Hello 5th Grade Families,

I hope you had an amazing Spring Break! It’s hard to believe we are down to our last few weeks of school! They are some of our busiest weeks of the year. We are going to be putting our hard work to the test and practicing our growth mindset! Challenge is an adventure!

Please remember that the 5th grade maturation program is this Friday, April 12th. Parents, please make every effort possible to attend this program with your child. Your attendance is not required, but is highly encouraged. Girls’ instruction will begin at 8:35 am and boys’ will be at 9:30 am.

This week and next week in ELA, we are going to be learning about how different groups can contribute to a cause, studying heroic examples from World War II. We are also finishing our last math lesson and diving deeper into the world of geometry by learning about properties and relationships among categories of two-dimensional figures.

Math tutoring for the remainder of the year will be held by invitation only in order to maximize this learning time for those who need it most. If your child can benefit from this extra support, you will receive a separate email from me for specific tutoring sessions, otherwise at home IXL practice is always a welcome choice!

RISE testing will begin Wednesday, May 8th, and will continue through Friday, May 17th. Please check with your student to make sure they have a functioning, reliable set of headphones in class. If you are aware that your child is going to be missing learning time in the next few weeks, please let me know as soon as possible so that make-up resources can be prepared ahead of time.

Next Friday, April 19th, will be a bonus dollar dress down day. The junior high will also announce the future 6th grade student council representatives and cheer team that day. Best of luck to all of our candidates and teammates! We are so very proud of your courage and hard work.

Thank you so much for your continued support and please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any concerns,

Mrs. Shaw

Hello 5th Grade Families!

Welcome to the 4th Quarter! I can’t believe the year has flown by so quickly. This class team is incredible and I’m so proud of their determination and hard work. They are growing leaps and bounds. We’re on the countdown to Spring Break (April 1st-5th) and we’re going to make the most of it!

This week and next, we will be doing RISE benchmark testing in ELA, science, and writing. I want our team to feel empowered, confident, and prepared to tackle the summative tests in May. This will be a great way to see how far we’ve come. Please check with your child and make sure they have good functioning headphones. If not, please replace them as soon as possible as we will use them everyday. Blue light glasses are also a welcome tool as well if you feel your child could benefit from them as well.

In math, we will be learning all about evaluating, writing, and interpreting expressions and the order of operations. There will be no math club (tutoring) this week or next as I have administrative meetings to attend. Please feel free to have students use IXL or, even better, help in the kitchen using fractions at home. Please also encourage those mighty minutes of reading every night! They do make a difference!

By way of announcement, there will be a mandatory 5th grade parent meeting next Wednesday, March 27th, at 4 pm, for all students interested in participating in student council next year at the Junior High. At this meeting, students will get an application. The application is due on Friday, March 29th. Those chosen to advance to the next round will be notified by the Junior High advisors. If for some reason a parent is unable to attend the meeting, or if you have any other questions regarding the election process, please email Ms. Emilia Cook at ecook@questac.org.

Next Friday, March 29th, is a Dollar Dress Down Day. It will also be the last day to order a yearbook.

Finally, please save the date for the 5th grade maturation program on Friday, April 12th, in the Q1 cafeteria. Girls will meet from 8:35-9:25 am and boys will meet from 9:30-10:20 am. Parents are encouraged to please make every effort possible to attend the maturation program with their child! A permission slip will be sent home with your child this week. Please sign and return it as soon as possible.

As always, please reach out if you have any questions or concerns.

Thank you,

Mrs. Shaw

Hello Families,

Your students are working hard and I am so proud of the progress they are making! I hope they can keep shining bright, challenge themselves, and encourage their teammates along the way! Thank you for your support with take-home reading passages and math review homework as we begin to prepare for end of year testing. Please work with your student for a few brief minutes as needed on these topics and be sure to continue 20 minutes of reading everyday. It really does make a difference and consistency is key to their confidence!

This week, Math Club (tutoring) will be held Wednesday afternoon only immediately following school until 3:35 pm by invitation only please to best serve our teammates 🙂 Thank you again for your patience with my family emergency on Monday.

This week we will be working on making and interpreting line plots in math, analyzing argumentative text and citing specific details to support an author’s claims in ELA, and wrapping up our study of food webs and ecosystems in science. This week marks the end of 3rd term.

As you know, we will be having a lockdown drill this Thursday, March 14th, with the Weber County Sheriff’s office. I am choosing to focus on helping the students feel empowered by being prepared. Please contact the office or I if you have any questions regarding this drill.

This Friday, March 15th, is Spring Picture Day. Students are welcome to wear clothing of their choice for photos. Also, Friday evening from 6-8 pm is the POQA sponsored Daddy-Daughter Dance. The Mother-Son Dance will follow next Friday evening, March 22nd. Tickets for both events may be purchased in the office or by scanning the QR code below. Once again, please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions or concerns.

Hello! Hope everyone is enjoying their President’s Day! We’ve had a busy past few weeks, with more exciting things on the horizon.

Math tutoring will be held this Wednesday, February 21st, and next Monday, February 26th, only, immediately following school until 3:35 pm.

This Friday, February 23rd, is a Dollar-Dress Down Day. Please have your child bring a dollar unless you have already prepaid.

Next Wednesday, February 28th, is our field trip to the Natural History Museum of Utah. We are asking for a $5 donation for each student for this field trip. This can be paid at the office or online here. Please remember to pack a home lunch for your student unless you ordered a school lunch for them. If you would like to review the details of the field trip, they may be found on the permission slip here. Update from the museum: all lunches will be held in a designated space at the museum. No student backpacks are allowed in the museum exhibits. Students will wear their Quest school uniforms. Please make sure they are dressed appropriately for the weather. No cell phones or electronic devices are allowed on our field trip unless your child has a previously documented need. The office will be able to contact and relay any messages to us at the museum. Thank you for your support for this exciting event!

As you may have heard, for science we created mold terrariums as part of our study of decomposers and the matter cycle. This week we will be working with worms! I hope the students enjoy these concrete learning experiences. In ELA we are continuing to learn about advancements in scientific knowledge over time, specifically focusing on outer space, and in math, we will be learning all about VOLUME, mastering multiple representations of understanding.

As always, please reach out if you have any questions and thank you always for your support!

-Mrs. Shaw

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Hello Everyone!

If you haven’t yet had a chance, please sign up here for our student-led Family-Teacher Conferences (held this Wednesday and Thursday). I look forward to meeting with each of you!

With conferences, there will be no tutoring this week. We have full days of school Monday and Tuesday and early out Wednesday and Thursday. There is no school this Friday, February 2nd. If your student needs extra math practice that would be a great day to catch up with the IXL lessons posted in the Google Classroom. Students know how to access these lessons.

This week, our young mathematicians will be learning how to subtract fractions with unlike denominators. It would be awesome to have them help out in the kitchen and get hands-on practice working with measurements in recipes. In ELA, students will continue reading about making discoveries and visualizing as a reading comprehension strategy. In science they will be learning more about the cycling of matter, specifically plant growth.

As always, please encourage your student to read at home–at least 20 minutes every night!

See you soon,
Mrs. Shaw

Hello Team! Can you believe we are officially halfway through the year? I love to see how hard these students work and can’t wait for the adventures ahead of us! Remember, there is no school Monday, January 15th, for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Hope you enjoy the long weekend!

This week, students will be completing their Middle of the Year (MOY) iReady Diagnostic Testing for math and ELA, their Acadience Testing for reading, and finishing their RISE Benchmark testing for science to see how they have improved from the first part of the year until now and to ensure they are being optimally challenged in their individual learning efforts. With this testing, the students will spend a bit more time on computers than normal, so if they use blue lens glasses they may want to bring them. I will make sure they get plenty of breaks but it will still be more screen time than usual. Students will also need a good working pair of headphones for this testing. Please check with your student to make sure theirs are still in working order, and if not, please furnish a new pair for them. We do not have any remaining class sets. It is important for all students to be at school on time and ready to rock! I can’t wait to see how they’ve grown already!

Two weeks from now are our Family-Teacher Conferences. If you haven’t done so yet, please sign up for a time that works best for your family here. These conferences will again be student led. I look forward to meeting with each of you and discussing their progress together!

As a reminder, I will be gone this Friday, January 19th through next Friday, January 26th, so there will be NO math tutoring this week or next week. I hope the students will show Mrs. Kearns how absolutely amazing they can be!

Next week, students will be learning how to add fractions with unlike denominators. In ELA, they will consider the question “what can you discover when you give things a second look?” In science, they will begin learning about the cycling of matter and food webs. Please encourage our awesome 5th graders to read at home, every night, for at least 20 minutes.

Thank you,
Mrs. Shaw

From the Office:

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.

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!

Hello Team! We’re going to have a great week! Just a few things:

If you haven’t yet had a chance, please sign the Christmas Party permission slip here.

Math Club (tutoring) this week and next week will only be held Wednesday after school until 3:35 pm. If your student has been invited to tutoring and is unable to attend, please let me know and I will be happy to provide resources for home.

Please remember that students should be reading for 20 minutes every night at home! If you would like any resources or support for reading at home, please let me know.

This week in ELA we are focusing on author’s craft and comparing 2 or more texts and how they are structured. We are exploring why different texts are written in different ways. In math, we are learning how to multiply fractions so that we are better prepared to work with measurements in the real world. Students can practice fraction skills by helping in the kitchen. In science we are continuing our study of properties of matter.

As always, please let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you,

Mrs. Shaw