TA’s Notes:
***Please do not send in any food to be shared among Voyager students***
VOYAGER RECYCLE SALE
ALL Voyager Parents -- Sign Up!
The Voyager Recycle Sale is Saturday, March 26th! This is our biggest, most fun event of the year! A giant indoor yard sale!!!! Please start to gather anything you'd like to unload...household items, old artwork/posters, furniture, rugs, sporting equipment, books, toys, gently used jeans, dresses, jackets (any clothes must be clean, properly folded and ready to 'sell') costume jewelry, tools, working electronics. What a great activity for the upcoming February break! Spring cleaning!
All items can be dropped off at WCS on Friday, March 25th between 6 and 8 pm. The sale is Saturday, March 26th, 9:00 am - 2:00 pm. If you are new to Voyager (parents of 5th graders, or new students) please make an effort to join us, this is a wonderful, community- building event and everyone has a blast. We'll have a bake sale, on-site DJ playing music. It draws a huge shopping crowd and has become a Williston tradition. It is a great way to clean out and recycle your unwanted items and find new treasures!!!
Please sign up at this link: http://bit.ly/1L6dcOU Please save the date and volunteer for a shift. Shifts are only 2-hours, so a great opportunity to help out! Please find attached a poster that you can post/print and share with your friends. If you have any questions please feel free to contact Ann Schmidt at apechaver@yahoo.com
SBAC Testing
SBAC Testing will begin soon for Williston Central School. During Voyager House testing windows all cell phones will be shut down and locked up. Phones will be collected in the morning of each testing day and returned at the end of the day.
Please call Katie Fieldsend at 871-6148 if you need to get in touch with your child so our classroom phones are not interrupting test sessions.
Over the next few months students will have to have the WiFi turned off to decrease demand on our network capacity while all teams complete SBAC testing.
Dates are as follows:
SBAC Testing at WCS: March 21st - May 27th (airplane mode set on all cell phones in building)
SBAC Testing at WCS: March 21st - May 27th (airplane mode set on all cell phones in building)
Voyager ⅞ SBAC Testing: March 21st - April 1st (students cell phones will be off and locked up for day)
Voyager ⅚ SBAC Testing: May 16th - May 27th (students cell phones will be off and locked up for day)
More info to come about making sure students get enough sleep during our testing windows and a snack donation sign up sheet to help boost brain power during these times!
SPRING CONFERENCE SIGN UPS
If you would like to meet for a parent/student/teacher conference sign up please use the appropriate sign up sheet below. If you cannot access this Google doc sign up sheet please email Katie Fieldsend (KFieldsend@cssu.org) to help sign up for a specific time.
5th & 6th Graders: Two days have been designated for 5th & 6th grade families, Friday, March 25th and Monday, March 28th. If you sign up for a March 28th date, your student will be pulled out of class for the 15 minute conference.
7th Graders: Friday, March 25th is the date for conferences. This evening aligns with the Voyager Recycle Sale set-up night. Please consider signing up to help volunteer at this Voyager fundraiser around the time of your conference.
8th Graders: Saturday, March 26th is the date for conferences. We know 8th graders are heading off to CVU soon but if you’d like to meet with the teachers about the current school year and/or 8th grade Challenge please sign up during a time that also coordinates with the Voyager Recycle Sale happening throughout the morning of the 26th.
Greetings Team Voyager!
Ms. Kiely and Ms. Rice wanted to formally introduce the new slavery unit that 5/6 students are working on in their Humanities classes. The unit began this week and so far, students seem to be highly engaged and motivated to learn! We are immensely grateful for their energy and willingness to explore this undeniably difficult subject.
This week, students were provided with the opportunity to dive head first into some amazing primary resource material from the slave era. We also introduced a new class novel, Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen. Set in the 1850s, the story is told from the perspective of a twelve year old enslaved girl named Sarny and follows her daily life experiences as a slave (as well as detailing her deeper ambitions of learning how to read). Students will be reading the story in small book groups in order to stimulate rich discussion.
This unit will continue into and through the next week and a half and culminate in a written informational piece that compares and contrasts Nightjohn with primary source material and answers the question, was Nightjohn a realistic piece of historical fiction? We will soon find out!
As always, our goal is to be the best resources we can be to our team so please don’t hesitate to connect with any questions!
Thanks!
Ms. Kiely and Ms. Rice :)
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