Level Updates

 Kindergarten

Our Kindergarten students have been working hard and growing SO much!   Can you believe we’re halfway through the year already?!  We are excited to celebrate the 100^th Day of School AND Valentines Day this upcoming Monday, February 14^th and look forward to seeing a glimpse of the future as our students dress like 100 year olds! 
This month, we also begin to explore needs and wants for our newest IB planner.  We will be inquiring into needs and wants of people and animals around the world and comparing them to our own.  What are your family’s needs and wants?  Consider having this discussion at home. 
We hope everyone has an amazing February break.  Stay safe and have fun!  

Primary

Have you ever been lost? Have you ever had to read directions or ask Google or Siri for directions?  After our Inquiry unit, "Location, Location, Location," hopefully your primary student could help you.  We have been learning how to read maps, about cardinal directions and land features. We also inquired into how our Earth changes quickly and slowly. Our next inquiry we will be looking into Matter.  We will be learning about how to make observations, asking more questions and on different states of matter.  Wait until you see what can be made out of garbage.  The students are loving the science! 

The students are also spending a lot of our time learning about nonfiction materials.  We are reading nonfiction books.  We are writing them and we are even learning how to write them on the computer.  The kids are loving reading books about topics they are interested in.  

Thank you for all of your support during this crazy time.  Please keep having your child read at home. 

Elementary

The Elementary Level has been busy working on our IB Planner Revolutions & Government.  In this planner, students learn about the Thirteen Colonies, reasons for the American Revolution, and how our government works.  Students learn that people can generate change in their lives in many ways.   We read biographies of "change-makers", those people from many walks of life who recognize problem situations and set about to make changes that affect themselves and others.  In writing, students are working on informational text features and writing for information.  Everyone enjoyed the annual QUEST Sled Race and students at the Elementary Level were especially excited for the opportunity to work in their own teams to design and build their own sleds.  

Intermediate

The Intermediate Team is beyond excited to start exploring our newest inquiry unit- Life is influenced by spatial relationships. Our exploration will be driven by the following lines of inquiry:

• The spatial relationships of earth, the sun and the moon.
• How we organize time in connection to the earth, the sun and the moon.
• Cycles and patterns in connection to time.

We will culminate this unit with a special  SPACE DAY, which will include hands-on activities related to space.

Intermediate students are working on collecting evidence to demonstrate growth in the goals that we set at the beginning of the year. We are excited to show our families our learning and what we are proud of while working at school during our PORTFOLIO SHARES.

Save the Date: Unless something changes, our 6^th grade graduation will be held on Tuesday, June 21^st at the Hilton High School.

-The Intermediate Team

In addition to our planners, QUEST is also finding many ways to celebrate Black History Month!