Cell Phone Use
Please refrain from texting your child during the day. If you need to communicate a message to your child, please contact Ted Milks (tmilks@cvsdvt.org; 871-6148) and the Core Teacher. If your child does receive a text from you, please do not expect a response until the end of the school day. - Thank You!
Pencils
It’s that time of year when student’s start running low on pencils. Our supplies are limited so we encourage you to check in with your student to see if replenishing any of their school supplies is needed. Thanks!
Sign on to Help VT Reduce Single-Use Plastics
Jasper Wood of Voyager is supporting an effort to have the VT state house pass bill S.113. - An act relating to the prohibition of plastic carryout bags, expanded polystyrene food service products, and single-use plastic straws. Click the link below if you would like to sign a petition in support of the bill.https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdoahwS1nlSzIhdlErgIdirlz5b7IpQQAGhzPO4_CtvGUxeSA/viewform
Part 2 Summer Camp - Long Trail Hikes
Part 2 is offering a BRAND NEW Summer Camp option this year designed for older students and those looking to get outside and in our beautiful Green Mountains. Part 2 Ramblers will venture through the Green Mountains and explore all that Vermont has to offer on sections of the Long Trail. We are offering three, four, and five day treks that will meet the abilities of all levels. We are also offering Advanced Day Hikes for those that do not want to be backpacking but want to get outside. We will be focusing on Leave No Trace, Trail Etiquette, Backpacking tips & tricks, Naturalist Skills, Camp Craft, & Team-Building.
Deadline for registration is May 1st! You can sign up through our website at: http://www.parttwokids.com/summer.html
Now accepting registrations for the CVU summer camp - Class of 2023
The CVU summer camp is a great experience for any student who will be joining CVU as a ninth grader or transfer student in the Fall of 2019. We pride ourselves on providing a welcoming and fun camp to help ease the transition to CVU while making new friends. Upper-class students are counselors of the camp and help to promote team building and grow social bonds between campers while have a blast during the summer. CVU camp T-shirt, lunch and snack provided!The camp offers two sessions:
- Session A July 8 - 11, July 15 - 18, and...
- Session B July 22 - 25, July 29 - Aug 1
Contact us at: Email: cvusummercamp@cvsdvt.org
Scholarships and financial assistance available.
FAP’s Annual Fund Needs Your Help
Click here to learn more.
Absent Student? Appointment? Change in Bus ride home?
- 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:
Please do not bring in food to share. We have many food restrictions on house. Thanks!
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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
Mr. Sironi: 7/8 Math and Science
7th grade math:This week in 7th grade, we have been continuing our work with ratios. We worked on strategies for how to compare different ratios by converting them all to a like form. We also started to look at how to scale ratios by looking at recipes and calculating the amount of ingredients needed to make larger batches. Ms.Quatt has been taking some students for the last 15 minutes of each math class for some math intervention or work time.
I have begun working on a community building exercise in the class. Many students showed an interest in my sport of fencing so I have started taking this time to answer their questions and teach some basic footwork. I will be keeping students active and interested while at the same time building stronger relationships between the students and myself so we can have a smoother time ahead of us.
8th grade math:
In 8th grade, we have been looking at different examples of symmetry in the world. We just started a mini-unit on rotational symmetry by looking at a fan that had a blade missing. Students saw the fan wobble and almost shake itself apart, much to their delight. I also gave a formative assessment on reflection and drawing reflected images and the class scored very well. Ms.Quatt has been taking some students for the last 15 minutes of each math class for some math intervention or work time.
I have begun working on a community building exercise in the class. Many students showed an interest in my sport of fencing so I have started taking this time to answer their questions and teach some basic footwork. I will be keeping students active and interested while at the same time building stronger relationships between the students and myself so we can have a smoother time ahead of us.
Science:
In science, we have started work on our environment interactions unit. On Monday, students went outside and played one of two simulations. One class played a wolf and deer simulation and the other class played an animal and resource simulation. I collected data from each class and we have begun to analyse it. Students have been graphing the data generated from each class to see if any patterns have arisen. We then look at the data as a class to decide what is causing the patterns we are seeing. This will be a short unit and students will be starting their summative project early next week.
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Mr. Roof- 7&8 Humanities
This week, we covered a lot of content. For grammar, we focused on independent and dependent clauses, and phrases. This involved some worksheets, class discussions, online practice, and then an entrance task on Friday. In writing, we continued to work on argument writing. We completed mini debates from last week, and then we started brainstorming new topics of high interest to move forward with for a new round of debates. We are going pick apart the argument process to better understand how to make each as effective as possible. In History/Social Studies, we learned more about appeasement and also why Germans voted for Hitler.For appeasement, we used a slideshow to complete a timeline chart that showed how Germany edged closer and closer to World War by occupying other countries and breaking treaties or agreements. In studying about why Germans voted for Hitler, we read an article and then responded to questions. We will review this work next week and move on to important events of the war. This will be much more of an overview than our study of World War I. The events of World War II will lead into our study of the Holocaust.
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Mr. Merrill - 5&6 Humanities
During our afternoon periods, we kicked off our US history unit. We are going back in time and mapping four important time periods before we start studying the American Revolution in depth.
On the first map, we reviewed the possible ways that the first Americans arrived in North America. Students mapped the routes, and researched how and why they came. We then established that over thousands of years, Native American cultures flourished across North and South America. Our next map identifies the land claims made by the first European explorers to reach the continent. Next week will will map the colonies and the results of the French and Indian war.
We also wrapped up our economics unit with a written reflection on our learning experiences from our personal finance lessons, stock market game, and shark tank project. Students made connections to the financial choices they will make in the future.
5&6 Morning Humanities with Ms. Drasler
During the first week of solo teaching, the students began reading books about the Revolutionary War. In sixth grade, students are either reading "My Brother Sam Is Dead" or "The Fighting Ground". Fifth graders are reading either "The Magic Treehouse: The Revolutionary War" on Wednesday or "My Brother Sam Is Dead".
Both classes have been participating in literature group discussions. Each student was assigned a literature group role, and they were asked to come to class prepared with their role completed to share with the rest of the group. Ultimately, our goal for my section of this unit will be to complete a story map. This concept was introduced during Thursday’s class, and we will be spending a lot of time focusing on story mapping next week.
In addition to literature groups and story maps, we are also learning about Revolutionary War vocabulary. Each student was given a list of important Revolutionary War terms to help guide their study for the remainder of the unit.
5&6 Science with Ms. Drasler
This week began with an introduction to force and motion. Students observed an anchoring phenomenon, and came up with questions related to this video. Using our questions as a guide, students conducted investigations as part of an inquiry circus related to force and motion. Each investigation was specifically designed to be in service to the questions students came up with after viewing the anchoring phenomenon. Next week, we will delve deeper into Newton’s Laws of Motion and explore how these laws are connected to force, motion and our anchoring phenomenon.
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