Week of November 26

8th Grade Lock in- Ms. Sherman and Ms. Wesnak are happy to report that the 8th grade lock-in was a success! A big thank you to the 8th grade for making sure everyone stayed safe, had lots to eat, kept the building clean, and most importantly, had fun. We were both impressed with your abilities to keep going with positive energy all night and even more amazed that we could stay up all night as well...though both of your teachers slept the day away on Saturday to recover. Nice job 8th grade!!!

Extended Day- This coming week is the last week for students in our current round of extended day services. The core teachers and special educator will discuss what the next area of study will be and we will invite specific students to come and join us for some additional instruction. The extended day program, on house, meets every Tuesday and Thursday, from 3:05-4:20. The time allows for students to take the activity bus home, which leaves the school at 4:30. If your son or daughter is selected, you will receive a phone call, within the week. If you have questions about the program, please feel free to contact me, Courtney Sherman. My extension is 5643.

FAP Scholastic Book Fair - All Voyager students will be attending the book fair on Thursday (12/6).  Students will have the opportunity to purchase a nice variety of books.

Trimester Closing: Can you believe that the first trimester is complete? We certainly can’t! It feels like only yesterday we were doing introductions in the Kiva :) Today was the last day to get work in for the 1st Trimester. If you happen to check Jupiter Grades over the weekend and some of your children’s classes are listed as “offline” or something of that sort, it is because all teachers will be finalizing grades and grade reports. Report cards will be out at the end of next week!

Ms. Q’s Corner
Math 7
Through a variety of walking  and t-shirt  rate problems students explored rates of change and the meaning of the y-intercept.  We started using the y= mx + b format and made the connection between the term “coefficient “, slope, and rate of change.    We looked for points of intersection between two lines  and how  to figure out if a random coordinate point can be found on a given line.  This trimester is coming to a close, however we will continue on with our “Moving Straight Ahead Unit” into next trimester.

Math 8
Sally decided to select some seashells at the seashore and she needed to find a car rental company that would give her some driving distance up and down the coast.  Students reviewed points of intersection of two linear equations and how to solve these problems  by means of graphs, tables and solving it algebraically.  We also considered the conditions under which one company would be better than others.  Next we dabbled in solving linear inequalities.  This trimester is drawing to a close and we will continue with our “Shapes of Algebra” unit into the next trimester.

Science ⅞
What will the future hold for us?  Students pondered and completed their news articles from the year 2012.  Cities painted white,  ew forms of energy, U.S. citizens migrating to Canada, people living on boats and in floating cities are a few of the many news topics that students wrote about.  Students read articles on the current science behind global warming and climate change.  We ended the week with sharing our articles and began our new unit on Thermal Energy.

Mr. Merrill’s Wrap Up
⅚ Language Arts -
Following our Reading Cafe on Monday, students reflected on the author’s craft, writing about the techniques that the author uses to make them like the story.  In Writers Workshop, we practiced the editing process with our argument papers.  Students provided feedback to a partner on organization, evidence, and GUM.  On the following day, student took that feedback, along with a teacher conference, and worked on a final draft.  In vocabulary class, many students played a game (similar to Catch Phrase) to learn the new words for our next lesson.  

⅚ Social Studies -
This week we kicked off our new unit “The Constitution”, with a variety of class and small group activities.  The goal was to answer the question, “How does the Constitution organize our government?”  We took a very close look at the Preamble, to determine the purpose of our Constitution.

This Week in Ms. Wesnak’s Room
7/8 Language Arts:
This week our 7th and 8th graders worked really hard to finish up their in-class work for the Shells for the NJ Shores project. We have already sold many shells, and have received some very generous donations from staff and students across the school. We are really starting to see all of our hard heArt-work come to a beautiful and beneficial close. We also continued to learn about poetry and the different forms it can take. We watched an inspiring video of Sarah Kay performing two of her most well known poems. We also took a look at 20th century art-work that inspired various poets to write some truly wonderful pieces of poetry.

7/8 Social Studies:
This week students wrapped up their research and projects on Global Governments. They presented to their table groups on Thursday and took in a WEALTH of knowledge. It was very cool to walk around the room house and sit in on a variety of presentations. It felt as if I was travelling the world with all of the beautiful images, maps, and of course Fun Facts presented. Today students reflected on their learning from this mini unit and we started a video on different cultures around the world and the similarities and differences between them. The video sparked some great conversation in both Social Studies classes, and in the end we are still left wondering why it is we all just can’t get along? Spark up some conversation of your own with your child and talk about culture and how it varies across the globe!

News from Ms. O
As we come to the end of the trimester, I hope that you will share in my appreciation for the hard work of our support staff.  Barb Giardi, Bob Mitchell, Rebecca Spencer, and Elizabeth Percy have become partners to me, and the Voyager students, and deserve kudos!  If you see them, please thank them for all of their hard work!

5th Grade Math
Cris Milks, the Enrichment Teacher, has joined our classroom as a resident mathematician!  She is co-planning and co-teaching each class with me for the next 2 weeks, in order to inspire differentiated learning in the classroom.  Students have really come around in the department of multi-digit multiplication and seem ready to move on to division.  Thanks to 5th graders for their flexibility and willingness to learn from all adults in the classroom.

6th Grade Math
We spent our week investigating decimals and their relationship with fractions.  We unpacked many challenging tasks that pulled at our understanding of fractions and decimals, including a studio day, which took place today.  5-8 teachers were really impressed with the culture of learning in the classroom and felt as though students know how to be accountable mathematicians and deep metacognitive thinkers!  Thanks to the 6th grade students for being so open to having so many people in the classroom.  We will continue our adventures next week with decimals and begin some percent work.

5/6 Science
We are wrapping up our density work on Monday with a quiz on density.  Students may use any resources in order to show understanding of this property of matter.  Student completed an open inquiry activity in which students chose an investigable question, fulfilled the investigation and documented their findings in a scientific write-up.  Students learned about writing scientific claims, statement of scientific opinion based on evidence.  This will be scored in this first trimester reporting.  Ask your child about his/her float/sink activity.  They learned a lot!

Week of November 13

Voyager Housekeeping

Voyager FAP Meeting - Wednesday, December 5th - 6:30pm  
We will hold our first house FAP meeting on Wednesday, December 5th in the Voyager Kiva.  A Voyager teacher and FAP representatives for Voyager will run the meeting.  Topics of discussion will include house fundraising events, update on house budget, details to date on field trips and ANYTHING you'd like to put on the agenda!  This is a great opportunity to ask questions about house schedules, core curriculum, house services, anything!
The meeting will last for approximately 45 minutes, so please come share your voice.
Regards,
FAP Reps, Lori Mele, Sue Scheer, Ann Schmidt

Voyager Media and Book Sale
So happy to share some fantastic news to brighten your Monday morning.  Voyager
raised $1,146.00 at the Voyager Media/Book Sale at the Craft Fair on Saturday!

Just another wonderful example of what our Voyager community can accomplish working together!

A HUGE thank you to all of the parents who collected books in neighborhoods - Tess Swett, Sue Scheer, Lori Mele,
Kristen Littlefield, Wendy Ruggles, Cathy Clear, Julie Watson, Leigh Samuels, Dave Schmidt!

Another HUGE thank you to all of the parents who set up and worked the sale/helped with the Craft Fair on Saturday- KaryAnn Bombardier, Pam Niarchos, Leigh Samuels, Nicole Voth, Tess Swett, Robyn Young, Cathy Clear, Teresa Soares, Danielle O'Brien, Lori Mele, Sue Scheer, Carrie Yandow, John Hemmelgarn!

Yet Another HUGE thank you to the students who provided the arms and legs and volunteered time to make the sale a success - Katie Scheer, Nate Littlefield, Hanna & Cullen Swett, Grace Hemmelgarn, Doug & James Schmidt, Paige Niarchos, Halina & Kolena Vercessi-Clarke, Cale & Laurynn Bombardier, Delaney Ruggles, Olivia Yandow, Parker Soares, Sam Clear, Justin Schaaf, Olivia Voth, Lucien Therieault, Luca Mele, Erin Watson.

If I've forgotten anyone, please forgive me, there were SO many volunteers our heads were spinning!!!!  Thanks to EVERYONE who donated books, CD's and other merchandise -- we had a great selection of merchandise.  Please extend thanks to your neighbors and friends who donated!

Zumba
Stay tuned for our next house 'fun' fundraiser -- we will be doing a Voyager Zumba dance on Sunday, November 18, 2:00 - 3:00 in the Williston Central School gym.  More details to come...mark your calendars!!!

Save the Date
Voyager Family Night at the Old Brick Church - Thursday, December 13th at 7pm

Teacher UPDATES

Ms. Q’s Corner:
Math 7
How does a change in rate change a table or graph?  What relation does a table and graph have with an equation?  These questions were investigated this week as students compared walking rates.  On Friday we performed an experiment with the question:"Is the change in water temperature when ice cubes are added linear or non-linear? We found some interesting data, including something that look a lot like a curve.  There is no homework over the Thanksgiving break, but getting on to Khan Academy might be a good use of the after turkey time.

Math 8
Shapes of Algebra began with investigating points on a circle.  We created right triangles from using the radius as the hypotenuese and was able to find the length of missing sides using the Pythagorean theory.  How can you tell if two lines are parallel or perpendicular?  We explored rectangle patterns found in crop circles and explored the numerical relationship between the slope of the parallel and perpendicular lines of the pattern.  We found that parallel lines always have the same slope and perpendicular lines have opposite reciprocal slopes.  

Science 7th/8th
What will happen to our environment in the future?  We finished watching the BBC movie on global warming and read a National Geographic article on its potential impacts on the world's climate.  The final project for our ecosystem study is writing a newspaper article from the year 2112.  Students are researching climate models to see what may happen to Vermont, the US and the world as rising sea level and climate shifts impact on living creatures their habitat.  

News from Ms. O
Math 5:  5th Grade math students have begun a deep investigation of multi-digit multiplication and have been solving these kinds of problems by modeling with base ten blocks.  It’s amazing how instant an answer you can get when you understand base ten.  Students should work on FASTT math over break.  If they don’t have access, students may work on Practice Packets provided.

Math 6:  Students have been building proficiency in developing strategies for naming fractions using equivalents.  Students have also been thinking about how to name a fraction between a fraction.  Those students who have mastered the equivalent fraction strategy where you multiply the numerator and denominator by the same number in order to give a set of fractions the same denominator have been looking at other strategies in which students determine the numerical distance to a benchmark and comparing those distances to each other.  For example,7/8 is one eighth from the benchmark 1 and 8/10 is 2/10 or ⅕ away from one.  So how do we compare the ⅛ to the ⅕?  Well ⅛ is smaller than ⅕ so it must be closer to one.  ⅕ is a bigger piece and therefore further from 1 than ⅛.  Therefore, ⅞ is larger than 8/10.  Has made for some interesting discussions.

Science ⅚ :  There was a lot of water this week!  We did a lot of sinking and floating of objects in water to make the claim about how that object’s density compares to water’s density.  We further narrowed the questions so that students could look at density more specifically.  For example, some students noticed that diet soda floats but regular soda does not and so students calculated density of objects using mass and volume measures to see if they could determine why this is the case.  Other students tried to determine density before floating to see how knowing density of substances might help in the solving real world problems.  It was messy but fun!  Students have the responsibility to type up the process of their investigation.  It is due the Tuesday after break, but many students have brought home work to do over break so they can do other investigations Monday.  Monday will be a support session for students that need help writing and pulling together data.

Mr. Merrill’s Wrap Up -
We started the week off with our Reading Cafe.  Students reflected on their reading using “Thinking Stems” to get them started.  These reflections and short writing activities are all going into their Reading Response Notebooks.  The students have now added a variety of entries into their notebooks to show their reading comprehension with independent and literature group books.  
The second round of literature groups will be wrapping up on November 30th.   Students will be writing a LEAF paper, answering the question “What makes scary, scary?  Students will need to find evidence from their literature group books to answer the question.  

In Social Studies, we kicked off our unit on the Constitution.  Using an anticipation guide, students answered questions about the Constitution, and read informational text to gauge their current understanding of our Constitution.  We also played a “Jeopardy Game” with the information.  Argument papers were also completed in class and passed in at the end of the week.

The Week in Ms.Wesnak’s Room

In Language Arts this week we continued our whirlwind adventure through poetry. Students have tried out a variety of poetry and most recently they experimented with Free Verse. Most students found this form of poetry to be their favorite so far. Students also continued their AMAZING work for the Shells for the NJ Shore project. The seashell art is beautiful and the haikus that were written to accompany the art is thoughtful, caring, and hopeful. 8th Graders are using donation based events to fundraise such as a bottle drive. With each donation, that person or family receives a small I Love NY or I Love NJ shell and piece of poetry. They are also creating seashell jewelry and art to sell at school based events. 7th Graders have decided to turn our seashells into Christmas ornaments and sell them at a variety of events. They will be sold at a couple of school basketball games, staff breakfasts, and also at a local business. Thank you to the Paquette family for allowing us to bring our art and project to your business! Ask your child about what you can do to help or donate to the cause. I will keep you posted on specific dates, blogs or websites to check out, and our final donation totals!

In Social Studies we started our work on the Global Government Project and the students are studying a WIDE variety of countries. We are all learning a lot of new facts about our countries and our research is coming to a close. Talk to your child what country they are studying and what they have learned so far. We have also been getting some practice in our note-taking skills by watching some short National Geographic Videos on continents or countries students are not studying as part of the Global Government Project. It’s been a busy week, but a fun one! Hope everyone has a wonderful break and holiday!  

Week of November 5

Voyager Housekeeping -

ZUMBA Fitness

Come dance with us to celebrate fun & Fitness!!!  

All Are Welcome!

Sunday, November 18, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

WCS New Gym (up front)

Donation to support Voyager overnight field trip: $10 adults, $5 kids

Zumba Fitness® is the only Latin-inspired dance-fitness program that accommodates all fitness levels.  This class will be directed by a licensed team of Zumba Fitness® instructors.

Voyager raised $1,146.00 at the Voyager Media/Book Sale at the Craft Fair on Saturday!
Many thanks to our Voyager FAP volunteers!

Voyager Family Night @ Old Brick Church - Save the date - Thursday, December 13th

Reminder - No school during Thanksgiving week


Literature Group Parent Tip of the Week:

Our latest literature group book theme is “What makes scary scary?” If you haven’t seen this book, short story, or chapter come home, don’t hesitate to ask you child, what makes your book scary!?


Ms. Q’s Corner
7th Grade Math
This week we became more familiar with the graphing capabilities of our calculators.  Comparing linear and nonlinear functions  was made easier  by observing calculator generated tables and graphs.  (Students were happy to put away their paper generated graphs and tables for a bit!) We discussed what changes happen for both x and y axes with a variety of different functions.    After playing a rousing game of jeopardy, we completed the Variables and Patterns Unit Test.  Our next unit “Moving Straight Ahead” will continue the exploration of linear relationships, rates of change and discerning equations from tables and graphs.

8th Grade Math
We left “Thinking with Mathematical Models” and plunged into “The Shapes of Algebra”.  We learned how to find coordinates of a circle on a Cartesian Coordinate plane by using the Pythagorean Theory.  Constructing right triangles using the radius as the hypotenuse was a fun challenge. We needed a little refresher on square roots, exponents, and how to utilize our graphing calculators to their fullest potential.  We also dabbled in inequalities in relation to points on the inside and outside of our circle.  

Science
We took a kindler gentler look at our ecosystem through water color.  We completed our succession drawings, discussed the scientific definition of succession and compared it with our own definitions.  It is truly amazing how nature can create order out of chaos, especially after a forest fire, or natural disaster.   Climate change and global warming are next up on our science agenda.  We visited the EPA website on climate change and viewed the BBC movie the "Hot Planet", a documentary that looks at the science behind climate change and solutions to global warming.  

The Week in Ms.Wesnak’s Room
Language Arts

This week in Language Arts we put a close to our unit on U.S. government and civics. We decorated the room with red, white, and blue on Tuesday in honor of Election Day. All students took part in the WCS mock election and also shared one paragraph from their final essay to the entire 7th and 8th grade group. It was a great way to get a small preview of each student’s essay and for each student to hear each others points of view. Both myself and Martha were impressed with the students writing, support, and behavior. Now that the election is over, we are moving into a mini unit around poetry. To help fuel this unit we have decided to take part in a project called Shells for the NJ Shore. This is a project that schools are participating in across the country to raise money for Hurricane Sandy Relief. Both 7th and 8th graders are taking part in this project. We are using time in class to combine our poetry work with our artistic, volunteer, and research skills. Talk to your 7th or 8th grader about the project and their work around it. Here is the link if you would like to check it out yourself! Shells for NJ Shores Project Link

Social Studies:  
In Social Studies this week, we helped close the unit on U.S. government and civics. We are now widening our learning lens and beginning to look at government systems around the world! On Wednesday students took the time to listen to Obama’s speech from election night and begin thinking about the impact our President has on the rest of the world. Do other countries care about who our head of government is? What kind of message does Obama send out to the world? On Thursday we then took a trip around the world looking at a variety of images from different continents and countries. We also tested our knowledge around world geography by taking notes, and trying to track the videographer’s travels! It was quite fun and frustrating. This fun introduction is just the start of our work in the Global Government Project, which students will be starting next week. Students will continue working on their note-taking skills while conducting research on a country of their choice. They will be reading all about that country’s government system, finding out who their government leader is, and also digging up some fun facts about that country.


News from Ms. O
Grade 5 Math
This week students completed Unit 1 in Bridges 5!  Whew!  We are excited to be moving on to a big conceptual unit on multiplication and division, which will allow students to deeply grasp the meaning of these operations and make connections between them. The WCS faculty discussed computational fluency in depth this week at our faculty meeting.  See the 0-12 multiplication and division math facts as a mountain that we must summit as soon as possible.  

Grade 6 Math
6th graders have moved into our new unit,  Bits and Pieces 1, to explore more deeply the relationship between fractions, decimals, and percents.  We began the unit looking at why “knowing what the whole is” is so essential when working to understand fractions.  

On a fluency note, I am aware that some students still are unable to do multi-digit multiplication and division.  Please feel free to teach your child again and again the process of multiplying and dividing.  We are asking students to know the good old-fashioned way (the way we are taught) at this point.  And repetition seems to be working for many of my students who are happily mastering this skill!  This is again about 0-12 multiplication and division fluency, which explains why FASTT math!

⅚ Science
We began exploration of density this week and students are working toward some focused inquiry on sinking and floating objects in water which we have learned has an easy density to remember 1g/1ml.  This helps us to understand why copper which has a density of about 8 g/ml sinks in water!  Upon completing these explorations we will then move in conservation of matter investigations for physical and chemical change.  

Mr. Merrill’s Wrap Up
There was plenty of excitement and thoughtful discussion about the election this week.  Students learned about the Electoral College system and completed maps to score the election.  They also voted in the Mock Election on Tuesday.  Graphic organizers were completed to support and organize an argument paper on “Who should be the next President of the United States?”  Students started typing this final paper for the Election unit which will wrap up next week.  
We also started a new online web based learning platform (No Red Ink) to help students improve their grammar and writing skills.  This program seems to be a hit with the kids and provides additional support and practice for our Writing Workshop lessons.
Finally, we will be making a slight adjustment to our weekly schedule.  We are going to move “Reading Cafe” back to Mondays, following the Thanksgiving break.  Spelling and vocabulary will be on Thursdays only.  The students have a good understanding of the spelling and vocabulary programs and a full class time committed to the program once a week will be a more efficient use of our time.  The lesson will be introduced in class with the expectation that students complete the lesson for homework and study independently for a spelling quiz and vocabulary test for the following week.  This change will also allow us to partner up with the ⅞ grade students for some fun reading activities during our Reading Cafe time.

Week of October 29

Voyager Housekeeping:
Google Email Issue - The school has just recently learned and informed us that teachers are limited to sending 100 emails a day beyond our district email network.  If a large group email contains or puts our numbers at more than 100 emails, Google has been randomly deleting emails from the contact group.  We now know why some of our emails have not reached some of you.  
As a result, we will be sending out Voyager Voice and other large group notices by a core contact list.   We hope that this will resolve this problem that has been eluding us and has ultimately  been beyond our control.

⅞ NYC Field Trip
Deposit/Commitment Forms were due today.  We will take a look at the numbers and make some decisions about transportation and accommodations very soon.  If you would like to help organize an evening activity (ex. Yankees game or Broadway show) please contact Mr. Merrill.

Ms. Q's Corner

7th Grade Math
  This week we  put down our pencils and graph paper and utilized graphing calculators.  We learned how to turn our calculators on and off, how to use some of the basic operation keys, and to graph linear functions. We changed settings on our window so we could see graphs with different dimensions and we changed our table settings to embody the range in data. We continued our exploration of the y intercepts, what it means for a line to pass through the origin. Comparing and contrasting  lines with positive and negative slope, observing at the relationship between equations, graphs and tables  were practiced using our new found graphing calculator skills.  Finally, we compared and contrasted a linear and a non-linear model.  Students will be finishing up the Variables and Patterns Unit with a test next week.  

8th Grade Math
   Students complete their Thinking with Mathematical Models Unit Test this week and will begin our new unit next week.  Many students have been coming in for extra help with math skills and students are beginning to master scientific notation and prime factorization.   Students need to take responsibility for asking for help when they are struggling with day-to-day work or haven't grasped a keystone skill from the skill sheets. Visiting Khan Academy, reviewing basic skills by working through the skill hand-out is a way a student can take responsibility for their math learning.

Science 7th/8th
 Students recieved their results from their quiz and we spent some time reviewing student test responses that showed understanding, accuracy and precision.  After reviewing the exemplar responses, students were given their own tests back and they began to correct. Corrections are due on Monday.   We discussed that having an index card is not the same as studying for the quiz; it is important to review the important scientific concepts.

What happens to an old field if left undisturbed? Students took notes, read a scientific journal, and  created water color diagrams of primary and secondary sucession.  We learned about pioneer species in an ecosystem and how they alter the environment for other species to come in.  This eventually leads to greater diversity and ecological equilibrium.

Mr. Merrill’s Wrap Up - (5/6 Social Studies and Language Arts)

This week students typed and printed drafts of their “Qualities and Characteristics of Elected Officials” and “Where I Stand” Constructed Responses.  This work will form the basis of an argument paper that we will start next week.  We also looked into Voting Rights in the US and how the Electoral College system works (something to watch on election night!!!).  
Writing instruction focused on sentence construction practice (simple and compound sentences) and a free write on “Halloween” or “My Scariest Moment.”

News from Ms. O

Math 5
Students in fifth grade math had an assessment this week on tile sequences (more algebra) and on Order of Operations.  This isn’t the last time students will see this material.  A final unit assessment is approaching!  I will be sure to support any students who did not get the big idea of these two concepts after scoring the quizzes.  We will spend a few more days discussing data and statistics and move on from Unit 1.  It always seems like it takes a while to get through Unit 1 because it crosses so many strands of math!  We will finish up and dive deeply into multiplication and division, one of the big ideas of 5th grade math.

Many parents have been wondering about the level and volume of homework students are receiving.  Now that I have a good grasp of where students are at, I will work toward differentiating this.  Please let me know if this causes anguish at home.  The goal is to meet each student at their current level as an independent learner.  Don’t be afraid to communicate with me!

All students will receive a report today re: FASTT MATH status.  It will be going into their portfolios.  Please pay close attention to this report, as it is an indicator of math competency.

Math 6
We have just finished our first unit on Properties of Numbers and are moving into a fractions unit next.  I will be teaching pre-algebra concepts throughout the rest of the year.  This approach will help prepare students for a full algebra unit in the spring, but also beef up this area of math given the new standards for Common Core.

All students will receive a report today re: FASTT MATH/Fraction Nation status.  It will be going into their portfolios.  Please pay close attention to this report, as it is an indicator of math competency.

5/6 Science
We began investigations on the property of Density this week.  Students are learning how to find mass and volume and exploring why these measures together might indicate what kind of substance they have!

To learn more about density, we will be floating and sinking things next week.  Feel free to send in any objects from home that might help us learn more about the properties of the substances the objects are made from!

We also met with UVM students to learn more about water.  Big ideas include:

We are all connected to our water systems.

• The quantity of water on Earth is limited and finite.
• Water here in Williston is connected to water in say, New York City, because the way water cycles around.
• We are responsible for ensuring water quality on Earth.

The Week in Ms. Wesnak’s Room

7/8 Language Arts and Social Studies:
This week students continued to work on their final essays around a political issue of their choice. They all got a lot of work done and were able to make some real progress in their writing. Stressing the fact that writing is a process, students were also given class time to peer edit and conference. This week we also took some time to catch up on some current events, read and analyze political cartoons, learn about quotation marks and punctuation, and also watch some great persuasive speakers! Students were also given the chance to read a famous historical speech and get some public speaking practice in during class on Friday. This week was full of great stuff and we are all really looking forward to November 6th! The classroom this week just seemed to be a buzz with great work and excitement around election day!!