Schools and offices WILL BE CLOSED Tuesday, November 3rd for Election Day. DON’T FORGET TO VOTE!

Mrs Virgil, Principal Secretary

Mark your calendars: on Friday, November 6th there will be a 2 hour early dismissal for students due to a Professional Development Day for Teachers.

Mrs Virgil, Principal Secretary

Please note that the 1st Quarter will end on Thursday, November 5, 2020.

Mrs Virgil, Principal Secretary

Thank you to our volunteers, participants, presenters, and staff. We had an amazing event.

CMIT North Elementary staff

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CMIT North Elementary staff

Please sign up for Pastries with the Principal. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0B4AADAA2AA3FD0-pastries Sign up by 11/2/2020 for 3-5 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

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. All book only purchases of at least $25 will earn free shipping! Lets read, read, read! https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bookfairs/cptoolkit/homepage.do?method=homepage&url=chesapeakemathanditelement

STEAM committee

It is hard to believe, but we have made it through another month of school and first quarter is coming to an end. We would like to thank everyone for their patience and flexibility this week with all the assessments and changes that were happening across the grade level. Remember that the STEM Family Project is due on Friday. Have all needed information and videos uploaded into the google classroom by 3:00pm. This week in ELA: On Monday, we will be completing the week 4 SAVVAS check-in. (We will start doing these regularly to check in on your scholar's understanding of the material.) There will be a spelling test Friday on the sight words: we, my, make, he, have, is. There will be 4 words added from the previous words learned and added to the test as well. We will continue working with beginning and ending n sounds as well as the short i. We will start learning about verbs and past tense as well as plural nouns. This week in Math: We will start Topic 3 and learn to recognize, write, and create numbers 6-7. This week in Science: We will start Topic 3. We will start learning about the sun and how it effects the earth. This week in Social Studies: We will continue to learn what it means to be a good citizen. Dates to know: Nov 2- Week 4 check in on SAVVAS Nov 3- NO SCHOOL Nov 5- Quarter 1 ends Nov 6- Spelling Test Nov 6- 2 HR EARLY DISMISSAL Nov 25-27- NO SCHOOL/THANKSGIVING

The Kindergarten Team

Reading - We will be writing non-fiction. Grammar: We will be making sentences with nouns, adjectives, and verbs. Phonics: silent e with o (o_e) Math - We will be starting on Topic 15. Science - We are finishing our unit about Light Energy. Social Studies - We are starting a project where we will host a mock election in each class. Be on the look out for more information about it! Health - We are continuing Sanford Harmony Unit 2 to learn about Empathy and Critical Thinking.

First Grade Team

We had a notable ninth 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. For spelling, we will be reviewing some of the words students have learned throughout our first unit of reading. In Math, we will be finishing up Topic 2. This topic covers working with equal groups. Be on the lookout for a message from your child's teacher regarding the date of the Topic 2 test. As a reminder, it is recommended that students practice their basic addition and subtraction facts with flashcards regularly at home. NWEA MAP Reading Fluency Assessments will continue into next week. Please make sure to check your child's equipment if he/she has not already taken the assessment. 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 on November 5, 2020. Please remind your scholar to complete assignments during the time allotted and to turn assignments in once completed. We do not encourage students to work on assignments late at night. 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 continue applying properties of multiplication. In Science, students will continue to learn about Force & Motion. In Reading, students will analyze descriptive language in myths. In Social Studies, students will be wrapping up Chapter 1 "Our Environment" and will complete the chapter assessment. We aill also begin Chapter 2 on Economics. 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 11/3/2020 No School 11/5/2020 Quarter 1 ends 11/6/2020 2 Hr Early Dismissal

Third Grade Team

Thank you to everyone who has participated in their Small Groups on Wednesdays! These are going very well! Please continue to be present. There is no school next week on Tuesday, November 3rd. The marking period ends on Thursday, Nov. 5th. There is a 2hr early dismissal for students on Friday Nov. 6th. Remember that no assignments can be redone in the last week of the marking period. In RELA this week, we began reading "Life at the Top." We focused on text features and making predictions. We participated in Book Character Day on October 30th. Next week, we will finish reading "Life at the Top." In Social Studies this past week, we explored key events in the history of how the USA came to be. Next week, we will explore how the USA became a world power after the Civil War. This week in Science, we started our new Topic 2: Human Use of Energy. We started talking about 2-1 Energy Conservation. We will continue talking about Renewable and Non-Renewable Energy. We are connecting this to the last chapter where we talked about electricity and electrical circuits. This week in Math, we emphasized the need for IXL MATH practice. During homeroom 7:55 a.m. - 8:10 a.m. Scholars should be working on their IXL MATH starred skills. On a full week of school this should accumulate 60 minutes plus the required 30 minutes of practice on Wednesday. It will be a weekly total of 60- 90 minutes of practice. If they are late to homeroom they should be making up that practice time and work on time management skills. We started TOPIC 7. It talks about Factors, Multiples, Prime and Composite Numbers. Please try to work with your scholar on multiplication facts as that will help them be more successful with factors, multiples, and eventually multiplication. IXL is a great resource for this. We will have our Topic 7 Assessment on November 9th. On their Google Stream there is a playlist for skip counting of each base number on the multiplication chart. Here are some additional resources: More work on Factors: https://www.ixl.com/math/lessons/factors More work on Multiples: https://www.ixl.com/math/lessons/multiples More work on Prime and Composite Numbers: https://www.ixl.com/math/lessons/prime-and-composite-numbers *Please double check that SAVVAS work is being turned in properly. You must hit the turn in button/mark as completed in SAVVAS and make sure that the grade populates into Google Classroom. Without following these directions, the grade does not appear and the assignment might be marked as NHI or not handed in/ NAM or no attempt made. *In our effort to help our scholars foster independence please remind them to read the directions on everything they are doing.

-Friendly Neighborhood 4th Grade Team

Hello parents, We have made it to week 10, the beginning of a new month and the end of the 1st quarter! It’s time to get a fresh start and make sure we are all on the same page this quarter! Here is what to expect for the week of November 2nd. In Math, we will be reviewing place value, expanded form of place value, adding and subtracting decimals with and without models, and multiplying decimals with and without models. As for Science we will reviewing, earth’s systems, biomes, properties of matter, changes in matter, solvent, solutes, mixtures, elements, molecules, and simple bond structures. The FAST (Science) test is approaching soon! For both Language Arts and Social Studies this week, students will be learning about and giving their own personal opinions about the upcoming election and the candidates. They will need to refer to articles related to the debates as well as "cast their vote" as to who they would select if they were of age to vote. They will be required to use facts pulled from actual articles to support their decisions. REMINDERS: November 3- Election Day NO SCHOOL November 5- End of 1st quarter November 6 - 2 hr Early Dismissal

Sincerely, 5th Grade Team

Hello Tigers' Den! If you haven't taken a few minutes yet to share your thoughts on the Counseling Program, and our Coffee Collaborations (time for You and ME!) please go ahead and do so now: https://forms.gle/iLng7jE6r5m7jspK7 I want to hear from YOU! Your feedback shapes so much of the experience our Tigers have in the Den I will be sharing results with our Leadership Team, and You all next week! :)

Graciously, Your School Counselor [Mrs. Whitney Green]

::Ding! Ding! Ding!:: ROUND 2! Let's get together again, this time to explore "Inadequacy & Avoidance" (seems heavy, I know, but trust me, it will be full of "A'Ha!" moments!) Please RSVP for I know how many to count on being there! Eeeeek! So excited! Click below and let me know if you will be able to join!: https://forms.gle/VyBQSu4RTRiMEf7C7

Graciously, Your School Counselor [Mrs. Whitney Green]

Physical Education: K-5 students are moving next week to throwing and catching. There are videos for students and parents to view for what equipment Mr. Hamms needs students to have for class. Also please set your children up for PE in a space that is more open than the dinning room table or against the wall if at all possible. Students will also have an assignment coming up in the next few weeks that will have them making their own obstacle course at home to film and submit to me, but that will be closer to Thanksgiving time. Media: Kindergarten and 1st Grade Continuing to Sequence using story elements and understanding how a missing element impacts a story and various activities. 2nd and 3rd Grade Students will continue to learn - Ouch that hurts - The Power of Words. 4th and 5th Grade Students will continue to learn Online Safety- Password Power-Up. Reminder: Our scholars should read for 15 – 30 minutes about 3-5 times a week. Please make sure that students have a notebook dedicated to Library and Media. Lego: 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. 3rd-5th grade: Students will complete challenges 19-20 and 21-23 in Coding Adventure next week. In the previous lessons, 3rd-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. Technology: K-2 practiced: Keyboarding: Cursor, Spacebar, Backspace, Enter, and Words Learners receive direct instruction and practice keyboarding to type words as they use the cursor, type letter combinations to form words, the spacebar to add spaces between words, the backspace key to delete mistakes, and the enter or return key to create new lines in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. 3-5 practiced: Hardware Fundamentals: Basic Components During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in computer basics as they understand names and functions of basic components such as processor, input, output, and storage devices, and differentiate between analog and digital information. Spanish: This week we are going to review and practice the following thematic unit: - The seasons and the weather. - Students will be able to interpret and communicate interpersonally the different seasons and types of weather. 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. Have a great week!

Creative Arts Team