School news
Students present at the Rowland Conference at UVM
Seven educators, 3 students and 1 school board member attended the Rowland Conference at UVM this week. Students Josie Cross, Edwin Lynds, and Eleanor Williams spoke eloquently about their experience in the CRAFT program, shared microgreens from their CSA with their 50 person audience, and encouraged other schools to imagine how they might create a focused pathway of courses and experiences using their local resources and interests. We also thoroughly enjoyed listening to the keynote speaker Ross Gay, and engaging with other educators on topics ranging from rethinking the five paragraph essay to reimagining advisory programming to infusing more joy into school.
AP Physics news
This week In AP Physics I, students applied their knowledge of forces acting on an object and Newton’s 2nd Law to investigate a double-mass system. Students worked in small groups to share predictions about how changing the mass of a cart will affect the acceleration of the system and to brainstorm their plan of action for this investigation. Next week, students will be generating and analyzing their experimental data and comparing it to a theoretical value for acceleration.
WUHS Spanish Club visit students at WES
Members of the WUHS Spanish Club visited Lauren Gagne’s students at WES and shared games and cultural activities. Fifty elementary school students rotated between a quick soccer game, a matching game with fall activities in Spanish, making traditional tissue-paper flowers and learning colors as they colored calaveras. “It was an incredible experience” said Lauren Gagne “the students talked about it all afternoon” after the visit.
WUHS is a member of the national Sociedad Honoraria Hispánica. Candidates and current members of the honor society complete at least three cultural ambassador activities during the school year to promote the Spanish language and cultures of spanish-speaking countries. Anna Megyesi and Luis Villanueva are the advisors of the club.
The latest Integrated Environmental Science news
This week in Integrated Environmental Science, 9th graders researched and shared information pertaining to a forest pest of their choice. Forest pests included Asian Jumping Worms, the Asian Longhorned Beetle, Spongy Moths, Winter Moths, the Emerald Ash Borer, the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, and the Butternut Canker! Forest pests, including invasive species, have the ability to drastically change the forest ecosystem. They can have far-reaching impacts on our environment and economy, including negative impacts on human agriculture, recreation and health. See pictures from our student presentations below.
VTLSP's Red Ribbon Week
Students participated in VTLSP's Red Ribbon Week throughout the week. Some of the events included free Red Empire Apples from Woodstock Farmers' Market for Nutrition Day and entering a drawing for four $10 Amazon Gift cards. Students wrote their "Natural High" which included some responses such as: "Going for hikes with my dog", "Horseback Riding", "Soccer, Reading, and Traveling", "Playing Tennis", "Working", "Snowboarding", and "Yoh", plus many more. Winners of the drawing were: Sophia Rosenbach, Morgan Darling, Aiyanna Dawson, and Maggie Mello. On Friday, students participated in a Disk Drop game for prizes plus mints for Empower"mint" Day!