Dear Parents,

We need your help. It is very important have we have as many parents as possible complete these surveys. These are are the same surveys being sent home by many of the teachers.

Climate & Culture Parent Survey:

https://eprovesurveys.advanc-ed.org/surveys/#/action/162053/22839

Title 1 Parent Survey:

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=2oj0MM90xkqfNEBYMyDapOu8J8fQsGlLl-a90X8SljRUOEwxTVY0UFQ5QkpMUVpGMTIzWEFBVzVZSC4u

Spring Picture packets were sent home. Please look through them and select what you want to purchase. It is the expectation that families return the unwanted pictures back to the school.

All money and/or returned pictures are due back to QCE by May 3, 2021.

We are excited to extend the Dell Member Purchasing Program to our staff, students, and families. We have added a page on our departmental website (link below) with the information needed to make a purchase and receive a discount. Anyone participating in the program will be dealing directly with Dell on the purchase, and discounts vary based upon the item being purchased and any specials that Dell may be running at the time. Gail Thomas will serve as the Point of Contact for this program, and her email is listed on the information page. You are free to share this link on your website and in newsletters, etc.

https://www.onslow.k12.nc.us/Page/41823

The purpose of this portal is to notify our parents of bus changes. This program sends the parents a text message letting them know the changes. It is a great way to for parents to stay informed when there is a change in the time of pickup or drop off for their child.

This Portal is available for all parents and all you need to do is sign up each of their children. They will need their Student ID #, go to OCS website or your school website and click on transportation.

We also need your help in getting the word out that bus drivers & monitors are needed in the county. Information for the online classes is available on the OCS website or call Transportation at 910-455-5037.

Who is excited to see this order form?! We sure are! If you are new to QCE, these beautiful hanging baskets are typically the highlight of the beginning of May!

These order forms were sent home this week. Please return them with exact change by April 23rd (orders written on the back of the order form).

Let us know if you have any questions!

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Happy selling!

OCS students in grades K-12 currently attending in-person instruction will return to the classroom five days a week beginning Tuesday, April 6. The transition of all in-person K-12 students from Plan B to Plan A was unanimously approved by the Onslow County Board of Education during a special meeting on March 17.

Remote instruction days will continue through the end of March but will be discontinued following the district’s spring break. While there will be no remote instruction days for the final eight weeks of the school year, the BOE did approve the addition of two regular teacher workdays. The traditional calendar teacher workdays will be:

• Wednesday, April 21
• Wednesday, May 12

District staff will be working with the Onslow Early College and Coastal Carolina Community College on placement of the early college workdays.

The transition to Plan A will see many of the same precautions which have been in place since the return to school in August. Families can expect to see wellness checks, face coverings, and continued emphasis on hand washing and sanitizing. Daily deep cleaning will remain a priority and district staff will work closely with schools to ensure healthy learning environments.

According to the StrongSchoolsNC: Public Health Toolkit (K-12), the major difference between the plans is the shift from required social distancing under Plan B to social distancing to the greatest extent possible under Plan A.

This transition was made possible by the passage of Session Law 2021-4 by the North Carolina General Assembly, which was signed into law by Governor Roy Cooper on March 11, 2021. Under the new legislation, all K-5 schools in North Carolina must open under Plan A. Local boards of education may decide for grades 6-12 to operate in either Plan A or Plan B for the remainder of the school year.

OCS Superintendent Dr. Barry Collins was grateful for the work of OCS staff and for the opportunity to transition to Plan A, “I want to thank our teachers. Our teachers are the ones that are on the front lines. All of our school staff have done an outstanding job over the course of the last year. The overarching feeling throughout this has been ‘we need to get kids back, face-to-face, as much as possible.’ We were waiting on this bill, that became law, that allowed us the ability to bring grades 6-12 back.”

OCS BOE Chairman Bob Williams echoed Dr. Collins’ appreciation of the opportunity and also expressed his gratitude to OCS teachers, “We look forward to getting our students back full time. I think it’s important that we take of advantage of this opportunity. The teachers are doing a fantastic job out there. We want to help the teachers out as much as possible to do what they need to do to educate our children.”

Click here to visit OCS Website

Congratulations to all the students. Your hard work is paying off!!!

3rd Grade Principal’s List

Everli Felts, Hannah Garrett, Adriana Run, Luke Abernathy, Cooper Carmody, Jace Mathews, Abbigail Montford, Colsen Moser, Kimber Parish, Karlee Smallwood

3rd Grade Honor Roll

Seamus Collins, Leah Degen, Harper Eggert, Austin Ervin, Alona Price, Adriana Zamora, Aiken Anderson, Aisha Foye, Caleb Lowe, Aidyn Mason, Micah Maynard, Andrew Ortega, Sadie Tessier, Rayna Tuck, Melaina Wittler, Aspen Stallings, Aaiden Aguilers, Ethan Bailey, Delilah Borges, Zayden Burnette, Bethany Meeks, Ny’Saun Turner, Addisyn Vigneault

4th Grade Principal’s List

Mackynzie Bilbrey, Derek Eschenbaum, Ainsley Page, Hunter Garrett, Ayden Hollingsworth, Joshua Jensen, Brayden Tindle, Grace Williams, Joshua Austin, Elliana Whitmarsh, Zoe Mackey

4th Honor Roll

Kenneth Anderson, Alexander Brown, Trace Cole, Nathan Perzyna, Madilyn Reid, Alessandra Run, Akira Saunders, Nic Alcocer, Mason Chase, Layla Collins, Marley Cushman, Brooklyn Evans, Trent Fountain, Isabelle Fernandez Gray, Saphira Hulings, David King, Daniella Medina, Christopher Mikko, DJ Smith, Zoey St. John, Jayden Willison, Dylan Langlois, Mia Mendez, Abby Milbery, Gavin Thompson, Taven Ward, Madison Williams, Brynlee Miller, Baylon Mroz-Kaynor, Audrina Ramos, Solomon Saint-Pierre, Madaline Brown, Sonya Edwards, Ella Hebert, Cameron Hood

5th Principal’s List

Anthony Anderson, Leah Lawson, Connell Murphy, Katherine Patterson, Phoenix Price, Adalyn Taylor, George Meeks, Preston Barnes, Phoenix Villanueva

5th Honor Roll

Evan Burke, Samuel Sullivan, Breanna Almond, Kaylani Covington, Tala Davis, Hayden Holleman, Mitchell LaRose, Owen Ravan, Corina Ray, Olivia Wade, Logan Brown, Aydelynn Collins, Noah Ellsworth, Declan Hammel, Cami’ya Heggs, George Markle, Carter Hardison, Izabel Hoagland, Hayden Maynard, Caleb McCoy, Isabell Merritt, Adalynn Sprague, Amiah Watts, Alivia Williams, Magdalena Willis-Medina

• Art Contest for 4th and 5th Graders - Creating a Turtle from marine debris and recycling. Click Here for more information

Kindergarten Registration

Online Registration begins April 5, 2021.

Please click here to begin the kindergarten registration process.

To be eligible a child must turn five on or prior to August 31, 2021.

Please have the following:

Birth Certificate

Updated Immunization Records

Photo ID of Legal Parent/Guardian

Proof of Residency (Electric or Water Bill)

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! This week in Kindergarten, we are discussing the St. Patrick’s Day holiday and reading the Irish folktale Jamie O’Rourke and the Big Potato by Tomie DePaola. Like previous weeks, we are also continuing to work on identifying and creating words in different word families. At this point in the year, students should also know 35 sight words. Please be sure you are practicing the flash cards in your child’s binder as much as possible throughout the week so they can hit that goal and progress toward 50 by the end of the school year. We are going back to basics for writing this week by practicing letter formation and placing emphasis on handwriting. For math this week, we introducing simple measurement—comparing length by telling what is taller, longer, shorter, etc. Practice at home by showing your child two objects and asking them which one is taller or shorter! Finally, do not forget that we have our Easter Egg Hunt next week on Thursday, March 25th. If you have not already, and are able to do so, please send in 8-12 prepackaged eggs so kindergarten can enjoy our hunt with plenty of eggs to find!

Click here to see the First Grade Newsletter

ELA: We will continue to talk about context clues, main idea and details, and making inferences in different texts.
Math: We will continue to practice our skills on telling time. Please also be practicing those basic math facts at home!
Writing: Students are still working on sharing their opinion about specific topics.
Social Studies: We will be learning about historical figures from black history.

Third grade will continue to teach Central Message and Parts of a Story. Most 3rd grade classes have finished our fraction lessons and are working on Time. Capacity will be our first measurement lesson. It is important to know that Benchmark Testing and IReady Math testing will begin next week. Please have your child study their multiplication and division facts. Your child will need earbuds or headphones for testing. Ask your child if he/she has a working pair of earbuds. Charged computers are a must. They are not allowed to charge during testing. Not having a charged computer could disrupt their testing. Please charge their computers at home on a daily basis! Thank you!!

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)

Math: multiplication and division of fractions

Science: Ecosystems

Social Studies: Civil War, Westward Expansion

Art

Kindergarten students will create : Flower still life paintings, tissue paper collage, pizza collage and fans.

1st grade will create: the great wave, chicken collage, and stamp and dot paintings.

2nd grade : warm and cool weavings and Van Gogh sunflowers.

3rd grade: Starry night paintings and paper bowl weavings.

4th grade: Lighthouse paintings, clay fairy doors, and collages.

5th grade: Georga O'Keefe flower paintings, figure people drawings with manikins, and house collages.

Media

Music

Kindergarten - Students are learning about the unique sound, or timbre, made by each instrument.

1st grade - Students are identifying and creating music in various forms.

2nd grade - Students are completing their cultural exchange with Sweden this month. Each class picked an American pop song to share, and the students are preparing a performance of their chosen pop song.

3rd grade - Students are reading and playing melodies on various instruments.

4th grade - Students are playing melodies on barred instruments such as xylophones, metallophones, and glockenspiels.

5th grade - Students are identifying pitches on the staff and beginning work on ukuleles.

P.E.

What's happening in PE?! We have been practicing Jump Rope for a couple of months and the 2nd and 3rd graders have been practicing the PACER. It is time to move on to cooperative activities and make these last couple of months in PE FUN!
All grades will participate in parachute activities, tossing activities, scooter activities, and a variety of relays.

STEM

Spring is here and so is the arrival of new life and fun ideas! With the nice weather the stem encore classes can start creating outside activities. QCE is also excited about our science festival and the many science activities the teachers have planned for the students. In STEM some of our fun activities include:

Kindergarten making ring gliders

First and second grade getting gooy with ooblec

Third grade and fifth learning how to use microscopes and

Fourth grade making parachutes.

What an awesome time all the students will have.