December 7 at 2:00. We will be having a Mountain Man come and teach us about Rendezvous. This is part of our 4th grade Utah History study.

Upcoming Rendezvous– We will be having our annual fourth-grade Rendezvous (a.k.a. the Economics Fair) on Thursday, Dec 14th. It will be held in the Q1 Gym at 1:45. This is a fun activity for all who come! ALL are welcome including smaller siblings. Guests will receive complimentary “pelts” at the door to spend too.

In the next month, we will be learning about economics and rendezvous as part of our Utah history lessons. This activity will help students gain a better understanding of basic economics as well as how mountain men and early pioneers made and sold products. This activity is part of our social studies curriculum. All students are encouraged to participate and will need to be present on the day of the activity.

To be ready for this event, students will need to make a product or plan a service to “sell” during the rendezvous. Some examples are (but not limited to):

We have had in the past: flower pens, play dough, slime, hand warmers, jewelry, and other simple crafts. You pick what you would like to bring BUT no food items will be allowed. Remember what you have learned about economics, make something that no one else has. That way, you can charge more for the product because you won’t have any competition. HIGH DEMAND = MORE SALES/PROFIT  😉 Your overall profit will reward you with bragging rights. We don’t use any “real” money. We will be using rendezvous “paper pelts.”From now until the rendezvous, students will have the opportunity to earn “animal pelts.” This is our form of money/currency given out by 4th Grade Teachers to be used to buy things at the rendezvous from other students. You will turn in your paper pelts afterward. Whatever you choose to make should be homemade or a kit (Amazon has several orders soon). Don’t stress about this project, you can paint/use markers to color rocks and call it good. Remember***you want to have a product kids want to buy in the end though*** Students should use materials that can be found around the house to make sure their product doesn’t break the bank. Any cost involved in purchasing materials should be minimal. Students will need to make 30 items to sell. Please let the students make this product/service with minimal help from grown-ups. Rendezvous items are due Monday, Dec 11th. This will ensure that students are ready to sell on Thursday and give time for me to help students price their products and make a poster in class.  AGAIN, the product posters are being made in class. 

Lastly, please fill out this Google Form to allow your student to participate.

Feel free to email me with any additional questions.

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 99% 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 here.

Upcoming Events:

• November 5: Day Light Savings
• November 7-9: Choir Practice
• November 14-16: Choir Practice
• November 17: Dollar Dress Down
• November 20: Choir Performance-Roy City Lights
• November 20-24: Thanksgiving Break
• November 25: Choir Performance-West Haven Lights
• November 27: Choir Performance-Ogden City Village

Math November 6-10: Mult/Div Word Problems Lesson #7

Nov 6-Nov 17: ELA-Wonders Lesson-UNIT #3 Week 1-2

What we are learning this week…

• Thursday, October 5: Field Trip-This is the Place Heritage Park
• Tuesday, October 10: Choir clubs starts-if you joined
• Wednesday-Friday, October 11-13: NO SCHOOL Fall Break
• Thursday, October 19: Cookie Dough and Beef Jerky Delivered
• Wednesday-Thursday, October 25-26: Early Out and Parent Teacher Conferences
• Tuesday, October 31: Early Out and Halloween Parade & Party
• Wednesday, November 1: NO SCHOOL

Sign Up Here

Use the link above to sign up for parent-teacher/student-led conferences. Student-led conferences will be on October 25th and 26th beginning at 1:20. Your student has been working hard on their presentations and are excited to share their progress with you. Please bring your child with you to the conference. We have short days these two days.

If you can’t make these dates, please let me know. I still want to find another date/time to meet. Thanks

Our annual Halloween Parade will take place on Tuesday, October 31st. The parade will start at 9:00am, have your student come to school already dressed in their costume.

Our class party will be from 10:15 to 11:45. Please fill out the Halloween Party Form allowing your child to participate and if you would like to help volunteer.

Additionally, don’t forget that students do not have school on November 1st.

Hello, Quest Families!

Your students will bring home a Cookie Dough packet today with important information regarding our fundraiser.

You’ll notice an order form with pictures of the different items for sale on one side. This is your own personal record of who you sell items to. Please do not return this form to the school, as ALL orders need to be entered in the Scoreboard app. Information for downloading the app and registering for Quest’s fundraiser are also provided in the packet.

The Blitz envelope is where cash and checks can be stored until September 26^th, when everything should be returned to the school (minus the order form). All envelopes should be turned in to the office before school starts on September 26^th.

Please remember that students can only receive prizes if orders are entered in the app. The app is used to monitor sales and provide reports so school administration can distribute prizes as they are earned.

The Spooky Speedster prizes will be distributed Wednesday and Friday morning in the Q1 foyer before school starts (8:00am to 8:20am). They will also be passed out on Monday and Tuesday of the following week in the same location and at the same time.

Thanks for your support, Quest Families. Happy fundraising!

Fundraising Video

WHAT WE ARE LEARNING THIS WEEK… SEPT 18-22nd

Math: Adding and Subtracting Whole Numbers!

ELA: How can starting a business help others?

REMEMBER TO READ 20 MINUTES EACH NIGHT AND REFLEX TO A GREEN LIGHT!!

Fill out the permission form here 😉

We are heading off campus-YAY!!! Our first field trip will be Thursday, October 5th. We will be going to “This is the Place Heritage Park” in Salt Lake City. 

DETAILS: We will be taking school buses to and from the destination. We plan to leave Quest Academy at 8:35 and arrive back around 2:30. Students will need to bring a small backpack that will hold a small plastic water bottle, a light jacket, sunscreen (applied before arriving at school), and a small book or cards to read/play on the bus (optional). No cell phones or electronic devices are allowed on our field trip. All pictures will be taken by me or a chaperone and shared on the BLOG afterward.

Donations: The donation cost is $5 per child. Please pay this at the office or online here: ONLINE PAYMENTS marking “other” and typing Peay field trip. Please pay before Friday, Sept 29th.

CHAPERONES: SIX LUCKY PARENTS will get to accompany us on our field trip. I will randomly select the lucky chaperones. Chaperones will need to pay the Quest office a $8 field trip fee (your entrance cost) and bring their own lunch. NOTE: No additional people (younger or older family/siblings) are not allowed on the field trip. You will need to ride the bus with us and stay with your assigned group.

LUNCH: Students can bring their lunch from home or order a school sac lunch. There will be two lunch options, an uncrustable or a hoagie sandwich. Additionally, they will need to order chocolate or white milk. School sack lunch count is due Friday, September 23rd. No late lunches can be added to the count after this date.

Have you filled this out? Permission form link again 😉

Elementary Picture Day use code JM3PDDTVE

Learning this Week… September 11-15th

Parents we have now finished lessons 1 and 2 in math and I am noticing we have a few students that will need to come to tutoring starting this week. If you receive an email asking your student to come to tutoring, please let your student know before school begins that they will be staying. This week we are learning about Rounding Whole Numbers!

ELA – Unit 1 Week 4

Science – Animal structures and the 5 senses

The Chocolate Touch

Our 1st book club book is “The Chocolate Touch”. It was sent home the last week of August in a book pouch. Please have your student read it on their own, read it to them, or find the audio of the book. They should be reading at least 20 min a day. It is due back on or before September 29th. Please make sure it comes back in the same book pouch. They will need to complete the paper insert and return it in the pouch when they return the book.

Lessons we’ve learned so far…

Mrs. Garrett’s Class Supply List 2023-24

I know how busy this time of year is and I want to help make it easier. I am asking guardians to pay a $30 supply donation fee to cover each student’s supplies. This way I can get all the needed supplies purchased and labeled before students come back to school. You can pay at Q1 on Back to School Night or beforehand. You can easily pay online here: ONLINE PAYMENTS marking “other” and typing Garrett’s Supplies. If you would rather purchase the same items yourself, please send me an email prior to school beginning. 

NO BACKPACKS- I do not allow backpacks in my classroom.  Students are allowed to bring a small fanny pack or small (very small) backpack to school if needed.

Additionally, students will need to bring the following items:
Headphones/earbuds– labeled with their name. Guardians will be responsible to replace broken/damaged headphones/earbuds throughout the year.

Small bag if needed-A bag large enough to bring a cell phone or personal items they need at school. NO large backpacks are to be brought. We are a technology school, so we rarely send any papers home. ONLY lunch bags are needed if they are bringing a lunch from home. A backpack can be brought to transfer library books home once a week on Wednesdays.
Water bottle-Students may bring a small water bottle that they can have with them throughout the day.

I will purchase the following items for your child with the donation:

• Colored pencils (24 pack) and additional art supplies
• Plastic plain folders with metal paper holders and paper pockets. Blue, Yellow, Red, and Green. Folders are plain, no designs or images.
• Spiral notebook, plain cover in the colors Blue, Yellow Red, and Green.
• Mother’s Day/Father’s Day art projects supplies
• Scissors/Pencils/Erasers/Glue
• Whiteboards with an eraser
• 10-15 Highlighter/Expo markers, small permanent sharpie markers (2)
• Service/STEM/Science lab project materials
• Rendezvous sign supplies
• Multiplication flashcards
• Reward stickers: various types including water bottle stickers
• Subscription to online science program: Generation Genius.
• Lanyard

Additionally, donations will be used to buy these supplies:

• Christmas and other holiday projects and gifts.
• Anti-bacterial wipes, hand sanitizer.
• Party supplies and birthday prizes
• Prize Bin: Fun stuff that cost less than $1 each
• Box of tissues/paper towels/bandaids
• Field trip transportation
• End-of-year activities

NOTICE: THE ITEMS ON THIS LIST WILL BE USED DURING THE REGULAR SCHOOL DAY.  THEY MAY BE BROUGHT FROM HOME ON A VOLUNTARY BASIS, OTHERWISE, THEY WILL BE FURNISHED BY THE SCHOOL.

Today, May 24 is field day. It is a free dress-down day. The kids must still have their shoulders covered and modest-length shorts. No flip-flops/sandals are allowed and socks must still be worn. We will be playing in BOUNCE HOUSES and playing LASER TAG, no skirts/dresses. THANK YOU TO ALL THE FAMILIES THAT DONATED TO MAKE THIS POSSIBLE! Put sunscreen on the kids before they come or send a small bottle with them. We will be in the sun for about an hour. Make sure they have a water bottle this last week of school it is hot.

***Please make sure your child has brought back all their books/paid the replacement fee***

School lunch will be a picnic in our classroom. The following students did not sign up for school sack lunches. Please make sure they come with a home lunch. School lets out at 3:20. If you would like to come help with field day, please email me. I need helpers from 1:00-3:00. You will get to rotate with your child and play laser tag with us 😉

Thursday, May 25, is the school’s talent show at 10;00. You are welcome to come watch 4th and 5th performances at about 10:00. THURSDAY IS NOT A DRESS DOWN DAY. THIS DAY IS A SHORT DAY.

LAST DAY OF SCHOOL! MAY 26TH, EARLY 1:20. IT IS A FREE DRESS-DOWN DAY. Yearbook signing will be in the morning.