April 7

 4/7/23

Hello Quest families!!


ACTION NEEDED:  Boston Field Trip - Permission slips have been sent home with students and need to be returned by Friday, April 14th.  If you are interested in joining as a chaperone and haven’t already reached out, please contact Mrs. Williams/Mr. Taylor.


Math - We are winding down our unit ‘Expressions & Equations’.  Students learned about how to solve 1-step equations as well as how exponents work.  We are currently exploring patterns and making connections between tables, graphs, and equations.  Next week, we will finish this unit and start a unit on negative numbers.




Language Arts -  We finished our debates, and moved into an argument writing unit.  Students have researched a topic of their choice.  Mrs. Hill taught us about works cited, and we are creating our bibliographies.  Next week we will begin writing our pieces.



Science - We finished our geology unit by creating trioramas of different time periods of the geologic time scale.  This was a hands-on project based week!  Next week we will start a short unit on insects.Click here to see a movie of our trioramas.


Social Studies - Students learned about Ancient Mesopotamia and created visuals about different empires that are now hanging up in the hallway.  This week we launched our final project, in which students chose an ancient civilization to create a ‘museum display’.  They will be working in small groups to complete this project.  After learning about Canadian provinces/territories, students explored the political and physical geography of Europe and South America.



Important Dates -

4/11 & 4/12 - Star360 Testing

4/14 - Boston Field Trip Permission Slips Due

4/24 - 4/28 - No School (Spring Break)



Questions to ask your student:

Which ancient civilization did your group choose?

Which time period did you create a triorama for?

What empire in Mesopotamia did you learn about?

How do exponents work?

What is your topic for your argument writing?

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