September 20th

Quest Google Calendar
If you would like access to our team calendar, click this link.  It is also available to view through our website.

Seesaw
This online tool will be used for guardians, students, and teachers to communicate regarding student work/progress.  Quest teachers will use this in class for reflections, assessments, and building portfolios.  Please follow this link to sign up.  There is an app that guardians can download for easy access to Seesaw.

Back to School Night
This will be happening on Thursday, September 26th from 5:30-6:30.  If you have something specific you would like to learn about that night, please fill out this form.  We look forward to seeing you there!

September 4th

Team building activities at the Reservoir.

Hello Quest Families,

Welcome to/back to Team Quest!  We had a great first week of school.  Busy with team-building games and getting to know each other and our school.  Our field trip to the Waterbury Reservoir was a great success!  From Spike-ball to clay masks, Questers had a great day.  Thank you all for making sure health forms were returned in time for us to take this trip.

This week we have started to explore more academics and will continue to do this as students learn how our classrooms operate.  Yesterday, students were assigned Chromebooks and taught about how to use them for learning at CBMS.  They will be learning how to access our team website to use at school and at home.

In Math, we have started using the Bridges Curriculum.  This is familiar to many of the students who were in the HUUSD last year.  Our first unit is titled "Expressions, Equations, and Volume".  More information can be found on the Quest website.

In core with Mrs. Williams, students are studying writing, science, and social studies.  We call this WSAS (sounds like wuh-sazz). In writing, students will be focused on using a source to inform writing, and how to participate in a writing group.  In Social Studies, students are focusing on the five themes of geography with the USA, as well as how to work on projects. In reading, students have chosen a book set somewhere in the USA, write in a reading journal, and will focus on basic story elements as well as discussion protocol.  Our first science unit will start in mid October.

Please see the Quest Page for more information (under the tab “Mrs. Williams”).  There, you will also find our daily lessons in the form of a slideshow.

We are off to a great start of our new year!

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact any or all of us on Team Quest.

Melissa Williams mwilliams@huusd.org

Curtis Taylor ctaylor@huusd.org

Mel Zima mzima@huusd.org