Happy Holidays!

To our CJM students and families,

Thank you so much for the lovely gifts and the well-wishes for the holiday season. We've had a fabulous year with your kids so far and look forward to the New Year! If you celebrate Christmas, have a Merry one. If you don't, enjoy time with your loved ones! Either way, enjoy your time together and we'll see you in January 2020!

Ms. Moir and Ms. Gill

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Climate Change Slides

Click on the link to see the amazing Slide show one of our students created.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1KmeHndz9hK56faljudzQF65bVkIsGddsqMc_BQmeMkk/edit?usp=sharing

December 6th

Hello Room 8 and 9 Families, 

The next two weeks we will be learning about the following in each subject:

Math: Space and Shape -Describe and provide examples of edges and faces of 3-D objects, and sides of 2-D shapes.-Identify and describe a single transformation, including a translation, rotation, and reflection of 2-D shapes.-Identifying and drawing 90-degree angles, acute angles, and obtuse angles. -Perform, concretely, a single transformation (translation, rotation or reflection) of a 2-D shape, and draw the image.

Language Arts: Persuasive Writing - We will be reading....."A Stranger At Home"  By Margaret Pokiak Fenton 

-Practice editing your work and writing accurate sentence structures that make sense.

-Persuasive writing Practice: 

The government should impose household trash limits.

The voting age should be lowered to 16.

A Persuasive Essay Has 3 Components

• Introduction: This is the opening paragraph of your essay. It contains the hook, which is used to grab the reader's attention, and the thesis, or argument, which you'll explain in the next section.
• Body: This is the heart of your essay, usually three to five paragraphs in length. Each paragraph examines one theme or issue used to support your thesis.
• Conclusion: This is the final paragraph of your essay. In it, you'll sum up the main points of the body and connect them to your thesis. Persuasive essays often use the conclusion as a last appeal to the audience.

Science: Weather and Electricity, if time-Demonstrate different ways of lighting two lights from a single power source, and compare the results. Students should recognize that wiring two bulbs in series makes both bulbs glow less brightly than if the bulbs are wired in parallel. Students may demonstrate this knowledge operationally and do not need to use the terms series and parallel. -Looking at how natural resources are used to make electricity -Identify example applications of electrical devices in the school and home environment, and classify the kinds of uses. Categories of electrical use may include such things as heating, lighting, communicating, moving, computing.-Describe and demonstrate example activities that show that electricity and magnetism are related:

• demonstrate that electricity can be used to create magnetism

• demonstrate that a moving magnet can be used to generate electricity.

Social Studies:

Review chapter 6.

Ready Chapter 7 and answer questions

(Social Studies Text on the blog)

Looking Ahead:

Food Donations to the Food Drive If you can. Non-perishable food items. 

Monday, December 9th to 13, 2019 Rocks & Rings ( PE Residency) 

Thursday, December 12th, 2019 CJM's Pajama Theme MOVIE NIGHT at 6pm 

Thursday, December 19th, 2019 Last Day of Classes 

Friday, December 20th, 2019 Non- Instructional Day NO SCHOOL for students

Saturday, December 21st, 2019 to Sunday, January 5th, 2019  WINTER HOLIDAYS

Electricity

Click on the following websites to learn more about electricity

http://www.hyperstaffs.info/work/physics/child/main.html

http://science5.greenlearning.ca/

https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/motor1.htm

https://www.explorelearning.com/index.cfm?method=cResource.dspDetail&ResourceID=398

Transformations GAME for MATH

https://www.mathwarehouse.com/transformations/translations-interactive-activity.php


http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/icy_slides_flips_turns/


http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/geometry/shapeshoot/TranslateShapesShoot.htm


http://www.xpmath.com/forums/arcade.php?do=play&gameid=115


https://www.mangahigh.com/en-us/games/transtar

CJM Pajama Theme Movie NIGHT!!!

Click on the link for more info:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EJ2eXmgmxcDgYsQb2a8ENYSJUSGGrZuOI_rI2yTkqtM/edit?usp=sharing