TA’s Notes:
***Please do not send in any food to be shared among Voyager students***
Reminder - Grades close next Friday, 11/20. Reports will be going home on Friday, December 4.
Ms. Sherman:
THANKSGIVING BASKETS!!!
Just a friendly reminder to families that we are doing a “food drive” for Thanksgiving. Each core has a sign-up sheet for items. We hope to create 4 complete Thanksgiving baskets to donate to our local families this holiday. Check in with your children about what they have signed up for. Your child can bring in their item any time in the next few weeks and drop it in the bin, in their core classroom. Thanks in advance!!!!
The Week in Mr. Merrill’s Room (⅚ Humanities):
Monday:
Reading Cafe
WKET Current Events News Quiz
Tuesday:
Worldly Wise Spelling Quiz
Final Read Aloud for Closed for the Season and Coraline
Completion of Setting Maps and Character Tables in Reading Response notebooks
Investigating Map Projections Activity
Wednesday:
Book Fair Visit
Guest speaker - Emily Keller former Voyager Student who has started her own non
profit to feed the elderly in Guatemala
Thursday:
Wordly Wise Vocabulary Quiz
Scholastic Reading - Bug Bites and Summary Writing Activity
Mapping US Watersheds Activity
Friday:
Weekly Reflection Writing
Students review map/table in Reading Response notebook for best evidence
Evidence and analysis drafting for the final LEAF essay
Global Village Visit (a ⅞ Voyager project)
The Week in Ms. O’s Room (⅚ Math & Science):
Math 5: We wrapped up a week of learning about Least Common Multiple and Greatest Common Factor and how these numerical noticings may help us solve fraction addition and subtraction problems as well as simplify fractions. It was good solid review for the assessment, which we took today. On to Unit 3!
Math 6: Students are trudging their way through some very sophisticated understanding re: ratios, rates, and their relationship to fractions. Armed with new language and solid connections to what they already know about fractions, students are learning about equivalent ratios, unit rates, and comparisons between numbers based on multiplicative reasoning.
Science ⅚: It’s an Engineering Challenge! Students were assigned groups and a problem to solve and have begun the Engineering Design Process in order to find an award winning solution to the problems. Tasks include: a zipline that can transport a money down an 8 meter line in 8 seconds or as close as possible; an egg bungee system to protect a raw egg from splattering on the floor; a rubberband car that can hit the target 3 meters away; and a catapult system that can launch marshmallows consistently to a target 5 m. away. Thursday is competition day. More details about timing of events to follow.
The Week in Ms. Wesnak’s Room (⅞ Humanities):
Global Village Excitement!
Everyone did great- countries were amazing! Pictures to follow in near future!
The Week from Ms. Q’s Room (⅞ Math & Science):
CMP7
In math this week we are finishing up Accentuate the Negative. We reviewed Order of Operation and PEMDAS, learned about the distributive property using an area model, and utilized a new visual model to help students understand addition and subtraction of signed numbers. Students had the chance to play positive/negative number Bingo and the product game. We also learned about solving 2 step algebraic equations and showing your steps clearly and methodically. Next week we will complete our review and the Accentuate the Negative assessment will be on Tuesday. Students had less homework this week due to the Global Village.
CMP8
This week we completed our Growing, Growing, Growing investigation with exploration of fractional exponents and their equivalent expressions, scientific notation operations and transformations of exponential decay and growth functions. We rounded out the week with playing jeopardy! We will begin our Unit Assessment on Monday. The next unit is on the Pythagorean Theorem.
Science 7th/8th
This week’s science focus was the Global Village. Students created Google slides about their country’s current health status, which included infant mortality, life expectancy, common diseases, common causes of death, and immunizations needed for entrance to the country. Finally, students had to research about current travel restrictions. Friday morning we kicked off the WCS Engineering Task. Students were placed in 7th/8th groups and selected tasks such as the rubber band car, monkey zipline, marshmallow catapult and Egg Bungee. The competition takes place on Friday, November 20th! Go Voyager!!!!
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