Week of March 18

Voyager Recycle Sale
Hope evryone is doing some great Spring cleaning! Drop off of donations for Recycle Sale is Friday night, April 5th from 6-8 pm. The sale is Saturday, April 6th from 9-3. Please sign up on the Voyager wiki if you can help with a time. Shifts are only 2 hours long. We need STUDENT volunteers too for food service and bringing in baked goods. If you have signed up already, thank you! Look for space assignments and money handling instructions in an upcoming email! For questions call apechaver@yahoo.com.  http://voyagerfap.wikispaces.com/home

Message from Mr.Merrill and Ms.Wesnak

For the next few weeks our student directors and stage managers will be writing small updates on the play for the Voice! Hope you enjoy!

From the Director’s Chair With Marlee and Kaitlyn

Week One

And 3...2...1...Rocky we’re rolling with the Voyager Voice! Coming to you live from Williston Central we are Kaitlyn Kaplan (A lead writer and co-director of the Voyager play) and Marlee Gunn (one of the Stage Managers) here to give you the inside footage of this amazing production. This week in Voyager, we have fully kicked off the production of Dr. Jordyn and His Toybox of Success! We finished the initial scene blocking on Wednesday, and have been working our way through our first run through of the play both today and yesterday. Actors are expected to be off script by Monday, so make sure they practice over the weekend. Props, set design, and costumes have been working hard all week. The set is coming along and the painters have been hard at a work. We are in the process of building pieces of the set, our programs are being made, and tickets will be given to each family. We have picked all of our music for the show and have burned a CD. We will complete our first run through with lights and sound sometime early next week. Some things we were looking for to add to set and costumes are: skeleton models, x-rays, football helmets, and posters that would be fit for a college dorm. Make sure you label all items so we can be sure to get them back to you after the production. We are also looking for a chalkboard on wheels, we will build one if necessary. Members of the cast need to bring in a box with their name on it to store their costume in if they haven’t already done so. Signing off!

Week One from the Media Group!

We interviewed Maddie and Kaitlyn about how the week was going. Maddie says that "the week has been great and everyone has learned lines. We are working on transitions, which have been a little rough!" and Kaitlyn who says that "things have been going well this week as we have finished boxing the scenes. We think it's will be rough when students are off the script on Monday. It has also been hard to get people to speak up!"

Math 7

The seventh graders are working industriously on their “Shrink it Down and Blow it Up” project.  Students are creating similar cartoon figures that are smaller and larger than the original by a scale factor.  They need to show how their figures are similar using area, perimeter and angle measurements.  The last task is to create a dissimilar figure using a rule such as 2x, 3y.  Their creations will be on display in Voyager in the next week.

Math 8

This week we explored three different forms of symmetry: reflection, rotation and translation.  We used mirrors to find lines of symmetry for a variety of different geometric figures.  We plotted geometric figures using coordinates on a grid. We then created a reflection of the figure and compared the coordinates to the original figure to see what happens to the coordinates when a figure is reflected. The Voyager 8th graders should be commended on their perseverance, positive attitude and effort on the SBAC pilot math test.  Kudos to the 8th graders!

Science 7th/8th

The science fair is less than 1 week away!  We are using every possible moment to get our data collected, lab reports written and redrafted, and tri-folds created.  Having the play unit during science fair makes it very important for students to complete work at home.  The science fair is on Thursday, March 28th, 6-8:00 p.m.; all 7th/8th students are required to be there to present their science work.  It is a fun and informative evening!

Math 5th and 6th Grades!  We worked our way through portfolio development this week and then reflected on our work for the trimester.  5th Graders finished the week with a quiz on division using multiplication menus!  6th Graders are tackling the concept of area of a circle.  The new meeting criteria for FASTT Math and FRACTION Nation will be 4 times a week to meet the standard.  Please help your student by reminding them that this is an expectation.

⅚ Science

Scientists began their research on the Technology or Space Exploration in order to answer the question, “how has technology and space exploration like ___________(student topic) advanced our understanding of the Solar System and beyond?”  Science takes place on Tuesdays and Thursdays for the long block and so the goal is to finish the research phase of the project by April 5th!  Ask your child about his/her topic.