Important information
Hello Parents! I just wanted to send this email out with information for the upcoming week! There is no school on Monday 01/15 for MLK day. We will begin Diagnostic testing in I Ready for math and ELA on Tuesday since we are halfway into the school year! We will be doing this for the rest of the week. We will also be having our middle of year testing for reading on thursday 01/18. If your student will not be here that day please let me know!
Here is the sign up again for parent teacher conference https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C084BA5A923A1FDC25-47138828-2ndquarter
Sibling lottery
Hello friends!
We are going to be pulling our first sibling lottery tomorrow. Would you please email/post to google classroom the following message so we can ensure the information is getting out to all of our families?
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,
01/08-01/12
Families, welcome to another week! Hopefully, your family is enjoying the weekend snow fall! I have told my students they are welcome to wear snow boots and bring a change of shoes in case they don’t want to wear them all day; that way, they will have them for recess and after school as well. We certainly try to avoid wet socks and feet all day!
There will be NO tutoring this week. We will continue to work on summarizing and author’s perspective in ELA this week. In math, we will continue to work on fractions!
Reminder: there is no school on January 15 (Monday) for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and then beginning Tuesday, January 16, we will start middle-of-the-year testing. The students will complete their acadience test (reading) as well as IReady placement assessments. If you have any questions at all, please let me know.
Dates to note:
- 15 Jan- No School (Martin Luther King Jr. Day)
- 16-19 Jan- Middle of the Year Testing
- 26 Jan- Dollar Dress Down
- 31 Jan- Parent-Teacher conferences and Early-out (1:10)
- 1 Feb- Parent-Teacher conferences and Early-out (1:10)
- 2 Feb- No School-Teacher Work Day
Have a great week, and stay warm!!
01/02-01/05
January 1-5
Families, I hope everyone had an amazing holiday season! I just can’t believe we are just about halfway through the school year, and we are already into 2024. I will spend some time with my class discussing setting academic goals for this upcoming year and plans to achieve those goals. I’m looking forward to catching up with them!
Note that Middle of the Year (MOY) acadience testing will start on 16 January. Ensure that your students are reading for 20 minutes each day during the break. They have been working so hard, and I can’t wait to see how much they have improved since the beginning of the year.
We are off school Monday 1 January and will start fresh and ready to go Tuesday! In math we are continuing to work with multiplying fractions. In ELA we will start a new unit (Unit 4) and will be discussing and reading about what people can do to bring about positive change.
Yearbook contest
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 year’s 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!
12/11-12/15
Hello parents!
Another great week ahead! Our Christmas party will be on 12/15. We will be watching a G rated movie and having sugar cookies with hot chocolate.
This week in ELA we will be working on summarizing a text and finding what the authors claim is. In math, we will be multiplying fractions to find the area of a rectangle.
It’s going to be a great week! As always, please feel free to email me if you have any questions or concerns. Thank you for always being so supportive! Happy holidays!
Posted below is a message from the school in regards to the yearbook contest.
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 year’s 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!
11/27-12/1
Hello families! reminder: The reindeer run is on 12/2! Hope to see you there!
I am excited to get back to the classroom and have your amazing students join me! I hope you all had a great thanksgiving break!
This week we will be learning how to ask and answer questions as well as how to compare and contrast 2 or more texts.
In math we will be working on fractions!
As always, please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Thank you!
Rise testing
Hello Families,
This email is to notify you that we will be participating in RISE benchmark testing in the coming weeks. These tests are formative in nature, meaning they will let me know how your student is comprehending everything we are working on, identify any potential learning gaps, as well as familiarize them with the RISE testing format. They are not as intensive as the end of the year RISE testing. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thank you for your support,
Ms. Kierejewski
Oct 02 – Oct 6
5th-grade families,
It’s hard to believe we are into October already and Fall break is next week (11-13 October)! Please make sure to send your child prepared for those colder mornings. We are also having Parent-teacher conferences 25-26 October, I will be sending sign-up sheets this week, so please grab a slot that works best for you. I’m thrilled to be able to spend that time talking with you about your amazing student.
In math this week, we are rounding with decimals and ELA we are continuing our unit and answering the question “What do good problem solvers do?”. It’s going to be another great week!
Thank you,
Ms. Kierejewski
Sep 11-15
Hello parents!
Another great week! As mentioned previously I will start math tutoring tomorrow (Monday) after school from 3:15-3:45 pm. Tutoring will be each week on Mondays and Wednesdays just after school. I will send an email if your student could benefit from tutoring. Tutoring is used to help students with previously taught standards and those students who have been absent.
This week in math we will begin lesson 6, In this lesson students will expand their understanding of place values to include decimals to the thousandths place. They learn that for both whole numbers and decimals, a digit in one place not only has ten times the value it would have in the place to it’s right but also has one-tenth the value it would have in the place it’s left. This means we will be using the multiply and dividing skills we have learned over the past few weeks and expanding our knowledge of numbers.
In ELA we will continue to discuss how we can re-read to compare characters, settings, or events in a story, drawing on specific details in the text. We will discuss the genre of realistic fiction and r-controlled vowels.
Important reminders:
Fall picture day will be September 26th.
There is no parking allowed in the faculty parking lot.
You can subscribe to lunch account updates through Aspire, so you can keep up to date on your child’s lunch account balance. *Do this by clicking on the subscribe button on the top right corner after you log in to aspire.
Opt-in for text reminders by texting the word ALERT to 22300.
As always thank you for your continued support!
