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:
March 21st- 7:00pm 7th & 8th grade Spring Concert
March 22nd- Jump Rope Reports are emailed out to families (Marking end of Trimester 2)
March 23rd- No School (Parent/Student/Teacher Conference Day) Signs ups went out already, if you do not have a time to meet with your students teacher and wish to do so please contact Katie Fieldsend at KFieldsend@cvsdvt.org or 871-6148
Recycle Sale Drop Off 6-8pm in Cafeteria: Volunteers needed for set-up
March 24th- Voyager Recycle Sale 9am - 12 noon: Volunteers needed for sales & clean-up
Concessions can be donated as well Sign up HERE
March 29th - Voyager ⅚ Open House: Students will have personal narratives available for a reading cafe and the human body project will be on display. 8:30-9:30am.
April 23rd- 22nd- No School (April Break)
The Week in Mr. Merrill’s Room (⅚ Humanities):
Lewis and Clark: Students completed a read aloud of the book and a sequence map of the major events of the expedition. They also completed 4 journal entries as members of the Corps of Discovery.
Current Events: Jigsaw activity on a variety of articles with sharing and discussion.
Slavery: We enjoyed our trip to the Flynn theater. Freedom Train introduced Harriet Tubman, slavery, and the Underground Railroad to students in powerful play performance.
3DVT: We made a quick stop at the Isham Farm and took a tour of the barn and walked around the property. Students were warmly greeted and welcomed by Ginger and David Isham.
The Week in Ms. O’s Room (⅚ Math & Science):
Math 5: We had a conversation today about what it means to do your best effort the first time around. I spent hours helping create survey ideas for each of the students but feel as though that work could have been put in by the students initially. Please feel free to remind your kiddos, when they are doing homework at home, to put in a best first effort by following protocols and guidelines put in place in the assignment.
Math work focused on surveys, making edits, asking numerical questions, and building a frequency table for survey responses.
We will get back to our geometry unit next week.
Math 6: We had a conversation today about what it means to do your best effort the first time around. I spent hours helping create survey ideas for each of the students but feel as though that work could have been put in by the students initially. Please feel free to remind your kiddos, when they are doing homework at home, to put in a best first effort by following protocols and guidelines put in place in the assignment.
Math work focused on surveys, making edits, asking numerical questions, and building a frequency table for survey responses.
We are going to be building algebraic reasoning beginning Monday, with our new unit, Variables and Patterns. This is an essential unit for 6th graders as they transition to 7th grade. I will be working to help build some skills in this math domain before SBAC in April.
⅚ Science:
We had a slow science week this week! Not as many classes due to changes in schedule and snow days. Our two classes this week were centered around building storylines and prepping for our first of two animation videos, on the structure and function of cell parts. The larger animation/modeling project description will be launched on Monday.
Anna and Julia, 7th graders gave a workshop on stop motion animation! It was awesome to have them join us and educate us on their learning and expertise!
The Week in Mr. Roof’s Room (⅞ Humanities):
ELA: In English this week, we worked on reflecting and updating our academic and personal goals. We also updated our principles and values. All of this is in preparation for conferences, which are next week on Thursday and Friday, or at other individually scheduled times. We also continued our practice of independent silent reading supported by reading log 25, due Monday.
Social Studies: This week, we continued research to complete our world religions comparisons chart. We are learning what makes these religions different, similar, and what impact they have had in the world. We also had a visit on Friday from four UVM international students. They came and shared about culture and geography from their countries: India, Mongolia, and China. As usual, we also worked on current events via CNN 10 from 3/12/18.
The Week from Mr. Shepley’s Room (⅞ Math & Science):
CMP8: This week in 8th grade math, our students expanded on their understanding of symmetry. Coming back from break we have been working on transformations of congruent figures using rulers, protractors, and tracing paper - very hands on an experiential practices proving symmetry and congruence. This week, we put our rulers and protractors away and began creating rules for our transformations on the coord point grid. Students explored reflections (mirrors) and were introduced to the rules of rotations where we will be picking up next week. All this work is preparing students for their upcoming unit in quadratics.
CMP7: This week in 7th grade math, students continued their work with proportions. As a whole, our 7th grade class doing extremely well with comparing, scaling, and solving for ratios. As we progress into next week we will be turning our thinking from proportions into unit rates which will become our tools for thinking of linear equations. Students are well equipped for the road ahead.
Science 7th/8th: In science, we have investigated scales of time, change over time, the anatomy of the earth, convection currents and their role in the movement of our Earth’s crust. Last week’s activity, recreating pangea, provided the foundation for this weeks investigation of plate tectonics. Student’s investigated, and modeled the change of our continents over time and realized that the Theory of Continental Drift is incomplete - wonderful discussions of the mechanisms of plate movement were had Thursday afternoon as students connected convection currents to plate movement. Today, Friday, students modeled converging plates that create mountains. Students will be finishing their lab next week and beginning to examine weathering forces and their interconnected principles that influence our planet.
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