CJM Monthly Matador
January 2019
January 2019 Events
JAN. 1 HAPPY NEW YEAR 2019
JAN. 7 School Resumes
JAN. 11 Student of the Month Assembly @ MPR
JAN. 18 Waba Grill & Puffect Bakery Fundraiser (11am-9pm)
JAN. 21 Martin Luther King Holiday – NO SCHOOL
JAN. 22 - 25 Great Kindness Challenge Week
JAN. 24 Chinese New Year Assembly @ MPR
JAN. 26 E Waste Fundraiser (VONS parking lot 9am-2pm)
JAN. 28 CJMCC Meeting 9:30am @ Annex
International Baccalaureate - Mrs. Kelly Howard
This month our Learner Profile Attribute of focus is knowledgeable. International Baccalaureate defines knowledgeable as: “We explore concepts, ideas, and issues that have local and global significance. In so doing, we acquire in-depth knowledge and develop understanding across a broad and balanced range of disciplines.”
Giving our students opportunities to explore concepts and issues of global significance is one of the things that sets us apart as a Primary Years Programme school. Our teachers work diligently to provide ways for students to inquire into issues through multiple perspectives. We look forward to seeing our students engaged in those opportunities this month, as many grade levels begin new Units of Inquiry. Check with your child(ren) to find out what they are inquiring about at C.J. Morris!
Community Club Updates & Reminders
Community Club would like to thank everyone for supporting both the book fair and Rubio’s fundraisers. We earned over $2000 to be used towards books for the library! We also earned over $380 from Rubio’s. Great job everyone!
In January Community Club will be sponsoring two new fundraisers. Our first fundraiser will be on Friday, January 18th from 11am-9pm at both Waba Grill and Puffect Bakery, both located at 385 S. Lemon Ave. Both locations will be donating 20% of proceeds back to the school. Please join us for lunch or dinner and dessert! Look for a flyer coming home soon.
The second fundraiser is an E-Waste Recycling day! Got some new electronics for the holidays? Need to get rid of the old ones? Our E-Waste Recycling fundraiser will be on Saturday, January 26th in the Von’s parking lot on Lemon Ave & La Puente Rd from 9am-2pm.
How to Read Non-fiction text
Many kids love to read about science and nature as well as real people, places, and events. Nonfiction books present information in engaging and interesting ways. Find out how you can help your child learn to navigate all the parts of a nonfiction book — from the table of contents to the diagrams, captions, glossary, and index.
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/how-read-nonfiction-text
Transitional Kindergarten
Welcome back TK families! A new year has begun, and TK kids will start focusing on the letter Ll. Throughout the month, we will continue to focus on phonemic awareness and expand our knowledge on rhyming words. Almost all of the class is writing their name now, so please continue to practice this at home. In math, we will review how to label patterns, and begin to emphasize more on counting and comparing (more or less) objects. We will also begin our next IB unit, which will focus on “matter,” such as solids, liquids and gases. This will call more experiments, which our TK kids all enjoy. In this new year, we will also begin to learn about the Chinese culture, and look forward to celebrating the Lunar New Year! Thank you all for your support and Happy New Year!
Kindergarten
Happy New Year! In January, kindergarten will wrap up our IB unit on holidays and celebrations. We have been having an amazing time learning about celebrating people and events, doing art projects, and learning new songs. We will start our new IB unit: Sharing the Planet towards the end of the month. In this new unit, we will learn about different needs plants and animals have. As scientists, we will look at weather patterns and animals in their habitat. We will make observations about how changes in the weather affect living things. We will read a lot of non-fiction texts. Then we will include our new findings and create informational writing pieces about what we learn during this unit. It will be awesome. Math, we will continue to practice our addition and subtraction facts to 10 and teen numbers. We look forward to sharing it with you.
First Grade
Second Grade
WELCOME TO 2019 Second Grade! We want to wish you all “Happy New Year”! As we continue on your educational journey we want to share our resolution with you all, “Let’s have a great rest of the year”!! We will continue to work on Unit 4 in Math which involves subtraction with ungrouping. During the month of December, our students learned about the 3 States of Matter and participated in experiments which demonstrated solids, liquids, and gases in various forms. Our Fairy Tale Primary Years Programme unit was also completed before the holiday break. Our summative assessment enabled our students to write about their perspective from the point of view of a character who was in the fairy tale. Lastly, our students will start our next PYP unit entitled “ Where we are in Time and Place” which is about Heroes.
Third Grade
Happy New Year! We are excited to hit the ground running in 2019! This month our third graders will visit the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Gardens in Claremont to explore and observe the skills and cultures of California indigenous people and their use of natural resources, the ecological significance and conservation of native plants, and plant and animal adaptations to habitats. The students are also continuing their 10-week dance curriculum with instruction from Mrs. Tejan. Parents and families are invited to visit their student’s class on the morning of Tuesday, February 26th, 2019 to watch what the students have learned. In math, we will begin Unit 4 focusing on place value, rounding, and multidigit addition and subtraction. We are beginning our IB-PYP Planner titled “How We Organize Ourselves,” which emphasizes an exploration of communities and the function of societal decision making and their impact. In Language Arts we will be focusing on non-fiction text and advancements in technology while discovering the value of innovation over time. Thank you for support and we are looking forward to a terrific 2019!
Fourth Grade
Happy New Year from the 4th grade! We are excited for 2019 as we begin our new PYP Planner “Where we are in Time and Place”. We will learn about the early explorers that came to California and developed the California Mission system. In math, we are working on solving equations and word problems. We also will continue our Writing Workshops as we learn how to write opinion essays. We are eager to get back to work after a restful holiday break.
Fifth Grade
5th grade wishes our CJM community a very Happy New Years! Our students are now in the final stretch of their last year at CJM. In math, the kids are investigating division with whole numbers and decimals. Our IB/PYP unit is How We Share the Planet. This is an inquiry of how people use language to persuade and influence their audience. CJM 5th graders are also learning about argumentative writing. They learn to gather evidence to support their positions on various topics. January is also the month for 5th-grade fundraising with Popcornppolis sales.
CJ Morris Elementary School
Website: https://cjmorris.wvusd.k12.ca.us/
Location: 19875 East Calle Baja Drive, Walnut, CA, USA
Phone: 9095940053
Twitter: @CJM_Matadors