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5/16/23 Today, Abia shared the book Harry Potter And The Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling. Our new Latin root was vac, or empty. We also worked on our cell project. Some of us finished our research and started the project. Sophia T. presented her cell project and was a cake that looked like cell and it was all labeled. Also we did a logic riddle that involved lots of thinking and only one person got it. Lastly, we read more of Blood On The River.
David And Tenny
5/2/23 Todays book consultant Logan and the book was Game Changers by Mike Lupica. We studied about cell organelles like mitochondria and cell membranes. Next week, we will do a project on our research. We picked five organelles and wrote 5 facts about each. We also did a riddle. The riddle was about having lions and wildebeests cross a crocodile infested waters after a forest fire.
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Emma and Abia
3/28/23 Today our book consultant was Emma and the book was The Genius Files by Dan Gutman. We finished learning about the parts of microscopes and stared looking and tons of different "specimens". The specimens were: sand, Onion powder, flour, sugar, foot powder, and salt. As a bonus, Logan looked at hair and Abia and Cara showed us pencil graphite. To finish the day off, we read some Blood on the River.
By; Abia
3/21/23 Today the book consultant was Matthew and he told us about a book about Niagara Falls. It is part of the Where is... series. We had our seminar and we discussed about changemakers. Then, we used color symbol image to reflect about the seminar. Then, Mrs,McElhiney read Blood on the River. Andrew and Sophia T
SNOW DAY
3/7/2023-Today was another amazing day at Quest! To begin with we had our 20 minutes of quiet reading time and we got really into our books. Then, Logan shared a book called 100 Things Steelers Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die as the book consultant. Next, we did our Latin and Greek stems. Today it was aqu even though we had to catch up on a few more because of the delay last week. Also, we got ready for our second seminar by reading and writing about a change making article. Lastly, we learned about microscopes for science. That was all about our awesome day at Quest!
By Julianne Gabriel and Georgia Dochat
02/28/23
2/14/23 Happy Valentine's Day! Today was a fun day in QUEST! First we made Jule Curve woven hearts. They were challenging to make and really tested our visual spatial abilities. We also worked on a Sudoku. We read from Blood on the River. It was a great day.
2/7 First, Cara did a great job as book consultant by presenting The Fast and the Furriest. Today our stem is form, meaning to shape. We read a article called "Opinion: When kids stand up for a cause, adults take notice." Then, in small groups, we did a peel the fruit activity on the article. Witch is an activity were you think deeply. Lastly, we read are read aloud book: "The Blood on the River."
By Julianne Gabriel and Sophia Leotta
1/31/23 The kids presented their scripts today. Ten weeks of dedication and hard work resulted in fabulous skits! You should be very proud of your perseverance and diligence! I apologize for the sound quality, many of the students are hard to hear.
Abia, Eliana, Emma, and Sophia T.
Colton and Teddy - will be arriving Tuesday
1/24/23 Happy Snow Day, yesterday. Today we had testing at Karigon first, so we got to QUEST late. Today we fixed up our scripts for the final time. I can't believe we are finally presenting next week. We also worked on our Slide for the presentation. Next week should be lots of fun!
1/3/23 The Latin root of the day was spec(t). It means to look at. Georgia was book consultant and review the book Funny something. Today at Quest, read through the rubric for the script. We had to write down what was important and what two of our goals were. Then we got in small groups to talk about it. Then we began writing our scripts. At the end of the day, we read Blood on the River for our reading time. Today was a great day in Quest!
Sincerely, Sami Holden
12/20/2022 Today in Quest we worked on our biography projects. Frank shared Nevermoor The Trials of Morrigan Crow. Our Latin root was Circ. It means round. We had conversations with other groups to add more ideas and improve our projects. We also read part of Blood on The River for our reading time. Today we worked hard and had another great day in Quest!
Sincerely, Teddy and Caroline
12/13/2022 Today at quest we had a great day! First, our book consultant, Logan, talked about the book The Great Battle for Boys World War 2 in Europe. He had the longest book talk so far. He did a great job. Then, we worked on our Latin and Greek roots paper. The word was port meaning carry. For example, portage and export. Next, we got into groups and worked on planning our scripts. We planned with an arch and at the top is the climax. We had to plan out our scripts now if we want to finish for January. Last, we finished with reading our awesome book, Blood on the River. This was a great day at QUEST!
Sincerely your best journalists, Julianne and Georgia!
12/6/2022 Today we started working on the biography project setting. We have many different ideas on how our skits are going to play out. We also watched a video on Greg Carr he helped many African people by rehabilitating the national park in Mozambique. It helped many young women realize that they have more than one path in their future. He gave many children the confidence of having dreams of other occupations. He also helped many children get a sturdy education. He added many animals to the park and rebuilt the economy. We read Blood on the River and we found out how to make a story map about climax and downfall of a story.
Sincerely, Frank (Eliana) and Ernest (Abia)
11/29/2022 It's week 12 of Quest! Today our Latin stem was hydr which means water. One example of hydr is hydroelectricity. Casey was the book consultant today, and her book was "The School Story" by Andrew Clements. To build up to our research project, we wrote small biographs about them with big details and an illustration. We chose groups of two or three to make a script for a sort-of-play. We learned six more Habits of Mind this week, and we made mind maps about them. Today was a really great day at Quest! We accomplished a lot! Sincerely, Rose and Tenny.
11/22/2022 It's week 11 of Quest! The Latin root this week was uni. This weeks book consultant was Abia, she presented The Cookie of Doom. We finished our notes for our research project. When we were done we played games like Challenge 24, SOMA cubes, marble runs, and katamino. They were all thinking games. Mrs., McElhinney read more of Blood on the River. Today was a fun day of quest! By, Audrey and Andrew.
11\15\22 It is week 10 of QUEST! The Latin stem of the week was semi. Semi means half and an example is semicircle. We did more work on our biography projects. We use educational resources to find and take notes on our person. We also took a brain break and played a game where we throw the ball and we time how long it takes us to throw the ball to everyone. We have to throw the ball to the same person every time, our best time is 31 seconds, After that we finished our research for the day, and then at the end of our day we read our read aloud book, Blood On the River. That was are fun day at QUEST!! Sincerely, Emma & Casey
11/8 This was week 9 of Quest, it was a very packed day. We researched the people we were doing for our biography project. In the middle we played a new game as a " brain break". In the game we though a ball to make a pattern and timed ourselves yo see how fast we could pass it around. Finally, at the end of the day we read Blood On The River.
10/11 This was already week 5 of quest! Today we started another peel the fruit. The short story we worked was titled, " All Summer In a Day." We will be using this story in a Socratic Seminar soon . Casey brought ice cream for her birthday tomorrow. Yum! After that we started to think about our biography project and what characteristics make a great person to research.
9/27 Today we had fun. We talked about change. We learned a new strategy for Making Thinking Visible: Peel the Fruit. We created presentations about four Habits of Mind: persisting, managing impulsivity, thinking and communicating with clarity and precision, and taking responsible risks. We also read Blood on the River.
9/20 Today we learned all about giving 100% in QUEST. 100% means to pay attention and give QUEST your all. We made meaning of what 100% means. To get into groups we used animals and their sounds to find our partners. It was an obnoxiously fun way to find partners. We read a folktale entitled The Old Woman and the Physician.
9/13 Wow, today flew by! We learned all about the ins and outs of our classroom jobs! Andrew was a fabulous gong ringer! We learned about our classmates by playing Four Tables. We started learning about Greek and Latin roots, which we will be studying all year. Blood on the River, by Elisa Carbone was selected as the read aloud for the year. Everyone decided to come back next week (ha-ha)!
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