Friday, May 12, 2017

Week of May 8th - 12th

TA’s Notes:
***Please do not send in any food to be shared among Voyager students***

A HUGE thank you to all families and students who helped make the Voyager Dance & Activity Night a big success!!  
Voyager made $1,269.30 which is what we needed for the entire house to go on the Camp Abnaki overnight, plus a little more!  (The more will pay for lunch the 2nd day at Abnaki- yay!)
We are so happy to have such supportive families who really stepped up and helped make this a great night for dance attendees and the younger grade school kids.  We had many concessions to sell (the leftovers are being saved for snacks at Abnaki), the dance had a great Cinco de Mayo flare with the decorations and the chaperones were key in providing supervision, entertainment & doing the work to raise the money for our house.  Students stepped up as leaders and everyone pulled together.  THANK YOU!

Important Dates
May 25th- 7:30 - 8:10am: Open House for 8th Grade Challenge (parents invited)
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 7th : ⅚ 10 - 11am Learning Exhibition Open House (parents welcome!)
June 8th - 9th : Voyager House overnight to Camp Abnaki
June 15th- 8th grade Graduation 6:30pm (8th grade dance follows pick-up at 9:45pm)
June 16th: Last Day of School! (11:55am dismissal)

Voyager House would like to thank the families who made Teacher Appreciation Week a special time in the school this week.  The treats we enjoyed and went home with Friday were especially sweet!!

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

Trout Week Highlights
  • Read alouds and short stories about trout and fishing.
  • Fish Art - Japanese Fish Printing, Wire Fish Cultures, Stained Glass Fish, Fish Bone Collage
  • Fishing Ethics - A Scavenger Hunt for Laws and Regulations in the VT Fishing Guide
  • Videos on Vermont Fish Hatcheries and the Fish Lift at the Salmon Hole
  • A SImulation and Role Play on a city council meeting decision to build a dam on a local river
  • Lure Making
  • Fly and Spin Casting
  • Field Trip - Fish Release, Nature Hike, Fishing, and Water Chemistry

Many  thanks to Bryan Davis and Paul Zuchowski for teaching our fly casting sessions!

Thanks to Erika White for leading our trout art activities!

Thanks to all of our chaperons who attended our fish release field trip!

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The Week in Mr. G’s Room (⅞ Humanities):
This week in Humanities we worked on our Historical Skits. We reviewed plot diagrams and brainstormed how to fit an exciting story about a real event into 3 to 7 minutes. We began reading The Boy in the Striped Pajamas together, and discussed as a group ways that we can make reading fun and exciting for the incoming 7th graders. Some ideas that came up were expanding the classroom library and getting more bean bag chairs. Students also mentioned that it’s easier to read after lunch. Eighth grade students worked on writing their memories of other students, and 7th graders worked on a secret project that will be revealed at the class camping trip.

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

CMP8
We began the week exploring the difference between Standard and Slope-Intercept form of linear equations.  We practiced moving from one form to the other.  We also began exploring how to graph Standard Form equations and what each point represents.  Our work was abridged due to Science NECAP testing.

CMP7
This week 7th graders had a fairly abridged math class due to the 8th grade Science NECAP testing.  We began the week looking at tables to discern whether it was linear or non-linear. We investigated negative slope and played a matching game with tables, graphs and rules.  We finished out the week with completing investigation 1 in, “Moving Straight Ahead”.

Science 7th/8th
Science class was also abridged this week due to NECAPS. Teams worked to complete their “Flow through the Energy” models and we had the opportunity to go out and play games that represent concepts like “predator/prey, food webs, the “Carbon Cycle”, symbiosis, photosynthesis, flow of energy and mass through the ecosystem. 

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