September Fitness Challenge

Reminders:
- Students need to come prepared for physical education with proper foot attire and uniform.  Students may wear regular school uniform or plain navy sweat pants and a plain gray or Quest t-shirt.  Girls who wear skirts need to have shorts on underneath.  If a student forgets their shoes, they are able to borrow a pair from my shoe bin. 

-Water bottles are not permissible in P.E. class.  Classroom teachers will allow students to use the drinking fountain at the conclusion of the 35 minute P.E. class period. 

-Students who have asthma or other chronic physically limiting conditions need to communicate this to me so that the necessary precautions/accommodations can be made. 

Classes this month will be reviewing gymnasium expectations, practicing safety, developing personal and spatial awareness and participating in a fitness challenge.  The fitness challenge in September is a 4 minute run.  Students will try to jog for 4 minutes without stopping, or walking.  Students that win the challenge are awarded with a glitter toe token and a necklace which they can keep the token on.  I will also take a group picture of the winners which you can look for in the front hallway on the P.E. bulletin board (located near bathrooms).  There is a different challenge each month that students can earn different tokens from and add to their necklace.  Replacement necklaces and tokens cost $2. 

Any questions or concerns, please email, call, or send in a note. 

-Have a healthy day!
Mrs. Woods

Welcome To A New School Year!

There are four special classes at Quest this year.  Art with Mrs. Deluca, Media with Mr. Zieba, Physical Education with Mrs. Woods, and Music with Ms. King.  We look forward to an exciting year!  Updates with class information and events will be posted on our blog periodically.  Please bookmark and visit this page for exciting upcoming information. 

Tie-dye @ Quest

Quest Art Show

The halls are looking mighty bare without the Quest Art Show down.  I wanted to take a moment to recognize the student's whose artwork was chosen to be 'Best of Show'.  The art pieces chosen will be on display in the office and in the hallways of the school through the rest of the year.  Each staff member at Quest was given a ribbon to vote on their favorite piece in the whole art show. Winners received a ribbon and a certificate for their extraordinary efforts in the art room.
Winners include:
Y5/Kindergarten:
William Brown and Billy Brown

1st Grade:
Charlie Porter, Lyssa Romans, Tyler Bedford, Klaire Wilson, Ashlyn McTurner, Samantha Sullivan, Jelissa Rosado, Harrison Stewart, Lucas Morris, and Jozelyn Puskarz

2nd Grade:
Bruce Paternosterand Mikayla Baker

3rd Grade:
Kamari Williams, Xander Frederick, Jose Estremera, Samantha Menard, Trevor Glanert, Lianna Shakoor, and Raeven Ponder

4th Grade:
Camilla Watkins, Noah Schaible, Evangelina Draper, Nickolas Robinson, Austyn Carson, Kevin Downing, Kyle Barker, Cheyanne Henry, and Jacob Penner

5th Grade:
Evangelist Jackson, Daniel Ortiz, Samantha Hubenet

6th Grade:
Kathryn Root, Austin Barrett, and Sumayah Elsadig

7/8 Grade:
Jacob Bulanda, Justin Chubb, Tori Forystek, Taylor Guarino, Justin Harris, Jemia Hoskins, Alize Jackson, Skyla Kirk, Jesse Miller, Cody Penner, Elayjia Perkins, Brendan Phipps, Janelle Reid, Jorge Sanchez, Madelyn Silverthorn, Kayla Townsend, Darryl Vaughn, Christopher Willer, Jovan Wright, Spencer Zadigian, Louis Box, Kevin Felder Jr., Oscar Gutierrez, Dakota Joseph, Kaitlynn Moore, Zachary Nelson, Cotoure Owens, Christopher Parkin, Jasmine Reynolds, Havanah Rivera, Janai Robertson, Dalen Seals, Jessica Sexton, Luecresse Taylor, Brianna Zettel, and Justice Gutherie

March Music Activities

Students in grades young 5's-3rd grade have been doing a variety of steady beat activities that utilize songs and movement.  The most recent and festive activity was one called Leprechaun's Dance.  Students learned new terminology such as Macrobeat and Microbeat and demonstrated it with their body movements.  Students learned a cute song about a leprechaun and demonstrated a macrobeat in the beginning and a microbeat in the middle. 

Students in 4th grade have been working on learning how to read basic music notation to prepare them for their recorder unit that starts this week Monday 3/18/13.  Students in 5th grade have been doing group collaborations and reenactments of Aesop Fables.  Students were taught 5 different fables, broke into groups of 4 people and selected 1 fable to present to class.  Each group decided if they wanted to present it as a rap, song or a play.  Each group was encouraged to utilize creativity and collaborate together.

Middle School Choir students have been working on their ear training skills through a variety of warm ups.  Choir students have done an excellent job learning how to audiate, imitate and produce correct vocal tones thus allowing the ensemble to sing better in harmony.  Middle School Band have been working on developing better reading skills, core ensemble skills and more difficult concert pieces.

Honors Band is a new ensemble highlighting the top 2 students in each section.  This ensemble meets once a week during their lunch time and has been a great learning experience for these hardworking dedicated students.  In addition to Honors Band another newly developed ensemble is Quest Academy Jazz Band.  This ensemble functions as a club and meets Thursdays after school from 3:45-4:30 and plays fun up tempo funky rock tunes.

Upcoming Concert Dates
May 22nd-Young 5's-3rd Grade
May 23rd-4th/5th, choir, band

Spring Scholastic Book Fair Quest

-Scholastic Book Fairs-

March 22-28, 2013

Location: Media Center

Volunteers needed to setup, run, and close down book fair.

Please come share in our school's Book Fair.

Shamrock Shuffle

The Shamrock Shuffle will take place next Thursday, March 14th, after school.  Registration forms will be going home in the next couple days, so keep an eye out.  For only $2 students can participate, earn a special shamrock token, certificate, and possibly win a medal.  Medals will be awarded to 1st-3rd place finishes in each grade during the next days school assembly.  Please turn in payment and registration form by Wednesday March 13th.  Although late registrations will be accepted, I do not fill out race tags or certificates for late registrations.  This means that if you finish first and do not have a race tag you will not recieve the medal! 

Extra registration forms can be found in the front office.
PTO will be providing post race refreshments.
If you are able to help, we are always in need of volunteers to spread out along the course to cheer on racers and ensure the safety of everyone. 
Post race medals will be awarded at the following days assembly.
Middle school races first followed by 5,4,3,2,1, and K. In separate heats. 
The race is outside.  Please dress weather appropriate. 
Please be present at the time your child races.  The race is over by 4:10

Any questions?  Email me at 83.cwoods@heritageacademies.com


Good luck!!

-Carolyn Woods