Please mark your calendars, Thursday, December 23, 2021 will be a 3 hour early dismissal for ALL students and school based employees. Please plan ahead accordingly to make arrangements to have your scholar(s) picked up on time. Dismissal will begin PROMPTLY at 11:25 A.M. and end at 11:55 A.M. There will be Enrichment aftercare for students who are enrolled. Enrichment students will need to be picked up by 3:00 P.M.

Mrs. Virgil, Principal Secretary

Chesapeake Math & IT North Elementary is committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for all of its community members. Now that children who are five and older are eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccinations we strongly encourage all students to be vaccinated against COVID-19. As we prepare for full, 100% in-person instruction, we are requiring all parents to submit their student's COVID vaccine status in order to maintain a healthy educational environment and to properly adhere to quarantining, contact tracing, and testing guidelines. This information will only be shared with pertinent school personnel and it will allow us to plan for the safest school experience possible. PLEASE FILL OUT THE FORM FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL STUDENT SEPARATELY. Please click here to access the Google Form: https://forms.gle/se4cJL7ijh3HyJP57

Mrs. Virgil, Principal Secretary

As we continue to safely navigate through this pandemic and the cold and flu season, CMIT North Elementary would like to send a friendly reminder to parents/guardians to keep their child(ren) home if they are not feeling well. Resting at home will help them get better more quickly and will prevent them from exposing other children or the staff to their illness. If your child is running a fever of 100.4 or greater, feels nauseous or vomits, and/or has diarrhea they are not permitted to come to school. In addition, they should be fever free and symptom free without medication for a full 24 hours from the onset of the fever or symptoms prior to returning to school. If you have any questions regarding your child’s health and well being, you may reach out to their healthcare provider or you may contact the school nurse, Nurse Ann at sally.warf@pgcps.org. Please review the attached document for additional information: Department of Student Services - Office of School Health “WHEN TO STAY HOME FROM SCHOOL/WORK” - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hipCbk8oPoiXRxt7OEC6juGllBLqwi9t/view?usp=sharing

Mrs. Virgil, Principal Secretary

Saturday School is cancelled for 12/18/2021. There are no tutoring classes next week!

Program Coordinator

Show your CMIT North ES Tiger Pride with spirit wear! Spirit wear hoodies and zip hoodies are allowed to be worn in the building by all students as an alternative to CMIT embroidered jackets or sweaters. T-shirts are also approved P.E. uniforms for 3rd-5th graders. We also have masks and gear for parents as well! A portion of your purchase goes towards our technology fund. Spirit wear can be purchased at: https://teamlocker.squadlocker.com/#/lockers/cmit-north-elementary-spiritwear?_k=r85vva. --

PTO

As we move on to celebrating the upcoming holidays, we're providing a new way to support the PTO and the school, with Honey Baked Ham gift cards! If you plan on buying a Honey Baked Ham or Turkey for any of the upcoming holidays, or just for a night off of cooking dinner, you can buy gift cards to use to purchase the ham or turkey and support the PTO in the process! Honey Baked Ham gift cards also make wonderful gifts. You can use your HoneyBaked Gift Card to shop online or in-store at any HoneyBaked location nationwide. And the most satisfying part? 20% of your purchase goes directly to support the fundraiser. Click the link to order a gift card for yourself and/or family and friends! https://honeybakedfundraising.com/fundraisers/cmites_north_pto_honeybaked_ham_fundraiser

PTO

We have 2 amazing items that were donated for our Holiday Shop's silent auction! Use the link below to visit the website and place your bids on the items listed below. The auction will run until Thursday December 16th at 10pm EST, You will be notified Friday December 17th if you have won the item and then you can email the PTO to arrange to pick it up from the school during school hours. Thanks so much for your support!! https://www.32auctions.com/CMITESNPTOHolidayShop2021

PTO

We have made it to the last few days before winter break. There are only 3 1/2 days this week since we will dismiss on Thursday at 11:25 a.m. The kindergarten team hopes that everyone has a wonderful break, enjoys time with family, and takes the time to recharge for the new year. We will hit the ground running upon our return in January. Reminder that ALL items and materials should be labeled. This will help ensure that students have misplaced/lost items returned. During the winter months make sure that your scholar is dressed appropriately for the weather. Scholars that are not wearing winter coats and have their legs covered may not be permitted to join outdoor recess. The kindergarten team likes to have missing grades completed before the holiday break. If your scholar is missing any assignments they need to be completed and submitted by the morning of Dec. 23rd. On Thursday, Dec. 23rd, we will be doing fun activities with your scholars prior to lunch. Keep an eye out as your scholars teacher may ask for donations for supplies. This week in ELA we will: -Review -ack & -ick words -Review sight words: four, five, here -Introduce consonant blends - Discuss the difference between fiction and non fiction This week in Social Studies we will: -Introduce and Work now and long ago -Discuss how things have changed (ex cars) This week in Math we will: -Complete our Topic on addition. -Take topic 6 assessment if have not already done so. This week in Science we will: -Discuss how the sun warms the earth's surface -Do an experiment showing how the sun warms the earth's surface

The Kindergarten Team

Happy Holidays Families: Dates to Remember: Thursday, December 23 - 3 hr. early dismissal Friday, December 24- Friday, December 31- Winter Break Monday, January 24-STEM Fair projects due. Looking ahead to next week: Reading/ELA Unit 2: Essential Question: How do living things grow and change? Story: "How Do Baby Animals Grow?" Genre: Information Text. Phonics: Review: Initial and Final Consonant blends, open/closed syllables. Literacy: Review: Text Features- Using headings to locate key facts or information in a text. Language and Conventions: Declarative, Exclamatory and Interrogative Sentences Math: Topic 4: Subtraction Facts to 20. Using Strategies to Subtract: Adding with a number line, doubles, near doubles, and ten-frames Wednesday: Progress Check Topic 1-4 Benchmark Social Studies: Chapter 2: Geography of a Community Review: Cardinal locations, features of a map. Science: STEM Fair/ Building and Engineering Unit Health: Unit 2: Empathy and Critical Thinking Lesson 3: Relating Thoughts Feelings and Behaviors. Have a Merry Holiday and a Happy New Year!

First Grade Team

We had a fantastic fifteenth week in Second Grade! Next week, we will continue Unit 2 in reading, titled, "Nature’s Wonders." The big question for the unit is "What patterns do we see in nature?" Throughout the week, we will focus on fiction. The weekly question is, "How do patterns of behavior in animals help keep their young safe?" The spelling pattern will be Long e: ee, ea, ey, y. In Math, we will continue topic 6. This topic covers subtracting fluently within 100 using strategies. Updates: It is HIGHLY recommended that students practice their basic addition and subtraction facts with flashcards regularly at home. https://toytheater.com/math-flash-cards/ 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

We have made it to the last week before winter break! Thank you for all of the support this year. We truly appreciate all that you all do with our scholars and for our class. In Math, students will begin Topic 7: Represent and Interpret Data. In Science, students will continue Topic 3 Lesson 2: Weather/ Seasonal Weather changes / Water cycle. In Reading, they will take their reading quiz on Monday, 12/20. The skill they will work on is Comparing and contrasting the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic. Students will take the Wolf Island Spelling Words List test on Monday 12/20 (for Kelley’s/ Richardson’s Reading Class ONLY). No new words will be given out this week. In Social Studies, students will be taking their Chapter 2 test on Monday, 12/20. Students will complete STEAM activities next week that focus on the skills above. Teachers have sent out the supplies list of the items students will need to bring for next week. Please make sure to look over that supplies list. Please make sure students press turn in when turning in their work in Saavas AND in Google Classroom. Please note that we follow the grading policy from PGCPS. Please look over the policy. Students are required to fill out the make-up form BEFORE attempting to redo the assignment (located in Google Classroom). Also, teachers have to approve the student before they do the assignment because not all assignments are eligible for make-up. Please express to your scholar the importance of turning in their own work on time. If they have not attempted to complete the assignment and it is late, it will NOT be accepted, per the PGCPS Grading Policy. Parents will have until Wednesday to request a redo of an assignment. Resubmissions must be submitted by the following Sunday. If an assignment is not eligible for a redo, teachers will put "not eligible for redo" in the assignment description. Class Dojo is our main form of communication. Please join your scholar’s homeroom teacher’s Class Dojo. Please check Class Dojo for any updates and new information to be shared. If you would rather use email as your main form of communication, please tell your scholar’s teacher. Lastly, please be sure to check SchoolMax for all graded assignments. All students should be bringing their school devices with them to school daily. Have a great week! Third Grade Team

Tunisha-Marie Davis

We are one more week away from Winter Break. We can make it! Next week in Reading, students will continue analyzing poetic language & elements and visualize imagery. In Social Studies, we will understand that business supply goods and services to match demand. In Math, students will be will use arrays and multiplication to find the factors of a given number. In Science, students will be describing how the use of different natural energy resources affects the local and global environments and evaluate how technology can improve the environmental effects of using a given energy resource. Please check SchoolMax weekly to stay abreast of your scholar's grades in all academic areas. Students can request a re-do of an assignment using the Google Form that is posted in Google Classroom. Only assignments that have been assigned or entered in SchoolMax within the last week can be redone unless noted otherwise. Please have your scholar complete one form for each redo request. Once the form has been submitted, your scholar's teacher will give out additional information. If students are granted a redo, the assignment(s) must be completed within 3 days from the date assigned. Students should be in the beginning phases of their STEM Fair project. Below you will find the link for the STEM Fair Packet. Please use the packet as a guide to help your scholar to complete his/her STEM Fair project. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rJBJKZv4tP1p30WRlIWntBmn1VD05wAaX15Ql-gLO5U/edit A few reminders... -Students should have extra masks in their backpacks. -Devices should be brought with charger to school fully charged. Just a friendly reminder that ClassDojo is the best way to contact us. We are available from 7:55 a.m. - 2:55 p.m.

Fourth Grade Team

Greetings Parents! In RELA this week, students completed Unit 2 Week 3 and began Unit 2 Week 4. We are reading Tracking Monsters, focusing on prefixes il,ir,in,im; perfect verb tenses; evaluating details and text features. Students will be writing informational articles about their winter traditions. This week in Social Studies, we delved into the final lesson (lesson5) of the American Revolution and how it impacted our great nation. Although we have been asynchronous, we have connected the dots on why the British wanted to dictate our society and how that impacted the colonies as well as the Native American Indians. This week is our Chapter 5 Assessment and students have the chance to expose what they have learned or what opportunity is there for them to reconnect to the lesson to fill in any learning gaps. This week we will wrap up the topic of division in math. Our focus will be on problem solving and we will explore different strategies to solve division problems. On Wednesday, December 22nd, students will take the Topic 5 Assessment on division strategies and problem solving. In Science, this week we talked about gravity and its effect on Earth and in space. We also completed a Science lab demonstrating how Earth’s spin affects its shape. Next week, students will discuss how patterns affect brightness of stars and use evidence to compare their brightness and relevant distance. Our scholars are working hard and striving to be successful in their studies. Let's go 5th graders!!!

Your Fifth Grade Team

Hello Tiger's Den, While we prepare to break away from the school building temporarily for the winter break, we want to be sure that our Tiger families are cared for in any way necessary. If this upcoming break brings with it concern and stress regarding any food insecurities for you and your tiger cubs, please reach out to me: writchie@cmitelementary.org Your information remains confidential, and support can be provided.

Graciously, Your School Counselor [Ms. Whitney Green]