It’s Mental Health Awareness Week, and we’re showing our support by wearing green! 💚
A small color with a big message.
Congratulations to our October Crystal Apple recipient. Mrs. Kayla Hollifield transitioned to Kindergarten this year and has done a phenomenal job. She is a natural fit on our Kinder team and a truly nurturing soul to our students. We are so grateful for her dedication and heart!
In this activity, students are challenged to build a glider that will glide as far as possible. Working in groups, students will cut and tape various hoops to their straw. They will experiment with hoops of different sizes, positioning, and throwing styles.
Fall Festival is coming! 🎃🍭
🌊🐚 Our 3rd graders had an exciting field trip to Ecological Marine Adventures! They explored marine life, learned about ocean ecosystems, and had hands-on adventures by the sea. What a memorable day of learning and discovery! 🌊🐟🦀
10/6 Parent Newsletter
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This week is Mental Health Awareness Week. Wearing green to show our support. 💚
Several students participating in the 21st CCLC program commenced the weekend by removing weeds from the planter boxes in the school garden. 🪴👩🌾👨🌾
Our 5th graders had an unforgettable field trip today! 🎣🦑🐚 From fishing to squid dissections to a shell scavenger hunt, it was a day full of hands-on learning and adventure!
Ms. Johnson’s class completed a literacy project and created a class book. We voted on what we wanted our topic to be and decided with “Families”. Each student contributed one page to our story & then we read the book together! A wonderful learning experience! 🩷
Pumpkin Patch 🎃 A pumpkin patch vanishing point lesson is an art project that teaches one-point perspective by having students draw a field of pumpkins that appear to receded into the distance, with larger pumpkins in the foreground and smaller ones getting progressively smaller towards a central vanishing point on the horizontal line.
Congratulations to our September Staff Member of the Month, Mrs. Matthews! We celebrate all you do for Cape Fear Elementary.
Pender County Schools is inviting families to join the Million Minute Reading Challenge! Our goal is for students and families to log one million minutes of reading outside of school this year.
Whether it’s bedtime stories, reading in the car, or enjoying a book at the park, every minute counts. Families can record their minutes online .
Our CFE tracker is here: HERE
Check back each week for leaderboard updates and help us reach our goal together!
📚✨ It starts at HOME! ✨📚
Pender County Schools is challenging families to help us reach ONE MILLION minutes of reading outside of school this year.
🛋️ 📖 Bedtime stories.
🚗 📱 Reading on the way to practice.
☀️ 📚 Quiet time at the park.
Every minute counts!
📚✨ ¡Todo empieza en CASA! ✨📚
Las Escuelas del Condado de Pender están retando a las familias a ayudarnos a alcanzar UN MILLÓN de minutos de lectura fuera de la escuela este año.
🛋️ 📖 Cuentos antes de dormir.
🚗 📱 Lectura de camino a la práctica.
☀️ 📚 Un rato tranquilo en el parque.
¡Cada minuto cuenta!
Pender County Schools is challenging families to help us reach ONE MILLION minutes of reading outside of school this year.
🛋️ 📖 Bedtime stories.
🚗 📱 Reading on the way to practice.
☀️ 📚 Quiet time at the park.
Every minute counts!
📚✨ ¡Todo empieza en CASA! ✨📚
Las Escuelas del Condado de Pender están retando a las familias a ayudarnos a alcanzar UN MILLÓN de minutos de lectura fuera de la escuela este año.
🛋️ 📖 Cuentos antes de dormir.
🚗 📱 Lectura de camino a la práctica.
☀️ 📚 Un rato tranquilo en el parque.
¡Cada minuto cuenta!
📚✨ Join Our Million Minute Reading Challenge! ✨📚
We’re on a mission to read ONE MILLION minutes together — and we need YOUR help! 💪
PCS Million Minute Reading Challenge is a district wide challenge that runs from October 1, 2025 - May 21, 2026.
How it works:
1️⃣ Read at home, in school, or anywhere you love.
2️⃣ Record your minutes.
3️⃣ Watch our community reading total grow!
Every minute counts — whether it’s a bedtime story, a chapter book, or reading aloud to a friend. Let’s show how powerful readers can be when we work together! 🙌
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfApzka8bmtJDTTD1qvyfflrcq6d_4ZGG-PpLFpbr_8ct8roQ/viewform
We’re on a mission to read ONE MILLION minutes together — and we need YOUR help! 💪
PCS Million Minute Reading Challenge is a district wide challenge that runs from October 1, 2025 - May 21, 2026.
How it works:
1️⃣ Read at home, in school, or anywhere you love.
2️⃣ Record your minutes.
3️⃣ Watch our community reading total grow!
Every minute counts — whether it’s a bedtime story, a chapter book, or reading aloud to a friend. Let’s show how powerful readers can be when we work together! 🙌
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfApzka8bmtJDTTD1qvyfflrcq6d_4ZGG-PpLFpbr_8ct8roQ/viewform
Ms. Hamilton’s class participated in a Socratic Seminar this morning engaging in conversation about “That Book Woman.”
October Breakfast and Lunch Menu.
👏🏽📸Curriculum Night Raffle Winners! Thank you to everyone who came out! Gift certificates to Strawbridge Studios will be sent home with your student this week. Here is the link to our annual Title 1 presentation. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AtpsJEqbH7elCepJ60Ec1-HkMwemp0IcsmqluTLlHTQ/edit?usp=drivesdk
Mrs Robertson's preschool class completed the M54 gingerbread cookies cooking activity. They practiced measuring, new vocabulary, mixing, rolling and more!
Objective
22 measuring objects
3A balances needs and rights of others
7A uses fingers and hands
8B follows directions
9A uses an expanding expressive vocabulary
11A attends and engages
17B uses print concepts
20A counts
26 demonstrates knowledge of physical properties of objects and materials
28 uses tools and other technology to perform tasks
Objective
22 measuring objects
3A balances needs and rights of others
7A uses fingers and hands
8B follows directions
9A uses an expanding expressive vocabulary
11A attends and engages
17B uses print concepts
20A counts
26 demonstrates knowledge of physical properties of objects and materials
28 uses tools and other technology to perform tasks
Mrs. Johnson’s class completed their take home projects this week & shared their favorite items that describe what they love and enjoy to do! We are still working hard at building our classroom community!
