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Message from Ms. McCool

Here are some upcoming children's events at the Barnes & Noble in Cary!
CHILDREN’S EVENTS
Friday, February 1 at 7:00 pm - American Girl Club - New American Girl Saige.
Friday, February 8 at 7:00 pm - Magic Treehouse Club - Night on the Titanic
Saturday, February 9 at 11:00 am - Special Valentine’s Day Storytime - The Perfect Hug - Activity/Refreshment
Friday, February 15 at 7:00 pm - The Raleigh Little Theatre performance: scenes from Snow White, The Queen’s Fair Daughter
Saturday, February 16 at 11:00 am - Meet Madeline for Storytime

100th Day of School and Valentines

It is time to begin planning our Valentine's Snack and 100th day of school.  Please refer to the sign up genius that was sent out for more information.  If you did not receive the sign up genius, please be sure to let me know.  Thanks!
 

Optional Math Homework for Month of January

Problem #1
Six dinosaurs had a race.  Two dinosaurs tied for second.  Speedy was one of them.  Little T was ahead of Goofy.  Goody beat Little Dino.  Sleepy came in last.  Steggy was beaten by only one other dinosaur.  Who won the race?  Show the order in which each dinosaur crossed the finish line. 

Problem #2
Joe bought 7 green lollipops.  There are 3 fewer yellow lollipops than green lollipops.  There are 2 more red lollipops than yellow lollipops.  How many lollipops are there?  Show how you got your answer.

Problem #3
Judy and Mary are at the fair.  They have ten more minutes before they have to leave.  They have three tickets each to ride three rides each.  What three rides could they ride before they have to leave? 
Roller Coaster-6 minutes
Ferris Wheel-2 minutes
Bumbper Cars-5 minutes
Swings-1 minute
Tea Cups-4 minutes

Problem #4
What time is it?  The short hand is on the hour.  It is an odd number.  It is between 2 and 4 o'clock.  Write a time puzzle for a friend.

Request from PE

Dear Parents,

Hello from the PE department! We hope that you are hearing great things about what your children are doing in PE this year. It is our goal for them to come home and talk your ear off about how much fun they had being physically active at school that day. J

Mr. Lundgren and I want to bring the 21^st century into PE. One of the biggest technology pieces that we can use is our Wii. However, we do not have very many things that our students can do on the Wii other than Just Dance. We were wondering if there were any families out there that weren’t using their Wii accessories or games. If you are not using them we would love to take them off your hands. Please do not buy us these items because we know they are expensive. The items we would like to have for our students are as follows       Wii fit balance board
Wii fit
 Wii Sports
Fit Plus
 Golds Gym Workout
Julian Michaels Fitness
Nunchuck
Wii Tennis Racquets
Wii Golf Clubs
Wii Baseball bats

If you can donate any of these items that would be so fantastic! The kids would so excited to be able to have a Wii station set up in PE. We would like to get our technology set up as soon as possible. You can drop your donations off at any time or you can drop them off in Morning Carpool the week of Jan 28-Feb 1.

Thank you so much for all you do to support your children and our school.

Tiffany Williford and Lars Lundgren

Physical Education Teachers

Banks Road Elementary

919-890-7333

Book Fair and Moonlight Reading

Our book fair will begin on January 30th and run through February 13th.  Our school will have a Moonlight Reading event that will take place on Thursday, February 7th from 6:00-7:30 p.m. This year's Moonlight Reading will include four 20 minute time slots for BRES families to attend different literacy "stations" around the school!

Our school library will be CLOSED for open circulation of any type (for students & staff) during the two weeks of the Scholastic Book Fair.  Students will need to check out new books & return old books by Tuesday, January 29th. If they miss this deadline, they will need to hold on to their books until February 14th.