Cortland Junior High Newsletter

Please be sure to register for the season ASAP so that we can let you know if a sports physical will be required for sports clearance.

If your child has any PE or athletic restrictions, they will need to be cleared by their medical provider to participate.

Any student who has been approved by the school nurse and your medical provider to self-carry emergency medication (such as an inhaler or Epi-Pen) is reminded to do so for sports participation.

Please talk to your coach about where you store your emergency medication during athletic events and practices.

For any student moving up to the JH in the fall, please keep in mind that all students entering 7th grade will need to have their meningitis vaccine and a 7th-grade physical.

Thank you.

Cortland Jr. High School Nurse

Phone: 607-758-4114

A very large THANK YOU to Mr. Perfetti who donated $1,000 to the Junior High SEL Committee to be used for rewards for kids who are caught doing the right thing.

Mrs. Constantino and Mrs. Pomeroy visited seventh-grade classes recently to discuss 8th-grade courses with the students. Students learned about the required courses, as well as the limited elective options that are available.

Congratulations to all the orchestra students who participated in NYSSMA on March 25th! A great job to all!

The Junior High Concert is Thursday, June 8th at 6:30 PM. Mark your calendars!

In Home and Career Skills students have been learning the names and jobs of sewing tools and how to sew buttons. They will be sewing their fleece hats before moving on to Unit 3: Personal Development. In this unit, we will focus on friendships, peer pressure, and family. Our Too Good For Drugs lessons will be incorporated into this unit as well.

Team 1 ELA just finished their Two Degrees Unit. Students were able to reflect on the impact that climate change is having on the planet and explore the ways that they can help raise awareness on this important issue. Students will also be getting ready for the NYS ELA Assessment which will take place on April 19th and 20th.

Team 4 will be finishing up our WWII unit and finishing reading Maus. Students created podcasts and have taken a deep dive into all things graphic novels. The NYS ELA Assessment will be taking place on April 19th and 20th. Our next unit will be Shakespeare!

7th Grade Math celebrated PI Day on 3/14.

Math 7 will begin a unit on Inequalities.

Math 7A is combining Algebra and Geometry.

8th Grade Tech finished up their Civil Engineering Unit in March and tested pasta bridges for structural efficiency. We made our goal of breaking the previous record, with one team a super high ratio of 84.25:1 (85x its own weight). This particular pasta bridge weighed 5 ounces and supported nearly 28 lbs before it gave way!

The group is now learning how to harness kinetic energy to their will by creating their own occupant safety systems! The challenge is to engineer a vehicle that will protect an Egg-cited passenger in a series of crash tests!

Understanding Car Crashes: It's Basic Physics

News:

Mr. Blasko recently received a $100 Grant-in-Aid Award from Delta Kappa Gamma’s Beta Chapter, which will be used to offset personal costs in building a Downdraft Sanding Table for his classroom. This will significantly aid in reducing the amount of sawdust particulates in the classroom air…a big improvement for student wellbeing! Thank you DKG!

The students on Team 1 just completed a Consumer Project. They each were able to choose a consumer and research all about them. They then took that information and made various projects to teach their classmates all about their critter! They look great! We then took a unit test and will be starting our next unit: Genetics!

7th grade art students have finished their surface pattern design printmaking projects and are beginning work on their linoleum block cuts. They have done a wonderful job with this technically challenging unit.

I’d also like to recognize 6 exemplary art students who were selected to have their artwork displayed at the SUNY Cortland DOWD Art Gallery as part of a county-wide art show. Congratulations to Raidyn DeClercq, Alice Oldfield, Claire Congdon, Emelia Johnson, Simone Densmore, and Vedika Sahane.

Congratulations to the following students who attended and performed at the NYSSMA solo festival! Emelia Johnson, Michaela Cullen, Cole Hudson, Joshua Veintimilla, Mason Coats, Hayden Lynch, Lealynn O’Brien, Diana Gudz, Anelia Corbin, Cooper George, Casslyn Elliot, and Cara Partiagianoni. Also, the JH concert band went to NYC on March 29 to hear the Lion King Live! Great work everyone!

Students have been finishing up their unit on Imperialism. Throughout the unit, students completed a fun project on Yellow Journalism. They are now finishing their Women’s History Month Projects and we are now moving on to our WW1 unit.

April 23 - 29 is National Library Week. Come celebrate with us in the library.