Week of Nov 27th - Dec 1st

TA’s Notes:

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

***Please notify us if your child has strep.  Thank you for this courtesy.***

Voyager Homework Club- Tuesdays (2:00-3:30pm) and Wednesdays (3:00-4:30pm)

Dates to Know:

• Wed, Dec 6th- Voyager Family Night / Variety Show 6:30 - 8:15pm at WCS in Dining Room & Auditorium Sign up sheet for donated snacks & raffle prize’s HERE

• Sat, Dec 9th- Voyager students can volunteer to be elves with the Polar Express from 4:00 - 8:00pm.  Sign up link was sent to all students and can be accessed Here

Voyager's Annual Family Night and Variety Show - December 6th, 6:30 - 8:15pm!!

It's that time of year again for Voyager Family Night!  We will have snacks first in the Dining Room, then go to the auditorium for some fun and open-mike performances.

Throughout the evening raffle prizes are awarded as a fun way to celebrate the night.

We do ask that families to please donate a raffle prize or bring a small snack to share, based on the core class your child is in.  Such prizes in the past have been movie tickets, gift cards or any sort of small treat.

Sign up sheet is HERE

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Please park & enter at the back of school near the Cafeteria.  This is the only door open in the evening.  We look forward to seeing you all the night of December 6th!

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Hi, my name is Emma and I'm in 4th grade at WCS.  My family and I bring food to local homeless people every week and I've noticed that many of them do not have proper winter attire.   I am planning to make "Homeless Care Packages" and I am hoping you will donate some items. Some ideas are: hand warmers, bottles of water, snack mix, gloves, socks, hats, etc. My sisters and I will be distributing these care packages in Burlington, South Burlington and Williston to homeless people this winter. The white collection bin will be located in the front office at Williston Central School. Thanks so much for considering!!

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

Highlights:

First Trimester Reflection - Students reflected on Humanities work from the first trimester and added pictures of the work and the reflections to their PLP sites.

5 Themes of Geography - We completed our research for our Country Google Slideshows. This work will form the basis for our upcoming International Day celebration.

Book Fair - We visited the book fair and students enjoyed some extra reading time with their new books!

FYI - 5th grade spelling and vocabulary program scores are posted on Google Classroom (these are the only programs that have percentage scores).

The Week in Ms. O’s Room (⅚ Math & Science):

Math 5: Reports have been pushed out to you today.  These reports contain the most recent score for each standard assessed and an overall teacher comment.  Please note:  There are circumstances where a student could not meet a standard over and over and then meet it, or where a student has met, met, met and then not met.  Because the most recent score is posted, you may not be getting the full picture.  Please spend some time with your child looking at the reports.  Each student should have access to their own account and you will be able to see each assessment and the standard by which we assessed student proficiency.

Work should be going home today.

Math 6:  Reports have been pushed out to you today.  These reports contain the most recent score for each standard assessed and an overall teacher comment.  Please note:  There are circumstances where a student could not meet a standard over and over and then meet it, or where a student has met, met, met and then not met.  Because the most recent score is posted, you may not be getting the full picture.  Please spend some time with your child looking at the reports.  Each student should have access to their own account and you will be able to see each assessment and the standard by which we assessed student proficiency.

⅚ Science:Reports have been pushed out to you today.  These reports contain the most recent score for each standard assessed and an overall teacher comment.  Please note:  There are circumstances where a student could not meet a standard over and over and then meet it, or where a student has met, met, met and then not met.  Because the most recent score is posted, you may not be getting the full picture.  Please spend some time with your child looking at the reports.  Each student should have access to their own account and you will be able to see each assessment and the standard by which we assessed student proficiency.

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

Update in next week’s Bell!

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

CMP8

Flies, Snakes and Mold populations were growing exponentially in the 8th grade math class this week. Actually, if you looked under my sink you might be surprised.  We explored exponential functions that doubled and tripled. We looked at what the y-intercept represents in the context of our functions....usually the number of flies, snakes and patch of mold where you begin your investigation. We investigated fractional exponents and practiced mathematical operations with scientific notation.

CMP7

What is absolute value and is it absolutely important to our study of positive and negative numbers? Absolutely! We solved absolute value problems and saw how knowing the absolute value can absolutely help you in seeing the relationship between positive and negative numbers. We then went onto our “Love Triangle” of multiplying and dividing positive integers. When you love (+) to hate (-), you hate (-) positive integer multiplied by a negative integer = a negative integer. Absolutely lovely.

Science

We began the week with looking at all sorts of plants and animal cells.  We focused on the role of cells and did a brief overview of the organelles that cells have. We then moved onto mitosis and meiosis which are two forms of cell division.  All of this is leading us to the study of genetics and how traits are passed from generation to generation.  We ended the week with a survey of traits that we could discover in our class such as tongue rolling and dimples.  We graphed our results, analyzed our data and created claim/evidence statements.