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)
Last day for Late Bus- June 6th!
Dates to Know:
- June 5th- Last Homework Club day of the year
- June 6th- Last day for Late Bus
- June 8th- 8th Grade Challenge Presentations 8:30 - 10:00am (schedule was emailed out to 8th grade parents already)
- June 13th- Voyager Book Swap (see note below)
- June 14th - 8th grade Graduation 6:30pm (Last day of school for 8th graders)
- June 15th - ½ Day, Last day of school
Voyager Book Swap (June 13)- Voyager would like to host a book swap on June 13th. Students may bring in any gently used books to donate to our swap and drop them off in our project room. We would like to have all of our students go home with couple of good books to kick start their summer reading.
Notice for incoming 7th Graders:
A reminder for parents, who have students that will be in 7th grade, in 2018-2019
All incoming seventh graders are required by the state to have a vaccination called TDaP.
Are records indicate that your child has not received this vaccine.
We are asking that you call your child’s doctor and see if your child has had this vaccine.
If they have had their TDaP could you ask your doctor’s office to fax it to us at 871-6101
Attention: School Nurse
If they have not had their TDaP, could you please schedule an appointment to complete
the state requirement, and provide us with a copy, by August 15 th.
We are required to have written documentation.
If you have any questions please call (871-6170) the WCS Health Office and we would be
happy to help.
Your help in this matter would be greatly appreciated,
Carol Albertelli,RN
Maria Harlow, RN
WCS School Nurses
Notes from Ms. Sherman:
Mr. Roof and I had a blast and want to thank our 8th graders for representing Voyager House well!
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***The last day of Homework Club will be on June 5th (Tuesday.)***
**8th Grade Challenge Presentations are on June 8th**
*8th Grade Graduation is in 9 more school days*
While the 8th graders were at Rydin Hy, the 7th graders had two days of activities culminating in a trip to the UVM ropes course. It was a wonderful opportunity for students to collaborate, take on challenges and have fun!
The Week in Mr. Merrill’s Room (⅚ Humanities):
- Students started their book to movie literature groups. We will be watching the movie that matches the book on June 11th.
- Pen Pals - 6th graders wrote a final letter to their pen pal and then recorded a video reading it. We shared our videos and finally got a chance to see our pen pals. 5th graders wrote a second letter and I heard our school friends in Gambia did send reponses - hopefully we get them next week!
- Students were introduced to our mini unit on Westward Expansion. We analyzed the painting “American Progress” by John Gast, 1872. Students created their own version of the painting from the viewpoint of Native Americans and discussed the concept of Manifest Destiny.
The Week in Ms. O’s Room (⅚ Math & Science):
Math 5:
Things we figured out this week…
Factor trees are great models for a prime factorization.
Prime factorizations are the longest string of prime factors that when multiplied give you a product.
Prime factorizations help us find the greatest common factor and least common multiple of any two or more numbers.
That efficiency in mathematics is the ultimate end goal. This efficiency comes when you generalize.
Math 6:
We talked about why Ms. O is so MEAN. Well hang on, not that mean! It was a way for kids to understand the what mathematical mean is! We used different data sets to drive towards the end goal of understanding how to find mathematical mean given certain conditions. We used Khan Academy and other progressions to move from conceptual to generalizable rules for finding MEAN!
⅚ Science:
What a fun and wild week! We ended the week with the first of five days of the Amazing Geology Race, a fun way to learn about the factors and forces that change rock on Earth. Students are paired up and must solve daily puzzles to gain the most points available for the day!
Back it up and you will see from the photos that we got a partial build done on the hoophouse. Thanks to Ann and Tom Lawrence for helping us out on that crazy day and special thanks to Dan, the engineer that has worked so hard, in the hot sun, to ensure proper assembly.
We also wrapped up the Grand Prismatic Pool investigation. Students are now modeling the phenomenon or using the LEAF format to explain what is happening and why it is happening.
The Week in Mr. Roof’s Room (⅞ Humanities):
ELA: This week marks the last of the reading logs. We achieved 35 reading logs this year, which is a new record for Mr. Roof’s classes! We focused on participles and participle phrases, along with narrative point of view to close our grammar study out. Otherwise, ELA was supporting writing assignments in other classes: 8th grade challenge, Science Narrative, and Social Studies World Religions Summative Assessment.
Speaking of social studies, this week marked the end of our World Religions unit. We finished our notes for all five major world religions and began our final assignment, which is a comparison and contrast of any two religions. Ask your student about which two religions they chose, and what assignment choice they are working on. We also completed our last CNN 10 assignment, working on argument writing. We will have a short argument assessment next week.
The Week from Ms. Q’s Room (⅞ Math & Science):
CMP8
The 8th graders have made a breakthrough this week in solving systems of equations algebraically. This week we took linear equations, placed them into y-intercept form and had them equal each other. Through a series of steps students solved for one variable (x) and then went back and placed it into the original equation to find the (y). This is a form called substitution. 
CMP7
In 7th grade we are moving from models of algebraic equations to using symbols. Here is an example of the Mystery Bags of Monterak from “Moving Straight Ahead”. Students do a series of steps to find out what is in each bag by keeping the left and right side balanced.
The equation below is:
2x + 4 = 12
2x + 42= 122
X+2 = 6
-2 6-2
X = 4
We then moved on to solving equations with variables in both sides of the equations. It was exciting.
Science 7th/8th
Our science writers have been writing and talking about living through their natural disasters. Understanding the setting where your hazard takes place, what happens in the environment prior to the hazard, and what the experience is like for someone living through it are all important aspects of this paper. We heard some archived interviews with people who had lived and survived the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. Students peer reviewed their papers for accuracy and passed them in on Friday.
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