Hello Parents, Please complete the Parent Workshop Evaluation form to provide feedback of the different Parent Workshops that took place during the 2018-2019 school year. Your opinion matters as we are planning for more successful workshops during the 2019-2020 school year. Please complete the evaluation form by Friday April 12, 2019. Thank You https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc7aVSfSrEbcZSp6YYiAFpe77sWLTSbAQArDHuYriAY_0Z0Qw/viewform?usp=sf_link

Ms. Morino (K-2 ILT)

Held on the first Saturday in May, this will be the 3rd Annual MakerFEST, CLF's yearly STEAM Festival celebrating our community's inner genius! CLF schools are now eight programs and six institutions across the State of Maryland serving over 3,200 students K-12! MakerFEST invites these students to participate with staff, parents and our wider CLF STEM community partners to feel encouraged to exhibit and enjoy all the day's inventions, artwork, personal projects, experiments, robots, wild creations, noble attempts, fine solutions to typical problems, and makers making so much more! CLF will also have volunteer opportunities available for anyone who wants to help build the best MakerFEST ever! To register for an exhibition space visit https://www.clfadvancedstudies.org/makerfest For volunteer opportunities visit https://goo.gl/forms/y1qs5zfo8OPOuRo92 This year, the first Saturday in May happens to coincide with May 4th, often celebrated by fans of the widely popular Star Wars franchise. We fundamentally feel obligated since astronomy, space exploration fit all too well into the MakerFEST concept, so Community Partnerships is also encouraging all exhibitors to share their project progress with @CLF_CLF on twitter or @ChesapeakeLighthouseFoundation on Facebook with the hashtag #MayTheFourthBuildWithYou. Until next update, May The Fourth Be With You!

CLF Community Partnerships

Students are expected to attend all club sessions. I look forward to an exciting year! We have a busy few week ahead of us so it is important that all students are present each session. Our competition is April 5th and will be an extended day trip. Students must arrive to school by 7:00am. Lastly, we are close to the competition. All club members are expected to give 100% participation. Thank you for you support. Students will need a bag breakfast, snacks, and lunch for the field trip.

Mrs. Mccain-Wigfall MESA Coordinator

Our CMIT scholars participated in the Regional Mesa competition. They took home the first place Storybook Theme park ride. First place wearable technology. Second place basswood bridge. Second place scratch. These scholars did a great job. Our school will move to the state competition for Storybook and wearable technology. Go Tigers!

Mrs. Mccain-Wigfall MESA Coordinator

We are in our last week before Spring Break (April 15-22nd). Thank you again to all the parents who chaperoned our trip to the aquarium and to those who volunteered to chaperone our upcoming zoo trip. The date for the zoo will be announce shortly. This week in ELA we will be learning: How to classify and categorize items, use capital letters and periods, write informal letters and identify words with initial and medial /e/ sounds. Our sight words are: here, go, from Oral Vocabulary Words: Antartica. iceberg, penguins, seals, continent, whales In math we will be working on how to count to 100 by ones and tens as well as by using patterns. In the coming 2 months we will be working on creating a garden using recycled bottles. If you have any plastic bottles, no matter the size, please start saving them for this project. The more variety of shapes and sizes we have the better. Thank you

Kindergarten Team

Reading - We are reading "Enemy Pie" by Derek Munson. Reading skills: inferring, writing opinions, making connections, and retelling. Phonics: 'aw' sound; spelled 'aw' and 'au'. (ex: yawn, taught) Math - We are continuing with chapter 13, which is telling time to the hour and half hour. Science - We are starting our unit on Life Science. This unit will include topics like how plants grow, the parts of a plant, and how animals grow and change. Social Studies - We are learning about landforms. Health - We are learning about tattling vs. telling. We are running low on some classroom supplies. We are asking for donations of glue sticks, erasers, and expo markers. If you can donate, it would be greatly appreciated!! Also, please make sure to check Class Dojo regularly for classroom updates!!

First Grade Team

We had a great week in 2nd Grade! Next week in Reading, we will continue to go over Unit 5. The story of the week will be "Carl the Complainer." Throughout the week we will focus cause and effect as well as singular and plural pronouns. The spelling patterns for list A is prefixes un-, re-, pre-, and dis-. In math we will be finishing up Topic 10. This topic covers addition to 1,000. We will also be introducing some third grade skills like multiplication. Updates: Next week 2nd grade will finish working on their class book. They are be available to purchase through Student Treasures. Information was sent home this week. Please make sure to return your child's book order form if you want to order a book. We need forms back ASAP as we have to send everything out before Spring Break. 2nd Grade will be going on a field trip to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center on April 23rd and 24th. Have a wonderful weekend and we will see you on Monday.

- The Second Grade Team

As we approach the fourth quarter of third grade, we implore you to remind your scholar to stay focused on learning. Your scholar should come to school each day prepared and ready to learn. This includes scholars coming to school in the proper uniform, coming with needed supplies, and coming with a positive attitude. We have noticed that many scholars are not making positive choices. Please remind your scholar that they are to follow the rules. Next week in learning: ELA: Scholars will use key details in a text to identify the central message S.S.: Scholars will continue to investigate how the nation has grown Math: Scholars will review area as a relationship of multiplication Science: Scholars will identify and describe fossils Below are links for practice online PARCC assessments, as will as the link for the Spring Break Math/Science/ELA/SS packets. Spring Break packets are mandatory and are due upon your scholars return from Spring Break on Tuesday, April 23. https://www1.pgcps.org/springpackets/ https://parcc-assessment.org Upcoming Events: Invention due - April 10 Spring Break - April 15-22

Third Grade Team

Our Book Publishing Project due date is rapidly approaching! Projects are due no later than next Friday, April 12! This is the last day before spring break, and due to deadlines set by the publisher, teachers must mail all projects over Spring Break in order for them to be published on time. As previously stated in the assignment information provided, late assignments will not be accepted. Additionally, please make sure you fill out the order form provided in the envelope, even if you don't plan on purchasing additional books. Please follow all directions and be creative! We can't wait to see the creative stories and illustrations!

4th Grade Team

Hello parents! It’s that time ! Review review review ! The math PARCC is only a short month away. In math we with will be reviewing all the past content and start “classifying planes” chapter 15. For science we will be continuing plants,plant cells and beginning animal cells. ELA: This week students will be reading the story " Tripping Over the Lunch Lady". Students will be making generalizations and drawing conclusions. Students will also go over pronouns and antecedents as well as prefixes. We will go over the prefixes over-, under-, sub-, super-, and out-. Our students will also begin reading our fourth quarter novel "Maniac Magee". If you wish for your student to use their own book they may bring it from home WITH the understanding that THEY are responsible for it. For writing, students will be writing a friendly letter to one of the characters in our story for the week. Social Studies: This week students will how and why the patriots fought so hard to gain their independence from Great Britain. Even though times became difficult they did not give in. REMINDERS/UPDATES: April 15-22 SPRING BREAK April 30- April Book Projects Due Please remember to check Schoolmax weekly as grades are updated consistently.

5th Grade Team

AUTISM!!!! April is Autism Awareness Month, and here is an inspiring list of amazing individuals! https://www.betterhelp.com/advice/autism/20-famous-people-with-autism/

Graciously, Your School Counselor [Mrs. Whitney Green]

Please stop by the school library at 6:00pm for a special guest speaker. Free childcare and food will be provided. Administration updates will be given. A guest speaker will be present. We can’t wait to see you there! After the meeting please stop by Panera Bread and grab dinner to support our fundraiser between 6:00-9:00pm. Thank you for your support. Sarah Wayland, PhD will be our guest speaker. Topics to include using the chain of command and centering our emotions when discussing difficult topics. Childcare and food will not be provided. See her bio at her website: https://www.guidingexceptionalparents.com/

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