As of this week, we implemented a Google form for submission of student absences. This Google form makes it more efficient to capture reported absences and store doctor notices. Moving forward, this form MUST BE USED in reporting your student(s) absences. A parent written or doctor's note can be uploaded directly into the form. Late or make-up work will not be accepted unless the absence is an excused absence and a form has been completed within three (3) days once your child returns to instruction. Below is the link to the form. Click here to access the form: https://forms.gle/v2ZL6VfACUeFLSCZA For questions regarding student absences please email attendance@cmitelementary.org. Thank you in advance for your understanding and patience as we work on more efficient practices.

Mrs Virgil, Principal Secretary

PGCPS will host free immunization clinics in high school Wellness Centers to assist families with meeting immunization requirements. Families must register online for an appointment. These services are offered in collaboration with the Prince George’s County Health Department and the Maryland Partnership for Prevention. IMMUNIZATION CLINIC DATES: October 5, 7, 14, 17 , 19, 21, 26 and 28 November 2, 4, 9, 14, 16, 18 and 21 LOCATIONS, SITE DATES AND TIMES: Bladensburg High School Clinics on all dates PLUS 11/30, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Fairmont Heights High School Clinics on weekdays only, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Northwestern High School Clinics on all dates except 11/14, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oxon Hill High School Clinics on all dates except 10/17 and 10/21, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. ONLINE REGISTRATION Appointments are required. Online registration link: www.vaccineconsent.com/clinic/search MORE INFORMATION Visit www.pgcps.org/immunizations/Card/Upcoming-Clinics for details!

Mrs Virgil, Principal Secretary

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CMIT North Elementary staff

The CMIT Tigers 2nd Annual (Virtual) Health Awareness and Fitness Day will take place from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. this Saturday, October 24th. Join us for an INCREDIBLE day of Virtual Activities, Conversations, Challenges, & the MOST Memorable Guest Speaker! We will explore all topics surrounding our Tiger's Health and Fitness, to ensure we are living as our Best Selves in and out of the Den! Topics: *Flu shot locations *Healthy eating, active living presentation *Exercise classes/Yoga *Virtual Run/Walk *Mental health presentation *Health Fair vendors *Olympic legend and Gold Medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee *2020 USA National Miss Maryland Princess, Aniyah Nelson *PRIZES AND GIVE AWAYS!!! SIGN UP here, and let us know you will be joining, so we can be sure to share it all with You! https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0C4EA5AA2DA2FD0-health Zoom link and other information will be posted on ClassDojo.

HAFD Committee

Our Book Fair is around the corner. The book fair will begin on 11/2/2020 and end on 11/15/2020. This event will be virtual. Our event link will be active on November 2, 2020. https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bookfairs/cptoolkit/homepage.do?method=homepage&url=chesapeakemathanditelement

STEAM committee

Students can dress as their favorite book character and bring their favorite book to class.

CMIT North Elementary staff

Please sign up for Pastries with the Principal. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0B4AADAA2AA3FD0-pastries Sign up by 10/26/2020 for K-2 October 28th -Kindergarten 9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. -First grade10:15 a.m.-11:15 a.m. -Second grade11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. November 4th -Third grade 9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. -Fourth grade10:15 a.m.-11:15 a.m. -Fifth grade 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Leadership Team

We are in our last week of October and have completed two months of school. We have managed to find a routine and have been doing a great job adjusting to the new way of education and the numerous platforms. Thank you to the men who were able to join us on Monday, for Men Make a Difference. We enjoyed having you visit and we had a blast. You made the day for the students. There were students who were happy the rest of the day because you were able to join them in the morning. The STEM Family Project and Character Day Book Reports are due on Friday, October 30th. Your scholar will be giving an oral presentations of their chosen story so make sure to practice what they are going to say with them prior to Friday morning. If you have any questions, reach out to your scholars teacher. This week in ELA, we will be learning about realistic fiction and plural nouns. The new sight words are: my, we, make. We will start learning about the short /i/ sound as well as the beginning and final Nn. In Math, we will be taking the Topic 2 assessment on Monday. We will learn about the numbers 6-7 and start with number 8-9 In Social Studies, we will take a quiz on Rules & laws and another quiz on Leaders Make rules on Thursday. We will continue learning about what a citizen is and what makes a good citizen. In Science, we will finish learning about Matter and take our Topic 2 assessment on Tuesday. We will start learning about the sun and sunlight. In Health, we are going to start learning about growth mindset. (Children with a growth mindset tend to see challenges as opportunities to grow because they understand that they can improve their abilities by pushing themselves. If something is difficult, they understand it will push them to get better) Reminder: Small groups will be held on Wednesday. Make sure your scholar is attending small groups in order to receive more specific instruction. Dates to Know: Oct 26-- Topic 2 Math Assessment Oct 27-- Topic 2 Science Assessment Oct 28-- Small groups Oct 29--Social Studies Quizzes: Rules &Laws, Leaders Make Rules Oct- 30-- STEM Family Project Due Oct 30-- Character Day Book report Due

The Kindergarten Team

Reading - We will be reading "Making a Map" Grammar: We will be learning about adjectives Phonics: silent e with i (i_e) Math - We will be finishing Topic 14 and continuing on to Topic 15. Science - We are finishing our unit about Light Energy. Social Studies - We are learning about Making Choices in Government. *We will be doing a project the week of November 2-6 so be on the look out for more information next week! Health - We are continuing Sanford Harmony Unit 2 to learn about Empathy and Critical Thinking.

First Grade Team

We had an excellent eighth week in second grade! Next week, we will continue Unit 1 in reading. The question of the week is "How can a new place help us change and grow?" Throughout the week, we will focus on realistic fiction. The spelling pattern for the week will be inflected endings -s, -es, -ed, -ing. In Math, we will continue working on Topic 2. This topic covers working with equal groups. As a reminder, it is recommended that students practice their basic addition and subtraction facts with flashcards regularly at home. Please don't forget to sign up for our Health and Fitness Day taking place on Saturday 10/24/2020. If you have any questions, please contact your child's teacher via ClassDojo. Have a terrific weekend and we will see everyone on Monday!

- The Second Grade Team

The end of quarter 1 is quickly approaching. Please remind your scholar to complete assignments during the time allotted and to turn assignments in once completed. If your scholar is having an issue with submitting an assignment, please encourage him/her to let the teacher know. For students experiencing technology or loading issues, please make sure that they only have tabs that are necessary for class opened. Next week in Math, students will begin Unit 3, applying properties of multiplication. In Science, students will continue to learn about Force & Motion. In Reading, students will learn about the theme Environments by reading a text to learn to analyze text features in an informational text. In Social Studies, students will be wrapping up Chapter 1 "Our Environment" and will complete the chapter assessment. We just want to share with families that Class Dojo is our main communication platform to share information with families quickly. Please check Class Dojo daily for any updates and new information shared. Also, Wednesday small group schedules are posted in Google Classroom for Math & Reading. Please keep in mind that your scholar may be meeting with both teachers on Wednesdays. Schedules are updated weekly. Upcoming Dates 10/24/2020 Health Awareness and Fitness Day Please join us for a day of fitness. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0C4EA5AA2DA2FD0-health

Third Grade Team

This week in RELA, we finished reading "Twins in Space," focusing on the genre Magazine Article, students worked on the skills of text structure and evaluating details. Next week, students will begin reading Life at the Top. We will focus on text features and making predictions. We will be participating in Book Character Day on October. 30th. Please have your scholars bring their favorite book to class. They may dress up as a character from that book. This week in Social Studies, we introduced our new unit overviewing American History. He explored the lives of historical figures who impacted American history. Next week, we will be learning about how the founder fathers helped shape the United States of America and about the Civil War. This week in Math, we are finishing up Topic 2, Addition and Subtraction of Whole Numbers. Our end of Topic Assessment is being given Friday October 23. Next week we will be starting Topic 7 Factors and Multiples. Please try to work with your scholar on multiplication facts as this will help them be more successful with factors, multiples, and eventually multiplication. IXL is a great resource for this. More work on Factors: https://www.ixl.com/math/lessons/factors More work on Multiples: https://www.ixl.com/math/lessons/multiples In Science, we talked about 1-4 Electrical Circuits. This is the conclusion of this chapter on Energy and Motion. Next week we will be starting Chapter 2 Human Uses of Energy. We will start talking about 2-1 Energy Conservations. Scholars will do an activity about how Electrical Energy Changes Form and learn about Natural resources and how we use their energy. Mystery Science activities can be done at home with simple materials. Please make sure to check them out and send your results/process so we can highlight those students doing extra science exploration at home. *Due to the end of the quarter no REDO work will be accepted for Quarter 1 after October 30th. Please review the PGCPS Grading Policy for more information.

-Friendly Neighborhood 4th Grade Team

Hello Parents, Welcome to week 9. We are rolling on! This week we are focusing on “The Earth’s Systems” in science. For Math, our topic is “Problem Solving: Modeling with Math”. Modeling with math is using the math you already know to solve new problems. In Health, we will continue to learn about the Brain. This week in Reading, students will be reviewing Unit 1: Journey's content and skills in preparation for Unit Test. Students will review content such as text features in informational texts, Root words, Suffixes, Prefixes, and Vowel themes. For Social Studies, this week students will begin Chapter 2: Lesson 2 Explorers for Spain. Reminders: Please remember to check SchoolMax weekly for updated grades. Please remember to check Google classroom for students assignments and grades as well. Have a wonderful week everyone!

Sincerely, 5th Grade Team

Media: Kindergarten and 1st Grade: Continuing to Sequence using story elements and various activities. 2nd and 3rd Grade: Students will learn - Ouch that hurts - The Power of Words. 4th and 5th Grade: Online Safety- Password Power-Up. Reminder: Our scholars should read for 15–30 minutes about 3-5 times a week. Please make sure the students have a notebook dedicated to Library and Media. Tech: 3-5 practiced: Software Fundamentals: Windows and Controls In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice with dialog boxes and options windows, making selections using check boxes, radio buttons, scroll bars, and dropdown menus, and controls to close, maximize, minimize, restore, and resize windows. K-2 practiced: Keyboarding: Locate and Type Numbers The learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding numbers 0 through 9 as they locate and type numbers, learn the relationship between the numbers on the keyboard and the screen, strengthen counting skills, and reinforce basic shape recognition in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. Lego: 3-5th grade: Students will complete challenges 16-20 in Coding Adventure next week. In the previous lessons,3-5th grade students have learned how to move around using code. They have actually mastered the foundation to programming, as they are now able to write a block of code that will carry out the instructions they intend to give the computer. We will take the current lesson to practice and reinforce this knowledge, and to deepen their understanding of what is actually going on. K-2nd Grade: We will continue to recognize and name emotions. They will build their lego model and explain the reasoning behind the model that they have built. Music: Kindergartners have been learning about tempo and rhythm, now it's time to break the instruments out and discover HIGH and LOW! First grade is practicing their notation skills, and second grade is also learning to use two new languages - solfege and curwen hand signs. Third graders added a new note to their tool belt - SIXTEENTH NOTES! Fourth grade reviewed the treble clef staff - time to move on to BASS CLEF. Fifth graders are doing an amazing job so far in their unit "Music in Protest and Propaganda". So far we've defined the words protest and propaganda, and we've discussed what musical/performance element we think is most important to persuade or convince an audience. Spanish: This week we are going to review and practice the following thematic unit: - La ropa (the clothing) Can do statements: - Students will be able to interpret and communicate interpersonally different types of clothing and their colors in Spanish. We will learn the vocabulary in context by practicing the words in small conversations and by doing some interpretative reading activities. Remember to complete the tasks in Rockalingua. Physical Education: K-5 will work on pathways and levels while combining with the over/under/around/through skills again this week. Ecology: Please check the Google classroom for Ecology updates. Next week will be an asynchronous week. The activities will be posted in Google classroom. Lastly, if your child is having tech issues or will not be in attendance for a specials class, please reach out and let us know so that your child's grade will not be impacted.

Creative Arts Team

Thank you to those who have registered, ordered and sent emails. Your support is noted and appreciated. You still have a little time to place an order. Just click on the lick below. We are raising funds to purchase Chromebooks, supplies for virtual learning, PPE equipment, as well as upgrades in technology for virtual learning. Every customer will receive a FREE World’s Finest Chocolate Bar with every item purchased. This fundraiser is offering a unique way to support our school and Maryland businesses at the same time. Please click on the link below to see Maryland’s Best Catalog and all the other great products including hand crafted chocolates, gourmet popcorn, candles, gift wrap, useful kitchen items, and KATYDIDS!. There is also a "donate" button if you would like to give. Your support is essential for our success. It is easy to support us. Just click on this link: https://midatlanticfundraising.com/cmitnes 1. Register student at “Click Here to Register” button. 2. Send emails to your friends and family. 3. Post on your social media. Please note if you follow the links you will not need to enter your group ID- which is cmitnes just in case you do not follow the links. 4. Make a purchase. 5. View awards. Check out our fun prizes. Thank you! Your participation SUPPORTS, BENEFITS & ENRICHES our students, faculty and programs. 

CMIT Elementary PTO