Homework 9/18-9/22

Homework this week is due on FRIDAY, September 22nd:
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1- Math Homework:  
  • Worksheets: Please look in your child’s green folder on Tuesday for worksheets with concepts that have been taught in class.  The purpose of this homework is for a quick review, some practice, and a chance for parents to see what their child is learning in math.  Please complete every other problem (alternate between evens and odds so your child gets practice doing story problems AND “Vocabulary Check”/ “Test Practice” problems each week).  If your child wants to do every problem they are certainly free to do so! :) Please help your child read the directions/example problems and allow them to talk about the problems as they figure out the answers. 
  • Math Fluency Timings: Click on the link to see where your child is at on math timings.Then print the page of timing they are working on. Addition and Subtraction Fluency Timings. Print the page they are working on and put it in a sheet protector in your child’s green folder. Time them for 1 minute and 15 seconds twice. Have them use an expo to write their answers that way you can reuse sheets. During class if they pass it off they will move up to the next timing. Once they complete all these timings they will receive more difficult mixed timings to complete. 

2- Moon Journal. Continue observing the moon and recording moon phases.
Moon Journal is due Friday September 29th!

**LANGUAGE ARTS HOMEWORK** 

1- Daily Reading Fluency (available in the Green Homework folders). Please complete both sides of the Leveled Daily Reading Fluency assignment. 
A Reading for All Learners (Baggy Book) leveled book will be sent home with your child DAILY. These baggy books will be sent home beginning tomorrow.  Please have your child read the book (or one story from the books that contain more than one story) at least two-three times and then sign the included form. You may supplement your child’s reading using books at home, library books, etc. to fulfill the minimum requirement of 20-30 minutes of reading per day. These are meant to be easier than your students level to work on their sight word and fluency. 

2- Reading 20 minutes per day.  Track your daily reading minutes on the homework tracker sheet.  Make reading every single day a priority.  Ask your students questions using the retell rope visual below.  It’s also a good idea to time your child every single day for one minute on the same story every week in preparation for the benchmark Dibels testings throughout the year.  

3-New Activity. It is so very important to practice timed readings with our students.  We have added this additional component to the reading homework. 
This activity should be completed Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  It is not necessary to fill out a Homework Form for this week’s homework – I trust that you will do it. These extra phonics fluency stories are for extra practice.  Please record the words per minute from the timings off of your students reading homework story sent home in their green homework folders.  

  1. Visit the following file for extra timed practice: Phonics-Fluency-Stories-1
  2. For this week, please read Lesson #3 for this week from the fluency stories listed above for extra practice.  You don’t need to turn these stories in, just the reading homework page sent home in your child’s green homework folder each week.  Please record the fluency time of words per minute on the homework tracker from their reading homework stories sent home in their green homework folders.  
  3.  Complete a one-minute timed reading and record your score on the Homework Form. Feel free to use this online timer: http://www.online-stopwatch.com/timer/1minute/ Find your score by subtracting the number of incorrect words read from the total number of words read in one minute (for instance, if you read 98 words, but read 5 of the words incorrectly, your score would be 93).   
  4. Re-tell the story with as much detail as possible, and in your own words, to a parent, using the guidelines described below:

Non-Fiction Re-tell Rope 3Fiction Re-Tell Rope 3














3- Phonics and High Frequency Words Homework. Practice using any method of your choice to prepare for the weekly spelling test. Click here for some practice ideas: Spelling Study Activities.

Phonics Spelling List:

clip
flip
slip
flag
black
plan
win
sit 

High Frequency Words:
 

be
come
good
pull

**Wonders provides additional activities to support your child’s learning. Please visit “School to Home” on your child’s Wonder page for our weekly Family Member letter. **

Click here to access our class account: Wonders

Moon Journal Reminder

Screen Shot 2015-10-08 at 9.50.12 AMJust a reminder that Moon Journals are due in two weeks on Friday September 29th. I gave you PLENTY of time to get one of these filled out so if you haven’t started do so now! Print the page above and have your child start tracking what the moon looks like at night.  

 Undoubtedly there will be some cloudy days that prevent them from seeing the moon, so they can either draw clouds or visit the following website which displays the phase of the moon according to your location/time zone:  
http://www.moonpage.com/index.html
Here’s another great link to see when the moon is rising, setting, and which phase it is in:  Moonrise, moonset, and moon phases

Thanks for your help and encouragement!  I’ll collect their Moon Journal paper on Sept. 29th. They may turn them in early if they are finished!

Happy Moon Watching!

Animal Reports due TOMORROW, September 15th

As part of our Hogle Zoo animals unit, students are doing Animal Reports!  They are due tomorrow, September 15th with their regular weekly homework.  

Your child may choose any zoo animal for his/her report.  Please assist your child in researching the animal, using any means: books, encyclopedias, internet, etc., rather than simply stating what they know or believe to be true.  Click here to learn more about your animal on the Hogle Zoo website: Meet the Hogle Zoo Animals. Here is another fun animal website: Zooborns 

Encourage your child to use best handwriting, because he/she will need to be able to read his/her own handwriting.  The reports will be shared with the class on Monday, and your child may find it beneficial to practice reading his/her report to you prior to reading it for our class.  


Click on the link below to download/print the Animal Report form:

CLICK HERE for the “My Animal Report” form.

Cookie Dough Daily Total

Orders are due MONDAY, September 18th. Thank you for your participation in this fundraiser. Help us reach our class goal to sell 150 items by Monday and earning our class ice cream sundae party! Currently the students have reported they have sold 55 items. We would like to get a more accurate total.  If you could please fill out this Google Form daily below, for today please list the total as of right now they have sold. 

COOKIE DOUGH DAILY TOTALS FORM

Proceeds from the cookie dough will help to fund school activities like clubs, sports, field day, field trips, library books, and more. 


Here are some things to know:
Orders are due back by Sept 18
Make checks to POQA
Cookie dough orders will arrive Oct 6 at the school

Online sales also count and they are an easy way to invite family and friends to place orders.

Hogle Zoo Reminder


Zoo EntranceOur Hogle Zoo Field Trip is TOMORROW- TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12th.  Here are a few things to know before we go:

1-  We appreciate those who have already made their field trip donation.  If you haven’t please pay your $15.00 donation to the Q1 office to cover the transportation costs of our scheduled field trips this year.  We greatly appreciate anything that you can donate for our field trips.  Thank you for your generosity!  

2- Wear school uniform with RED shirt, sunscreen and good walking shoes! Please dress for the weather.  

3- Bring a cold sack lunch from home in a disposable bag with your child’s name.  Everything must be completely disposable. 
The following students purchased a pre-paid sack lunch in advance for their students: Xorion
Brigham
Peyton
Millie
Titan
Aaliyah

**ALL OTHER STUDENTS AND CHAPERONES MUST PROVIDE THEIR COLD SACK LUNCH FROM HOME FOR THE FIELD TRIP TOMORROW**

4- Be on time. Arrive at school by 8:30am. Bus departs at 8:45am. We meet back at the buses at 1:05pm for headcount and to come back to the school. We will leave the zoo at 1:15pm sharp, returning to Quest between 2-2:15pm. If you plan on checking your child out for the day at the zoo, you must find Mrs. Bischoff at the bus at 1:05pm to sign out your child on the office check out sheet with her.

5- Parent chaperones: Please bring a backpack or bag to carry the lunches of the students in your group.  And a lunch for yourself.  Please arrive and meet in our room at 8:15am to go over last minute instructions and get a copy of the Zoo Groups.  If you are bringing siblings, it is necessary for you to drive your own vehicle.  Please be prepared to pay for yourself and any extra children you bring.  For those driving, plan on meeting us at the zoo at 9:30-9:45am.  The zoo address is 2600 E. Sunnyside Avenue, Salt Lake, UT, 84108.  

Your child is required by Hogle Zoo to wear their name badges.  Please have a talk with your children on the importance of not losing their badge, the cost is $5 for a replacement badge at the office.

  • Please click on the link below for the Zoo Groups:
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Homework for week September 11-15th

Homework this week is due on FRIDAY, September 15th:
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1- Math Homework:  
  • Worksheets: Please look in your child’s green folder on Tuesday for worksheets with concepts that have been taught in class.  The purpose of this homework is for a quick review, some practice, and a chance for parents to see what their child is learning in math.  Please complete every other problem (alternate between evens and odds so your child gets practice doing story problems AND “Vocabulary Check”/ “Test Practice” problems each week).  If your child wants to do every problem they are certainly free to do so! :) Please help your child read the directions/example problems and allow them to talk about the problems as they figure out the answers. 
  • Math Fluency Timings: Click on the link to see where your child is at on math timings.Then print the page of timing they are working on. Addition and Subtraction Fluency Timings. Print the page they are working on and put it in a sheet protector in your child’s green folder. Time them for 1 minute and 15 seconds twice. Have them use an expo to write their answers that way you can reuse sheets. During class if they pass it off they will move up to the next timing. Once they complete all these timings they will receive more difficult mixed timings to complete. 

2- Moon Journal. Continue observing the moon and recording moon phases.
Moon Journal is due Friday September 29th!

**LANGUAGE ARTS HOMEWORK** 

1- Daily Reading Fluency (available in the Green Homework folders). Please complete both sides of the Leveled Daily Reading Fluency assignment. 
A Reading for All Learners (Baggy Book) leveled book will be sent home with your child DAILY. These baggy books will be sent home beginning tomorrow.  Please have your child read the book (or one story from the books that contain more than one story) at least two-three times and then sign the included form. You may supplement your child’s reading using books at home, library books, etc. to fulfill the minimum requirement of 20-30 minutes of reading per day. These are meant to be easier than your students level to work on their sight word and fluency. 

2- Reading 20 minutes per day.  Track your daily reading minutes on the homework tracker sheet.  Make reading every single day a priority.  Ask your students questions using the retell rope visual below.  It’s also a good idea to time your child every single day for one minute on the same story every week in preparation for the benchmark Dibels testings throughout the year.  

3-New Activity. It is so very important to practice timed readings with our students.  We have added this additional component to the reading homework. 
This activity should be completed Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  It is not necessary to fill out a Homework Form for this week’s homework – I trust that you will do it.

  1. Visit the following file: Phonics-Fluency-Stories-1
  2. For this week, please read Lesson #1 for MONDAY and TUESDAY, and Lesson #2 for WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY. 
  3.  Complete a one-minute timed reading and record your score on the Homework Form. Feel free to use this online timer: http://www.online-stopwatch.com/timer/1minute/ Find your score by subtracting the number of incorrect words read from the total number of words read in one minute (for instance, if you read 98 words, but read 5 of the words incorrectly, your score would be 93).   
  4. Re-tell the story with as much detail as possible, and in your own words, to a parent, using the guidelines described below:

Non-Fiction Re-tell Rope 3Fiction Re-Tell Rope 3














If you are able to read the entire passage in less than a minute: start again at the top of the passage and read as many more words as you can until the one-minute timing is over.  For scoring, include the total words read during the entire minute. For instance, if you read the entire passage (137 words) and then read part of it again (39 words) before the one-minute timing was over, your score would be 176 (if you had no mistakes).

3- Phonics and High Frequency Words Homework. Practice using any method of your choice to prepare for the weekly spelling test. Click here for some practice ideas: Spelling Study Activities.

Phonics Spelling List:

pin
win
hit
sit
miss
kiss
skin
spin

High Frequency Words:

down
out
up
very

**Wonders provides additional activities to support your child’s learning. Please visit “School to Home” on your child’s Wonder page for our weekly Family Member letter. **

Click here to access our class account: Wonders

Quest Academy Fundraiser


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We are selling Cookie Dough to help fund awesome things for our awesome students! Proceeds from the cookie dough will help to fund school activities like clubs, sports, field day, field trips, library books, and more. 

Here are some things to know:
The fundraiser sale begins TODAY
Orders are due back by Sept 18
Make checks to POQA
Cookie dough orders will arrive Oct 6 at the school

Online sales also count and they are an easy way to invite family and friends to place orders.

Homework (September 4-8)

Homework this week is due on FRIDAY, September 8th:

1- Math Homework:  
  • Worksheets: Please look in your child’s green folder on Tuesday for worksheets with concepts that have been taught in class.  The purpose of this homework is for a quick review, some practice, and a chance for parents to see what their child is learning in math.  Please complete every other problem (alternate between evens and odds so your child gets practice doing story problems AND “Vocabulary Check”/ “Test Practice” problems each week).  If your child wants to do every problem they are certainly free to do so! :) Please help your child read the directions/example problems and allow them to talk about the problems as they figure out the answers. 
  • Math Fluency Timings: Click on the link to see where your child is at on math timings.Then print the page of timing they are working on. Addition and Subtraction Fluency Timings. Print the page they are working on and put it in a sheet protector in your child’s green folder. Time them for 1 minute and 15 seconds twice. Have them use an expo to write their answers that way you can reuse sheets. During class if they pass it off they will move up to the next timing. Once they complete all these timings they will receive more difficult mixed timings to complete. Soon there will be a tracking sheet so I can have you record how many problems they completed. 

2- Moon Journal. Continue observing the moon and recording moon phases.

**LANGUAGE ARTS HOMEWORK** 

1- Daily Reading Fluency (available in the Green Homework folders). Please complete both sides of the Leveled Daily Reading Fluency assignment. 
A Reading for All Learners (Baggy Book) leveled book will be sent home with your child DAILY. These baggy books will be sent home beginning tomorrow.  Please have your child read the book (or one story from the books that contain more than one story) at least two-three times and then sign the included form. You may supplement your child’s reading using books at home, library books, etc. to fulfill the minimum requirement of 20-30 minutes of reading per day. These are meant to be easier than your students level to work on their sight word and fluency. 

2- Reading 20 minutes per day.  No need to submit minutes at this time, but we strongly encourage you to make reading a priority.

3- Phonics and High Frequency Words Homework. Practice using any method of your choice to prepare for the weekly spelling test. Click here for some practice ideas: Spelling Study Activities.

Phonics Spelling List:

man
can
nap
tap
cat
hat
flat
that

High Frequency Words:

does
not
school
what

**Wonders provides additional activities to support your child’s learning. Please visit “School to Home” on your child’s Wonder page for our weekly Family Member letter. **

Click here to access our class account: Wonders

 

Hogle Zoo Field Trip


Zoo Entrance
We have received confirmation that our Hogle Zoo Field Trip will beTuesday, September 12th. 

Lunch:
There are school sack lunches available for field trips. School sack lunches contain an Uncrustable sandwich, applesauce or apple, carrots and shelf-stable chocolate or white milk. Orders MUST be submitted by Tuesday, September 5th. If you would like to order a sack lunch for our Hogle Zoo field trip, please click on the following link: Field Trip Lunch Orders

Parent Chaperones:
We appreciate the outpouring of support to be chaperones and know that our students will have a memorable experience. We are limited on the number of parents we can take on the buses. If you previously indicated that you would like to ride the bus, but would be willing to drive your own car please let us know on the link below. If you have indicated that you would like to ride the bus and have special circumstances that would necessity your riding the bus, please indicate on the link below. If we still have more parents than spots available on the bus we will hold a random drawing for bus assignmentsParent Chaperone Transportation

Prodigy / Reflex Math

I have started introducing math programs to the kids this week. The first is Reflex Math and the second is Prodigy. If your child would like to play these at home here are their passwords. All programs are under the questac.org page under Students then go to student links. 

REFLEX MATH: 

Username: qbischoff
Then click on the yellow tab that says 2017-2018 
Click on their name
Password: rams 

PRODIGY: 
If you have paid for a prodigy account and your child would like to use that login and password please email me that so I can put it on their password cards. Thanks!

Click this link printStudentLogins  to look up your child’s password.