Week of March 26th - 30th

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)

Thank you to all our parent volunteers & student volunteers for set-up, Sale helpers, clean-up crew, to all who donated items, all who donated concessions and everyone who helped support this fundraiser!!

The FAP Big Basket Raffle

Collections for the 18th Annual Big Basket Raffle and Silent Auction are underway!  This is one of FAP’s biggest fundraisers of the year, with proceeds funding FAP programs that support all WCS and ABS students, families and staff.  Items donated by our Williston School District families will be made into beautiful themed baskets that will be raffled off at the BIG BASKET RAFFLE on Saturday, April 14th, 2018.

We ask each family to purchase and donate one (or more) item(s) that relate to your class theme:  

Mr. Merrill

GOING GREEN

Donation suggestions: reusable shopping bags, kitchen compost bucket, natural cleaning supplies, reusable lunch containers, cloth napkins, books on how to live greener, rain barrel, organic/natural packaged snacks, natural cleaning products, organic seeds, organic cotton t-shirts, gift cards to health food stores, CFL light bulbs, LED flashlight, rechargeable batteries and charger. Gift cards to businesses like Healthy Living, Natural Provisions, Trader Joes or any company with a green theme.

Ms. O’Brien

LIVE RIGHT, LET’S GET FIT

Donation suggestions: yoga mat, exercise ball, weights, water bottle, energy bar, sport drinks, jump rope, exercise video, Pilates kit, pedometer, ear buds, iPod arm band holder, reflective vest. Gift cards to businesses like Alpine Shop, Dick’s, or Fleet- Feet. Also consider Zumba Class passes or Jazzercise passes.

Ms. Quatt

GET ORGANIZED

Donation suggestions: desk top/draw organizers, photo album, plastic bins, cord organizer, list notepads, Post It pads, highlighters, compression bags, dry erase board/calendar, dry erase markers, cork board, battery organizer, organizing baskets, gift card to stores like Walmart, Home Depot, Bed Bath & Beyond, Staples

Mr. Roof

SNOW DAYS

Donation suggestions: Sleds, marshmallows & hot chocolate, face masks, hats, ear warmers, hand & toe warmers, snow gear, snow paint, gift cards to Alpine Shop.

Family contributions are voluntary, and every item, large or small, is greatly appreciated.  Price is not a factor, and all donations are anonymous. If you have more than one child in a house, it is perfectly acceptable to donate one item per family.  Students may also join together to donate a larger item.

The Basket Raffle Committee members are also out contacting local businesses for gift basket items, gift certificates, and silent auction prizes.  If you have a connection with a local business you think would be interested in supporting this school fundraiser, please contact Sarah Francisco, at sarah_francisco@hotmail.com

Spring Ultimate at HCS

For those interested, ultimate Frisbee will be offered this year as a school sponsored afterschool activity. Practice times will be Wednesday evenings from 6pm to 7pm and Friday afternoons from 2:55 to 3:55 (so students can take the late bus home). Students from other CVSD schools will be welcome on a first come first serve basis.

All practices and any home games will be at Lyman Park. Boys and girls in 5th-8th grade are welcome to sign up, but if there are overwhelming numbers this will be limited to 6th grade and up. Start date will be Wednesday April 11th, 6pm, at Lyman Park. Last practice will be Wednesday June 6th. Game schedule TBD. Participants will not be required to attend all practices. To sign up please e-mail Dan Opton at dan@blueheronbuilding.com  By April 5th .

All students wishing to participate must fill out the HCS School Sponsored Activities Family Permission Form. This is different from the Family Permission Form for HCS Athletics Form that you may have already filled out for another sport.

We are planning to have a couple of away games and we will need parents to help out with transportation, therefore participants must also fill out the Acknowledgement of Transportation Form. Both forms can also be found here on the HCS Athletics page: https://sites.google.com/cvsdvt.org/hcsathletics/home.

Deadline for getting the forms filled out is THURSDAY, APRIL 5TH, otherwise students will not be allowed to participate.

TESTING...TESTING...TESTING

Hello Voyager House Families,

During the Week April 9th Voyager House will be conducting the SBAC and Science testing.

We would GREATLY APPRECIATE that you make every effort not to schedule regular appointments during that week as all testing needs to be made up at a later time.

Also - please support your child by encouraging good sleep and healthy food/snacks/drinks.

Thanks so much parents and guardians!

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

• We wrapped up our narrative unit and 3DVT project in preparation for our open house on Thursday.
• Students have spent time diving into Nightjohn and sharing their thoughts on the institution of Slavery before the Civil War.
• To finish off this week, we’ll be focusing on narratives from former slaves taken in the 1930s to learn more about their experiences under slavery, as well as to help students compare and contrast these experiences with those of the characters we are reading about in Nightjohn.
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Pics from 3D VT Competition at VT Technical College in Randolph

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: In English class, we focused on commonly confused words. We practiced using them correctly through website exercises and on Reading Log 27. We continued to practice our study of compound and complex sentences using independent and dependent clauses. We also took a look at some sacred texts from various religions. We read the texts, had some class discussion, and then completed short answer responses.

Social Studies: In Social Studies class, we continued our current events practice of watching CNN 10, and then writing a summary on one of the stories from the newscast. For the past few weeks, we’ve been working on incorporating a quote.

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

CMP8

This week the 8th graders had a fairly comprehensive math check-up.  As a class they did a great job and are making excellent progress on symmetry, congruence and geometric transformations.  We took a brief pause from our day-to-day to begin our geometric mandala project. Mandala is a Sanskrit word for “circle”. A mandala is a visual representation of “wholeness” and can often represent a person’s model of their universe.  Within mandalas you will see repeated patterns, symmetry and geometric transformations. Students mandalas will have the following features and be able to describe them in relation to their work:

• Lines of symmetry
• Rotation
• Translation
• Reflection
• Dilation

They are working hard and we look forward to seeing their finished product.  

We are also preparing for SBAC tests with reviewing test taking strategies and practicing problems.

CMP7

This week 7th graders took a quick math check-up.  The class is making great strides in their learning targets.  We are taking a brief segue with a statistics project. Students are reviewing measures of center (mean, median, mode, range) and we are looking at both categorical and numerical data (qualitative and quantitative) and different forms of graphical representation.  Students will work in pairs or by themselves. Students will have to ask two related questions, one that elicits numerical data and one that is categorical. We will also look at trends and discuss the mathematical significance of our data.

Science 7th/8th

Students picked up where they left off last week from our field trip to one of Allen Brooks’ curvy turns. Our topic for the week has been weathering and erosion as we consider how water shapes our landscape. Student’s shared what they recalled from Friday as we investigated the nuances between weathering and erosion. Though not an easy task, students developed understanding of the differences through independent video research, pairing sharing, and old fashioned sandbox demonstrations. Both classes expressed what they understand about how water shapes our landscape by drawing models and expressing the processes involved while leaning on 4 key vocabulary terms in their description. The tail end of the week has been exciting as students are researching their topics for our museum exhibit next Friday morning, April 6th. The museum is tailored to younger members of our Williston community. Mr. Willis and Mrs. Martell have agreed to have their 3rd and 4th graders come visit our museum exhibits - students will have the opportunity to share what they have learned about their selected topic in a way that is engaging and interactive for younger students. Looking forward to next week and seeing what our students create!