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Sticker Friday
Our lovely students love to stop by and visit Mrs. Rounds’ and our Secretaries. It started with a couple cute kiddos stopping by on their way out the door telling the Office Staff goodbye. In return, we gave them a sticker to thank them for stopping by. Word got out that the office had really cool stickers and now it is a tradition to come and chat with our Office and receive a Sticker!
The Kids LOVE Sticker Friday! 
Way to Go 4th Grade!
Congratulations to 4th Grade!
We had a 3rd-5th Grade Fasst Math Challenge last month to encourage all of our students to pass off the 1st step in Fasst Math, which is Addition!
Our 4th Graders really rocked it and are the winners of a Free Dress Down Day, and a Special Surprise from
Mrs. Rounds!
Learning How to Play a Recorder
This Third Grade Class is learning how to read music and play a Recorder!
They love it!
Way to Go!
Teachers at Work
Here’s a sneak peak of some of our amazing teachers attending our in house trainings on Comprehension. It is such a wonderful experience having the teachers work together to provide our students with the best learning experience possible.
The teachers plan and discuss what will help our students learn to not only understand what they are reading, but THINK about their reading too!
Our teachers are always wanting to learn the latest and greatest teaching strategy for our students!
Schema, Connections, Questioning, Inferring, Visualizing, Synthesizing and More!
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Indoor Recess-Kindergarten
Brrr…it’s a Cold, Snowy, Dreary,Icy kind of a Day- What are we going to do with our kids???
Once it’s Winter and it becomes too cold to head outside for recess, we choose to keep our students indoors for recess. Indoor Recess could be noisy, non-active and lead to a mess….but not in our rooms!
We have found a way to solve this problem…Here is an example of what we can do during
Indoor Recess here at Quest!
We can use the Wii to get our daily dose of Exercise!
Thanks Kindergarten for sharing this Video!
Christmas Spirit
At Quest we try to make every experience here a memory!
Here are some fun traditions we have at our school during Christmas Time!
Our Third Grade entered Grinchville!
Our Third Grade incorporated the themes of caring, responsibility, kindness into the Grinch activities, with each class having a grinch outside their door and students who exhibited kindness, caring, and responsibility were able to have a heart with their name placed on the Grinch. The goal was to fill the Grinch with hearts, There was also a rotation wherein the students were able to do a couple of art activities, sing a few grinchy songs, decorate a heart cookie donated by a local business, and make greenish flubber.
Our Fourth grade hosted its annual Polar Express Party on December 21st.
Students learned about the water cycle and then observed the water cycle in action while enjoying a steaming cup of hot chocolate. Students also had to decide which type of cloud (whipped topping) to enjoy on top of their hot chocolate. Students spent the week listening, reading, and viewing different versions of the polar express story and the compared characters, settings, main ideas, and plot differences between the versions. Special thanks to all parents who donated their time and purchased supplies to make this such a special and successful event. integrating the Polar Express !
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| A photo slideshow by Smilebox |
We Love Our Military!
One of our Military Father’s presented our school with this Flag! Thank You so MUCH!
We LOVE our Military!
Class Spotlight
Here is a sample of a Comprehension Strategy in Action in one of our
3rd & 4th Grade Classrooms!
Check it out!
Happy Synthesizing!
Open High School and NUAMES
Our 9th grade students will be attending a presentation from Open High School today at 1:00 pm in Mr. Short’s room. Last week reps. from NUAMES met with 9th graders and their parents to share info. about their program… The intent is to inform parents and 9th grade students of the diverse types of programs available for high school. We want the best for our students and their future!
