUST reactivate as a volunteer no later than 4:00 p.m. on October 31, 2012. Volunteers may go to any WCPSS site and register through the intranet. Access to the volunteer system is: WCPSS Intranet – Business Applications – Volunteer Registration.

· After October 31, 2012, individuals previously approved may not volunteer without a new criminal record check.

· The volunteer system will be open daily for reactivation/registration from July 2, 2012, through October 31, 2012 for 24 hours a day.

· From November 5, 2012, through May 20, 2013, the volunteer system will be open on Mondays only, from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. However, during this time period, the volunteer system will be closed on the following Mondays: December 24, 2012, December 31, 2012, and January 21, 2013.

Reflections Program coming to BRES!

Banks Road Elementary in conjunction with the PTA is excited to announce that we will be participating in the national Reflections Art Contest this year. This is a national program designed to encourage students to explore their talents and express themselves through artistic endeavors. The theme for the 2012-2013 contest is “The Magic of a Moment.” Every moment of every day is unique. Good or bad – no moment is the same. We all have that one moment that we can look back on and say, “I wish I could live that day over and over again.” Students may submit work related to this theme in the categories of Dance Choreography, Music Composition, Visual Arts, Literature, Photography, and Film Production. Students in preschool through 5^th grade are encouraged to flex their creative muscles and submit an entry. All artwork must be original, created specifically for this contest, and comply with the contest rules. You can find all the contest rules and the student entry form on the Banks Road website. All artwork must be accompanied by an entry form and received in the school office by November 2 to be eligible for the contest. School winners in each category will advance to the county level of the contest. State and national winners are announced each spring. If you have any questions about the Reflections program, the contest rules, or the student entry form please contact Ms. Megan McCool at mmccool@wcpss.net or 919-890-7323. Let’s blaze creative trails and explore the Magic of a Moment!

Wake County Reflections Site:

https://sites.google.com/site/wakepta/programs/reflections-1

Awareness is Key at BRES...

October brings many, many things for us to be aware and knowledgeable about. Did you know that October is Autism Awareness Month?

Autism impacts 1 in 88 children and more specifically 1 in 54 boys (taken from the following website http://www.autismspeaks.org/.) Many children with autism functional typically in schools across the world, in North Carolina, Wake County and right here in WCPSS. Banks Road Elementary supports Autism Awareness and many of our staff members will be participating in the 2012 ASNC Triangle Run/Walk for Autism on October 13th. If you are interested in participating with us in support of our students with autism, please contact Kelley Ryan at 919-890-7333 or sign up on line at http://www.trianglerunwalkforautism.org/ under the team "Marching for the M-Train." To learn more about autism click here: http://www.autism-society.org/

October is underway at BRES...

October is here and we have many educational and fun filled activities under way here at BRES. Mark your calendars for the following dates and activities:

October 9th: PTA Spirit Night at Biscuitville in Fuquay Varina 5:00-8:00 p.m.
October 11th: PTA Board Meeting: Everyone is welcome to join us in the Media Center at 6:30 p.m.
October 12th, 19th & 26th: Spirit Day: Wear your official BRES t-shirt or blue and green school colors
October 13th: Beautification Day: bring your gardening tools, wheelbarrows and green thumb to help spruce up our campus from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. Great family fun!
October 26th: Fall Festival 5:30-8:30 p.m. Fun and games at BRES!
October 27th: Rain date for Fall Festival

Banks Road Elementary PTA wanted to send you the following message regarding the sign up: Volunteers for the Banks Road Fall Festival:

Good Evening Banks Road Families,

The First Annual Fall Festival is just 3 weeks from tomorrow! The committee is doing a fantastic job planning a fun filled festival. But, we still need many volunteers to make this evening a success! Please take a look at the available shifts and sign up for the one that works the best for you. If you have already signed up, thank you very much for your help!

Also, if you know of any student's groups that could help out, please contact the PTA at banksrdpta@gmail.com.

Thanks for all of your support!

To view the sign up, go to:
www.SignUpGenius.com/go/10C054CAAAF22A57-teacherstaff1/3466731