Queens Creek Elementary School

• February 11: Booster Thon Dance Fit Event
  
• February 12: Valentine's Day Card Exchange
• 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
• March 27-April 5: SPRING BREAK!!!

Parents & Families,

We’re off to a great start with our Dance Fit program! Thank you for every share and donations you all have contributed to our fundraiser.

Just so you know, students have been given a special WEEKEND CHALLENGE! If a student receives a total of $2 per dance minute in NEW pledges ($60 in flat donations) or more over the weekend, he/she will receive a bonus prize in addition to their normal prizes.

Check out the prize video here —> https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9a94307o2cr9uwg/AACyTaNYdJ-yKlvyzCZGY0Aea?dl=0&preview=wc+Roll+Up+Sunglasses+001.mp4

Share your pledge page and enter all pledges on FUNRUN.COM, and be sure to watch the Sports City Now videos with your child, too. Thanks again for your support!

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.

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.

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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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.

1. Use reusable bags instead of plastic. A weekly trip to the grocery store requires an average of 10 plastic bags to carry the entire load of groceries home. That is approximately 520 plastic bags per year for a single household. Rather than recycling the plastic bags, use reusable cloth bags that you can wash and reuse throughout the year.

2. Reuse scrap paper for crafts. Even the smallest bits of pretty fabric and paper can make a big impact. Turn them into strips of decorative tape and you’ll have beautiful trims ready to use.
3. Repurpose glass jars and containers. You’re paying extra for these food-filled glass containers, why not reuse them for other household items that need a new container? You can look up many green living ideas on Pinterest that will show you great ways to recycle plain glass jars into pretty home-products, ranging from food containers to decorative light-hangers.
4. Use cloth napkins and towels. Using cloth napkins and towels in the kitchen and bathrooms will help to reduce paper consumption and give you a reusable product, possibly saving you a couple hundred dollars a year.
5. Recycle electronics. Even if you’ve tried everything you can to revive your electronic device, laptop or computer, don’t just dump it in the garbage. You can donate it to charities that can fix it up or send it back to the manufacturer that will end up recycling the body and parts for other products. Some ink cartridge manufacturers will give you a prepaid label to mail back used-cartridges to recycle. Look into the manufacturers of your devices and find out about their recycling programs.

https://www.recycleacrossamerica.org

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