Centers

Centers are in full force. Ask your child what they practiced today :)

Happy Halloween

We hope everyone had a fun and safe Halloween!!

Don't forget to share your candy with your parents!! :)

Literary Parade

We had so much fun parading the school as our favorite book characters!

We hope everyone had a blast at the Fall Carnival!!

Science Outside

It's always a blast when we can take our lessons outside the classroom.
Here's a sneak peak of an afternoon growing as scientist in our school garden.

:)

Literary Pumpkins 2016

Our class did an amazing job decorating pumpkins to match the characters in the story Fright Club!

Thank you to Mrs. Bergson and Mrs. Mease for helping.

School Resumes Tuesday 10/11/16

 DCPS is giving families and staff a day to recover after Hurricane Matthews impact on our coast.

School will resume tomorrow, Tuesday, October 11th.

We hope everyone is safe and experiencing minimal damage to properties.

-S/T

NO SCHOOL 10/6 & 10/7

HURRICANE MATTHEW STATUS – 10/5/16

Due to the progression of Hurricane Matthew, Duval County Public Schools is closing all schools and offices, and cancelling all after-school activities and extended day care on Thursday, October 6 and Friday, October 7, 2016. In addition, all after-school activities are cancelled Wednesday. Extended day will continue until all children are picked up, but we do encourage parents to pick up their children as soon as possible after school. This decision is based on current storm projections for Duval County, which indicates the likelihood of both hurricane and tropical force rain, winds, and flooding beginning Thursday night and throughout Friday. In addition, key school sites will be made available and used for shelters as requested by the Duval County Emergency Operations Center. In order to inform parents and guardians, automated phone calls and emails will be sent out advising of the latest school cancellations, and necessary updates will be made to the district’s website at www.duvalschools.org, DCPS mobile app, Twitter (@DuvalSchools), and Facebook pages. Additionally, we will also continue to share information and updates with local media outlets. The safety of our students and community is of paramount importance, and we ask all residents to Stay Aware and Prepare by taking proper precautions during this severe weather system. We anticipate all normal school operations and activities will resume as scheduled on Monday, October 10, 2016. Makeup weather days will be announced at a later date. For more information regarding city services, storm updates, and shelters, visit www.jaxready.com, www.COJ.net or call 630-CITY (2489).

Our First Field Trip

We had so much at our first field trip!

Fluffy Friday Friend

What a fun way to start off our Friday! 

First Flag Raising

Today, was the first Flag Raising of the year that our Kindergarteners attended. We are so proud of this CCE Tradition that happens once a month. It is the only time that the entire school is together outside of the building. 

Shout Out to the 5th grade Patrols! They did a great job! 

-S/T

Working on Reading Strategies

We're building our reading skills everyday.  Today, we focused on pointing to the words as we read. 

Great job to our friend that shared her skills in front of the whole class. :)

Chicken, Who?

Chicken Coop! 

We had a short visit the chickens today. After some trouble with following directions our trip was cut short but we hope to visit them again soon! 

Remember friends, we are always first time listeners and we walk quietly from place to place. 

-S/T

Name Bag Project

What does your name begin with? It was great seeing all of the items students brought in to represent the letter their name starts with. 

Here's a few examples:

Great Job!!

-S/T

Save The Date 09-15-16

Our Open House is next Thursday, Sept. 15th from 6:00-6:45pm!!!!

We can't wait to see everyone!! 

-S/T

No School 9/2/16

Because of the weather progressing with Hurricane Hermine the district has closed schools for tomorrow Friday, September 2nd. 

Have a safe Labor Day weekend. 

We'll see everyone on Tuesday!

-S/T

Super Science Visit

What a surprise!! We had a visit from a 5th grade science teacher that WOWed us with an awesome science experiment!! 

 Thank you, Mrs. Swidorsky!!!

 We can't wait to visit you out in the cottages to see the hens!!

We love science!! -S/T

Welcome Mrs. Jackson!

We had our first visit from the amazing Mrs. Jackson!!

Mrs. Jackson is a well known Chet Creek volunteer in the kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. She visits each K-1 classroom once a month and holds a guidance lesson on different characters traits. She teaches the students through different books that teach lessons on important traits like: responsiblitly, respect, cooperation, kindness, patriotism and many others. We are very lucky to have this retired kindergarten teacher visit each month! Thank you, Mrs. Jackson! We love your visits! 

Fundraiser Starts Today!!

Our PTA fundraiser kick off was today and packets went home in blue folders! Make sure to check your child's backpack for this awesome packet! 

There are over 500 items to choose from and many can be personalized! 

Check out the fundraising website: www.charlestonwrapstore.com 

Our school ID is: z-10240

Student codes can be found in their packets. 

All orders and money are due on Monday, September 12th! 

Thank you for helping our school!! 

-S/T

We GoNoodle, do you?

GoNoodle is an awesome program that we've been using at Chets Creek for going on 3 years now! We actually got recognition from the district for being the first school in county to use it in every classroom when it first came out. 

In our classroom, we usually do a few GoNoodle activities to break up our morning inbetween subjects and sometimes in the afternoon when we need a brain break. The students love it! We get a chance to stretch and move around to many different interactive videos.

Today, we had our first transformation with our first GoNoodle avatar:

What a cool looking dude!

-S/T

Check it out at home: 

www.gonoodle.com

It's Free!

Adventures with Whiteboards

 We are using white boards to practice writing our alphabet, numbers and lots words! We are even using them to drawing pictures and explain math ideas. 

What a fun way to practice our skills anywhere around the room. 

-S/T

38 Students, 2 teachers and Laptops

It is possible! 

We had a busy morning using laptops in our classroom. We are very proud of all the students that waited patiently for their laptop to get set up and ready. 

Great Job, friends! 

-S/T

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

We were so caught up in making our coconut trees that we didn't get any pictures while making them. 

Today, we read and sang along with the book, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. Every student explored the letters in their name and make a coconut tree of their own.

Our coconut trees will be up outside our classroom on Friday. :)

Sink or Float

Our first of many science labs went great! We continue to practice following directions and working together. The students had a blast making predictions and dropping objects into water to see if they sink or float. 

-S/T

Behavior Chart

Today, we started enforcing our classroom behavior chart. As the days go on, students are being taught the expectations of the classroom. Each day we review and practice our rules, rituals and routines. As clips moved up and down on our chart today, we were very happy with the growth students are showing as they learn how the classroom operates. 

Please make sure to check your child's blue folder calendar and initial it daily. If the date square is "White" your child had a good day and performed as expected. Pink and purple marks are examples of going beyond expectations. A yellow mark is a warning. Blue or green marks represent behaviors that were not acceptable. A red mark is a possible referral and call home. 

-S/T

Playground Fun!

It was a beautiful day outside to play with new friends! 

1st Day of Kindergarten

Through the tears and sad faces of drop off, we found fun on our first day of school. 

We're not messing around, it was a rocky start for some friends but we found that several of our classmates truly are great shipmates as well. We have a class full of sweet students. 

As we get to know our classroom rules and routines it will seem rough for the first few weeks but we promise the days will get easier. 

Thank you, Mrs. Phillips for a fun first day assembly! 

Several of our classmates were called on to roll the big dice and participate in the mini games. 

We look forward to tomorrow's adventure. (Which includes finally checking out the playground 😆) 

Happy Monday!

-S/T

IT'S A PIRATES LIFE FOR US!

Hello and Welcome to the Teixabouth Pirate Blog!

We are so excited to be embarking into Kindergarten this school year! 

School Orientation is Friday, August 12th at 9:00 am! 

Don't miss out on meeting us and checking the classroom. 

Get ready to set sail :)

- Mrs. Sihabouth and Ms. Teixeira

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Chets Creek Elementary 2016-2017 School Orientation:

9:00 am - 10:00 am - Kindergarten and 5th Grade

11:00am - 12:00pm - 1st and 4th Grade

1:00pm - 2:00 pm - 2nd and 3rd Grade

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First Day of School: Monday, August 15th 

9:00am - 3:15pm

R2L Celebration

We got a visit from some talented little monkies for our last Readers to Leaders celebration for the 2015-2016 school year.

Earth Day 2016

Our class spend a beautiful morning outside reading, writing and learning about science. It was a great way to celebrate Earth Day. 

Spot#1:

Spot #2: 

We really enjoyed spending the morning outside. The weather was perfect and the students loved having our fun Friday treat outside.

-S/T

3rd Quarter R2L Celebration

We are so proud of all the students that achieved their reading goal this quarter. 

Those students got to see an amazing show!

Thank you, BMX Trick Stars for the fantastic performance and for jumping over Principal Phillips!!

Thank you, Mrs. Phillips for rewarding us with an awesome show! 

Reading Level Goals and Chapter Book Club

We had so much fun setting reading level goals today! Students are pushing themselves to read more and become better readers. They set goals to grow a reading level or 2 (some 5) by the end of the school year. 

We also started a chapter book club for our friends that have grown so much this school year! It was great to see so many friends reading as they waited for dismissal today. 

-S/T

*Late Post* Sleepover Family Night

*Late Post* 

Here's a quick glimps from Sleepover Family Night. Student decorated their sleepover bags with a constellation and stamps. All of the bags turned out great and students that didn't get to attend were able to personalize their bag in class. 

This was such a fun event for our 1st graders!

-S/T 

> Quiz Your Partner <

> Greater than OR Less than <

What is it?

Students had fun testing eachother. Choosing any two numbers between 0-100, partners had to show which number was greater. 

This was a fun white board partner activity. 

-S/T

School Garden

Our class had so much fun planting in our school garden! 

Wild flowers, strawberries, mint, basil, pumpkins and more!

We can't wait to go back and watch everything grow! 

-S/T

Sleepover Pillows

Just a reminder!!

Sleepover pillows are due this Wednesday, Feb. 10th!!

100th Day!

Thursday, February 4th was the 100th Day of School! 

We had so much fun celebrating this school "holiday" as we marked it being 100 days smarter!

Here are some pictures of all the fun: 

Our 100 year old classmates.

We can write 100 words!

We can count to 100, too!

We can do 100 exercises!

We can guess and test how much 100 drops of water will look like!

We can rock 100 day hats!

 And

We enjoyed a 100 day snack!!

Thank you to all the families that helped to put this day on by donating to the class.

-S/T