TA’s Notes:
***Please do not send in any food to be shared among Voyager students***
April 24th - 28th : No School (April Break)
May 2-5 SBAC testing for ⅚ students.
May 5th : Voyager Dance & Activity Night Fundraiser
May 9th and 10th: 8th Grade Science NECAP testing.
May 12th : 5th & 6th grade Trout Release @ Lewis Creek and Fishing @ Lake Iroquois
May 29th : No school (Memorial Day)
June 1st : 5th & 6th grade field trip to Fort Ticonderoga
June 1st - 2nd : 8th grade overnight to Ridin-Hy Ranch
June 8th - 9th : Voyager House overnight to Camp Abnaki
June 13th: Last Early Release Day
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Below is the Sign Up for the upcoming Voyager sponsored dance and Activity Night happening Friday, May 5th. Please mark your calendar!
This is a fundraiser we need to do in order to raise the last $800 needed to send all of Voyager House on an overnight Camp Abnaki experience. We have done this overnight in the past and it is LOTS OF FUN!
We really need chaperones and concessions!! Attached is a sign up sheet with many ways to help and we are hoping between all of the students and parents we can make this a booming success. Any help/time/items you can offer is very much appreciated!
Any questions, please email Katie Fieldsend at KFieldsend@cssu.org
Student Teacher Gifts - Our incredible student teacher, David Maika, is finishing up his internship on Voyager. David has been an asset to our team! If your child would like to give him a small gift for the teacher’s bag we have purchased, they are welcome to bring it in. Mrs. Fieldsend is the collector. Ideas for the bag are items all teachers need in their new classrooms (coffee mug, Starbucks cards, water bottle, mints, cool pens/pencils/markers, post-it notes, chocolate, any organizers and Advil). The small gifts are meant to be fun! Mr. Maika doesn’t know about this bag yet; it will be a surprise that we’ll give him at a celebratory party on Friday, May 19th. If you are able to help, we are in need of napkins, small plates, cups, forks, drinks, cookies, chips, fruit, or any other treats.
The Week in Mr. Merrill’s Room (⅚ Humanities):
Highlights:
- Reading Cafe - Find and read a book to finish over the break
- Immigration Primary Resource Activity
- On Demand Argument Writing Assessment
- SBAC Practice Prep
- Narrative Writing Peer Review, Comments, Revision and Edit
- “Lock Box” Team Building Activity
The Week in Ms. O’s Room (⅚ Math & Science):
Math 5: Highlights from the Week
- Learned how to create a Factor Tree
- Learned that a factor tree when done correctly leads to a prime factorization.
- Every number has a unique prime factorization. No two numbers share the same prime factorization. That’s why they are different numbers.
- Prime factorizations can be used to find all the factors of that number.
- Prime factorizations can help find the Greatest Common Factor of a pair of numbers.
- A lesson on Trash - http://robgreenfield.tv/trashme/
Math 6: Highlights from the Week
- Continued work looking at tables, graphs and written notes.
- Polishing our own graphing skills.
- Comparing data graphed on one graph. When lines are above others, cross, etc., what does this mean?
- A lesson on Trash: http://robgreenfield.tv/trashme/
⅚ Science: Highlights from the Week
- Tested the thermal conductivity of materials. Created a scenario where students needed to test one material’s ability to insulate a hot beaker of water over the course of 20 minutes.
- Graphed the 11 materials time temp. Data to compare thermal conductivity.
- Tested solids and liquids for their electrical conductivity.
- Thermal and Electrical are two physical properties of materials that can be measured. This allows us to distinguish one material from another.
The Week in Mr. G’s Room (⅞ Humanities):
Students in Mr. G’s room have been working hard to get their World War I essays done in time for break. Students had the chance to explore independently an area of the Great War that they wanted to look into in more depth than we could cover as a whole class. We spent two weeks researching, brainstorming, mapping, and writing our essays. This week we motivated proofreading by playing Grammar Jeopardy, and musical chair peer edits. Students who finished early had the opportunity to do extra credit work, or to prepare for our next unit by doing personal history timelines. When we return from break we will be focusing on the 20 year period between WWI and WWII and we will be using timelines to connect the various themes that combined to launch the world into another cataclysmic war.
The Week from Ms. Q’s Room (⅞ Math & Science):
CMP8
“Function Junction, what’s your function....” We began a brief foray into transforming quadratic functions from our parent function f(x) = x2 by flipping, moving it vertically, making it wider or thinner, and moving it horizontally. Each of these moves changed our parent function equation in different ways. We learned about another form of quadratic equation called the vertex form.
f (x) = a(x - h)2 + k, where (h, k) is the vertex of the parabola.This form allows you to find the vertex, y-intercept, whether it is wide or skinny and how it is oriented. (frown or smiley) We looked at piecewise and absolute value functions and created a class record. After our break we will take a short assessment and then we will move on to investigating systems of linear equations.
CMP7
This week we continued to work with ratios and proportions in different contexts. We examined unit rates with distance and time and standard measurements. We used a flow chart to help us understand how car dealers make their money through commissions. Finally we created a class record with major concepts of this unit, played some jeopardy and began our unit assessment. After break we will begin “Moving Straight Ahead”,a unit on linear equations.
Science 7th/8th
How do the biotic resources of an ecosystem affect the predator/prey relationship between foxes and rabbits? We began the week with an investigation of foxes hunting rabbits in an ecosystem. This model allowed students to collect data from a fox hunt, by changing the variable of shrub size. We looked at what happens to the ability of the fox to snag rabbits when bushes where they hide are, large and lush vs. small and skimpy. We graphed our results, created claim and evidence statements on our data and discussed how loss of species in the ecosystem can affect the population of its inhabitants. Finally, we launched our next project of creating a model or game based on the flow of energy through the ecosystem. We will begin this project in earnest after the break.
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