Queens Creek Elementary School

Parents, we are seeing a significant rise in student laptops that are uncharged. Over the next 2-3 weeks remind the students daily and practice the routine of plugging them in nightly. It takes 21 day of performing a task consistently to form a habit. Double check that the charger cable is completely connected.

• February 2: School Board Meeting
  
• February 2: Booster Thon Kick Off
• February 3: Tideland News: It's Elementary QCE Runs
• February 11: Booster Thon Dance Fit Event
• February 18: Interim Reports
• February 19: Student of the Month Recognition
• March 3: Tideland News: It's Elementary QCE Runs
• March 15: End of grading period
• March 22: Report Cards

Queens Creek families!

We’re only a few days away from kicking off our Queens Creek Gator Dance Fit and our students and staff are so excited! We’re looking forward to having fun and building community together.

Here are a few things to know:

• All students get to participate in the Event day, regardless of financial
participation

• We are bringing our school community together for some FUN!

• We are inspiring our students to be active and activate their character

• We are raising funds to support our school’s needs

• All families can support our school by either donating, sharing on
funrun.com, or both!

We are working hard to make the Queens Creek Gator Dance Fit safe, fun, and successful for everyone!

Thank you for supporting our school - we are grateful for our amazing school community!

Donating Is Open!

Register on FUNRUN.COM, SHARE, & GIVE!

Queens Creek Gator Dance Fit Kick Off – 2/2

Event Day – 2/11
SAVE THE DATE!

Don't forget to send your child to school with a water bottle, either disposable or reusable. We do not have water fountains available at this time. Even though it is cool outside, the humidity is very low. The students need to drink through out the day to avoid becoming dehydrated.

Early check-out period will end at 2:40pm instead of 2:50pm. This change is necessary because the new program that is used in every school in Onslow County. It definitely is more secure, but does take a bit longer to process parent IDs. This change allows us to process check-outs and clear the loop before the Car Line pulls up.

Following careful consideration and review of OCS and state policies, the administration of Queens Creek Elementary (along with Sand Ridge El and Swansboro El) has determined the following protocols and restrictions for Valentine's Day this year:

• Students will be permitted to exchange paper valentines. These valentines MAY NOT CONTAIN ANY FOOD OR CANDY. There are no exceptions to this. Paper valentines my include stickers, pencils or like items.
• Students will not be permitted to give treat bags of any type to other students.
• All students will have a brown sandwich bag for their valentines to be placed in. The school will purchase these bags and have them to teachers the week prior, to allow time for students to decorate the bags.
• Bags should be placed on a table or counter and students will go one-at-a-time to put valentines in bags. This will help with social distancing guidelines.
• When they are finished, teacher or teacher assistant should staple the bag closed. The bag should go home in the students' bookbags, to be opened at parents' discretion.

If there are parents that wish to make food donations to the whole class for Valentine's Day, remember that ALL food items must be individually wrapped in original packaging and sealed in the original box.

Mrs. Taylor Galarneau (Mrs. G) is completing her student teaching this semester in Mrs. Barnes's first grade class. She attends Campbell University and looks forward to graduating in May!

Mrs. Ryan is asking for donations of corn starch for an experiment they are doing in STEM. If you are able, please send in a box this week and label it "For STEM".

Entry into the New Bridge Middle, Clyde Erwin Elementary, and Northwoods Elementary magnet school lottery is available to the enrollment-eligible children of all Onslow County residents or in accordance with the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children.

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Click here to learn more about the QCE Relay for Life Team.

• What is Relay for Life?
• How does it help with cancer research and treatments?
• How do I donate?
• How can I help?

Below you will find two resources. The first is a link to a PowerPoint presentation. It is a requirement that we share this information with the parents. The second is a link to a survey that allows us to document that we have shared the Title 1 information with you and allow you to give us feedback on how we are doing. Please take a moment and share with us.

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P.E.

Kindergarten - is finishing a unit on Speedstacks (cup stacking) and will start Jump Rope the end of this week, Jan. 29th.

Grades 1& 2 - Are in the middle of our Jump Rope unit and will continue for 2 to 3 weeks.

Grade 3 - Did a brief unit on Nutrition and is now doing a Jump Rope unit.

Grades 4 & 5 - Doing a unit on Nutrition which will take 2 to 3 weeks.

Art

Kindergarten students will create Paul Klee cats

1st and 2nd grade students will draw self-portraits and do valentine art

3rd grade students will study van Gogh then create Van Goah and Gauguin chairs.

4th grade students will create Notan designs

5th grade will learn the grid method and more about shading

Music

• Kindergarten students have been learning about contrasts in music, like high/low, fast/slow, loud/soft, and beat/no beat. Now students are learning about same/different sections of a song.
• First grade students are reading, composing, and playing rhythms with quarter notes, two eighth notes, and quarter rests.
• Second grade students are doing a partnership with students in Moldova - a country in eastern Europe. They are sharing songs from our culture and learning about music from another culture.
• Third grade students continue to work on musical notation. They are reading, composing, and playing rhythms. Later in February they will learn how to read pitches on the staff.
• Fourth grade students are finishing up their unit on rhythmic notation and beginning melodic notation. NEW: Fourth grade students have the option to purchase a recorder through School Cash Online. Although we cannot play recorders at school due to COVID-19, our fourth grade students are invited to purchase a recorder and practice at home using Dr. Bazzy's instructional videos in Teams. Recorders cost $7.00. Once a student purchases their recorder through School Cash Online, Dr. Bazzy will give the student their instrument to take home. Fourth grade students who already have a recorder do not need to purchase another one to join the Recorder Team for virtual learning.
• Fifth grade students are collaborating in socially distanced groups to create body percussion performances. They are using their social and emotional learning skills to manage their emotions and behaviors when working with their peers.

Library

Exciting News!

QCE will be having our first in person Book Fair at the end of February! Social distancing protocols will be followed for student safety.

More information will be sent out in a few weeks.

S.T.E.M.

In our stem activities kindergarten learned about vibrations, so they will make their own banjo. First grade is learning about the different types of soil. Second grade is building a map out of legos. Third grade learned about matter, so now its Ooblec time! Fourth grade is making their own plaster fossil. Fifth grade is learning about the circulatory system starting with the heart. Alot of fun activities in STEM.

It is very important that car rider parents to not entered the shared campus of Swansboro High School and Queens Creek Elementary School before 2:45. Our line quickly backs up and begins to interfere with High School dismissal. Because of this, cars that arrive prior to 2:45 will be asked to leave campus and return after 2:45. Thank you for your understanding.

In accordance to NC Department of Health and Human Services, OCS has updated the daily screening questions to include members of the household. If your child's situation warrants an affirmative response to any of these questions, the staff of QCE are required to follow the plan outlined in the Flow Chart below.

1. Do you know if you have been around anyone diagnosed with COVID-19?
2. Since you were last at school, have you had a fever, chills, had trouble breathing, been coughing, or lost your sense of taste or smell?
3. Since you were last at school, has anyone in your household developed a fever, chills, had trouble breathing, been coughing, or lost your sense of taste or smell?
4. Have you been diagnosed with COVID-19?

COVID-19 Screening Flow Chart

Good afternoon! Great news! Breakfast and lunch will be free for students through the rest of the year! What a relief for so many families during such a difficult time. The last thing families should worry about is having the funds to feed their children.

Parents, you can now pay all fees online. Please click the button below to set up your account. It is fast and secure.

Car Rider Parents, Please continue to display the yellow window card until your child enters your car. The best place to display the yellow card is over the passenger side visor. This will assist the staff to quickly load the students into the cars safely.

All afternoon transportation changes will happen within the School Dismissal Manager system. This eliminates the need for notes that don't always reach the teachers or emails to the front office that might not be seen until after dismissal. All changes need to happen before 2:00pm. At 2:15pm each teacher is sent an email with a list of all his/her students and how each one is getting home.

If you still have not claimed your account, please email either the jill.yager@onslow.k12.nc.us or michelle.staley@onslow.k12.nc.us and they will assist you.

CARDBOARD FACTS

1. Recycling cardboard only takes 75% of the energy required to make new cardboard

2. Over 90% of all products shipped in the U.S. are packaged in corrugated boxes, which makes up more than 400 billion square feet of cardboard

3. Around 80% of retailers and grocers recycle cardboard

4. 70% of corrugated cardboard is recovered for recycling

5. Approximately 100 billion cardboard boxes are produced each year in the U.S.

6. One ton of recycled cardboard saves 46 gallons of oil

7. One ton of recycled cardboard saves 9 cubic yards of landfill space

The QCE Kindergarten Team is collecting dried up markers to donate to Crayola as part of the Crayola ColorCycle program. Crayola repurposes old markers and converts them into energy and wax compounds, recycling every part of the marker no matter the assembly or type of plastic. The markers do not have to be Crayola brand, the program accepts any and all markers. If you or your students have any markers that dry up, instead of throwing them away, please consider donating them to a kindergarten teacher to contribute to the ColorCycle program. Students may deposit the old markers in the ColorCycle bucket by the cafeteria. Thank you!

Email: michelle.staley@onslow.k12.nc.us
Website: www.onslow.k12.nc.us/queenscreekes
Location: 159 Queens Creek Road, Swansboro, NC, USA
Phone: (910)326-5115
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QCEgators