Students in Dr. Martin’s 3rd grade class kicked off their Holidays Around the Word Unit. Their first stop was New York City! Students got their passport, ticket, and suitcase and boarded the flight! Their learning goal was to learn about the holiday celebrations in America; Kwanzaa was the focal point of the lesson. While in NYC, they stopped and watched the Macy’s Day Parade and saw the floats & balloons that they made before Thanksgiving break.
Meet the Sea Turtles Series: Up next we have Mrs. Wood, our fabulous speech pathologist. 💚🐢💙
First grade is ready for Wit & Wisdom Module 2, Creature Features. They went on a scavenger hunt to discover the new topic and explored the different books on their chromebooks.
We have a Holiday Spirit Day coming up this Friday!
Mark your calendars! 📅 In December we'll have Festive Fridays every Friday during the month of December leading up to winter break as well as spirit days on the short week, Dec 18-20. 'Tis the season to be jolly!
Pre-K had a great day today walking the elementary hallways disguised as turkeys. Their classroom turkeys ran away so they were on a scavenger hunt around the school to find them with a few of their parents. 🦃
We're thankful for all of our students, teachers & families!
Please join us for our upcoming Special Education Parent Advisory Committee #ExperienceTheExcellence
Ms. Natalie Tidler, an elementary education major at UNCW, is completing her Fall internship at Surf City Elementary. She has been observing, assisting, and participating in Dr. Martin and Ms. Full’s classrooms this semester. This past week, she taught her first lesson in Dr. Martin’s classroom on how to protect endangered species! She has done an amazing job and we cannot wait to see all the great things she will do for children.
Twinning Tuesday! 🩷
Mrs. Livesey's Kindergarten class made a thankful pumpkin today. Kindergarten, our school is thankful for YOU!
Shout out to these homerooms for having 95% (or above) attendance for the week of Nov 13 -17. ✨ Keep up the great work. ✨
Make Up Picture Day is tomorrow!
Original Works Fundraiser Due Tuesday, November 21st
Purchase your child's art and raise money for the art department!
Your child should have come home with a picture of their art and instructions to purchase online.
Placing your order:
Step 1: Go to https://store.originalworks.com/gallerylogin/ Enter School Code: Suc (Case sensitive, first letter capitalized)
Step 2: In the Title box, enter Image Title (provided with your child's art). Click search and click on artwork image.
Step 3: Order by clicking the image of the product you want to order.
Step 4: Complete the ordering process by Tuesday, November 21st - All orders are shipped directly to the school.
These make great keepsakes for yourself or as gifts!
Mrs. McDonald's Kindergarten students using Geoboards to create flat shapes.
We're thankful for Tarhonda & her awesome crew for allowing a whole lot of families to come join us for Thanksgiving lunch yesterday. It was great to see all these smiling faces. 😊🦃
We're happy to share with you that Mila F. from Mrs. Horne's 5th grade class is our Sea Turtle of the Week for the week of November 13-17. Mila, your school is proud of you.
Do you have questions about our new three-tier bell schedule? We have answers! 🕒 Explore FAQs at https://bit.ly/3sFcODp Contact michael_taylor@pender.k12.nc.us or brandon_smith@pender.k12.nc.us if your question isn't on our list 📚🔍 Your input shapes our school's future!
Dr. Martin and his ‘Sea Turtle Pirates’ visited outer space yesterday! To kick off Module 2 of Wit & Wisdom, our reading curriculum, the classroom was transformed into space, which is the theme of the new module in reading.
When students entered the classroom this morning, they were greeted by Neil Armstrong and experienced the first walk on the moon! Then, the students boarded Apollo 11, with Neil Armstrong, and had their tour guide, Galileo Galilei, guide them through outer space! They were given some “moon candy” to help make the trip to outer space more ‘delicious’.
During the day, students worked on their phonics, and subtracting using the Take Ten & Hundred Away strategy in outer space, while everything glowed and shimmered! Most notably, the student astronauts participated in a book tasting (Space Food) of the new core texts for the second module of Wit & Wisdom. They got excited about all of the new texts they got to read; their favorite was Zathura!
At the end of the day, students raced the Sphero’s around the outer space classroom to learn about the planets and galaxies in space.
Dr. Martin would like to thank Mrs. Lake for her time yesterday afternoon; she helped in transforming the classroom into outer space. In addition; a special thanks to Faith Harbor Methodist Church, Ms. Murray, & Ms. Sawyer for donating the black lights. We couldn’t have the special space decor if it wasn’t for Ms. Sawyer, Ms. Lake, Mrs. Coburn & Ms. Olmstead: thank you so much!! 🌏🪐💫🌞🌚🌜
