TA’s Notes:
- No school Monday, January 19th
- CVU’s Student and Parent Night rescheduled to Thursday, January 29th 6:30-8:30pm in CVU’s gym
- Friday, February 6th, Voyager is sponsoring the Valentines Dance!
We need a number of chaperones and we need everyone to donate to the concessions so our fundraiser is as successful as possible! The concession funds we raise go to support Voyager’s field trips, so please plan to help out with your time and a snack donation.
Thank you for supporting your student! Click the link below to sign up for chaperoning and snacks.
Voyager Games: The Voyager Games are complete! Students did an amazing job collaborating with 12 family members, surviving some pretty cold conditions outside, and applying their learning to real world problem solving. Ask your child about the games. Photos are attached!
The Week in Mr. Merrill’s Room (⅚ Humanities):
In Reading Cafe, we continued our read aloud of the book Rules. The book focuses on the themes of friendship, compassion, and understanding differences and supports our school wide effort to help our students become good people and citizens. Our study of informational text and writing lesson focused on close reading skills. Students practiced reading deeply (reading text more than once) for main ideas, specific information, and personal connections. Students also wrote a reflection on the challenges that they faced during our survival week. Students brainstormed areas to help their teams improve for future challenges and went back with suggestions for team leaders.
The Week in Ms. O’s Room (⅚ Math & Science):
Math 5: This week we worked on writing decimals using words, translating words into decimals, comparing decimals, and ordering them. The focus of our work has been on place value - what is the numeral’s value based on its place in the number? The base ten model has been the method for justification and I have been requiring this modeling for their solutions. We started work on rounding and students are working to apply old rounding principles to decimals. We also completed a Check up for addition and subtraction of decimals.
Math 6: This week, we focused on identifying what it means to find a fraction of fraction. What is the magnitude of the solution to finding a fraction of a fraction? Will the result always be smaller than the original numbers? We practiced drawing models that justify the solution for part of part problems and looked at whole numbers and groups of problems to see if we noticed any relationships amongst other kinds of problems that use the word ‘of’. We confirmed that part of part problems are indeed multiplication and we can use the area model of multiplication to prove it. By landing on this truth, we then looked at multiplying fractions, no matter what name we give the number: impropers, mixed numbers, whole numbers and proper fractions. Lots of fun!
Science ⅚: The brook trout eggs have arrived and we are beginning the slow process of learning about them. We worked on water testing this week!
We will be exploring the moon next week. Please encourage moon sightings, if possible. The moon will be visible during the day in the next seven days. Here is the moonrise/moonset schedule for the next seven days:
Moonrise Moonset
Jan 16
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3:12 AM
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1:13 PM
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Jan 17
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4:13 AM
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2:04 PM
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Jan 18
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5:13 AM
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3:02 PM
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Jan 19
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6:08 AM
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4:08 PM
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Jan 20
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6:58 AM
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5:20 PM
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Jan 21
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7:42 AM
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6:35 PM
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Jan 22
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8:22 AM
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7:50 PM
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The Week from Ms. Q’s Room (⅞ Math & Science):
CMP8
This week 8th graders are becoming more adept at writing quadratic equations in expanded and factored form. We explored different forms of quadratic equations, how they are derived and what points you can find on the parabola based on the type of equation. Students created class records on the quadratic form, parts of a parabola, the difference between factored and expanded forms, how coefficients change the parabola's shape and location on the grid. Next week we will explore real life examples of quadratics.
CMP7
We began the week with a gallery walk of our completed “Blow it Up and Shrink it Down” projects. They will go on display once they are laminated. In our Comparing and Scaling unit, 7th graders began exploring the differences between part to part and part to whole ratios. We figured out how much concentrate is needed to make an “orangey” juice. We compared percentages to ratios and discussed when one form of comparison is better than the other and talked about how statistics can be utilized in order to make a product seem more impressive. Students practiced different strategies for solving unknown quantities by using the vertical, horizontal or cross product methods in solving proportions. Understanding the meaning of percentages and how they are formed was reviewed and we connected some of our scaling concepts with our previous Stretching and Shrinking unit.
7th/8th Science
Next week we will return to regular classes.
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