February 9th: Snow-make up day!!!
February 19th: Holiday - President Day - School is closed!

In Reading, we will be reading the text Roses are pink, your feet really stink. We will be learning words with -oo within. For writing, we will be learning to write our own

For social studies, we will be learning about historical African Americans for the month of February. Next week our individual will be Ruby Bridges.

For math, we will be going into topic 9 which is Comparing 2 digit numbers.

Students had an awesome time for the vocabulary day! The costumes were awesome!

The black history poster is due on February 8. This is MANDATORY for ALL students within our school. Please refer to the paper that was sent home regarding the rubric and scoring guidelines.

February 8- Black History Month Posters Due
February 9- Snow Make up day for students
February 14- Valentines Gram

First Grade

The vocabulary parade was a success! We had fun learning about words from each other's costumes.

This week, we will be presenting our Black History Posters on Thursday, Feb.8th. This has to be on an African American who impacted the Liberal Arts.
Second grade will be presenting at the Black History assembly on Friday, February 9th.

Learning Updates:
Reading: Unit 4: Our Changing World
Writing: We will be learning more about improving our writing skills in preparation for creating a class book project.
Math: Three-digit subtraction and Measurement (Topic 12)
Science: Matter and its properties
Social Studies: Economics

2nd grade team

The Vocabulary Parade was a success and it was so much fun! Our scholars showed so much creativity.
In the upcoming week, scholars will be learning about geometry in math, and the life cycle of plants and animals.
In language arts students will be learning about poetry and will begin reading the novel, "Lowji Discovers America". In social studies, we will continue learning about early explorers.

February 8-Black History Poster due
February 9-Black History Project due

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."-Langston Hughes

Third Grade Team

I cannot begin to say THANK YOU enough...

-To those that participated in our Coffee Collaborations in person and on the call, who demonstrated such incredible patience with my ability to repel all working technology (my superpower, right?)

-To you all for your commitment to not only your children, but all of our children in our CMIT Community

-To you all for your courage in sharing your stories, in an effort to enlighten, educate and in turn, inspire.

It is through these collaborations that my heart is overwhelmed and reminded as to why I do what I do...because of all of you!

Thank You for working with me in tireless efforts to create and maintain a school climate and community in which we all can thrive!

Attached are some resources shared in the Coffee Collaboration on 2-2-2018. There will be many more to come!

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Graciously,
Your School Counselor

For the first time, scientists have identified the brain pathway that links a positive attitude toward math to achievement in the subject. In a study of elementary school students, researchers found that having a positive attitude about math was connected to better function of the hippocampus, an important memory center in the brain, during performance of arithmetic problems.

Continue reading here: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/01/180124131736.htm

Shannon McVeigh