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 (2:00-3:30 pm) and Wednesdays (3:00-4:30 pm)
Dates to Know:
March 22nd- Jump Rope Reports are emailed out to families (Marking end of Trimester 2)
March 23rd- No School (Parent/Student/Teacher Conference Day)
Recycle Sale Drop Off 6-8pm in Cafeteria
Thursday, March 29th - Voyager ⅚ Open House 8:30-9:30am: Students will have personal narratives available for a reading cafe, a math statistics project, and a cell animation for our unit on the human body on display.
April 23rd- 22nd- No School (April Break)
Message from Administration:
WCS has been working in collaboration with the Spiral International organization to connect our school with schools in China. I am excited to announce that 9 Chinese middle school students will be coming to WCS from April 1st-April 7th. WCS is seeking host families for them. This is an incredible opportunity for our middle level students to make a personal connection with a Chinese student. The Chinese student would stay with their host family and attend school each day.
If you are willing to host one or two Chinese students, please email Jackie Parks for more details. jparks@cvsdvt.org
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Hello Incoming CVU Class of 2022,
It's hard to believe that the summer will be here before we know it and what better way to spend the summer then getting to chill with your friends while having a blast at Camp.
The CVU Summer Camp is an exciting summer camp experience where incoming ninth graders have a chance to learn the layout of CVU and meet CVU Faculty while participating in daily activities lead by experienced upper class students. This camp will help students to grow relationships with other students from all the sending schools. Students can choose different interest groups that they will participate in new and exciting activities lead by their upper class members. Along with fun daily activities such as tie dye, capture the flag, and karaoke battles, snacks, lunch and a camp T-shirt are included in your camp fee. Scholarships are available upon request.
Please take some time to review our website via the links below with important info about the daily schedule, interest areas and other program information.
Please follow the link below to register your student.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out! We look forward to sharing this once in a lifetime opportunity!
"The CVU Summer Camp is amazing! It allowed me to meet so many new people that I then was able to know on my first day at CVU so it made all the difference!" - Jensen Marrott
Rick Kinsman
CVU Summer Camp Director
Transition Coordinator, Special Services Department
Champlain Valley Union High School, CVSD
(802) 482 - 7195
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Advanced Coder Camp
This new, advanced coding camp at Vermont Technical College – Williston Campus provides an opportunity for campers ages 11 - 17 with some programming background to dive deeper into programming. The camp will be held July 23-27, 2018. Campers will learn to develop simple Android applications using Java and xml. Smartphone apps, robots, video games, small business—the world runs on code. Whether you dream of becoming a Google developer or want to launch your own mobile game startup, your coding path continues here. Cost is $150 – plus many scholarships available.
Contact: Zoe McDonald at zmacdonald@vtc.vsc.ed
Bonnie Birdsall
Digital Learning Leader
Public Information Officer
Williston Schools
Williston, Vermont
New email address: bbirdsall@cvsdvt.org
Twitter: @bonniebird
Notes from Ms. Sherman on behalf of all Voyager Teachers and Staff:
To all our Valued Voyager Parents and Guardians,
Happy Third Trimester!!! As we enter into the last stretch of school, we as Voyager teachers have been discussing what progress we would like all our students to be working towards by June. Our goal for these shifts is to give kids opportunities to become more independent with completing and managing their work, and to also give ample time for kids to be metacognitive and reflect on their collaborative skills in the classroom. With this progress in mind, there will be some shifts in our practices on house, and we wanted to make sure to provide you with information regarding these changes. Thank you for your support, and please feel free to contact us for questions and clarification.
Schedule: On Mondays, starting on March 23, students will begin their day in core and have a check-in to see how they are doing.
Activities during this time will include →
- Check google classroom for completed, not completed, or not turned in assignments
- Check in on JumpRope
- Complete Google Form regarding homework completion
- Make a plan for completing outstanding work
- Students will share this completed form with their parents/guardians (Please make sure your child is sharing this with you weekly and let us know if they are not.)
New Classroom Practice with Collaboration Focus: All students in Voyager are accustomed to the use of entry and exit tasks, especially in math class. Voyager teachers will be adopting this same practice for kids to take time to reflect on their collaboration skills. This reflection work will be done a minimum of once a week and will happen when the teacher sees fit.
Below is what it will look like→
- Students will self assess on a defined 1-4 scale
- Students will write a short statement of reflection with evidence and analysis of scores
- Teachers will then also score everyone using the same 4 pt scale
- Teachers will then upload these (teacher) scores to JumpRope under Habits of Learning on a bi-weekly basis
Teacher Shift in Practices: In an effort to guide students towards more independent practice and personal responsibility for their work completion habits, Teachers will no longer be sending out Friday emails. However, if you need more information, we will do our best to meet or correspond with you regarding your questions and/or concerns.
Below are ways to help students and their families stay on top of their work→
- Check google classroom and JumpRope with your child regularly
- Talk about and review your child’s Monday Work Completion Google Form
- Read the Voyager Voice every week!
The Week in Mr. Merrill’s Room (⅚ Humanities):
Slavery: Mr. McElroy started his solo unit focusing on Slavery before the Civil War. Students spent time reading excerpts from slave narratives as well as viewing historical pictures of enslaved people from the years before the Civil War. Students have been reading Gary Paulsen's Nightjohn in class and have spent time comparing and contrasting the experiences of the characters in Nightjohn to the experiences of former slaves in their narratives. Thursday morning, Joan Robinson from the Flynn Theater led a supplemented activity that allowed students to revisit the Freedom Train performance they viewed last week at the Flynn.
Current Events: Students read a story and completed a post-reading activity covering main points of the article.
3DVT: Students continued their progress on their projects.
The Week in Ms. O’s Room (⅚ Math & Science):
Math 5:
Math 6:
⅚ Science:
The Week in Mr. Roof’s Room (⅞ Humanities):
ELA & SOCIAL STUDIES: We had an alternative type of week as so many of our students are involved in chorus and band. Their amazing concert performances occurred this week
The Week from Ms. Q’s Room (⅞ Math & Science):
CMP8
This week the 8th graders continued to explore geometric rotations and the coordinate rules that transform figures from one quadrant to another. Along with the coordinate rules, students investigated what happens to line segments of geometric figures as we translate and rotate them.
Next week we will have an assessment on Investigation 3. We also plan to do a brief mathematic mandala activity where students will create an image that shows multiple forms of geometric transformation.
CMP7
The 7th graders turned their attention to unit rates and how these rates can be placed into a linear equation and then graphed. This is our first glimpse of building equations and exploring linear functions. We investigated the difference between direct variations, y = kx and linear equations that are in the slope intercept form y= mx + b. Direct variations are a form of linear equation that crosses the y-intercept at 0,0 and the table shows x changing and y changing in proportion.
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We will be having a check-up next week and will hopefully begin a survey project.
Science 7th/8th
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