COVID-19 Test Kits and masks are being distributed Friday, Feb 18, 2022 to go home with your scholar(s) in their bookbag. Please remember to administer the tests on the following dates: Test #1 - TUESDAY, February 22nd Test # 2 - Sunday, February 27th The masks given are for in-school use and should come with your scholar to school on Wednesday, February 23rd. Please follow the directions below CAREFULLY on how to upload the kit per instructions by PGCPS. ALL RESULTS NEED TO BE UPLOADED! 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 https://gmail.pgcps.org/ and open COVID-19 test email. Username: 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

In observance of President's Day, Saturday Academy will be cancelled.

Michelle Crosby

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

February 2022 will mark the end of the 222 days sequence in this century. The sequence, which started two decades ago, will end on February 22, 2022. In honor of Two's Day (2-22-2022) we will celebrate on Wednesday (2/23/2022). Scholars may come to school dressed in TUTUS and/or Ties. We have lots of fun activities planned.

Admin

The Robotics Club Saturday sessions will not meet this Saturday February 18th. Happy Holidays!

Program Coordinator

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

CMIT North Elementary Staff

You are invited to our next PTO meeting on Wednesday February 23rd at 6 p.m. You can use the link below to pre-register and receive the Zoom link. When: February 23rd 6PM 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

We have started the countdown to the end of the year and when your kindergartner will become an "official" first grader. As of Wednesday, there are only 78 days left. It is going to go by fast. Remember there is no school on Monday or Tuesday February 21st and 22nd. There will be Parent-Teacher Conferences on Tuesday. Do to time restraints on Tuesday, your scholar's teacher will have reached out to you in regards to meeting. If you would like to meet with your scholar's teacher reach out to them to schedule a time. We are completing MAP assessments and scores will be coming out shortly. Please continue to label your scholar's items (devices, chargers, headphones, clothing, lunch boxes, etc). I can state that I was able to find a number of misplaced items to return to students today as they were labeled. It does make a difference. This week in ELA we will: -Learn sight words: away, give, little -We will work on the phonics for /cl/, /bl/, /sl/ blends -Continue learning about poetry and rhyming This week in Social Studies we will: -Learn the difference between a globe and a map -Learn about neighborhood maps and create a map of our neighborhoods This week in Math we will: -Learn to count forward from any number to a number within 20 -Count to find how many in a group This week in Science we will: -Review what we have learned about weather -Take the Topic 4 assessment

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. Upcoming Events: Schools Closed-Monday, February 21- President's Day No School for Students-Tuesday, February 22- Parent Teacher Conferences (3hr. early dismissal) Looking ahead to next week: Reading/ELA: Unit 3: Essential Question: How Can We Use Our Imaginations? Story: Poetry Collection Genre: Poetry Phonics: Phonics: Long e spelled ee, e Literacy: Making Connections Language and Conventions: Inflectional ending -ed Math: 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 3: Symbols and Traditions of the United States Lesson 1: We Are Americans! Science: Unit 4: Weather and Seasons Lesson 1: Types of Weather 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! Our Valentine's Day Celebration was lots of fun. Our scholar's loved the Valentine's Day Grams (Smencils). Map scores and report cards are being sent home today. Please review them with your scholar. 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. Reminders: February 21- President's Day February 22-Parent/Teacher Conference 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 Wednesday!

Second Grade Team

Welcome to the fourth week in February! In Math, students will begin Topic 9: Fluently Add and Subtract within 1,000. In Science, students will continue Topic 4: Climate. Lesson 1 quiz, on climate, will be on Thursday, 2/24. In Reading, they will be taking their Unit 3 Lesson 3 quiz on Wednesday, 2/23. They will begin Unit 3 Lesson 4: Biography on Thursday, 2/24. Students will not have vocabulary words this week. In Writing, they will continue to work on creating their historical fiction story. In Social Studies, students will continue with Chapter 3, Communities Build a Nation. They will study for the Chapter 3 test this week. The Chapter 3 test will be on Friday. Please make sure students press turn in when turning in their work in Savvas 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. Have a great week! No School- Monday 2/21 No School- Tuesday 2/22

Third Grade Team

As we enter the third 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 identifying author's purpose and making connections in an autobiography. In Social Studies, students will begin Chapter 6 The Southeast Region. In Math, students will be reviewing for Topic !0 test and then begin reading and interpreting data on a line plot. 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 2/21/2022 No School President's Day 2/22/2022 No School Parent Teacher Conferences *Please reach out to your child's teacher(s) if you would like to schedule a conference.

Fourth Grade Team

Greetings Parents! Next week, students will conduct digital labs and simulations of finding fresh water underground as they continue to identify and explain how and where Earth’s fresh water is found. Students will also begin to graph data about the amounts and percentages of water and fresh water to analyze the distribution of water on Earth. In Math, students will Solve real-world problems involving multiplication of fractions and mixed numbers, for example, by using visual fraction models or equations to represent the problem. Students will also review for the end of topic 8 test. Great week of learning in Social Studies! Students were highly engaged in ending the Chapters of Moving Westward and the Civil War Reconstruction. Students have fully connected how migration and the desire for land and innovation changed and impacted our society on a broad spectrum. Students learned the shift from Texas being connected to Mexico from Texas becoming independent and now a part of the United States. They are learning the process of how taking over land (North America) can impact and affect others in various ways. This week in RELA, we focused on analyzing legends and drama. We will practice synthesizing information across 2 genres and evaluating literary structure and possessive pronouns. Next week, we will begin poetry focusing on imagery, visualizing, and figurative language. We will be working on Indefinite & Reflexive Pronouns and Suffixes –ous, -eous, -ious. We are well underway working on Black History Month essays. Students should be actively working on their posters at home. Posters, Recordings, and Essays are due Friday 2/25 and our Wax Museum will occur in class Monday 2/28.

Your Fifth Grade Team

Greetings, Tigers are encouraged to be mindful of good craftsmanship, effort, neatness, details, and completeness. We have had more presentations and reviews to bring more awareness to the importance of craftsmanship when concluding projects. Mr. Dorsey Greetings, K-2 practiced: Keyboarding: Locate and type letters. During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding the letters as they locate and type the letters, recognize the letter sounds, and learn the relationship between the letters on the keyboard and on the screen. 3-5 practiced: Hardware Fundamentals: Mobile Devices In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice with smartphones, tablets, phablets (larger phones), and applications, and understand how mobile devices connect to a wireless network, store information using cloud computing, and use GPS for tracking. Ms. Avsar PE News Hello parents, we are still going hard on our kids heart challenge push, we are almost halfway to our goal!!! Who knows, if we reach our goal before the end of the month, the students might have an opportunity to pie Mr. Livas!!! But in other news, this week we are taking it back to the blacktop days & learning how to jump rope! It’s gonna be a little road to travel, but I can’t wait to get rockin! Thank you all for all of your donations & everything you do for the school!!! Mr. Livas 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. Ms. Vazquez 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 was last weekend. Congratulations to the winners! -Ms. Bryant

Create Arts Team