Queens Creek Elementary School
Parent Newsletter - February 12, 2021
NEWS FLASH
Students will browse the Book Fair while practicing social distancing and make a Wish List. Return the Wish List with your eWallet information or other payment method. Orders will be filled and returned to your child.
You can also visit our Sway to see pictures and prices of all the books that we have! The Sway will also contain links to our Online Fair, which has more shopping options. A link will be shared for the Sway at a later date. Students will browse the Book Fair while practicing social distancing. The Online Fair starts February 19th. Follow the link below to start shopping. https://www.scholastic.com/bf/queenscreekelementaryschool1
Be sure to set up an eWallet account for your child. Click the link for more information. https://tinyurl.com/42wq2mo5
Important Dates
- February 18: Interim Reports
- February 19: Student of the Month Recognition
- February 25-March 8: Book Fair!!!
- March 3: Tideland News: It's Elementary QCE Runs
- March 14: A Day of Hope
- March 15: End of grading period
- March 22: Report Cards
- March 27-April 5: SPRING BREAK!!!
Links to the School and OCS Websites
Family and Community
Booster Thon
Families -
Thank you so much for your support during our Dance Fit Program! Here are our current stats:
We had 66% of our students register for the program, with 46% of our students receiving pledges of support.
Our Current Total Pledged: $27,186.00, with a school profit of $20,390.00 (if 100% of our pledges are collected)!!
We are AMAZED at the support!
This means we've reached the $25,000 goal needed to tape Mrs. Staley to the wall!! We will need duct tape! If you'd like to donate a roll, please do so by Wednesday, February 17th. We will go Facebook live during the taping!
WATER BOTTLES
The Magnet School lottery for the 2021-2022 will begin accepting applications on February 15, 2021.
Relay for Life 2020-2021
- What is Relay for Life?
- How does it help with cancer research and treatments?
- How do I donate?
- How can I help?
Character Education Trait of the Month - COOPERATION
Grade Level News
Kindergarten
First Grade
Second Grade
Third Grade
Fourth Grade
This week 4th grade will be working on:
Math: Introducing Equivalent Fractions
Science: Types of Energy
ELA: Elements of Plays (dialogue, stage directions, setting, script, cast of characters)
SS: Introducing History of North Carolina Social Studies Writing Project
(Please practice multiplication facts and division strategies at home)
Fifth Grade - 1/28/21
Encore - 1/29/21
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 shadingMusic
- 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.
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. A lot of fun activities in STEM.
Car Rider Line!!
Screening Protocols and Flow Charts
- Do you know if you have been around anyone diagnosed with COVID-19?
- 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?
- 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?
- Have you been diagnosed with COVID-19?
General Information Topics
Free Breakfast & Lunch
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.
SchoolCashOnline
Afternoon School Dismissal
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.
Green and Global Topics
Some Simple Ways to Reycle:
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.