Please signup to volunteer today! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ekeLI26F-aHWL-phdSbiZxHFfaQDisZiA-VNj_e0YTU/edit

Benora McCain

Wish us luck for the MESA State Competition on May 7th The virtual event is at 10:30 am. Go Tigers!

Mrs. Mccain-Wigfall

Hello all, Next week marks the last week for tutoring and Saturday Academy. See below for the dates in order to plan accordingly. Math Tutoring ends on May 2nd, please note there is only one day for math tutoring. Reading Tutoring ends on May 6th Saturday Academy ends on May 7th

Michelle Crosby, Program Coordinator

Parents of Tigers in Grades 3-5, please see the letter below regarding the Spring MCAP Math and Reading Administration. Please be sure that you have your scholars to school ON TIME on testing days.

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Your Resident Testing Team!

The online book fair will be available from May 2nd through the 6th. Please set up an ewallet for cashless purchases! https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bookfairs/cptoolkit/homepage.do?method=homepage&url=chesapeakemathanditelement1

Program Coordinator

We are looking for volunteers for the following events: Bookfair (May 2-6th), Field Day/Butterfly Release (May 27th) and our 2 promotion ceremonies. Please click the link below to volunteer. Please note you have to have your PGCPS clearance to volunteer for these events. BOOK FAIR May 2nd-6th https://forms.gle/ebRubCBL1gMpiYnM6 Field Day/Butterfly Release https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdyZ-oK_MdQzUcaquLscNupNEW51huP37KO7Gd5ESPSiPzjug/viewform Promotion ceremonies K https://forms.gle/zAYS2qDanKpao4GFA 5 https://forms.gle/Pyi7yzAvhoXWjhdw7

PTO

Teacher Appreciation Week is next week! We have many fun and delicious surprises planned for our teachers and staff. But we are in need of volunteers to help make the week a success! Please volunteer at the link below: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090e44afa82ea2fb6-teacher1 If you're interested in treating the teachers and staff below you can find a list of their favorite things. Please don't forget specials teachers, admin, paraprofessionals, and support staff! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11Qx9sCE92M3wVNYPoWu7AiwUpIC2-L76e5uqgoAvtik/edit

PTO

Welcome May! We have completed another month of school and are in the final stretch. It is hard to believe, but there are only 37 days of school left. We are starting to focus in on first grade skills and solidifying what we have been learning in kindergarten. As the weather is starting to warm up, we ask that you send your scholar with a reusable plastic bottle. They may fill them up at the water fountain. It is important that your scholar stays hydrated. Make sure that water bottles are labeled. We have been enjoying watching our caterpillars in their journey to becoming butterflies. All four classrooms now have chrysalis to observer. We can not wait to see what happens next in their journey. This week in ELA we will: -Phonics: review long /i/, learn letters P and Y -Sight words: good, could, open -Discuss biographies and read a biography of Amelia Earhart -Take week 4 check-in This week in Social Studies we will: -Identify different things that happen in a year -Learn that a decade is 10 years -Learn about what is a generation and century This week in Math we will: -Describe and compare objects by length and height -Describe and compare by capacity -Describe and compare by weight -Describe objects by measurable attributes This week in Science we will: -Review needs of plants, animals, and people -Take Topic 5 Assessments Dates to know: May 3--No School May 13-- 3 hr Early Dismissal (11:25) May 30-- 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. Looking ahead to next week: Reading/ELA: Unit 4: Review Unit 4 Assessment Math: Topic 13 Money and Time Skill Focus: Telling time to the hour and minute. Tentative: Topic 13 Assessment Social Studies: Chapter 5: One Nation Many People Lesson 3: Shared Culture Science: Unit 6: Parents and Offspring Lesson 3: Patterns in Animal Behavior Health: Unit 5: Peer Relationships Lesson 2: Being Inclusive Have a safe and prosperous week!

First Grade Team

We had a great week in Second Grade!! This week we will continue Unit 3 in reading, titled, "Making a Difference." The big question for the unit is "Why is it important to connect with other people?" Throughout the week, we will focus on Realistic Fiction. The weekly question is, "What can people do to make a difference in their communities?" The spelling pattern will be Suffixes -ly, -ful, -er, -less, -or. In Math, we will be working on topic 12. This topic covers measuring length. Updates: Since we are working with measurement, if your child has a ruler he/she would like to bring in for the unit, they may. 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 great weekend! We will see everyone on Monday!

- The Second Grade Team

Welcome to the first week of May! In Math, students will continue Topic 13: Fraction Equivalence and Comparison. The review for Topic 13 will be on Wednesday, 5/4. The test for Topic 13 will be Thursday, 5/5. The pre-test for Topic 14: Solve Time, Capacity, and Mass Problems will be Friday, 5/6. In Science, students will continue Topic 5: Life Cycles. Lesson 2 covers Inherited Traits. Lesson 3 covers Influenced by the Environment. In Health, they will discuss perseverance. This is a great topic to discuss with your scholar(s) before end of year testing begins. In Reading, they will review the Unit 4 study guide. The test for Unit 4 will be held on Friday, 5/6. No new spelling words will be given this week. In Social Studies, students will continue with Chapter 6, Lesson 2: A New Home in America. This quiz will be on Wednesday, 5/4. Lesson 3: A New Ways to Communicate will begin on Wednesday, 5/4. The quiz will be held on Friday, 5/6. 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 redo 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. Have a great week! Third Grade Team No School- Tuesday 5/3 Book Fair Week Teacher Appreciation Week

Tunisha-Marie Davis

Next week in Reading, students will be explaining elements of drama. In Social Studies, students will study Southwestern land, water & climate. In Math, students will be finishing up chapter 15, Geometric measurement and angles. We will be starting topic 16 which is Lines, Angles, and Shapes. Map testing results show that most students need additional practice in geometry. Please take some time to work with your scholar to reinforce what is taught in class. IXL is a great resource to use to help master geometry skills. In Science, students will be able to describe how weather hazards can affect humans. We are strongly encouraging parents to check SchoolMax weekly to stay abreast of your student's grades in all academic areas. Students can request a redo 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. 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 or packages with your scholar in the upcoming weeks. Thanks in advance. Let's have a great week on purpose!!

Fourth Grade Team

Greeting Parents! This week in REAL we have begun Unit 4 Week 4. Students are practicing the skills of generating questions and explaining relationships between ideas. We are still working on Science Fiction writing. Our grammar skills are greek roots and correlative conjunctions. This week students are evaluating and analyzing the effects of civil behavior. The Civil Rights movement, segregation, Jim Crow laws, Women's rights, World War and reformation. Students are learning how one’s actions impacts those around them. They are learning how the government makes laws that civilians agree with or disagrees with. It’s an interesting and knowledgeable adventure! This week in math, your student is continuing to develop his or her understanding of customary and metric units of length, capacity, weight, and mass. This topic focuses on converting among different-sized standard measurement units within a given measurement system, as well as converting among units of time. Your student will use this understanding in solving multi-step and real-world problems. In science, students have wrapped up Topic 5 where we discussed how humans impact the Earth, and how the effects are both negative and beneficial for humans and other animals. We have begun exploring food and energy, and how it relates to energy from the sun.

Your Fifth Grade Team

Next Friday, May 6 will be our next College and University Shirt Day! Tigers are invited to wear a shirt/sweater/sweatshirt... repping some college and university Pride! We do this the first Friday of each month as a reboot-reminder of how the work, character, energy and effort we pour into each day, paves our paths to the future! (Uniform bottoms and shoes must be worn)

Graciously, Your School Counselor [Ms. Whitney Green]

Yep! You read that right! We are able to have volunteers in the building again!!! But, before we have you with us, we need to cover some important steps first. Join me for a Volunteer Info Session so we can be sure to include you on our approved parent/guardian/stakeholder volunteer list! I will offer this session a few times, in hopes that it provides an opportunity for you to join, so you can come on in and be with us :) The training sessions with be VIRTUAL, though your volunteering can now be IN PERSON! Please sign up for a session by using the following form. I will send you the Zoom link once I have your RSVP. Sign up Here: https://forms.gle/rhHcJw7cXkNqh5tBA YAY!!!! I cannot wait to see you in the Den with Us!

Graciously, Your School Counselor [Ms. Whitney Green]

Music Students in grades 4 and 5 have been working tirelessly on their Shark Tank products and have finally gotten the chance to present this week! Students created fictional products, and wrote background music, a jingle, and an advertising/pitch for their product to try and persuade their classmates to invest. I am so proud of their teamwork! Students in grade 3 are classifying instruments using scientific terms instead of westernized instrument families in order to include instruments from around the world. Grades K-2 are studying the elements of music - form, rhythm, melody, and duration - in order to create their own music. Ms. Bautch- Music Greetings, K-1 practiced: Meaning of Online: The Curious Crystals In this engaging animated video, Pearl and Rocki are led to a mysterious machine in the forest that grants them access to the internet. 2-5 practiced: Internet Usage: Browsing and URLs During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) as they identify URL components, use URLs to navigate to a web page, and use a browser to find and view information online. Mrs. Avsar- Technology 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 STEM In STEM students reviewed seasons. Mrs. Bryant Greetings, Tigers are being encouraged to focus on their craftsmanship and presentation as they finish their projects and create video artist statements, Tigers have done well with their reflections. We will be including more reviews, critiques, and artist statements for the older grades. The younger grades will be focusing their attention on coloring techniques. Thank you, Mr. Dorsey Art Greetings, This week we did a mock pacer test to prepare the upper grade levels for what’s to come in middle school, and to give the younger students a chance to show what they are capable of accomplishing! The highest scores came from a 4th grader (104 reps), and a 3rd grader (85 reps). Keep up all the great work students! Mr. Livas PE

Create Arts Team