Camp Abnaki Field Trip June 2nd - 4th - Permission Slips went home with students this week. Forms are due May 9th
We are in need of chaperones! Please contact Katie Fieldsend at 871-6148 or KFieldsend@cssu.org if interested.
From Administrative Team...
Dear K-8 parents and guardians,
The Williston schools are pleased to announce that this year's parent survey is now available to complete on-line. This is an opportunity for you to let us know how well we are doing, and particularly how well we are meeting the needs of your child[REN]. The more parents who respond to the survey then the more reliable and valuable the information will be, and the more able we will be to use the data to improve our schools. We strongly encourage you to participate.
We will be reviewing this data in the days right before and after school gets out. To have your input included, please complete this survey by Friday, May 16th. It can be accessed on-line by copying the following link into your web browser:
If you need any help, would like to use one of the computers at school to complete the survey, or would prefer a paper version of the survey, please contact Cid Gause at 871-6104 or cgause@cssu.org.
Thank you,
The Williston Administrative Team
To parents of 8th graders...
Please consider signing your child up for 2 or more weeks at the CVU summer camp. It's 4 days a week and snacks and lunch are provided.
There are 12 different academic, artistic, recreational, and technology interest area options.
Your child will have fun while getting familiar with the building and getting to know others students from the surrounding towns.
There are partial and full scholarships available.
You can register online at www.cvuhs.org.
You can also contact Duncan Wardwell at dwardwell@cvuhs.org or contact Chris Ford at CFord@cssu.org (871-6176.)
FAP Fundraisers:
- Williston Run for Education- Saturday, May 17th 10am ; 5K Run/ Walk & Kids Fun Run - Registration forms available at WCS or day of event
- Vermont Lake Monsters Game- Sunday, June 29th 5:05 game time. Grandstand tickets are $6 each - 50% of ticket sales will be donated back to Williston schools !!!
Ms. Q's Corner
CMP8 This week in It's in The System, we dabbled in inequalities. We learned that the best way to solve inequalities is to solve them like equalities One that is done you can find the where the solution is greater than or less than. We reviewed how to graph inequalities on a horizontal number line and utilized Desmos to see what inequalities look like graphed on a grid.
CMP7 We began the week with exploring the relationship between surface area, volume and dimensions of rectangular prisms. We practiced drawing different 3-D figures using isometric dot paper. It was a very challenging activity to create drawings of cubes stacked to form irregular structures. We completed the week with looked at garbage eating worms and the amount of garbage they can consume in relation to the number of worms and their container size.
Science 7th/8th
This week of science was abridged due to our wonderful 8th grade challenge presentations. We began our investigation of climate change. We learned about residents of Tuvalu, a grouping of atolls in the South Pacific, and how rising sea levels have impacted on their homes, livelihood and way-of-life. We explored the difference between weather and climate and began to investigate some of our essential questions about climate change. What are the causes of climate change? How will our ecosystem change? What can be done? Over the next few weeks, we will be investigating the science behind climate change and possible ways to help slow the process.
Mr. Merrill’s ⅚ Humanities Wrap Up
We started the week off with 8th grade challenge final presentations. The presentations covered a wide range of interesting topics. Students asked wonderful follow up questions and were a fantastic audience. We then picked up where we left off before the break. Students found their argument outlines and we continued to identify key components of good argument writing, using an article in the Observer written by a former Voyager student. First drafts of their argument pieces are due Tuesday. Students will write about water issues that we learned about before vacation.
Weekly assignments will change during the month of May. Students will have review assignments for No Red Ink and will also have a weekly spelling lesson and quiz. See Jupiter Grades for details.
Geography lessons focused on location. We learned about and practiced using latitude and longitude coordinates, playing a game finding locations around the world. Students really enjoyed searching for countries, landforms and bodies of water.
The Week in Ms. O’s
Math 5: We have been building some content knowledge to fuel our bottled water debate and this week in math, we were able to cross into the math realm with this work. We took our refrigerator data on Monday and our recycling data from Ms. O’s one week collection of recycling and gave it a math spin. Students created class data sets with their personal refrigerator inventory and came to an astounding conclusion - that 80 % of our packaging and containment is plastic. We also investigated Ms. O’s recycling, a week’s worth of collection from one family of five living in Vermont. Students recognized the difference in the fridge and household recycling sets and came to some conclusions of plastic. Interesting discoveries to have! The rest of our week was filled with decimal fun...adding and subtracting decimals and identifying decimals between decimals. Today, we began our discussion of percent...a close relative of decimals and fractions! Unit 6 Assessment next week!
Math 6 - We have been building some content knowledge to fuel our bottled water debate and this week in math, we were able to cross into the math realm with this work. We took our refrigerator data on Monday and our recycling data from Ms. O’s one week collection of recycling and gave it a math spin. Students created class data sets with their personal refrigerator inventory and came to an astounding conclusion - that 80 % of our packaging and containment is plastic. We also investigated Ms. O’s recycling, a week’s worth of collection from one family of five living in Vermont. Students recognized the difference in the fridge and household recycling sets and came to some conclusions of plastic. Interesting discoveries to have!
We picked up in Variables and Patterns where we ended off before break, deepening our understanding of graphs and tables and how identification of patterns help tell us the story from the data. Students are likely getting a little tired of graphing, but the foundation is really important for 7th grade. Good work with week from all.
Science ⅚ : What a busy week of learning about plastics, where oil comes from, and why plastics are an interesting and complex problem and solution for our world. Students learned about natural resources, renewables and not, and reconfirmed understanding of the value of recycling. Lots of math/science connections. Superb conversations. You would have been amazed and proud of your aware and curious and activistic children!
The Week in Ms.Wesnak’s Room
7/8 Humanities: This week on house we started off by watching our 8th graders present their 8th Grade Challenge Projects! These were fantastic! There were a huge variety of topics covered, and the students did a really great job with their presentations. Bravo 8th Grade! Once we finished up with viewing 8th Grade Challenge presentations we got back to our normal schedule. During our morning time together students finished up filming their “Day in The Life” videos to share with the Blockhouse Bay School in New Zealand! Students really had a great time filming and editing their movies using iMovie on the school MacBooks. Students say it was “fun, interesting, new, majestic, beautiful, inspiring, eye-opening, patriotic, and even funny!” During our time together in the afternoon we worked on our Road Trip U.S.A. projects! These road trips are coming along beautifully. Students were also introduced to the second half of this project which is creating an online scrapbook using Google sites. The Google site aspect of this project is allowing the students to get very creative with their road trip. They are asking questions such as: What will I bring? Will I bring a pet? What will I listen to while I drive for 12 hours? Is this going to be boring or fun? Will I get a flat tire? What kind of car will I be driving? As you can imagine, the answers for these questions span a wide spectrum! It’s been really fun to watch this trips come together, and I can’t wait to see the final products!
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