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
Meal Train For Matthew Yandow
amerrill@cvsdvt.org
jroof@cvsdvt.org
mquatt@cvsdvt.org
After School Homework Club: CHANGE IN DAYS OFFERED
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IMPORTANT LINKS
ACADEMIC UPDATES
- More dates have been added to the Meal Train for Matthew Yandow, a former WCS student (and brother of Voyager's Mackenzie Yandow) who had a stroke on October 21 of last year. Matt is now a 16 year old sophomore at CVU, and is just returning part time to school after missing almost three months of instruction. He is also attending OT and PT appointments multiple times a week. His mom, Amy, has been busy driving him all around to all of these appointments and has not been able to return to work, so the meal train has been really helpful for the family. Please consider bringing them a meal if you know them and you are able to. Here is the Meal Train Link. If it's inconvenient for you to bring a meal to their house after school, you can drop it off at Voyager House with Ted Milks and he will see that it gets delivered to the family. Thank you for considering!
- 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.
- 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.
ACADEMIC UPDATES
FLYNN FIELD TRIP: Voyager house was thrilled to experience a captivating a cappella performance from the legendary South African group, Ladysmith Black Mambazo. This group has been performing for over 50 years, and their craft is masterful. Our students were engaged as Ladysmith sang, danced, and created an energetic, joyful vibe full of rhythm, soul, and love. Although none of our students were lucky enough to get onstage, three brave Voyager teachers were invited, and danced enthusiastically to our students' delight. It was a great community and cultural experience for our entire house.
Mr. Roof - 7&8 Humanities
This week, students finished practicing their presentations on important battles of World War I, and then presented to their class. When presenting, students were focused on maintaining eye contact, speaking fluently, speaking with appropriate volume, and being engaging. When listening, students were focused on taking notes, being silent, and participating when appropriate. We will use the notes next week to complete a mapping activity. The presentations took place in the Kiva, which was very effective. In addition to our World War I work, we had IXL, Reading Log 16, and CNN 10 this week.
Ms.Q/ Mr. Sironi
CMP8
The 8th graders continued investigating solving systems of linear equations. We used tables, graphs and then we began to use an algebraic form of solving linear systems called substitution. In this method, we take two linear equations:
x + y = 6
x - y = -2
We place them into y = mx + b format:
y= -x + 6
y= x + 2
We are trying to find a common solution that will work for both equations so we place them equal to each other.
-x + 6 = x + 2
Do some balancing and viola!
-x + 6 = x + 2
+x +x
6 = 2x+ 2
-2 -2
4 = 2x
x= 2
2 + y = 6
y=4
(2,4) is the solution where these two lines cross.
CMP7
The 7th graders have been working on scale, similarity and rules that can create similar and dissimilar figures. Mr. Sironi was in charge of class on Tuesday when we explored the relationship between scale and area. We also worked on finding the missing side lengths of similar figures. Using ratios and proportions is an integral skill needed for doing these types of problems. Such as the one below.
We investigated solving proportions vertically, horizontally, and by cross product.
Science:
We completed our “History of the Universe” project with students sharing their work and taking notes on other events in our cosmology. Students will be having a summative that looks at the relationship of different events like the formation of the solar system, life cycle of stars, galaxy formation and gravity. We will continue with our exploration of the solar system next week.
CMP8
The 8th graders continued investigating solving systems of linear equations. We used tables, graphs and then we began to use an algebraic form of solving linear systems called substitution. In this method, we take two linear equations:
x + y = 6
x - y = -2
We place them into y = mx + b format:
y= -x + 6
y= x + 2
We are trying to find a common solution that will work for both equations so we place them equal to each other.
-x + 6 = x + 2
Do some balancing and viola!
-x + 6 = x + 2
+x +x
6 = 2x+ 2
-2 -2
4 = 2x
x= 2
2 + y = 6
y=4
(2,4) is the solution where these two lines cross.
CMP7
The 7th graders have been working on scale, similarity and rules that can create similar and dissimilar figures. Mr. Sironi was in charge of class on Tuesday when we explored the relationship between scale and area. We also worked on finding the missing side lengths of similar figures. Using ratios and proportions is an integral skill needed for doing these types of problems. Such as the one below.
We investigated solving proportions vertically, horizontally, and by cross product.
Science:
We completed our “History of the Universe” project with students sharing their work and taking notes on other events in our cosmology. Students will be having a summative that looks at the relationship of different events like the formation of the solar system, life cycle of stars, galaxy formation and gravity. We will continue with our exploration of the solar system next week.
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Mr. Merrill - ⅚ Humanities
Reading Cafe: We continued our read aloud of Go! Stocks! Go!, a fictional story of a family investing in stocks. We focused on figuring out the meanings of economic terms using the surrounding text. Students should have a really good independent reading book for next week, as we will be starting each day with a short silent reading period before students head off to their theme week activities.
Economic Vocabulary and Relationships: We used our long list of economic vocabulary terms for a tile activity. The activity target is for students to explain the significance between and among individual topics in a relationship. Students cut out vocabulary words and spread them out onto a piece of poster paper. We started simply, asking students to take any two words (for example - stock and risk) and to make up a sentence using the two words. We then asked students to take 3 words and put them in order and explain the relationship. Then students mapped out all of the vocabulary words on a large piece of paper, using symbols to show the connections, and writing explanations for the relationships.
Stock Market Game: Teams continued to research and make decisions on how to best invest their money in the stock market. Teams must maintain a balance sheet and keep track of the net cost of their stock purchases and their running cash balance. Many teams have yet to reach the minimum investment of 5 stocks and $50,000. They must complete these investments by week 5 of the game or face elimination.
Ms. O’Brien Classes
Math 5: We have begun a great week of exploration of multiplication and division. We are perfecting the use of ratio tables when considering both multi-digit multiplication and division and also learning how to model both operations. As you see homework come home, please know that we are heading to the standard algorithm but are not there yet! I suppose it’s okay to teach them in advance, some already know it, but we are building foundational understanding of what multiplication and division are first, which will help us understand the most efficient strategy.
We spent a few days prepping for the rocket challenge during math. The goal of this math time was to look at how to set up data tables and consider variables for the rocket challenge. We will be graphing the data next week. We also squeezed in a little Stock Market math to support investment understanding in Humanities.
Math 6: We have finished up our tent design projects! I saw some wonderful learning this week, with students struggling to understand surface area and how to draw geometric shapes to scale. Some students even received a little early Pythagorean Theorum, because some designs required this! Photos of tent designs below.
We spent a few days prepping for the rocket challenge during math. The goal of this math time was to look at how to set up data tables and consider variables for the rocket challenge. We will be graphing the data next week. We also squeezed in a little Stock Market math to support investment understanding in Humanities.
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