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Hey Tiger Family! Reminder that our first PTO meeting of the school year will be on Wednesday, September 28th at 6pm in the cafeteria. A delicious spaghetti dinner will be served (with salad, garlic bread and a yummy treat). You will have a chance to meet the EBoard and get all of the dates for the wonderful events and fundraisers that we have planned for the year. We will also provide a Zoom link for anyone that can’t make it in person. We hope to see you there! If you would like to receive text updates from the PTO about upcoming events, fundraising, volunteer opportunities, ect. please text @cmitespto to 81010

PTO

Hello Kindergarten Families: Happy Fall…It is starting to become cool in the morning and we have seen several scholars come in with their CMIT jackets and sweatshirts. Please make sure that they are labeled with your scholar's first name and last initial on the tag. If items are found and it isn’t labeled, it is brought to the lost and found that is located in the cafeteria. We have finished our Fall MAP Assessments and are completing our KRA Assessments within the next week. Please continue to have your scholars get plenty of rest and eat a well balanced breakfast so they will be soaring scholars throughout the day. Scholars that are not well rested tend to have a challenging day and have the potential to be off task during lessons. A routine dinner schedule and a routine bedtime schedule will help elevate sleepy scholars and promote good behaviors. This week we will be working on the following in ELA: We will add 3 new sight words to our word wall:” he, have, is” we will talk about using words to make connections, we will use 3-4 words to build sentences, and we will work on correct writing structure, by explaining the correct spacing between each word, correct punctuation, and capitalization. We will also have a quiz at the end of the week in ELA. Social Studies: Our topics are: School rules that children had to follow long ago. How do people best cooperate in the community? Which leaders make rules and laws? Math: We will have our first math assessment this week. It will be a review of what we have learned over the past 2 weeks with number sense and identifying numbers 0-5. We review what is on the test the day before we take the test, to prepare our scholars. Science: We will have a short quiz about pushing and pulling objects, and continue to observe and discuss how objects can move with hands on experiences. We will not have Health this week, due to no school on Friday for Professional Development for the Teachers. Friendly reminder: ClassDojo is one of our main forms of communication for any classroom activities or events, and messages, please make sure that you are connected to your scholar's ClassDojo. Emailing the teacher or using the communication folder are other ways to stay connected as well. Teachers' emails: Ms. Tate: krenaudtate@cmitelementary.org Ms. Major: jmajor@cmitelementary.org Ms. Echols: eechols@cmitelementary.org Ms. Thornton: athornton@cmitelementary.org Please provide a nut free snack for your scholar daily. Your scholar should have a full set of extra change of clothes (uniform) that can be kept in their cubbies. Please label all of your scholars’ items, sweaters, jackets, water bottles, lunch bags. If your scholar's form of transportation changes for dismissal, please inform from the desk, as well as your scholar's teacher. Upcoming events: Friendly Reminder: There is no school on Friday for Scholars, Teachers will have Professional Development Day. We are starting on our DRA Assessments through October 7, 2022, Dibels Assessments will begin on September 26-October 19, 2022. Our homework is given every Monday, if your scholar attends enrichment in the afternoon, please provide your scholar's homework journal. They can work on it during enrichment. It can be left in their backpack until enrichment. When they complete it, please upload the assignment to their portfolio in ClassDojo Keep up the good work scholars and parents. The homework assignments will be posted in your scholar's class story on Mondays, which is in ClassDojo. The assignments can be turned in by taking a picture of the completed assignment and uploading it to your scholar's portfolio in ClassDojo. Click on the link below to find out how you can upload to your scholar's portfolio, change your scholar's avatar, and the other options connected to ClassDojo. https://youtu.be/DK4s4iSZXg4 Thank you,

Kindergarten Team

Hello Families: On Thursday, September 29, first grade will be celebrating APPLE DAY! We have a fun filled day full of activities and learning planned. If you would like your scholar to participate, please sign and return the permission slip sent by your child's teacher by Monday, September 26. Please join us, if you can. Reminders: If your dismissal plans change, please notify your child's teacher via dojo as well as the front office before 1pm on the day of the change. Upcoming Events: DIBELS testing (which will replace NWEA Fluency testing this year) window will open Monday, September 26. Please ensure that your scholars are well rested, present, and on time for daily instruction. Content area focus this week: Reading/ELA Story: "Garden Party" "Click, Clack, Click!" Genre: Realistic Fiction Literary Focus: Describe and visualize characters in a story. Phonics: Short Ee Language and Conventions: adjectives and articles Math Topic 1: Understanding Addition and Subtraction. Objective: Solve problems involving putting together or taking apart. Topic 1 Assessment will be Friday Social Studies Lesson 1: Rights and Responsibilities as Citizens. Big Question: What is a Leader? Science End of Topic 1: Sound Review and Test Health/Social Emotional Learning Lesson: Learning from Diversity Learning Goal: Students will engage in activities that promote respect for others. Have a prosperous week!

First Grade Team

We had a fantastic fourth week in second grade. Next week, we will continue Unit 1 in reading, titled, "You Are Here." The big question for the unit is "How do different places affect us?" Throughout the week, we will focus on informational text. The weekly question is, "How does living in a community help people?" We will continue to work on consonant blends. In Math, we will be starting Topic 2. This topic covers working with equal groups. In Science, we will be observing properties of different objects. In Social Studies we will be identifying primary and secondary sources. It is HIGHLY recommended that students practice their basic addition and subtraction facts with flashcards regularly at home. 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

In Reading, students will be reading Informational texts about our selected countries and reviewing previous skills. The third grade team is looking forward to studying Hispanic & Latin American cultures as we begin our school wide celebration for Hispanic Heritage Month. In Social Studies, each third grade classroom has chosen a Spanish speaking country and will begin learning all about this country next week. Asking your scholar what they learned about their assigned country over the next couple of days is a great conversation piece at home. We are finished with our beginning of the year assessments. Students will be grouped and individualized small group instruction will begin. We urge that you remind scholars to pay attention to their homework sheets from both classes. Scholars should be writing their name and date on any work to be submitted. All homework should be turned in or completed on time! In Math, we are continuing to practice multiplication fluency using times tables and other patterns. Towards the end of last week, we are taking our 2nd topic assessment. In Science, this week we are working on predicting future motion. Our mid-week lab will predicting the motion of different objects dropped in bowls.

3rd Grade Team

Next week in Reading, we will finish up Week 2 lessons, learning about narrative nonfiction by analyzing the main idea and generating questions. In Social Studies, we will finish up Chapter 1 by discussing how people adapt to and change the environment to meet their needs. We will also review for our chapter test. In Science, students will describe what energy is and describe some forms of energy. In Math, scholars will fluently add and subtract multi digit. Just a friendly reminder, please notify the front office of any dismissal changes using the following link. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf6hNFsCdCGcGxk_VisjTdTRghFW6zsX0o76aCwSjyjOO-vmw/viewform Let's have an awesome week on purpose!! Reminder 9/30 Professional Development- No School

Fourth Grade Team

5th Grade RELA Ms. Moon This week in RELA, we finished U1 W2: Life on Earth and Beyond focusing on Making Inferences, Text Features, Words with Greek Roots, and Independent and Dependent Clauses. Next week, we will Begin U1W3: Pedro's Journal. We will continue to write personal narratives, work with text evidence that serves a given purpose; and begin working with point of view, compound/complex sentences, and vowel teams. 5th Grade Science Ms. Johnson In Science, students will compare and contrast materials based on physical properties. Students will explain that matter is made of tiny particles too small to be seen. The class will participate in a virtual lab and compare different types of matter. 5th Grade Math Mrs. Linton-Philp This week, we will continue to explore multi-digit decimals. Students are expected to fluently add and subtract decimals using models, place value blocks, and standard algorithms. 5th Grade Social Studies Ms. Tellis Ah! The adventure of exploration continues! Tigers are exploring and studying the voyage of Spanish explorers and their arrival in the Americas from Spain. They are learning the experiences of trading and bartering between cultures and how the Columbian Exchange helped the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. Tigers are actively learning and reading in group structures for team collaboration and development! Opting to be scholarly is the motto for this week! Let's go Tigers! FYI: There is no school on 9/30/2022 during Professional Development Day for teachers!

Bianca L. Tellis 5th Grade RELA & Social Studies Teacher CMIT Elementary

Hello Families! We have made it through another week! The SpEd team would like to share this quote with you all: "If they can't learn the way we teach, we teach the way they learn." ~O. Ivar Lovaas

~Ms. McVeigh

Art Greetings, Our tigers are using a few activities to prepare for next week's projects. Next week's projects will include art elements like line, repetition, pattern, value, and color. They will work on linear observations along with the depth of field and changing the context of imagery. Necessary materials include Sketchbooks/Paper, pencils, and colored pencils or crayons. Thank you. Music Students are beginning to experiment and learn on classroom instruments. We have long awaited the opportunity to use pianos/keyboards in class…if this is something you want for your student and the rest of our CMIT scholars, please consider donating to or sharing our fundraiser to acquire a CLASS SET! Thank you in advance for your support of our program. Check it out here: https://www.donorschoose.org/project/tech-savvy-musicians-are-ready-to-upgrad/6850853/?utm_source=dc&utm_medium=directlink&utm_campaign=ifproject&utm_term=teacher_6750564&rf=directlink-dc-2022-09-ifproject-teacher_6750564&challengeid=21473280 Technology K-1 students developed mouse skills such as pointing, clicking, double-clicking, and dragging while practicing counting, as well as matching shapes and colors. 2-5 students have been practicing Home Row keys PE Good week! This week we are still working on our jumping, this week is two feet hops. Please continue to ensure your scholar has athletic sneakers in order to be as safe as possible in the gym. Thank you! Spanish Students are working on common phrases and reviewing phonetic sounds of the alphabet and numbers from 1 - 10. STEM Students will be building apartment layouts and apartments buildings in STEM this week.

Creative Arts Team