We sent Unit 3 Wonders Workbook (and math packets) home today so they would have additional practice and stories to read over the long Thanksgiving break.

Looking Ahead:

• Monday-Friday, November 25-29: Thanksgiving Break- NO SCHOOL
• Thursday, December 19: Discovery Gateway comes to Quest Kindergarten classes
• Friday, December 20: Class Winter Party
• December 23-January 5: Winter Break- No School

*Elementary Yearbooks on sale now click HERE. (Elementary – Yearbook ID: 15110625)

*Scholastic Book Order: Books make great gifts! Order by Monday, December 2 for delivery before winter break. Feel free to share this link and our class code with grandparents, family and friends. Click here for easy online ordering: Scholastic Reading Club (our class code is Y8WGR). Online ordering is fast and easy and allows you to shop all the books, not just the select books in the current flyer.  You can also try Scholastic’s “Book Finder” for ideas on books for your child.

Here’s a quick overview of new things we learned this week:

Comprehension strategy: “Visualize”. We read different stories to go along with our theme “The Places We Go”

New High Frequency Word: “go”

Phonics:blend and isolate sounds in CVC words. New sound/spelling: /k/ Cc

Vocabulary: routine, neighborhood, local, intelligent, volunteer

Math: Lesson 10 continued “Add and Subtract Within 10”

Science: Our key idea for this week is that by playing with and thinking about forces, people can accomplish surprisingly big things. For example, this week we solved the mystery, “How can you knock down a wall made of concrete?” Your child did an activity where they investigated what happened to a “wall” made of cups when they changed the strength and direction of a paper wrecking ball.

We enjoyed our Thanksgiving Pizza Feast! Students were quick to think of things they were grateful for. I’m so grateful for them! Happy Thanksgiving!

Due to some circumstances changing, we’re looking for some more wonderful volunteers. We could use help on Monday, Tuesday, or Friday mornings (8:30-9:00) or Tuesday afternoons (10:30-11:20).

Thank you so much for considering and being willing to help! If interested, please email me: lteichert@questac.org

• Friday, November 22: $1 Dress Down Day
• Friday, November 22: Thanksgiving Pizza Feast (Pizza Permission Form)
• Friday, November 22: Yearbook Cover Design contest submission due date
• Monday-Friday, November 25-29: Thanksgiving Break- NO SCHOOL
• Friday, December 20: Class Winter Party
• December 23-January 5: Winter Break- No School

*Elementary Yearbooks on sale now click HERE. (Elementary – Yearbook ID: 15110625)

*Scholastic Book Order: Books make great gifts! Order by Monday, December 2 for delivery before winter break. Feel free to share this link and our class code with grandparents, family and friends. Click here for easy online ordering: Scholastic Reading Club (our class code is Y8WGR). Online ordering is fast and easy and allows you to shop all the books, not just the select books in the current flyer.  You can also try Scholastic’s “Book Finder” for ideas on books for your child.

Here’s a quick overview of new things we learned this week:

Comprehension strategy: “Visualize” . We read a fictional story, a fable and an informational text to go along with our theme “What are the different sounds we hear?”

New High Frequency Word: “and”

Phonics:blend and isolate sounds in CVC words. New sound/spelling: Nn

Vocabulary: listen, volume, exclaimed, chat, familiar

Math: Lesson 16 “Count, Read, and Write Numbers 11-20”

Science: In our Read-Along lesson about forces this week, a little girl watched a house being built and wondered why the builders need so many big machines. Students acted out the “work words” of their favorite machine.

To volunteer to pick up pizza or donate some juice boxes: Click here Thank you so much!

On Friday, November 22, we will be reading a Thanksgiving book called “Turkey Trouble” and enjoying a slice of pizza from Little Caesars Pizza (which goes along with the storyline of the book). For students to have permission and to choose between pepperoni or cheese pizza, please fill out the following: Pizza Permission Form

Thank you so much!

We had such a fun ice cream party on Friday! I’m so proud of our class for how far they’ve come in learning their letter names and sounds! They’ve worked hard at school and I can’t thank you enough for the hard work you’ve put in at home to help them!

Beginning of the Year Class Statistics:
Uppercase: 61%
Lowercase: 50%
Sounds:37%

Current Class Statistics:
Uppercase: 96%
Lowercase: 96%
Sounds: 96%
95% of the class passed all three with 100% accuracy! That’s an amazing feat in 2 months! Also, there were a few students who were working on fluency of the letter names and sounds and all of them reached their goal as well!

Moving forward, the focus for the whole class will now be fluency of the letters. The middle of year goal is a whopping 55 letters named in 1 minute (fascinatingly, it drops to 51/min. by the end of the year). The assessment looks a lot like this worksheet and we will include a page like this each week in their “Practice at Home” packet. Even though the formal assessment is letter names only, please continue to practice the sounds with them! Short increments of practice, with daily consistency, will help keep the progress they made. Thank you again for your amazing support at home!

Upcoming Events:

• Friday, November 15: Special Fundraiser Dress Down Day benefitting a Quest Family dealing with cancer. (This one isn’t included if you prepaid for dress down days)
• Friday, November 22: $1 Dress Down Day
• Friday, November 22: Yearbook Cover Design contest submission due date
• Monday-Friday, November 25-29: Thanksgiving Break- NO SCHOOL

*Elementary Yearbooks on sale now click HERE. (Elementary – Yearbook ID: 15110625)

*Scholastic Book Order: Books make great gifts! Order by Monday, December 2 for delivery before winter break. Feel free to share this link and our class code with grandparents, family and friends. Click here for easy online ordering: Scholastic Reading Club (our class code is Y8WGR). Online ordering is fast and easy and allows you to shop all the books, not just the select books in the current flyer.  You can also try Scholastic’s “Book Finder” for ideas on books for your child.

Here’s a quick overview of new things we learned this week:

Comprehension strategy/skill: “Visualize” and “Characters” . We read a fantasy and a fable to go along with our theme “What rules do we follow in different places?”

New High Frequency Word: “to”

Phonics: blending words with the letters: Mm, Aa, Ss, Pp, Tt, Ii. New sound/spelling: Ii

Vocabulary: rules, cooperate, guard, responsible, prank

Math: Lesson 10 “Add and Subtract within 5”

Science: This week, your child learned that before we had machines, we had to do lots of work by hand. We talked about how machines are not magical; rather they just seem that way because there are often moving parts hidden inside.

You can encourage your child’s curiosity by asking them to go on a “machine walk” around the house: invite your child to identify machines around your home. Anything which has a motor inside of it is a good candidate (examples include things like a washing machine or dryer, a dishwasher, a hair dryer, an electric toothbrush, a car). You can raise questions like “Interesting! What kind of work by hand would we have to do, if we didn’t have this machine?” and “Hmm… how do you think the parts of this machine work?”

(You may either print this flier or pick one up in the office)

We are now beginning Unit 3 in Language Arts. Below are the power words, oral vocabulary words, letters, and sounds we will be mastering during the next 3 weeks. We will continue working on syllables, rhyming, identifying the beginning and ending sounds of words, and blending sounds to read words. We have learned most of our sound wall sounds and use our sound wall to help us spell and read words.

Books make great gifts! Order by Monday, December 2 for delivery before winter break. Feel free to share this link and our class code with grandparents, family and friends. Click here for easy online ordering: Scholastic Reading Club (our class code is Y8WGR)

Online ordering is fast and easy and allows you to shop all the books, not just the select books in the current flyer.  You can also try Scholastic’s “Book Finder” for ideas on books for your child.