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Monday, October 14th - Friday, October 18th - 🍂 Fall Break 🍁

Monday, October 21, 2024 - A Day

• MS Elective Changes for 2nd Quarter Opens
• Elementary Music Club - 4th & 5th, 2:30-3:30 p.m.
  

Tuesday, October 22, 2024 - B Day

• 7th Grade Boys Volleyball - East@Quest 5:00 p.m.
• 8th Grade Boys Volleyball - Quest@East 5:00 p.m.
• 7th Grade Girls Soccer - East@Quest 5:00 p.m.
• 8th Grade Girls Soccer - Quest@East 5:00 p.m.
• Wrestling @ Hinkley - 5:00 p.m.

• Chess Club 2:30-3:30pm
• Girls on the Run 2:30-4:00pm
• Quest for Oceans 2:30-3:30pm
• Reading Club 2:30-3:30pm
• Reading Club 2:30-3:30pm

Wednesday, October 23, 2024 - A Day

• Costa Rica 2025 Info. Meeting - Remote 6:00-7:00 p.m.

• Music Studio Club (Gr. 6th-8th) 2:30-3:30pm
• Painting Club 2:30-3:30pm

• Girl's Soccer B Team vs. AWCPA@ AWCPA 5:00pm
  
• Girl's Soccer A Team vs AWCPA @Quest 5:00pm
  
• 7th Boys Volleyball vs. AWCPA @ AWCPA 5:00 PM
  
• 8th Boys Volleyball vs.AWCPA @ Quest 5:00 PM
  

Thursday, October 24, 2024 - B Day

• Gifted Parents Discussion Group 7:30-8:30 a.m. & 4:30-5:30 p.m.

• Lifetouch Picture Retakes - 10:00am-12:00pm

• Prospective Students Discussion Group

• Girls on the Run 2:30-4:00 pm
• Robotics 2:30-4:30 pm I-pod
  
• Tae Kwon Do 2:30-3:45pm in Music Room
  

Friday, October 25, 2024

• Last day to change electives - Closes at 2:30 sharp!
• Winter Clothing Drive - All day
• Free Actors Workshop, 2:30-3:30pm
  

• Music Studio Club 2:30-3:30pm

• 7th Grade Boys Volleyball - Quest@DelMar Academy 8:00 a.m.
  
• 8th Grade Boys Volleyball - DelMar Academy@ Quest 8:00 a.m.
• 7th Grade Girls Soccer - Quest@DelMar Academy 8:00 a.m.
• 8th Grade Girls Soccer - DelMar Academy@Quest 8:00 a.m.
• Wrestling @ Hinkley - 8:00 a.m.

10/30 - Grades K-5 Parent-Teacher Conf. 3:15-7:15 PM

10/31 - Trick or Treat with Transportation Kindergarten & 2nd Grade

11/1 - Professional Release Day - No Classes

11/1 - Applications for 25-26 school year open online

11/1-11/8 Scholastic Book Fair

11/7 - Gifted Parents Discussion Group 7:30 a.m.- 8:30 a.m. & 4:30-5:30 p.m.

11/7 - Gr. K-5 Parent-Teacher Conf. 3:15-7:15 PM

11/12 - Hearing and Vision Screening

11/12 - Boys Volleyball Banquet 5:00-6:30pm

11/12 - PTA Meeting 6:00-7:00 PM

11/13 - 5th Grade field trip to Colorado Symphony Orchestra 9:30am-1:30pm

11/14 - Gifted Parents Discussion Group 7:30 a.m. & 4:30

11/14 - GlowMundo Dialogues - 5:00-6:15p.m. 130

11/14 - Girls Soccer Banquet 5:00-6:30pm

11/14 - Prospective Students at Quest Night 6pm

11/18 - 4th Gr. Field Trip to Grant Park, Northglenn 9:30 am - 1:30 pm

11/20 - Middle School Parent Teacher Conf. 3:15-7:15 PM

11/21 - Fathers/Male Guardians Coffee Club 8:00am

11/27-11/29 - Thanksgiving Break

Parent Teacher Conferences will take place on the following days

October 30th, 2024 & November 7th, 2024

3:15-7:15 p.m.

Click on the tab to schedule 👉

Calling all slimeologists! Prepare to get elbow deep in gooey fun as we enter the world of polymer chemistry and make different slime creations each week. You’ll make amazing color changing slime, textured slime with growing orbs, and chalkboard slime that you can draw on!

Starting soon: Tuesdays, Oct 22, 29 | Nov 5, 12

Thank you to the Kindergarten parents who brought in treats for the Kindie Fashion Show.

Thank you to the following people for helping out in the library: Amber Wright, Floyd Wagner,

Alyssa Espinoza, Ana Higareda Refugio, Alyssa Espinoza and Ashleigh Hall.

Thank you to John Vecchioni for your help in the cafeteria!

Classroom volunteers who we are thankful for are: Kazy Welch, Ashley Ensign, Leday Grant, Kim Schwietz and Nathan Sumner.

Thank you to Susan Milosevich for doing your job at Quest while also helping provide kall the students their prizes from the Fun Run!

Thank you to Angelica Enriquez Upton for helping with the FunRun activities for all the winning classrooms!

Thank you, Leday Grant for providing the ice cream for our student winners! They loved it!

Give them your business by visiting MyKings Ice Cream in Denver! They cater and do private events!

Thank you to the 5th grade parents who joined in on the field trip to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

We begin all social emotional learning lessons with our self-regulation practice, Smell the Roses, Blow out the Candles. This breathwork fosters calmness and prompts students to take note of their own current emotional state. One of the key prompts just prior to Smell the Roses, Blow out the Candles is to take note of our emotional state as it relates to the Zones of Regulation. Having students identify their “color”, blue, green, yellow, or red, provides learners with specific language to describe how they are feeling. Without adequate language, how can students be expected to understand and articulate their emotional states?

In Mrs. Morris’ kinder’ classroom, students recently had a read aloud, The Giving Tree. This story has themes related to empathy and altruism. Inquiry questions presented to the class included, “Do you think the boy in the story is selfish? Why or why not?” “Why do you think the tree is not happy after giving the boy her trunk?” “Can you be angry with someone and love them at the same time?” Research shows that understanding and practicing empathy leads to strong peer relationships and improved communication. As we say in class, being empathic is a friendship making superpower.

This week, first graders in Ms. Haley’s class participated in a slideshow presentation akin to a game show called, Report or Don’t Report. Different scenarios were presented to students, and it was up to them to determine whether the behavior described in each scenario was reportable. Examples included, “While lined up to go to lunch, you notice a few students standing behind you moving around and cutting in front of other students. Report or don’t report?” “A student was eating a snack in class when it was not snack time. Report or don’t report?” This activity generates a great deal of passionate student responses. The goal is to consider whether the other student’s behavior affects me, my community, or none of the above. Students shared their thinking regarding what constitutes self-advocacy versus tattling.

Other social emotional learning lessons focused on cooperative play. Team LEGO building always engenders student enthusiasm. Students are instructed to work in their small group to construct a single object (usually a house, or a castle, or a tower). This activity has students collaborating, compromising, and problem solving, all skills that are mandatory to be able to work well with others.

Aurora Quest K-8 offers multiple Parent Information Sessions each application season. Parents who are interested in applying to Aurora Quest are highly encouraged to attend one of these sessions to learn more about Aurora Quest K-8, gather more information about the application process and understand the selection process for admission at Aurora Quest K-8. The dates for the 2025-26 school year are as follows:

• Thursday, October 24, 2024 from 6:00 – 7:30 PM at the Aurora Quest K-8 Media Center, 17315 E. 2nd. Ave., Aurora, CO 80011
  
• Thursday, November 14, 2024 from 6:00 – 7:30 PM at the Aurora Quest K-8 Media Center, 17315 E. 2nd. Ave., Aurora, CO 80011

Dates to be on the lookout for:

~Be on the lookout after fall break for sign ups to feed the K-5 teachers for parent teacher

conferences on 10/30 and 11/7

~There will be info for another passive fundraiser coming soon. It’ll be similar to King

Soopers

Phoenix Feathers:

This year we have decided to create a golden feather to celebrate our teachers and staff. If

you or your student would like to buy a feather for a staff member they will be $5 and can be

purchased at any event we are at as well as on the school website under PTA. Yearly our

PTA spends a starting average of $60 per student to provide all or part of your signature

learning experiences at Quest. This includes fieldtrips, student enrichment, and

transportation to name a few. By purchasing a feather for $60 you help chip away at our BIG

goal.

We Have A Facebook Group!

Do you wonder what is going on at school? Curious about upcoming events? Wanting to

volunteer during fundraisers but not sure how? This is your one stop shop for how to

support the school, fundraisers and overall school community. Please be sure to answer the

questions when you ask to join. It's a way that we ensure that our Quest information stays

within our community.

www.facebook.com/groups/1743613152521317/

King Soopers Rewards: (EASIEST way to passively fundraise)

Help our school by buying your groceries! This is the easiest fundraiser and takes less than

10 minutes to set up so sign up if you haven't already.

• Go to: www.kingsooperscommunityrewards.com
• Click on Enroll Now.
• Sign in to your account.
• Click on Community Rewards
• Enter Aurora Quest K8 PTA or “BX352”

Shop as usual using your rewards card or alternate ID.

***Be on the lookout for more passive opportunities in the future!***

PTA Meeting: Our next meeting is October 8th from 6-7pm with a live stream available via

Facebook. Thank you to all that joined us last month in person and survived our technical

difficulties online!!! We welcome all parents and support parents to join us! If you are

interested in voting rights for decisions that affect how we support the school, membership

is $10. You can become a member on the school website under the PTA tab or at any

meeting or event we are hosting. We would love our teachers to be a part of our meetings

and as a thank you for their time we are doing something new by having parents sponsor a

teacher by paying their dues. As the dues goes to the state, we can’t waive it but we had

many parents at the last meeting suggest and offer to pay for a teacher. If this is something

you’d like to partake in please reach out.

A HUGE thank you to all parents and families for all you do to support, grow, and create our

community!

2024/2025 Aurora Quest K8 PTA Board

Dre Sneddon, President

Nidhi Kotecha, Vice President

Angelica Upton, Secretary

Susan Milo, Treasurer