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ACES transition night was a great success! Families came to learn about their students' rising grade levels. Teachers talked with families about how to prepare for the upcoming grades and families had the opportunity to ask questions and meet the teachers. Our amazing guidance counselors shared breathing techniques and gave out stress balloons and our book fair was bustling! The book fair will be open for its final day on Monday. Hope to see everyone at the Spring Fling tonight!
Ms. Mathew's and Ms. Bruet's 2nd grade classes had a special visitor today from a member of the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra! They listened and watched as he describe the different attributes that together make up music. They also got a chance to practice what they learned on ukeleles! Thanks Ms. McGarrahan for arranging this amazing visit.
Monday, April 17th, was ACES Kindergarten registration. Our kindergarten teachers welcomed new ACES families and spent some time getting to know our 2023-2024 kindergarten students. If you are interested in registering your child for the 2023-2024 school year, please give us a call (828)654-1810.
Students in second grade have recently completed their Wit and Wisdom unit on Civil Rights. Throughout this unit, students looked at various people from history and how they responded to adversity. Among these people were Sylvia Mendez and Ruby Bridges. To finish up the unit, students wrote papers through the eyes of these important historical figures and took pictures of themselves in "their shoes."
Second grade celebrated the end of their Wit and Wisdom module with a peaceful protest today. The module focused on civil rights and how people can stand up for their rights in a peaceful way. Some of the leaders second graders studied in this module were Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Ruby Bridges. In this protest they marched for the pollinators that have been in decline recently due to habitat destruction.
What an amazing day! Ms. Crowell's second grade class shared memories, pizza, and a hot potato today with their pen pals! Both the kids and the seniors were over the moon to spend time together! Thank you to Ardenwoods Retirement Home!
Avery's Creek students celebrated reading today by doing a whole school stop, drop, and read time. Ms. Pace's kindergarten class read for twenty minutes!
ACES students enjoyed a lovely spring
meal with their families today. Thank you to the ACES cafeteria staff for creating a wonderful meal!
Last week ACES 2nd grade students learned about honey bees. They learned about their life cycles, how they are beneficial to our environment and about the unfortunate decline in their populations. Volunteers brought in live bees for them to see!
Bus 704, the Purple Route, will be a second load today, Friday, March 17th. It will run about 45-50 minutes later than normal. If you need to change your child's transportation, please reach out to your child's teacher. We apologize for the inconvenience.
4th grade ACES students had a great time at the Buncombe County Battle of the Books Competition yesterday! Elementary students across North Carolina, participating in the Battle of the Books, have been reading the same fifteen books over the last five or six months. Students then come together to compete by answering questions about the books they've read. All students had a great time and did a fantastic job! #acesread #EBOB
It has been a busy week at ACES! On Tuesday Superintendent Dr. Jackson came to ACES to visit for the day. After spending the day visiting classrooms and touring the school we had a whole staff meeting. Dr. Jackson asked staff questions about what they value about Buncombe County Schools and what they would like to see change in our schools :)
Woohoo! ACES cafeteria staff rocks! 100% sanitation grade :)
ACES fourth grade students had a great time on Friday watching the SO CON tournament! What a fun way to wrap up a busy week :) #ACES #SOCON #ACESFUN
Wow! You could hear a pin drop in the hallways as the whole school stopped everything they were doing and read for fifteen minutes. Hurray! #ACESREAD
ACES students have been celebrating Read Across America this week in various ways :) On Monday students brought in stuffed animal reading buddies. On Tuesday students dressed in their PJs so they could snuggle up and read and today students did buddy reading across grade levels. Tomorrow will be Stop, Drop and Read. Students and staff will stop what they are doing and read together for 15 minutes. Happy Read Across America Week!
Buncombe County Schools is hosting an Educator Career Fair on Saturday, March 4, 2023, from 9 am - 12 pm. Location: 175 Bingham Road - Asheville, NC - Use entrance B. We are hiring Elementary, Intermediate, Middle, and High School Teachers for the 2023-24 school year and we want to meet you! Register at https://bit.ly/BCScareers. We look forward to seeing you soon!
All Buncombe County Schools will operate on a two-hour delay for students tomorrow, January 13.
We're thankful for our students, teachers, families, and staff who make our schools shine every day! May you have a safe and restful Thanksgiving holiday. 🦃🍊🍁🍂❤️
Students in Avery Creek Elementary's Katie Wilson’s English as a Second Language classroom are sharing their unique assets as multilingual learners with the school through a hands-on lesson. Each student traced their hand on colored paper, writing details about themself along the fingers such as their first language, where their family is from, and other pieces of their personal history.
“I want to highlight to the students that being multilingual is an asset,” said Ms. Wilson. “It makes you a global citizen, it gives you the ability to relate to all kinds of people – there’s just so many benefits to having more than one language.”
The lesson, she said, teaches not only fine motor skills such as tracing and cutting paper, but it also touches on the four aspects of language learning – reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Students had to listen to instructions, read various written topics to write about on the hands, and then share what they wrote to the class before the hands were displayed.
The colorful hands were laminated and placed on a bulletin board inside the school to share the rainbow of cultures and languages the students are a part of.
“I want them to be up as a badge of honor,” said Ms. Wilson.