A message from our Librarian

What is our Global Community?

Each year in the Q1 library, we like to encourage students to share their family’s heritage during our Global Literacy week.  In year’s past we’ve done a Diversity Quilt, which showed family traditions & flags representing the family’s origins.  We’ve also done a “Peace” wall to show the different languages in which our diverse population of students would say the word Peace.  This year I would like to display on a map where our students come from.  Show them a visual of our “Global Community” here at Quest.  By doing this we would like to know what State or Country your student was born, or if your student would prefer, where their family originates from.  We will then put their name on a “sticky” arrow & place them on the map.  I think this will be a fun way to show how diverse our student population is here in West haven, Utah. 

For responding, your student’s name will also be entered into a drawing to win a small prize here in the library.  There will be one winner per class.

It really is fun to see where we all originate from & have the students start thinking a little more Globally.  Also possibly finding a kinship with students from the same areas of the world.   

Thank you for participating! 
Here is the link to fill out your information.

Mrs. Anderson

Q1 Librarian

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Happy Birthday Sunnie

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUNNIE!
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Happy Belated Birthday Serenity

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SERENITY!
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Wekly Reminders for November 26th-30th

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1-
 FRIDAY:  
   Homework due
$1.00 Dress Down Day (Student participation is optional. Students are welcome to wear a Quest Spirit shirt with uniform pants or traditional uniforms).

2- “Reindeer Run” this Saturday, December 1st. Register here: Reindeer Run Registration

3- Scholastic Book Order.  BOOKS make great CHRISTMAS presents! Orders due by this Friday, November 30th for delivery before our break. Click here for easy online ordering, our class code is JBTR2Scholastic Book Club

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Homework for November 26th -30th

1- Math Homework: Lesson 10 Understanding the Equal Sign
  • A letter titled “Dear Family” will be sent home in your child’s green take-home-folder (Monday).  Please have your student review it as the students still need some extra work on it.  It provides an activity to do together.  Please read the letter and invite your child to share what they know about the concept by doing the activity together.
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  • PLEASE HAVE STUDENTS SHOW THEIR WORK   
  • ***Parents, I need YOUR SIGNATURE on the math homework as well as your student’s, indicating you did this activity with your child**
*These are due on Friday.  When students return this letter with their name and a parent signature (indicating a parent read it and did the activity with their child), the student will earn “Star Dust”
2-*NEW* FLUENCY PASSAGE sample FOR THE WEEK:
YOU DO NOT NEED TO RETURN THE NEW FLUENCY PASSAGE or THE RETELL ROPE. USE IT TO HELP PREPARE YOUR STUDENT FOR JANUARY DIBELS TESTING. It may take the entire 20 minutes to work through the passage on Monday. ALL the time your student spends on fluency counts toward their reading minutes.
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MONDAY:
1st- Using a yellow crayon or high lighter, have your student highlight each word in the passage they can read correctly without any help FLUENTLY.
2nd- Go back through the passage and have a “Good Conversation” about the words they were unsure of or didn’t know. Talk about what strategies good readers use to problem solve/figure out the word. Here are a few suggestions…CVC if there is only one vowel, it USUALLY make the short vowel sound, CVCe-is there an /e/ at the end of the word that makes the first vowel say it’s name. Is there a vowel team that follows the rule…When vowel teams go a walking, the first one USUALLY does the talking  such as ee, ea, ai, oa, etc. Are there words within words like “ants” at the end of elephants…”and” in the word land…Go over the fact that they can skip the word and use the context of the sentence to help them figure out what the word is and if it makes sense.
3rd- Lastly, read the passage together,  then using the retell rope,  have your student tell you what they read in order of event of information.

TUESDAY – THURSDAY
*AGAIN* POINT OUT THE WORDS YOUR STUDENT KNOWS and then GO OVER THE ONES THAT ARE TRICKY.  Have them sound out words that follow “Regular Rules.” Time them for ONE, one minute timing each day to see how far they can read on their own. Their accuracy/fluency should increase each time they read the sentences.
WE are looking for how many words they are reading correctly out of how many they read and then what they can retell.


PLEASE use the Re-Tell Ropes below OR the one I sent home, whenever you are reading with your student checking for understanding.  THIS  HELPS STUDENTS PREPARE FOR OUR  LANGUAGE ARTS WORK AND DIBELS  TEST COMPREHENSION.

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3.-Daily Reading Fluency (available in the Green Homework folders). I am sending home a “Fast and Fluent” page for your student to practice reading this week. There are 10 words and 10 sentences that your student needs to read daily. Have your student do 3- 1 minute timings each day on the words and sentences then, record how many words they read CORRECTLY in each one minute timing, NOT how long it took them to read it 3 times. Let me know if you have any questions.  The goal is to get more words read correctly each day with each timing. The time they spend reading can count toward their 20minutes.

These sentences contain words that focus on the phonics concept/sounds we will be working on that week. They also help students with what correct sentence structure should look like.

This week it’s Consonant Diagraphs: /ch/ as in cheese and beach and
, /tch/ as in pitch and match, /wh/ as in
when and which, /ph/ as in graph and Phil

Below is a bigger overview of this weeks LA focus:

Unit 2 Week 5 Parent Newsletter
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Happy Birthday Hayden

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Weekly Reminders

Pg41b_color1- FRIDAY:  
   Homework due
*UPDATE: $1.00 dress down fundraiser for Angel Tree. (Student participation is optional. Students are welcome to wear a Quest Spirit shirt with uniform pants or traditional uniforms).
 *Students are welcome to show their Quest pride by wearing their school spirit shirts (with uniform pants).

2- “Reindeer Run”
I THINK…Tomorrow may be the last day to register if you want a SWAG BAG.  This is a community event so PLEASE spread the word…ITS GOING TO SO MUCH FUN!!! “Reindeer Run” Register here: 
Reindeer Run Registration

3- Scholastic Book Order.  BOOKS make great CHRISTMAS presents! Orders due by Friday, November 30th for delivery before our Christmas break. Click here for easy online ordering, our class code is JBTR2Scholastic Book Club

Upcoming: Thanksgiving Break
**No School: Monday-Friday, November 19-23**  PLEASE READ WITH YOUR STUDENTS OVER BREAK
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Student Math Helps!

We will be having a quiz on lesson 11 tomorrow which is all about patterns and filling in a number table. They should have started to see the patters in each table which is simply… as each addend goes up by one so does the sum or total.
Please look over and talk about the table below with your student. They should be able to tell you what the patterns are,  and what the missing addends and sums should be.
You should also be able to print it off  if you choose to.
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This would be a great time to get out the hundreds chart out (I gave each family at Back to School Night) and talk about the patterns there since that is really what the chart is all about. This is in preparation for the students to learn place value and the concept of (Which we have been doing in our calendar math all  year):
1 group of ten =  10
2 groups of ten= 20
3 groups of ten = 30
4 groups of ten = 40
5 groups of ten = 50
6 groups of ten = 60
7 groups of ten = 70
8 groups of ten = 80
9 groups of ten = 90
10 groups of the =100
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Happy Birthday Rylee W.

Happy Birthday Rylee W!!!
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Homework for November 11th-16th

1- Math Homework: Lesson 10 Understanding the Equal Sign
  • A letter titled “Dear Family” will be sent home in your child’s green take-home-folder (Monday).  Please have your student review it as the students still need some extra work on it.  It provides an activity to do together.  Please read the letter and invite your child to share what they know about the concept by doing the activity together.

  • PLEASE HAVE STUDENTS SHOW THEIR WORK   
  • ***Parents, I need YOUR SIGNATURE on the math homework as well as your student’s, indicating you did this activity with your child**
*These are due on Friday.  When students return this letter with their name and a parent signature (indicating a parent read it and did the activity with their child), the student will earn “Star Dust”
2-*NEW* FLUENCY PASSAGE sample FOR THE WEEK:
YOU DO NOT NEED TO RETURN THE NEW FLUENCY PASSAGE or THE RETELL ROPE. USE IT TO HELP PREPARE YOUR STUDENT FOR JANUARY DIBELS TESTING. It may take the entire 20 minutes to work through the passage on Monday. ALL the time your student spends on fluency counts toward their reading minutes.
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MONDAY:
1st- Using a yellow crayon or high lighter, have your student highlight each word in the passage they can read correctly without any help FLUENTLY.
2nd- Go back through the passage and have a “Good Conversation” about the words they were unsure of or didn’t know. Talk about what strategies good readers use to problem solve/figure out the word. Here are a few suggestions…CVC if there is only one vowel, it USUALLY make the short vowel sound, CVCe-is there an /e/ at the end of the word that makes the first vowel say it’s name. Is there a vowel team that follows the rule…When vowel teams go a walking, the first one USUALLY does the talking  such as ee, ea, ai, oa, etc. Are there words within words like “ants” at the end of elephants…”and” in the word land…Go over the fact that they can skip the word and use the context of the sentence to help them figure out what the word is and if it makes sense.
3rd- Lastly, read the passage together,  then using the retell rope,  have your student tell you what they read in order of event of information.

TUESDAY – THURSDAY
*AGAIN* POINT OUT THE WORDS YOUR STUDENT KNOWS and then GO OVER THE ONES THAT ARE TRICKY.  Have them sound out words that follow “Regular Rules.” Time them for ONE, one minute timing each day to see how far they can read on their own. Their accuracy/fluency should increase each time they read the sentences.
WE are looking for how many words they are reading correctly out of how many they read and then what they can retell.


PLEASE use the Re-Tell Ropes below OR the one I sent home, whenever you are reading with your student checking for understanding.  THIS  HELPS STUDENTS PREPARE FOR OUR  LANGUAGE ARTS WORK AND DIBELS  TEST COMPREHENSION.

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


















3.-Daily Reading Fluency (available in the Green Homework folders). I am sending home a “Fast and Fluent” page for your student to practice reading this week. There are 10 words and 10 sentences that your student needs to read daily. Have your student do 3- 1 minute timings each day on the words and sentences then, record how many words they read CORRECTLY in each one minute timing, NOT how long it took them to read it 3 times. Let me know if you have any questions.  The goal is to get more words read correctly each day with each timing. The time they spend reading can count toward their 20minutes.

These sentences contain words that focus on the phonics concept/sounds we will be working on that week. They also help students with what correct sentence structure should look like.

This week it’s Consonant Diagraphs: /sh/ as in shop and fish and
, /th/ as in with and this (soft and hard sound) and, /ng/  as in sang and sing.

Below is a bigger overview of this weeks LA focus:
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