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:
- Jan 15th: No School
- Thursday, January 25th - Voyager Play Evening Performance
- Feb 2nd: Voyager Dance & Activity Night- Please note date as we will be looking for chaperones! More info to come soon!
WCS is partnering again with the Williston Rep. Board to bring a social media presentation to our middle school students and parents. Social media is everywhere and we need to help our students learn how to manage it in their lives.
Tuesday, January 9th: Parent Evening Presentation from 6:30-8:30 in the auditorium
5th - 8th grade students will go to presentations Tuesday (1/9 for 5/6) & Wednesday (1/10 for 7/8)
Voyager House parent contributions to the Williston Schools Annual Fund are low this year. These funds support many of our field trips and programs. Please consider making a donation. The Annual Fund completely funds our Vermont trips, including:
- Sandbar field trip in the fall
- Troy Wonderle - Circus Smirkus Day
- Flynn trip this winter
- Trout release field trip to Lewis Creek
- Rokeby Museum Field Trip
The Annual Fund takes place of past fundraisers such as selling wrapping paper and writing individual checks for each field trip. Your support will help ensure that these trips and other activities and programs will continue as planned.
If you have already contributed, thank you. If you can do so today, please click here: https://willistonfap.wixsite.com/willistonfap/annual-fund
Thank you so much!
Hello TA could you please send out to all families.
The Week in Mr. Merrill’s Room (⅚ Humanities):
This week we started our personal narrative writing unit. First we used a couple of fun prompts to get us into the habit of writing. Then students generated ideas for stories using a variety of brainstorming techniques and started a checklist of tips that will make their narrative writing the best it can be.
Our play challenge also kicked into full gear. Students will be working on one act plays for the next 3 ½ weeks. They are separated into four 5-8 grade teams. By early next week, teams should have a script, cast, and tech support ready to go.
The Week in Ms. O’s Room (⅚ Math & Science):
Math 5:
We had an exciting week, working through division of whole numbers and expanding our list of strategies to solve them. We did have a big class Tuesday. 9 parents of 5th and 6th graders in our school attended a studio class to learn a little math with us. The 5th graders were awesome! We have some review to work through, in order to finish up Unit 3. Students also began the CRM, a mid year math assessment that allows us to see how they are retaining the mathematics they are learning. It is not a long test, but one that helps us revise intervention for students that need it and double back on some concepts that are overall lagging.
Math 6: We began our geometry unit last week, Covering and Surrounding. The focus of the unit is on area and perimeter of 2 dimensional figures. It is a very dynamic unit, in that students are not just finding perimeter and area, but changing the dimensions of figures and looking at how area and perimeter are affected. We will move on to triangles next week and then to parallelograms and trapezoids. I am supplementing homework during this unit, with challenging problems that are real world. Students will be choosing their homework to suit their needs when I have these problems available.
⅚ Science: We did a few exit tasks this week, from our Electromagnets unit, but otherwise, science is on hold during the play unit!
The Week in Mr. Roof’s Room (⅞ Humanities):
In Humanities this week, we worked on our independent reading with reading log 17. Reading logs are almost always due on Mondays, which allows for the weekend to be included. The skills highlighted this week were a review of past skills, including subject verb agreement and using context clues to decipher unknown vocabulary. We also reviewed our two goals: one academic and one personal. Students are expected to update these goals with progress and expected completion dates, or to write new goals if the previous goals have been accomplished. Finally, students completed a CNN 10 summary assignment using the news from 1/8/18.
Next week, we will be completing some drama/theater specific assignments.
The Week from Ms. Q’s Room (⅞ Math & Science):
CMP8
We have been working hard on our investigations of the Pythagorean Theorem. Using dot paper and geoboards we have explored different types of right triangles and other triangles to see if a2 + b2 = c2 works.
We began to solve problems with missing side lengths of triangles and looked at some common misconceptions.
CMP7
Students investigated different polygons to see if they tessellated or would produce a “rep-tile” . A rep-tile is a figure that is made up of a number of the similar figures that produces a larger or scaled figure to the original.
We explored which figures could tessellate, reptile and whether there was a pattern in the polygon that could do one or both.
We also learned three ways to solve proportions: vertically, horizontally and cross product.
We then looked at similar figures, that were missing side lengths. We used one of these methods to find the answer.
Science 7th/8th
Students are doing independent work during the play unit.
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