What an exciting first week here on Voyager House!
For the past three days we have been working together to build our team identity and culture. Our mentors interviewed and introduced our newest members of Voyager to the whole house, invited their mentees to lunch and have been preparing their mentees for life in Voyager. We also voted on a motto for Voyager that will become the centerpiece for a Voyager sign and t-shirt.
Throughout the course of each day, students have been rotating and working in large groups on several team building and identity projects. For one of the rotations, students have been writing (using our motto as inspiration) lines that will become a Voyager chant, song or poem.
For another of our Team Culture rotations, 5th-8th grade students worked to define who and what we are as a team. Students finished the statement- "A Voyager student is....." We also created lists of jobs for the beginning and ending of our day that will keep Voyager and ourselves organized through the year.
We have also decided to put to rest the Voyager art in the hallway. It is time for a fresh and new symbol that represents who we are! Students worked together to design a new piece of art that represents our voyage together. We have voted on a final design and will be pulling together some community resources in order to help our interested artists build this piece of art! Particularly crafty or handy? We may need your help!
Students created beautiful thought bubbles to signify their individuality and creativity. We will be hanging them in the Kiva for all to see!
SMART Skits: We reviewed the (Safe, Mindful, Accepting, Respectful and Truthful)skills in each area of the school. Students created fun skits that showed how to be SMART in areas like the hallway or on the bus.
Voyager Field Trip -
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letter and permission forms have been sent home with your student,
please have your student bring in the completed permission and emergency
forms on Tuesday. Don't forget the pizza party!
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