Voyage Vikings: March 2014

2nd grade Community Circle

Today our 2nd grade hosted Community Circle

The design principle for March is "The having of wonderful ideas"

2nd graders discussed a few wonderful ideas, including the ideaof creating Voyage Academy, holding Community Circles, making a no bullying school and a special surprise that was reveled at the end of Community Circle.

Awards were given to

Cole Jacobs

For always having creative ideas

The Coloring contest winners.

For having creative ideas about

"What breakfast will look like in the year 3014".

Our Lunch Crew surprised us when they walked out dressed as robots since most the kids drew robots serving breakfast in the year 3014.

We have the BEST lunch staff!

They're are always doing something fun for the kids.

The Cheer Crew performed Viking Cheers and we had a special performance by our 2nd grade Cheer Crew which you can view HERE.

View Count on me HERE

The 2nd graders are working on their Economics Expedition right now.

They were able to tour local business such as Lowes, America First, Pizza Pie Cafe and many others to learn what makes a good business and what type of products are best to sale. Needs or wants. They also got to tour Mrs. Cavanaugh's Chocolate Factory. Yum!

2nd grade has decided to open an after school store. The money made from the store will go towards buying a Buddy Bench for the play ground. This bench will be for children who do not have a friend to play with. The child can sit on the bench and other kids will know that they need a friend and invite the child to come play with them.

This is a WONDERFUL idea!

GO 2ND GRADE!!!

View Money Song HERE

Parents and Pastries

Thanks to all of our WONDERFUL and AMAZING parents who made it out to our

Parents and Pastries!

It was a great way to start the day!

Big special thank you to our Parent volunteers

Sara, Loni, and Kaitlin for putting this all together!

And a HAPPY BIRTHDAY wish to Mrs. Coleman!

We love you Mrs. Coleman!!!

Thanks for all you do in making Voyage such a happy place to be.

Iditarod reading race

March 10-21st Vikings competed in the Iditarod dog sled reading race. Our Librarian, Mrs. Fairbourn, challenged the students to read and record the number of minutes read each week and report them to her. She recorded the minutes on a large dog sled chart outside the library. On March 26th a special assembly was held to announce the winners.Awards were given to students, from each class, that had read the most minutes from their class. The winning students were then invited to attend a party in the library to watch a movie and eat snacks.

We're proud of our Vikings for all the reading they did over the two week period!

The Iditarod reading tracker

Award

Total number of minutes read as a school: 206,088. WOW!

Class with the highest number of minutes read: Ms. Larsen's class. 1,262 minutes

Highest number of minutes read by one student: Adam Peterson with a total of 4,050 minutes.

Students with highest reading minutes

Thanks Mrs. Fairbourn for putting together this fun race and helping kids develop a love for reading!

6th grade Community Circle

Today our 6th grade hosted Community Circle.

The meeting kicked off with a wonderful surprise.Viking student, CJ Ault's grandfather donated a beautiful quilt that he made special for Voyage Academy. We have amazing support from parents and families at Voyage Academy. Thank you Jessie Gifford for this wonderful gift!
If you are interested in purchasing one of these blankets or another design you can contact
Jessie Gifford at 801-953-8370.

Next our 6th grade introduced March's Design Principle which is
"THE HAVING OF WONDERFUL IDEAS"
Thanks to Stacey Starke and the 6th grade for making this fun video HERE

Awards were given to

Zachary

For starting a recycling program

Trey and Zerin

They planed and organized a Harry Potter after school club, which will begin in April.

Ms. Fairbourn

She created a reading race for the whole school. She challenged kids to read every night. The minutes are being recorded on a large dog sled chart outside the Library. The class with the most minutes wins the dog sled race and a prize!

The entire school then performed the Happy Dance.

During PE Vikings are taught a variety of dances which they then perform at Community Circle.
View Happy Dance HERE
View Cup dance HERE

Community circle ended with 6th grade telling about their Expedition.
Currently they are working on "Space the final frontier." They were able to visit Clark Planetarium in SLC

They also learned songs about the planets.

You can view HERE
and HERE

6th Grade just finished up an expedition on Ancient Civilizations. Back in February they had a Celebration of learning with a Midevil dinner and displayed projects they had been working on.

Students had to use their hands. There was no utensils in the Midevil times. :)

We have AMAZING 6th graders!
They show confidence, compassion and are eager to learn. They will bring great strengths to the Jr. Highs they'll be attending next year. We will miss them greatly at Voyage Academy.

We're proud of you 6th grade! Keep up the great work!

Happy Principal day!

Today we'd like to give a shout out to our WONDERFUL, AMAZING, CARING, LOVING, HARD WORKING, Principal Phillips!

Thanks for all the hours and dedication you give in making Voyage Academy a wonderful place to be! We love you!

Vikings crept into Principal Phillips office while she was out and decorated with balloons and gifts.

Boy was she surprised when she returned! :)

Comments made about Principal Phillips

Principal Phillips is absolutely the best! Her leadership, love, genuine care and concern for each student has beyond exceeded my expectations! So glad to be a part of the voyage academy family!

She is awesome! She was so kind to the boys and I when Tyler was in the hospital a few years ago.

Principal Phillips is one of the most amazing gals I've ever known and I feel sooo lucky having her as the Principal of my sons school.

Best boss ever BBE!!!!

Definitely deserved!!! Love Mrs. Phillip