Mrs. Chaparro's 4th Graders

Valentine’s Day will be coming up quickly. Students will be allowed to bring a decorated Valentine’s box or envelope from home and Valentine’s to share with each other. We have 23 students in our class. Students will be allowed to bring store-bought CANDY Valentines in addition to prizes! Please sign this form allowing your child to participate in the Valentine’s Party. This will be held during the last 30 minutes of class.

Our Student Council will be selling Friend-Grams can be purchased Feb. 5-9th starting at 7:45 in the lobbies of both Q1 and Q2. The Friend-Grams will be $.25 each. This is a fun way for students to share a message of friendship with a classmate or staff member. Each Friend-Gram will have a small treat attached and delivered to classrooms on Wednesday, February 14.

Parent Teacher Conferences will be held on Wednesday, January 31 and Thursday, February 1.  Please note: These will be early out days (1:10pm). There will be NO SCHOOL Friday, February 2.

I would like to meet with each of you. If you can’t make it on one of these dates/times, please let me know. We can find another time that works better for you.

Click on this link to sign up for a time that works for you!

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Quest families,

This is a friendly reminder that our Sibling Lottery will be pulled TOMORROW by 12:00 pm. If you have an incoming sibling of a current student, they must be enrolled in the lottery to be eligible for acceptance. Please follow this LINK, or go to our website under ENROLLMENT to enroll.  

When filling out the enrollment application, please verify that you have completed the Sibling Preference section in its entirety in order for your student to be eligible for the sibling lottery. (See snapshot).

You will be notified via email of your child’s acceptance into the school, the next steps in the registration process, and what timeline you will need to follow in order to secure your child’s position at Quest.
Thank you,
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• January 8-16– Middle of Year Diagnostic and Acadience Dibels Testing
• January 12– 2nd Term Ends- Report Cards available online in Aspire
• January 15– No School, Martin Luther King Jr. Day
• January 31-February 1- Parent Teacher Conferences and Early Out 1:10pm
• February 2– NO SCHOOL

WHAT WE ARE LEARNING THIS WEEK…

• December 12: Rendezvous projects are due.
• December 14: Wrapped gifts for our gift exchange are due
• December 14: 4th Grade Rendezvous 2:00-300pm (shopping will be as follows: students only from 2:00-2:30pm then families and friends from 2:30-3:00pm) Visitors will receive “complimentary” pelts to spend.
• December 15:  4th grade Polar Express Party and class gift exchange (4th grade Free PJ day)
• December 18: Last day to sign up for mini cheer clinic.
• December 18-January 1: Winter Recess – see you back on Jan 2nd.
• January 5: Yearbook cover entries due.

Yearbook Cover Competition:

The time has come for us to select a yearbook cover for our 2023-24  elementary yearbook. We will be holding a Yearbook Cover Contest to select two students whose artwork will be featured on the front and back cover of the yearbook. This year, students can choose to do artwork that is created digitally or hand-drawn. Each entry must meet the following criteria:

•  Printed on a white 8 ½ X 11” paper
• First and last name printed on the bottom of the page

We will be looking for entries that represent how we can BE GREAT at Quest. 

Entries are due by Friday, January 5, at 8:30 am.

List of digital art programs suitable for children: Adobe Fresco, Gimp, Krita, Artweaver Free, ArtRange, Sketchpad, Astropad Studio, Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape, Vectr, FireAlpaca, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Paint, Procreate, Tux Paint, Drawing for Children.

Thank you, and happy drawing!

Weekly Lesson: Ela, Math

Quest families,

The time has come for us to select a yearbook cover for our 2023-24 elementary yearbook. We will be holding a Yearbook Cover Contest to select two students whose artwork will be featured on the front and back cover of the yearbook. This year, students can choose to do artwork that is created digitally or hand-drawn. Each entry must be brought in on a white 8 ½ X 11” paper, and include the school name along with the student’s first and last name in one corner. We will be looking for entries that represent this years theme which is “BE GREAT!” 

Entries are due by Friday, January 5, at 8:30 am.

List of digital art programs suitable for children: Adobe Fresco, Gimp, Krita, Artweaver Free, ArtRange, Sketchpad, Astropad Studio, Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape, Vectr, FireAlpaca, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Paint, Procreate, Tux Paint, Drawing for Children.

Feel free to call the school with any questions. 

Thank you, and happy drawing!

Polar Express Party-Winter Party

We have been working very hard to be proficient in multiplication facts! We have a few kids that are still trying to master these skills. Please help them by practicing at home.

Students will need to know their MULTIPLICATION FACTS! Please have your child work on their facts at home whenever you can. If they have reached 95% in their REFLEX account have already qualified. Any student under that percent will need to prove to me that they have them learned before the party (verbally, using flashcards, or passed off one at a time on the “multiplication mastery” board. 

To celebrate, we are going to be watching the movie for our winter party. The party will be on Friday, December 15. This movie is rated “G.” Please let me know if you would like your child to participate in another activity that day instead of watching the movie.

Students may wear clean pajamas to school that day. They can bring a small pillow, blanket, and stuffed animal to use during the show. Kids can snack on treats they brought from home (it can be healthy or sweet). They can bring a closable drink too.

NOTE: anything they bring may not be shared with other students. Remember we have a short day this day.

PLANNING AHEAD: Besides watching the movie, we will have a gift exchange. Please send your child with a $3-$5 gift to share. They may also regift a gently used item/toy. Please bring the gift wrapped. I will gladly accept any extra gift you can send for children that don’t bring on. I will not need any volunteers for this day. If you would like to participate in the fun, you can sure stop by for a little bit.

Please fill out the Polar Express Permission Form

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Multi-Step Word Problems Lesson #10