To mitigate potential COVID-19 spread that may be experienced during spring break, all PGCPS schools will receive a shipment of home test kits beginning the week of March 28. CMIT North Elementary will begin COVID-19 test kits distribution to students as early as Wednesday, April 6. Students and staff are asked to self-administer the test prior to returning to schools on Tuesday, April 19.

Mrs. Virgil, Principal Secretary

We are continuing to safely navigate through this pandemic, the cold and flu, but now allergy season is approaching. If your scholar has allergies please make sure they take their allergy medication daily to minimize confusion with COVID-19. CMIT North Elementary would also like to friendly remind 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 scholar will be kept home due to illness, the acceptable method of communication to be utilized for reporting absences/late arrivals and uploading doctor/medical notes for your student(s) is the CMIT North Elementary School Absence Form. With the exception of COVID reporting, in which an email in addition to the absence form must be sent to Nurse Ann, Dr. Fryson and Mrs. Virgil. Please click here to access the CMIT North Elementary School Absence Form to submit doctor notes and any absences: https://forms.gle/JrYasoKgjVMd33Ag6 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

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. We are requiring all parents to submit their student's COVID vaccine status in order to properly adhere to quarantining, contact tracing, and testing guidelines. If your child's vaccination status needs to be updated please do so utilizing the form below. This information will only be shared with pertinent school personnel and it will allow us to plan for the safest school experience possible. YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESUBMIT IF YOUR CHILD'S STATUS HAS NOT CHANGED. A SEPARATE FORM SHOULD BE SUBMITTED FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL STUDENT. Please click here to access the Google Form: https://forms.gle/se4cJL7ijh3HyJP57

Mrs. Virgil, Principal Secretary

Students are invited to join us on April 22, 2022 for our Earth Day Vocabulary Parade. Students pick a word and create a costume out of recycled materials. Go Tigers! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RJa2eCEjBjEc-OZlDt5otQEbWJIkLkdV7a10m22bzrc/edit?usp=sharing

Program Coordinators

Saturday Academy will be held. Questions may be sent to: mcrosby@cmitelementary.org. Or bmccain@cmitelementary.org

Program Coordinators

Club will be held in person. We will meet on Thursday at 3:00 p.m. Projects are due today, 4/1 and students should wear their shirts so we can record. Thank you for your dedication and support to STEM!

Mrs. Mccain-Wigfall

The Robotics Club will no longer meet on Saturdays. 2nd and 3rd grade Robotics will be in session for April 4th.

Program Coordinator

We seem to be moving quickly through the year as we have completed another month. We are only 4 days away from the end of Quarter 3. Make sure that you are checking SchoolMax for your scholar's grades. If you see that your scholar is missing assignments, reach out to their teacher to discuss completing the assignments. The last day for missing assignments will be Wednesday, April 6th. If the assignment is in Seesaw, you will be able to complete it on your own. We are 5 days away from Spring Break. We hope that you have time to relax and recharge for the last stretch of the school year. Devices, headphones, and chargers should be sent to school daily. Make sure that ALL items are labeled. As we enter into warmer weather, it is important that your scholar has water to help stay hydrated. You may send a reusable water bottle or single use water bottle to school with your scholar. Make sure that the water bottle is labeled. We are able to fill up water bottles at the water fountains if needed. We have resent the publicity release form to be filled out. This form informs us of the scholars who have and do not have permission to be in the photos and videos that we use for dojo at the end of the year promotion ceremony. If your scholar's teacher reaches out to you, please complete the form as soon as possible. Your scholar will receive a t-shirt at the end of the year so make sure that you also complete the shirt size form if you have not already done so. This week in ELA we will: -Introduce synonyms -Review bossy e and long and short /u/ - Sight words: pretty, now, all - Complete the Unit 4 Week 2 check-in This week in Social Studies we will: -Continue learning about time and chronology -Learn about past, present, and future -Practice sequencing events This week in Math we will: -Identify different shapes in the environment -Describe the position of shapes in the environment -Identify and describe 2D and 3D shapes -Take Topic 12 assessment This week in Science we will: -Introduce Life Cycles -Learn about the plant life cycle -Start learning about the life cycle of a butterfly Dates to know: April 6 -- Missing assignments due April 7-- Last day of quarter 3 April 8 -- 2 hr early dismissal (12:25) April 11-15 -- Spring Break April 18 -- No School

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 Dates: April 8: 2 hour early dismissal April 11-April 18: Spring Break Looking ahead to next week: Reading/ELA: Unit 4: Making History Essential Question: Why is the past important? Genre: Historical Fiction Story: "Before The Railroads Came" Phonological Awareness: Final Sounds, Remove phonemes Phonics: r- Comparative endings Literary Connections: Context clues Language and Conventions: First person text Math: Topics 10 & 11 Adding and Subtracting 2-digit numbers Assessment Topic 12 Comparing Lengths Skill Focus: Ordering 3 or more objects by length; longer and shorter Social Studies: Chapter 4: Life Today and Long Ago Lesson 3: Changes in Technology and Transportation Science: Unit 5: Living Things Lesson 4: Where Plants and Animals Live Health: Unit 4: Problem Solving Lesson 3: Cooperating 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 informational text. The weekly question is, "How does food help make a tradition?" The spelling pattern will be Vowel Teams oo, ue, ew, ui. In Math, we will finish topic 10. This topic covers adding numbers up to 1,000. 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 the first full week of April! In Math, students will take the Topic 12: Understand Fractions as Numbers test, Tuesday, 4/5. They will have a benchmark review Wednesday, 4/6. The benchmark test will be Thursday, 4/7. In Science, students will begin Topic 5: Life Cycles. In Health, they will continue Unit 5: Peer Relationships. In Reading, they will continue Unit 4. They will continue to learn about biography. They will continue with their opinion writing. The new spelling words this week will be named Milton Hershey Spelling Words and Vocabulary Words. They continue Chapter 5: Citizenship and Civic Engagement. In Social Studies, students will take the Chapter 5 Lesson 2 quiz on Monday, 4/4. Lesson 3 will begin on Tuesday, 4/5. The Ch. 5 Lesson 3 quiz will be on Thursday, 4/7. Ch. 5 Lessons 1-3 review will be on Friday, 4/8. 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. 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 SchoolMax for all graded assignments. Have a great week! Third Grade Team

Tunisha-Marie Davis

Spring Break is almost here which also means Quarter 3 is ending too. Quarter 3 ends on April 7. Let's finish next week strong. Next week in Reading, students will be Analyzing and Synthesizing Information About Characters. In Social Studies, students will study settling the Midwest and how the Midwest became important in the nation's transportation and trade. In Math, students will be studying number sequences. In Science, students will be able to describe how volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and tsunamis can impact people. We are strongly encouraging parents to check SchoolMax weekly to stay abreast of your student's grades in all academic areas. 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. We are in need of disinfectant wipes and facial tissues to keep our classrooms clean and germ free. Please consider sending in 1-2 bottles/boxes or packages with your scholar in the upcoming weeks. Thanks in advance. Let's have a great week on purpose!! Upcoming Dates 4/7/2022 Quarter 3 ends 4/8/2022. 2hr Early Dismissal 4/11/2022-4/18/2022 Spring Break

Fourth Grade Team

Greetings Parents! This week in RELA, students began Unit 4 Week 2. Students are working on Synonyms and Antonyms and Word Parts anti-, mid-, trans-. Our reading skills are historical fiction and inferring multiple themes. Students have been writing Science Fiction. We will continue these skills next week. This week in Math, students will explore the volume of rectangular prisms. Students will build on what they have learned about area, arrays, and multiplication to develop the concept of volume. Students will create prisms using unit cubes to derive a formula for finding the volume of rectangular prisms. This week, students explained where energy on Earth comes from and compared and contrasted energy resources. Students also described wasteful and efficient resources around our school! Next week, students will explain how human activities affect Earth’s resources and environments, and change its systems.

Your Fifth Grade Team

Music Grades 4 and 5 are beginning a fun new group project: creating a jingle and promotional pitch for a fictional product! Students will create background music and a rhyming jingle for the unique product of their choice. We will hold a fake “Shark Tank” episode to give product pitches to our classmates. Grades K - 2 are finishing up dynamic markings and moving towards the musical element tempo. They will continue using instruments, their voices, and their bodies to show understanding. Grade 3 is beginning musical form! We are using songs from movies, television, and more to learn this concept. Mrs. Bautch Technology Greetings, K-1 practiced: Computer Fundamentals: Access Websites and Scroll In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, learners receive direct instruction and practice opening a hyperlink and using scroll bars. 2-5 practiced: Software Fundamentals: Toolbars and Menus: In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice navigating program menus and using toolbars, recognizing and using symbols, properties, and online help, and understanding the connection between program menu icons and toolbar buttons. Ms. Avsar Spanish Greetings parents, This week students worked in pairs to complete worksheets and dialogue exercises about Sentimientos. Next week will be a review week. Mi Familia, Mi Casa, and Mis Sentimientos will be reviewed during the lessons. Students must bring their notebooks in order to answer questions. Please check Google Classroom for announcements and posts. Thank you! =) Ms. Vazquez P.E. Students in P.E. should be prepared and bring their own water bottles. Mr. Livas STEM In STEM ,students reviewed STEM concepts. Mrs. Bryant

Create Arts Team