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

Our virtual STEM fair will be held on Saturday February 12, 2022 from 8:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. We still need volunteers. Please sign-up below! Thank you for all of your support! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1fuTVHtyp6Y4bBF-3vE-Vdatn4yGpLJLCrXlY1f6iIyo/viewform?edit_requested=true

CMIT STEM fair Committee

Kiwanis club has finished their donation drive! We were able to donate to LARS, shelters, and churches. Your generosity is appreciated!

Program Coordinator

Club is virtual until further notice. We will meet Thursdays at 4:00pm. Thank you for your dedication and support to STEM!

Mrs. Mccain-Wigfall

Tutoring resumed virtually on January 6th. This invitation only enrichment program will help build student math and reading skills. Students may log in with the links provided in their tutoring Google classrooms. Thank you! Questions may be sent to mcrosby@cmitelementary.org and bmccain@cmitelementary.org.

Program Coordinators

Saturday Academy will be virtual January 8th! This invitation only enrichment/acceleration program will help build student math and reading skills. Students should access their Saturday academy Google classroom for the Zoom link to access their class on Saturday morning. Thank you! Questions may be sent to bmccain@cmitelementary.org and mcrosby@cmitelementary.org.

Program Coordinators

All STEM fair projects are due January 24th. If you have any questions email bmccain@cmitelementary.org. Students should take pictures and create a data chart/graph by January 7th. 3rd-5th grade students should begin research papers on January 7th. All students should finish conducting their experiments and begin creating their video by January 14, 2022. STEM Fair Resources https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hp92bLt0nGCWzdNaa3ohbyenINaR0iWICPyp23Th5U4/edit

CMIT STEM Fair Committee

The Robotics Club Saturday sessions will meet this Saturday. We will resume meeting on Mondays at 4:00pm. The meeting link has been shared on ClassDojo. Email bmccain@cmitelementary.org with any questions. Thank you!

Program Coordinator

We would like to start off by thanking everyone for their patience as we have been working around various technology glitches. Both parents and scholars have been doing an excellent job. If you are unable to log on due to technology issues please inform your scholar's teacher. When we take attendance we can mark the reason for their absence as technology versus unexcused. Your scholar may be marked present if you can still complete daily assignments by 3:00 p.m. via seesaw and/or Google classroom. We also need to know if your scholar will be out due to illness as this will determine if they have an excused or unexcused absence. In order to help your scholar access various platforms, we are asking that you bookmark frequently used platforms or keep a tab open. For seesaw you may keep a tab open and your scholar logged in. Please help us during this time by showing your scholar where tabs and bookmarks are, especially those who are working more independently. This week in ELA we will: -Learn sight words: go, from, yellow, blue, green -Learn middle /e/ sound and letters X and Y -Continue learning about persuasive writing -Make personal connections to text -Take the Unit 2 Assessment This week in Social Studies we will: -Learn about why people work -Learn about wants and needs -Learn about jobs in out community This week in Math we will: -Learn about subtraction as a form of taking apart and taking from -Learn how to write and solve subtraction equations -Start solving subtraction word problems This week in Science we will: -Take the Topic 3 Assessment -Start learning about weather Dates to know: Jan 17--No School

The Kindergarten Team

Hello First Grade Families: During this period of virtual learning, please remember students should be prepared for school with their supplies daily: charged devices, paper and pencils/crayons for instruction. Students should be logged into their Teacher's Zoom no later than 7:55 a.m. Please contact help@cmitelementary.org if you have any questions or issues concerning technology. Dates to Remember: 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: Poetry Collection Genre: Poetry Phonics: rhyming words; consonant digraphs (sh, th) Inflection ending -ing Literacy: Describe elements of poetry. Language and Conventions: Writing declarative, exclamatory and interrogative Sentences Math: Topic 5 Work with Addition and Subtraction Equations Topic Goal: Students will build upon what they have learned about addition and subtraction strategies to achieve mathematical fluency. Focus: Adding equations with 3 addends. Social Studies: Chapter 2: Geography of a Community Review: Maps and Models Science: STEM Fair/ Building and Engineering Unit Health: Unit 2: Empathy and Critical Thinking Lesson 3: Relating Thoughts Feelings and Behaviors. Have a safe and prosperous week!

First Grade Team

Happy New Year! We are looking forward to a terrific 2022! 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 finish up 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

Welcome to virtual school! We are going to keep pushing through. In math, students will continue Topic 7: Represent and Interpret Data. The topic 7 assessment will be Friday, January 14th. In science, students will continue Topic 3 Lesson 2: Weather/ Seasonal Weather changes / Water cycle. In reading, they will go over how to set up their STEM fair research paper Monday and Tuesday (Jan 10 & 11). They will continue with Unit 2, Week 5 Wednesday, January 12th. They will be preparing for the Unit 2, Week 5 Quiz. This quiz will be Friday, January 14th. Students will be given no new spelling words at this time. In Social Studies, students will begin Chapter 3, Communities Build a Nation on Monday, January 10th. They will take the lesson 1 quiz Friday, January 14th. 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. ClassDojo is our main form of communication. Please join your scholar’s homeroom teacher’s ClassDojo. Please check ClassDojo for any updates and new information to be shared. Lastly, please be sure to check SchoolMax for all graded assignments. All students should be logging into the correct Zoom for each subject. Please make sure your student is following the virtual schedule for their homeroom class. Have a great week! Third Grade Team

Tunisha-Marie Davis

The Fourth Grade team would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year!! We hope that everyone had a relaxing break and spent time with loved ones. Next week in Reading, students will be synthesizing information & monitoring comprehension. In Social Studies, we will understand that both individuals and families make economic decisions and how global trade affects our lives. In Math, students will use arrays and multiplication to find the factors of a given number and begin equivalent fractions and ordering fractions. In Science, students will be able to develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and that waves can cause objects to move. Please take note that January 10-14, 2022 all students will be virtual. Students are expected to log in to their homeroom teacher's Zoom link at 7:55 am. Please refer to the schedule below as slight changes have been made to accommodate this shift. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xJF-Im-4MUEAN0G1xMGGfen6AMS2opWgLYS-NWvLoKc/edit#gid=1251513744 Students should be finishing up 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 complete his/her STEM Fair project. Students are also required to submit a research paper with their STEM Fair project. STEM Fair projects and research papers are due on January 24th. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rJBJKZv4tP1p30WRlIWntBmn1VD05wAaX15Ql-gLO5U/edit Reminders January 17th, 2022 No School Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday January 24th, 2022 STEM Fair Projects & Research Papers due

Fourth Grade Team

Happy New Year Families! The new year has come, and though delayed by winter weather, we are happy to see all of scholars this week! We missed them! Our first day online we talked about expectations of virtual learning, schedules, and how we can extend our in-person classroom to online. Scholars who have been online continued their schedules with minor adjustments. Teachers and scholars are adjusting well! This week in Math, we will continue working on dividing decimals. Students will use models to visualize the relationship between multiplication and division to divide decimals by a two-digit whole number and also understand that models and the relationship between multiplication and division can be used to divide a decimal by a decimal. In Science, students are continuing Patterns in Space as we wrap up Topic 7. This week we are reviewing vocabulary and how Earth moves in space in relation to other planets and the sun. In Social Studies, scholars will continue Chapter 6 focusing on the Key Concepts of the Constitution and Creating a New Nation. In RELA, students are working on Unit 2 Week 5. This week focuses on a new skill: Comparing texts and synthesizing information from 2 texts. Students will learn about base words and endings and active voice. Beginning this week, students worked on their STEM Fair Research Papers. These skills will continue into next week as we explain and model how shadows and stars show patterns over time.

Your Fifth Grade Team

Welcome to 2022 from the Specials team! Please ensure your scholar is completing all assignments by the due date. Please ensure your scholar is prepared each day for specials. Thank you for your support! Students should be working on their STEM fair projects!. Projects are due January 24, 2022. Projects must be submitted as a video!

Create Arts Team!