8th Grade Yearbook - Baby Pictures Wanted!
- Every year the 8th graders get to submit a quote and baby picture to go along with their school picture. This is a fun part of the yearbook although it is not required. Every 8th grader received an email with a link for their quote. Baby pictures can be emailed to me or your house TA. If the picture is a hard copy you can also give that to me or your house TA. Please make sure your name and house is written on the back so we can get the picture back to you. Pictures will be returned to you within a week of the deadline. The deadline for quotes and baby pictures is February 18th.
- Please contact abeauregard@cvsdvt.org with any questions.
- To order online go to jostensyearbooks.com
- Yearbook Order Form
Deadline Extended - 8th Grade Field Trip to Ridin-Hy
- Registration Deadline is now Friday, 1/18/19:
- If you haven’t done so already, please review the documents below with your 8th grader about the exciting 8th Grade Celebration Trip to Ridin-Hy Ranch next spring.
- Registration and permission slips are due on or before January 18, 2019.
8th Grade Student / Parent Night @ CVU on Thursday, January 24, 2019
- Where: Champlain Valley Union High School, CVU Gym
- For: 8th Grade Parents and Students of the Class of 2023
- When: Thursday, January 24, 6:30-8:00 p.m.
- Click here for more information.
- This evening will provide you and your son/daughter an introduction to the academic and elective programs they will experience in the 9th grade.
- A clear and calm morning routines helps students to enter their school day successfully. We are encountering more and more students coming to school between 7:30-7:55 am and we are not equipped to handle the numbers. Please do not drop your child off prior to 7:55 am unless it is absolutely essential. If you have to drop your child off early, please reinforce that the expectation is that students sitting in the front lobby until 7:55 am and engaging in a quiet activities. Ex. listening to music, reading or finishing homework. Thanks for your help with this. - Jackie Parks
- 8th Grade Challenge help is being provided through our Spark program on Thursdays. Harbor teachers, Ms. Griffin and Ms. Taylor, will be available on Thursdays from 3:00-4:30 to give students assistance from any house! It's a great time to get work done and get great advice and instruction on your challenge.
- Please email tmilks@cvsdvt.org and your core teacher if your student will be absent, needs to be picked up during the day for an appointment, or will ride a different bus home. Core teacher emails are:
amerrill@cvsdvt.org
jroof@cvsdvt.org
mquatt@cvsdvt.org
After School Homework Club: CHANGE IN DAYS OFFERED
- Voyager House offers an after-school program to all 5-8 grade Voyager students who would like a smaller, quieter setting for work completion. We accept any student who is motivated to be there and willing to work independently and who is open to support. We may also recommend this opportunity to students who are in need of work completion or who consistently fail to complete assigned work. It has been a great program for students and we are happy to have the staffing and funding to offer it again this year. Ms. Kim and Ms. Allison, our two house paras, will be the contact adults for this group.
- Every Tuesday (2:00-3:00) and Thursday (3:00-4:40) right after dismissal.
- Occasionally cancelled due to staffing. We will let you know as far in advance as we know!
- A late bus is available for transportation home.
- Membership is through interest and motivation as well as strong recommendations from teachers.
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IMPORTANT LINKS
- Student Assistant Professional (SAP) - https://spark.adobe.com/page/ssMYvqB70CDFQ/
- WCS Athletics - Click this link to the website to view all information regarding the WCS Athletics program.
Voyager House Learning Tools for teachers, students, and parents
- Google Site - an important site for regular communication coming from Voyager. This site will be modified weekly and should be bookmarked on your desktop or laptop. This site contains a link to weekly academic summaries as well as important upcoming events. https://sites.google.com/cvsdvt.org/voyagerhouse/home
- Google Classroom - an online planner platform where students can check on daily assignments. This is in lieu of a paper planner. Just ask your child to log in using his/her email. It is important to know that this is not an assessment database. We do not check completion of the assignment on this platform. However, we do ask that YOUR CHILD press the button MARK AS DONE when an assignment is completed. This will make it easy for you and your child to discuss completion of work.
- Google Mail - an email system used by Williston Central School. All students have an email account and students use it regularly to communicate with peers around collaborative work and project-based learning. This is a great way for teachers to communicate with students and a great way for students to get reminders about assignments from Google Classroom.
- Jumprope - an online platform for assessment of the targets. Students can view weekly or biweekly his/her achievement on the targets by logging in using his/her email and a password. This password was emailed to each student in a letter last week. *Habits of Learning, like homework completion and collaborative learning skills will be posted on a biweekly schedule. This is where you CAN SEE whether your child is in good standing on daily assignments. https://nyc.jumpro.pe/login/
- Protean - an online Personalized Learning Plan (PLP) platform used primarily at this point by 7th and 8th graders. ⅚ students may post executive function skills reflections, personal interest projects, and other measures of growth and reflection after 1st trimester. https://app.protean.me/index.html
- IXL - a program that supports students on math and language arts skills. https://www.ixl.com/signin
- Moby Max - a math program used by ⅚ math students to build computational fluency and fill gaps in understanding on major concepts. Students have a username and password for this program.
- Typing Club - a program used by the ⅚ humanities students to build typing skills.
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ACADEMIC UPDATES
Survival Unit:
This week students participated in a variety of workshops to prepare for our survival unit challenges next week (see schedule below). 5th - 8th grade Challenge teams had to be sure that each workshop was attended by at least one member of the team. Information or skills from each workshop will be required in order to complete the challenges next week. Students are required to keep a notebook for each workshop attended. Notes are organized by main idea and supporting details using two column notes, power notes, or concept maps. This notebooks may be used during the challenges next week. A special thank you to Matthew Fitzgerald who shared his vast outdoor experiences with us this week.
Students should also be independently reading their survival literature group books. Each student has a graphic organizer to complete - noting any survival skills and the details of those skills used in the book. The organizers are due at the end of the unit.
Instructor
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Thursday
Workshops
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Friday AM
Workshops
10:40 - 11:15 1st
11:15 -11:50 2nd
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Friday PM
Workshops
1:15 - 1:30 Kiva
1:30 - 2:10 1st
2:10 - 2:50 2nd
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Aron Merrill
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GPS Units/Signaling for help
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#1 Primitive Hunting Weapons (outside)
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#1 How to use a compass
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Aron Merrill
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#2 Primitive Hunting Weapons (outside)
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#2 How to use a compass
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Colleen O’Brien
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Engineering with Insulators
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Insulators
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Exothermic Chemical Reactions
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Insulators continued...
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Exothermic Chemical Reactions continued...
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Martha Quatt
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Finding potable water and emergency stove
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Stove Testing #1
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Water Filters (2 per team)
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Martha Quatt
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Continued
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Stove Testing #2
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Water Filters continued...
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Josh Roof
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#1 Fire Making
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#1 Shelter Building
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#1 Map Making
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Josh Roof
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#2 Shelter Building
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#2 Map Making
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Ms. Drasler
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#1 Boredom and Entertainment in the wilderness
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8th grade meeting 10:40 only...
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Knot tying and more
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Hypothermia/First Aid
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Courtney Sherman\
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#2 Boredom and Entertainment in the wilderness
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Hypothermia/First Aid
11:15 only...
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Knot tying and more
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Hypothermia/First Aid
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Matthew Fitzgerald
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#1 Outdoor Survival Preparation
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X
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#1 Outdoor Survival Preparation part 2
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Matthew Fitzgerald
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#2 Outdoor Survival Preparation
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X
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#2 Outdoor Survival Preparation part 2
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Ms.Q
CMP8
Burmese Pythons in Florida, mold growth on bread, and garter snake populations were the order of business for math class this week. We investigated more exponential growth models with real life situations. We compared outcomes with different growth factors and initial values. We became more fluid with finding equations from tables and graphs and began looking at equivalent exponential equations such as .5(2x) = (2x-1).
CMP7
This week we continued our work with our “Juice box” problem. The gist of this problem is to create a juice container that can hold 200 ml of fluid and have the least amount of surface area. We learned how to calculate surface area and volume of rectangular, triangular prisms, and cylinders. Student created flat patterns or nets and then built scale models of their juice containers. This investigation will conclude next week with comparing their containers to the original juice box. We will look at form and functionality and compare surface area to find a container that uses materials efficiently. Next week we will also have an assessment on volume and surface area of 3D objects.
Science: This week we had the survival workshops in the afternoon!
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Ms. O’Brien Classes
Math 5: We had a great week exploring the rules for solving problems with multiple terms and operations. We all learned PEMDAS when we were young and that acronym still helps us determine what problems to do first, second, third, etc. We like to see the acronym in this way.
So parentheses first, then exponents. Then multiplication or division (whichever comes first from the left to the right) and then addition or subtraction (whichever comes first from the left to the right). We practiced a lot of problems this week. Students have been solid in grabbing on to this recipe for these kinds of problems.
I also introduced the Distributive Property this week, bringing new meaning to our skill in finding greatest common factor of a pair of numbers. When we use distributive property in an area model we can think about models that look like the one below.
From this example you can see that the 3 is distributed through multiplication to both the 2 in (3 x 2) and to the 6 in (3 x 6). That way we can see the area of the this rectangle as 3 x 2 + 3 x 6. We can also this the area of this rectangle as 3 (2+6) or 3 x 8. Three expressions for one model. This skill looks easy now, but students will use this same construction for quadratics and other higher level math. It will help them also understand multiplication of multi-digit numbers, coming soon!
Math 6: We are wrapping up Let’s Be Rational and soon leaving fraction operations in our dust! I trust that most students at this point are proficient in all operations with fractions. This is great news! We did some Order of Operations problems this week with fractions, reviewing PEMDAS, but also reviewing operations with fractions. We also practiced how to find unknown values using Fact Families. Assessment on Tuesday! Then on to Geometry!
In addition, we worked on fraction word problems that required students to pay attention to key words in the problem that help them identify if you should add, subtract, multiply, or divide in order to get a solution. Determining the operation to use in a problem is the goal because it shows that students understand when they should add, or divide, for example. Great collaborative work this week.
Science ⅚: Winter Survival Games! See photos below.
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