Week of June 8th - 12th

TA’s Notes:

Reminder that all snacks brought in for sharing need to be nut-free!

5th - 7th students will be coming home with report cards on Tuesday.

The Week in Mr. Merrill’s Room (⅚ Humanities):

• Read articles to identify author’s purpose (persuasive, informative, or entertainment).

• Students participated and performed in some read aloud plays based on Revolutionary War events.
• Selected up to 5 books from our library to bring home for the summer. A reading goal of 5 books helps to prevent summer learning losses. Books will be due back on the first day of school.
• We also hosted a great step up day for our incoming 5th graders. Many thanks to the current 5th and 6th graders for making Voyager such a warm and friendly place.
• Students participated in our yearly traditions of 8th grade wills/poems to send off our graduates in style.

Look for an email/voice next week with summer learning opportunities and expectations. We want to keep all of our students reading and writing over the summer and we have some simple and fun things planned for the students.

The Week in Ms. O’s Room (⅚ Math & Science):

Don’t Forget!  Join us for some demonstrations of our learning on Monday at 10:00 am.  We will have about 30 minutes of parent and Voyager 7th grade only time and then we will have a few visitors from the lower houses.  

The Week from Ms. Q’s Room (⅞ Math & Science):

CMP8

Phew! After several weeks of review the 8th graders took the CSSU Math Final.  It was a very long test that covered questions from the entire year.  I saw a lot of grit and perseverance as the day wore on.  Kudos to our 8th graders!  Good Luck at CVU!

CMP7

On Monday we finished our “Filling and Wrapping Assessment” and students had the opportunity to correct it before the grade book closed.  We completed our study of geometric figures and volume with a “stinky” problem.  Students worked to figure out the volume of waste from disposable diapers from a single baby over a year.  It was surprising.  We also looked at the number of babies born each year and the realization that babies live in diapers for up to three years.  The waste is staggering.  Students will be receiving their summer math packets next week.

Science 7th/8th

This week we came full circle from our business convention to focus on the worker and what life is like trying to live on minimum wage.  We explored the cost of rent, transportation and food.  Food insecurity was the topic that we moved into as we discussed the difficulty of feeding yourself and others on little cash.  We watched the documentary “A Place at the Table”, a film that focuses on several families living with food insecurity.  We realized how hard it is to eat healthy when you don’t have a lot of money to buy nutritious food.  There was a lot of eye opening discussion.