FIRST THINGS FIRST

This Friday September 25th will be our first dress down of the year. Students can wear non-uniform clothes for $1. Friday also is the launch of the cookie dough and beef jerky fundraiser. Make sure you check out this FUN VIDEO starring our Administration here at Quest Academy. This fundraiser will help with student activities and school improvements that directly affect our students. Check Backpacks on Friday for all the information!!

Just a Reminder: FRIDAY IS EARLY OUT 8:30 -10:30

This was our first week for LIBRARY and we learned from our school librarian about TRAVELING LIBRARIES! We are so lucky that Mrs Anderson is willing to travel to Room 106 to bring us books and read us stories!!

Here are a couple of examples of how Librarians travel to help children have access to books. 🙂

A Read Aloud Biblioburro – Luis Soriano

Video

It’s so fun to learn how things are done in other parts of the world & right here at QUEST ACADEMY!!

These drawing are a great representation of HOW CUTE THIS CLASS IS!!

Children’s names are usually the first written words that they learn. We can support children’s literacy development by using their interest in this most important word as a springboard for other letter recognition. In the next couple of weeks we are going to QUICKLY review the letters of the alphabet. This would be a good time to get excited about LETTERS with your Kindergartener!! Challenge them to find out what letters are in the names of people they know and love!! Talk about the letters, have them count the letters, have them write the different names on paper to see what letters they may need help in forming. When the letters are attached to something meaningful it will be more motivating for them to engage in practicing!!

We have been talking about HOW WE ARE EACH SPECIAL this week. Today we read and talked about the Story of the Ugly Duckling and how we can learn important lessons from stories like this one. We talked about how the Ugly Duckling is special, that he was always special, even though he and others didn’t think so at first. As we look at each others names, we see that they are all different. The beginning letter is an uppercase letter and the following letters are lowercase, we may even have a different number of letters in our names. They may look different, but they are each special to us!! (We were also able to throw in a little scissor lesson with our Apple Name Puzzles. We talked about how we hold the scissors, where we put our thumb and fingers and to keep our hand in the right position as we open and close the tool. “WHEN WE CUT …. THUMBS UP”). This first week has been ROCKIN‘