This is a friendly reminder that as we continue to work through COVID-19 please wash/sanitize your scholar(s) hats, gloves, jackets, and coats OFTEN. In addition please be sure to disinfect and sanitize student devices, cords, lunch boxes, and backpacks daily. Adhering to these reminders will assist greatly with keeping our scholars and staff members as safe as possible. Ensure your scholar is equipped daily with at least 2 bottles/or a refillable container of water and at least 2 replacement masks daily. Last, please remember DO NOT send your child to school when they are not well.

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

Please remember to administer the second (2nd) test on Sunday, February 13th. Please follow the directions below CAREFULLY on how to upload the kit per instructions by PGCPS. How to Upload COVID-19 Test Results There are two ways to upload weekly home COVID-19 test results: 1ST WAY -- Weekly Emailed Upload Link (sent on Fridays to students’ PGCPS email) STEP 1 – Log into student’s email using their full email address with the @pgcps.org and open COVID-19 test email. - Username/Login: students PGCPS email address WITHOUT the @pgcps.org extension - Password: cpeakmmdd (student's date of birth mm=month, dd=date format) STEP 2 – Click on the form link to share test results (indicate if the test was negative or positive). STEP 3 – Upload an image of the test result and submit. 2ND WAY -- Website Upload STEP 1 – Go to the PGCPS website (https://www.pgcps.org/) and click on "Home COVID Test-Kit Weekly Results" (https://forms.gle/drGZZuQ4hGRkVdyd8) STEP 2 – Log in with the student's PGCPS username and password. - Username: students PGCPS email address WITHOUT the @pgcps.org extension - Password: cpeakmmdd (student's date of birth mm=month, dd=date format) STEP 3 – Complete the form and upload an image of the test result. Important Testing Timeline COVID-19 tests must be taken within 24 hours of returning to school – do not administer the test prior to Sunday. Please use only one test each week. One box should last for two weeks. Step-by-Step: How to Submit Test Results Directions: How to Submit Your COVID at Home Test Results: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sBBwRik4nkVTx58c_VB_y87TlJo0VdSirnEKyk7PY3Y/edit?usp=sharing PRUEBAS DE DETECCIÓN DE COVID PARA REALIZAR EN CASA: Envíe sus resultados: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zizlo5ftSkEPt0hboN6LTUZ_hNfupZAdXWcHoUoXbZ0/edit?usp=sharing TEST DE COVID à DOMICILE : Soumettre vos résultats: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MwlH5pS57sDQMp4EyppV7_8Ovalf_gPyytO0T_5bXlE/edit?usp=sharing

Mrs. Virgil, Principal Secretary

CLF is hosting its Annual Black History Month Poster/Essay Contest. Elementary entries may be an essay or a poster. If the poster option is chosen, the applicant must submit the poster with the applicant's first and last name and a 1-2 minute video. If the essay is chosen, the essay must have the applicant's first and last name on the essay. Please submit your entries in the form below. All submissions are due February 21, 2022. https://forms.gle/j2W3qJAZSTwQRYVf6

CMIT North Elementary Content Creator

Math tutoring will meet on Mondays and Tuesdays. Reading tutoring will meet Thursdays and Fridays. Questions may be sent to mcrosby@cmitelementary.org and bmccain@cmitelementary.org.

Program Coordinators

Our virtual STEM fair will be held on Saturday February 12, 2022 from 8:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. Thank you to all who signed up.

CMIT STEM fair Committee

We will have a Virtual Honor Roll Assembly on February 28th! The second and third grade assembly will be 8:30-9:30a.m. The fourth and fifth assembly will be 9:30a.m-10:30a.m. Invitations will be sent to students who made Principal Honor Roll, Honor Roll, and Perfect Attendance. Go Tigers!

CMIT North Elementary staff

The Robotics Club Saturday sessions will not meet this Saturday February 12th! We are having our 8th Annual STEM fair.

Program Coordinator

Students are invited to make a shirt with 100 things on it to wear for the 100th day of school on February 16th!!

Program Coordinators

Calling all Grandmas, PopPops, Nanas, Grandpas, and Madeas! CMIT Elementary PTO is sponsoring our annual virtual "Grub with Grandparents" on Thursday, February 17th at 8:45am. This day provides grandparents an opportunity to virtually eat breakfast with their student(s) and virtually visit the classroom. **RSVP BY MONDAY 2/14** https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSef12LFa82YdsezG3og8KVIY2egd6lsK-pn2Fj9RGC-UKnIdw/viewform

PTO

Our next PTO meeting is Wednesday, February 23rd at 6pm. You can use the link below to pre-register for all of our meetings. You are invited to a Zoom meeting. When: February 23rd 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Register in advance for this meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvcOCrrDgtGtFR3oXP1mTjqr8UaC9A8lH4 After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

PTO

This is going to be a busy week. We kick off the week with Valentine's Day, followed by the 100th day of school, Grubs with Grandparents, and our Quarter 1 Dojo party. Do not forget to make a 100th day of school t-shirt for your scholars if you would like to participate. The 100th day of school is Wednesday, Feb. 16th. Scholars must still be in uniform bottoms (pants and shoes). Grubs with Grandparents will be held virtually on Feb 17th. Grandparents can feel free to share experiences they have had and events they were a part of in regards to Black History We are wrapping up our winter MAP assessments. Scores will be shared once all scholars have completed that assessments. Parent-Teacher Conferences will take place on Tuesday, Feb 22nd. Your scholars teacher will provide further details about registering for a meeting. We have been learning a great deal during Black History Month this week in our classrooms and throughout the school. Your scholars have been learning about people in class and answering trivia questions given during the morning announcements. This year we will be learning a song from Motown. We will be learning the Jackson 5's, ABC. We are experiencing a high level of lost and misplaced items. Make sure that you are labeling ALL items are labeled with your scholars name. This will help us give it back to the correct person. If you can not fit the first and last name, make sure the first name is on there and add the grade level (ex. Alecia (K)). This week in ELA we will: -Learn sight words: down, her, how -learn letters Q and Z -Learn about poems and review rhyming -Learn about pronouns -Learn suffix -ing This week in Social Studies we will: -Learn about where we live. We will be able to find our state on a map/globe. -Describe where we live and make a map of where we live. -Learn position words: in front, behind, next to, above, etc. This week in Math we will: -Take the Topic 1-8 cumulative benchmark -Learn to read, write, and count # 11-20 This week in Science we will: -Learn about severe weather (thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes) -Learn how to prepare for severe weather Dates to know: Feb. 16-- 100th day of school Feb. 17-- Grub with Grandparents Feb 21-- No School Feb 22-- No School (Parent-Teacher Conferences until 11:25)

The Kindergarten Team

Hello First Grade Families: Your student should have their charged PGCPS issued device, charger, and 1 set of headphones daily. Please use a sticky to add their username and password to their device so that students are able to log in. Please contact help@cmitelementary.org if you have any questions or issues concerning technology. Students need to have at least 3 sharpened pencils, 1 sharpener, 1 box of crayons, 1 pair of scissors, 1 glue stick, 2 folders, 3 composition books, 1 personal hand sanitizer, and at least 1 extra mask in their backpack daily. Please be sure to contact your child's teacher directly (via email or dojo) if dismissal plans change. Please follow proper protocols if your child is not feeling well. Testing: Make-ups for MAP Winter Reading and Math Testing will take place this week. Looking ahead to next week: Reading/ELA: Unit 3: Essential Question: How Can We Use Our Imaginations? Story: The Clever Monkey: Folktale Phonics: Phonics: Long o Spelled VCe; Long u and e Spelled VCe Literacy: Words that describe actions; make connections between author's purpose and society Language and Conventions: Common and proper nouns. Math: Topic 6: Represent and Interpret Data Assessment Topic 7: Extend the Counting Sequence Focus: Counting and skip counting (by 2's, 5's and 10's) from 0-120. Social Studies: Chapter 2: Geography of a Community Lesson 5: My State Science: Unit 3: Observe the Sky End of Unit 3: Sky and Earth Health: Unit 3: Communication Lesson 1: Listening and Responding to Others Have a safe and prosperous week!

First Grade Team

We had a great week in second grade! Next week, we will be continuing Unit 3 in reading, titled, "Our Traditions." The big question for the unit is "What makes a tradition?" Throughout the week, we will focus on legends. The weekly question is, "What stories do people tell to understand the world around them?" The spelling pattern will be Comparative Endings. In Math, we will work on topic 8. This topic covers money and time. Updates: Students will be taking their MAP Assessments 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 the third week in February! In math, students will take the Topic 8 test on Tuesday, 2/15. They will begin review Topics 1-8, and take a cumulative test on Thursday, 2/17. Topic 9: Fluently Add and Subtract within 1,000. In science, students will continue Topic 4: Climate. In reading, they will be continuing to learn about historical fiction. They will be taking their Unit 3: Week 3 quiz on Friday, 2/18. Students will receive new spelling words for this week. Please make sure to go into AAAspell.com. The spelling test will be Friday, 2/18. The title of the spelling & vocabulary is Little House on the Prairie Spelling Words & Little House on the Prairie Vocabulary Words. In Social Studies, students will continue with Chapter 3, Communities Build a Nation. They begin Lesson 6: Creating a New Nation. The quiz for this lesson will be Friday, 2/18. 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. Lastly, please be sure to check School Max 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

As we enter the second week of Quarter 3 please continue to encourage your scholar(s) to stay focused in class, be active participants and ask clarifying questions when they do not understand something. As we continue to move along in fourth grade, the concepts will begin to become more challenging and we want to ensure that students are staying on top of their work and seeking help when needed. Next week in Reading, students will be analyzing plot and setting of a realistic fiction text. In Social Studies, students will begin Chapter 6 The Southeast Region. In Math, students will be subtracting fractions with like denominators. In Science, students will be able to develop a model of waves using patterns in wave properties. We are strongly encouraging parents to please check SchoolMax weekly to stay abreast of your student'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 student complete one form for each redo request. Once the form has been submitted, your student'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. Please remind your scholars to charge their devices nightly and to bring their chargers to school. All students should also have extra masks in their backpacks. Let's have a great week on purpose!! Upcoming Dates/ Reminders 2/17/2022 Grub with Grandparents 2/21/2022 No School President's Day 2/22/2022 No School Parent Teacher Conferences (more information will follow)

Fourth Grade Team

Greetings Parents! This week in RELA, students finished analyzing plot elements and summarizing. Next week, students will focus on analyzing legends and drama. We will practice synthesizing information across 2 genres and evaluating literary structure. Our spelling skill will be uncommon words. Our language skill will be Possessive Pronouns. In Social Studies this week, we’ve been learning about the effects of moving Westward in North America and the impact of the Civil War. We will learn about the impact of the Civil War and how it shifted our society to reconstruction. It’s been a great adventure in learning how our society impacted many nations and cultures. Students reviewed the water cycle process in Science this week. This week we will learn how the water cycle impacts freshwater and how it's distributed across Earth. Scholars will also focus on writing in Science using the Claim-Evidence-Reasoning model. In Math, students completed adding and subtracting fractions and mixed numbers. Next week, students will learn and apply various strategies to multiply and divide fractions.

Your Fifth Grade Team

TECHNOLOGY Greetings, Computer Fundamentals: Processors, Input and Output Devices The learners receive direct instruction and practice identifying and caring for basic computer components such as the processor, keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers, printer. Art Greetings, Tigers are encouraged to be mindful of good craftsmanship, effort, neatness, details, and completeness. And, we will be including more reflections when concluding projects. Please refer to SchoolMax to review grades periodically. Contact Ms. Love (wlove@cmitelementary.org) if you have issues accessing SchoolMAX. Thank you, Mr. Dorsey Visual Arts Teacher MUSIC Thank you to all families that donated recyclable and craft supplies for our instrument projects! I can’t wait to share photos of the finished products. 4th and 5th grade is moving from digital music production to instrumental music next week! If students have ukuleles of their own that they’d like to bring during our ukulele unit, they are able to store them in the music room. Please wait until your student’s class has gotten the go-ahead for bringing in instruments at the beginning of their unit. PE KIDS HEART CHALLENGE!!! Hello parents, this week and for the rest of the month, we’re trying to raise a school wide goal of $2,500 for the kids heart challenge! I’ve sent an email to you all with the details of how to sign your students up, and simply for signing them up (free of charge) they will receive a kids heart challenge wristband! If you are feeling generous, then you can donate, and your student will earn prizes along the way. There may even be a Pie Mr. Livas if the goal is reached!!! So I encourage you all to sign your students up, and donate if your heart tells you to! Thank you all! SPANISH Please make sure to check Google Classroom for announcements or content. All students will need a Spanish composition journal labeled with their name, teacher, and grade. Thank you! This week we started Sentimientos (Feelings). Students took notes during the lesson. Sentimientos will continue to be covered next week. STEAM Students have completed their STEM Fair projects. Donations for Crayons, color pencils, construction paper, and and other craft supplies are greatly appreciated. Our stem fair is this weekend! -Ms. Bryant

Create Arts Team