Week of October 24th - 28th

TA’s Notes:

***Please do not send in any food to be shared among Voyager students***

Dates to Remember:

Friday, Nov. 4th - Voyager’s Book & Media Sale Set-up

Saturday, Nov. 5th - Voyager’s Book & Media Sale

Wednesday, Dec. 7th- Voyager Family Night in WCS Auditorium

Sunday, Dec. 11th - 11:30am - 4:00pm Polar Express Elves

It’s almost time for the Voyager Book & Media Sale!!
It’s happening Saturday, Nov 5th-

Merchandise can still be dropped off in the front lobby of WCS or in Voyager’s project room.

Volunteers are still needed for Saturday and final clean-up Saturday afternoon.   

Sign Up Sheet Here

ALL funds raised go directly to Voyager house.

Please try and support this fundraiser by helping out or shopping at the Book & Media Sale!

Lauren Palmer (a former Voyager student and CVU graduate)  is directing/running an adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part One performing at the Off Center for the Dramatic Arts in Burlington on November 17th, 18th, and 19th (7:00, 7:00, and 2:00 respectively). All actors/actresses are youth (ages 12-15) from the surrounding communities. You can go to the website: hourglassyouththeatre.weebly.com for more information.

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

This week’s highlights:

• We started a new mystery literature group round. 5th graders are reading Closed for the Season and 6th graders are reading Tangerine.
• We prepared for our field trip by learning about the VT State House and structure of the VT government.
• We wrote letters to our local representatives with our ideas for bills to introduce in the next session.
• Students learned about the judicial branch and participated in a Pro Se (do it yourself) Court using a real Supreme Court case - Chicago vs Morales.
• We went to the VT State House and VT Historical Society Museum on Friday. Students took a tour of the State House, participated in a mock trial in the VT Supreme Court room and completed a scavenger hunt in the museum.

The Week in Mr. G’s Room (⅞ Humanities):

This week we presented our “Trends of Democratization” slides, wrapping up our unit on the American Revolution and Democracy. Then students were hard at work preparing for National Novel Writing Month. They worked on character, conflict, plot, setting and dialogue. We will officially begin writing on Monday. Students have set their own daily, weekly, and total word count goals. The objective for the month of November will be to write as much as possible. Editing and revision will happen later in the year.

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

CMP8

This week we put the finishing touches on our understanding of inverse variations, line of best fit and solving multi-step algebraic equations.  We created a class record, reviewed our notes and took a practice test.  The Thinking With Mathematical Models test was given on Thursday with many finishing up on Friday.  Our next exciting topic is......Exponents and the rules they follow. Over the next week we will explore what exponents represent numerically and learn how to do mathematical operations with them.

CMP7

The 7th graders have been doing a great job at getting down to business in math class. At one point they were able to transition from our “brain break” in 40 seconds.  They have earned lots of Smart Cells for on-task behavior.  Kudos to the class!  This week we completed our geometry review, took a practice test and talked about how to study for a unit test.  The Shapes and Designs test was given on Thursday with many students completing it on Friday.  We move on to positive and negative integers next.  

Science 7th/8th

It's time to put away the glue guns, mousetraps, wooden axles and wheels.  We had our final competition on both Wednesday and Thursday this week.  Although many cars did not travel far, we learned a lot about creating a solution to transforming the potential energy of a mousetrap to the kinetic energy of movement.  Students took notes on their colleagues car results, gave observational feedback, students considered all the variable changes they made and did a final exit task after our discussion.  The lab report is due from each student on Monday next week.