School news
Geometry students on a treasure hunt
Mr. Villanueva uses a Treasure Hunt to help his Geometry students understand concepts.
Mr. V had the students play an origami game, where they use their visual perception to make a pirate hat. Donning their pirate hats students had to follow one of the two different paths with the clues to find the treasure. In order to open the chest they had to show Mr. V their thinking over the map.
We started "Constructions" a week ago and today we were reviewing the 4 loci or geometric places that satisfies one condition. Same distance from one point, two points, one line and two lines. Besides it being a little cold some of them had fun and started Halloween with a little extra candy.
Graphing sine curves in Trigonometry
Trigonometry students are working on graphing sine curves using smaller prototypes of water wheels that were made by the NUVU lab. Students were tasked with creating a proposal for a city that needs a waterwheel installed to generate electricity. They could change the height, the size and the speed of the water wheel to give ideas to the city council on which one they should choose.
Art students make animal clay planters
Seventh and eighth grade Studio Art students used basic forms to build 3D animal clay planters, using a variety of hand building techniques. After several weeks of building and glazing their artworks students took a field trip to our Green House. Abbie Castriotta, our Garden/Greenhouse Manager, taught students how to propagate, plant, and care for a plant of their choice.
CRAFT launches first cohort!
CRAFT (Community and Climate Resilience through Agriculture, Forestry, and Technology) has officially launched its first cohort! In just this first semester, 16 students have declared a commitment to work through 6 credits of interdisciplinary, hands-on, community-based learning to earn a credential on their transcript and recognition at graduation! Students across grade levels met at Farm and Wilderness to build community, vote on the program values most important to them, and participate in a community science project on biodiversity.
Pictured above:
First row: Skye Cully, Holden Larmie, Hudson Maxham
2nd Row: Priscilla Richardson, Eleanor Williams, Daphne McDermott
3rd Row: Edwin Lynds, Annesonia Beardsley, Riley O'Neal, Owen Whalen, Jesse Magner
Not pictured: Ada Mahood, John Severance, Kody Latiegne, Schuyler Hagge, Aleks Cirovic, Caleigh Webb
VTLSP Club's Red Ribbon Week
The high school's Vermont Teen Leadership Safety Program (VTLSP) Club had a great time with Red Ribbon Week!
The Red Empire Apples donated by Woodstock Farmers' Market for Nutrition Day were a big hit! This annual tradition that always includes Red Empire Apples saw 5 cases of apples go pretty quickly! Students would comment that the apples were "really delicious" and "I'm not an apple eater, but those apples were great!"
Also, another big hit was the Spin to Win on Destress Day and a prize giveaway of four $10 Amazon gift cards. Students had to write what their "Natural High" was to be eligible in the drawing. Winners for this event were: Cat Delieto, Jada Ruch, Sophia Randolph, and Kassidy Haley. Many of the Spin to Win prizes were donated by the Mount Ascutney Prevention Partnership.
VTLSP is a high school peer-to-peer education, prevention, and activism organization dedicated to preventing destructive decisions, particularly underage drinking, other drug misuse, risky and impaired driving, teen violence, and teen suicide. The purpose of VTLSP is to develop among teen leaders an awareness of prevention and wellness issues while providing them with the resources, skills and adult support with which to facilitate positive change among their peers.