Cortland Junior High Newsletter
January 2022
News From the Nurse
Attendance Line: 758-4083
Please call if your child will be late to school, absent, or leaving early.
Reminders
Keep your children home if they are sick. All children who are sent home must have a negative COVID test and/or an alternate diagnosis from a doctor clearing them to return to school. A doctor’s note must be submitted to the school nurse prior to return.
COVID testing is offered to students in the nurse’s office.
COVID testing consent forms are available online
COVID test Registration: https://app.clarifi-covid-19.com
Physicals
All 7th graders and any 8th graders new to the Cortland School District are required to have a physical examination. If your child has already had one and you have sent a copy to the nurse, you are all set. If we have not received a completed health form, your child has been
added to the group of school exams. School physicals are offered Monday and Wednesday mornings.
Hearing and near/distance vision screenings are required also for these students. If not recorded on the examination form by your child’s provider, they will be called down by the school nurse to complete these screenings.
Lorie Greenwood, RN
Tel. (607) 758-4114
Fax (607) 758-4033
Winter 2 Season Begins Soon!
Congrats String Orchestra!
Congratulations to the String Orchestra on a lovely concert in December! A huge shout out to the students who put themselves out there and played solos with the orchestra: Isaac Schmohe, Dorothy Kilmer, and Serenity Wolf, and the students who played solos outside of the large ensemble music: Oshianna West, Abigail Clay, Desiree Hurd, and Dorothy Kilmer.
Over the next few months, we will be working on new music and several students will be picking music for the upcoming NYSSMA Solo Festival in March.
New Musical in The Works!
Team One Science
Home and Career Skills
We just started our 4th unit in Home and Career Skills. In this unit students will be learning about:
Safety in the kitchen
Sanitation in the kitchen
Names of kitchen tools and equipment
How to read a recipe
How to measure appropriately
MyPlate
To end the unit, students will be implementing all of the information learned in the classroom kitchens while preparing 2 recipes. This is usually a fan favorite!
Tech 7
Clip on Isometric Drawing: LINK
Math 7
Math 7 will be finishing our Percent Unit. We learned to calculate tax, discounts, and interest on a loan. Our next unit will be our second Algebra Unit.
Math 7A is finishing our Inequality Unit. We will then begin a unit on Probability. In this unit, we will conduct trials with cards, dice, and spinners.
We hope that everyone had a wonderful break!
ELA 7
English 8
8th Grade Social Studies
We have been busy learning about U.S. Industrialization. Students are currently focusing on creating their own inventions. Students will be sharing their creativity with their classmates at the culmination of this work.
Also, recent topics have included: reasons for industrial growth, unions, worker's rights and exploitation of kids, The Triangle Factory Fire of 1911, Captains of Industry, and the movement of citizens to urban areas such as NYC.
Math 8
In Math 8, we will continue with our study of transformational geometry. We will review the concepts of reflections, rotations, and translations as we introduce dilations. Think about when you visit the eye doctor, drops are put in your eyes to dilate your pupils. Your pupils enlarge so that the doctor gets a clear view into your eyes. We will be enlarging and shrinking shapes.
Reflections, rotations, and translations all resulted in a shape that was congruent to the one we started with. Dilations will create similar shapes; they are the same size but not the same shape.