
Some more 100th day fun from Ms. Moriarity's first grade class and Ms. Mitchell's kindergarten class. Learning is so much fun when you have kids and teachers like these!





From shirts, to snacks, to super sized ten frames and 100 cup towers, Mrs. Smiths
First Grade is 100 days brighter!





Becky Moore, a local dental hygienist, visited our Kindergarten classes yesterday to teach them all about dental health. Thankful for connections within our local community.



Congratulations to Ms. Finley and Ms. Milliner's Kindergarten class for winning the Golden Trash Can Award this week. They have really worked hard to keep their room neat and tidy each day. Great work Kindergarten!


Students in all classes have finished up their first makerspace group project. Be sure to ask your kiddo who were the top designers in their class. In Mrs. Seferyn's 4th grade class, these engineers came in first place with their catapult design.



3rd graders beginning to read music and play it on the keyboard.


Kindergarten playing classical music with boom whackers & 1st graders using scarves to dance to classical music.



4th graders learning ukuleles & 5th graders using flip grid to film themselves playing recorder.



SCE PTA Updates: Boosterthon is coming soon & they will need volunteers. If you'd like to help either the day of run event, or with compiling daily prizes for students, please email SCElementaryPTA@gmail.com. The next PTA meeting will be Tuesday 2/15 at 6:30 pm.


The Birthday Book Club is celebrating January, June & July Birthdays 🥳🎂🎉





Check out these Kindergarten & 5th grade students and their dribbling skills. Keep up the great work, athletes!





Mrs. McDonald's Kindergarten students listen to themselves while using their "phones" during their literacy centers.




Thanks to Senior Engineer, Laura Alexander and Founder Jared Crooks, we now have 2 MakerBot 3D Printers from Jared's company, AM Toolbox. Our school will be able to use this tool to educate children and inspire them to love design and engineering as much as AM Toolbox does. Many thanks for this awesome donation!


The winner of the GOLDEN trash can this week is Mrs. Smith’s 1st grade class. Mr. Jeff says that they set a goal for themselves and have worked hard to achieve it. Keep up the great work 1st grade!


On Thursday, January 13, Matthew Curry traveled to Cape Fear Elementary to talk about his Science Fair project, Family Fingerprints. He talked to several different people telling them what he did to find out about fingerprints and what his results were. Due to this great presentation, Matthew was one of the winners for the County Elementary Science Fair. He will now compete virtually in the regional Science Fair in February.

1st grader Elani visited her old K classroom to read a book on MLK Jr. Elani is an excellent student and even better human being. She embodies the true spirit of treating everyone equal and with compassion. We can’t wait to see what the future holds for her.

The first winner was Animals of the Bible in 1938. The most recent winner in 2021 was We are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom, art by Michaela Goade. Find out who will be this year’s winner when the American Library Association announces the gold Monday, January 24, 2022.




A big thanks to Topsail Magazine for putting the spotlight on Superintendent Hill's personal path and the one he envisions for students in Pender County Schools to succeed.
https://www.topsailmag.com/a-clear-path-forward/


Check out some awesome art work from Kindergarten, third & fifth graders. We're so lucky to have Mrs. Hanson leading us in art class each and every day.




Thank you to @hampstead.kiwanis for helping out our awesome teachers with some of their grants. We are thankful for your support!
