Free Dress Down day will be FRIDAY. Students are welcome to wear comfy pajamas that day (or regular dress down).

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!

Please take a few seconds to fill out this form for your child: Winter Party Treat Permission

Thank you!

Looking Ahead:

• Thursday, December 14: Discovery Gateway comes to Quest Kindergarten classes
• Friday, December 15: Class Winter Party (Student’s are welcome to wear comfy pajamas today as part of the free Dress Down Day)
  • Permission for Treats
  • Volunteer Sign Up
• December 16-January 1: Winter Break- No School

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

Comprehension strategy/skill: “Ask and Answer Questions”/Characters and Setting . We read different stories to go along with our theme “Who are your neighbors?”

New High Frequency Word: “do”

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

Vocabulary: cultures, appreciate, prefer, tradition, proud

Math: Lesson 17 “Count within 100″ (by 1’s and 10’s).

Science: Forces and Engineering: We explored ways to invent a trap and a machine that can do chores.

Looking Ahead:

• Saturday, Dec. 2: Reindeer Run and Breakfast with the Grinch
• Thursday, December 14: Discovery Gateway comes to Quest Kindergarten classes
• Friday, December 15: Class Winter Party (Volunteer Sign Up). (Student’s are welcome to wear comfy pajamas today as part of the $1 Dress Down Free Dress Down Day)
• December 16-January 1: Winter Break- No School

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

Comprehension strategy/skill: “Ask and Answer Questions” and “Topic and Details” . We read two informational texts and a tale from Puerto Rico (“Little Juan and the Cooking Pot”) to go along with our theme “What do people use to do their job?”

New High Frequency Word: “you”

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

Vocabulary: equipment, uniform, utensils, expect, remained

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

Science: This week, students learned a key idea about forces: how pushes can change the direction and speed of an object’s movement. We learned how some mountain towns in danger of landslides can build structures to protect themselves from falling rocks. Students designed and tested their own solutions to re-direct falling boulders away from their town and toward a waiting dump truck.

We are sending home a “Snow Day” packet on Friday. Please hold onto and wait to do these lessons and activities until/if we ever have a snow day this Winter. (An exception to this is The “Letters and Numbers for Me” orange book. It is part of the packet, but your child is welcome to work on this anytime and doesn’t need to wait). Thank you!

We would love some volunteers to help with our Winter Party on Friday, December 15: Winter Party Volunteer Sign Up.

Thank you so much!

We are now beginning Unit 4 in Language Arts. Below are the power words, oral vocabulary words, letters, and sounds we will be mastering during the next 3 weeks. We have been introduced to all our sound wall sounds and are continuing to blend sounds to read words.

Looking Ahead:

• We sent decodables and math packets (addition and subtraction) home today so they could practice over the long Thanksgiving break.
• Monday-Friday, November 20-24: Thanksgiving Break- NO SCHOOL
• Saturday, Dec. 2: Reindeer Run and Breakfast with the Grinch
• Thursday, December 14: Discovery Gateway comes to Quest Kindergarten classes
• Friday, December 15: Class Winter Party
• December 16-January 1: Winter Break- No School

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 9 “Subtract within 5”

Science: Human Bumper Bowling. Students made a model bumper bowling alley and worked together to knock down pins using force to change the balls direction.

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!

• Friday, November 17 Thanksgiving Pizza Feast (Permission Form)
• Friday, November 17: Dollar Dress Down Day
• Monday-Friday, November 20-24: Thanksgiving Break- NO SCHOOL
• Saturday, Dec. 2: Reindeer Run and Breakfast with the Grinch
• Thursday, December 14: Discovery Gateway comes to Quest Kindergarten classes
• Friday, December 15: Class Winter Party
• December 16-January 1: Winter Break- No School

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 7 “Add within 5”

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.