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Program Coordinators

The Club Lottery is officially closed. Parents will be notified by Friday, October 14th if their child made the lottery for a club. Clubs start the week of October 24th! Questions may be sent to bmccain@cmitelementary.org!

Program Coordinators

The CMIT Tigers 4th Annual Health Awareness and Fitness Day will take place on October 22, 2022 from 11am-1pm. Join us for an INCREDIBLE day of activities, conversations regarding mental health, yoga, healthy breakfast demonstration, and a special Guest Speaker! We've had special guest in the past such as Olympic Champion Jackie Joyner Kersee, NFL football player Gerald McNeil, twelve year old track prodigy-Jaiya Patillo, and Miss Maryland Princess- Aniya Nelson. We can't wait to hear from this year's special guest. Stay tuned for more information this week. During the event and in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we will also raise awareness and funds to support the Ora Lee Cancer Research Foundation. You will hear information about the organization and the founder Dr. Haydiah Nicole Green. Don't forget to mark your calendar! Hope to see you there! https://www.pledge.to/cmit-elementary-9071

HAFD Committee

On Wednesday October 19, 2022 at 6:00 pm we will have Virtual STEAM Night! Families are invited to learn more about our STEAM fair expectations. All students at CMIT North Elementary are required to complete a STEM fair project that follows the scientific method. 1. Please review the STEAM Fair packet! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UuEpMapYRUIyR1-Sxo9UM-y-PKqPcky42JjxGBNSxDI/edit 2. Sign up for STEAM Night and ask questions! https://forms.gle/oURs8xbUwE8WYV9t9

CMIT North Elementary STEAM Committee

It's time for our annual Read-A-Thon. Please see the key dates on the flyer. You can sign up for the Read-A-Thon by logging on to https://app.99pledges.com/fund/cmitnorthe/addme

PTO

Hey Tiger Family! Our next PTO will be on Wednesday, October 26th at 6pm in the cafeteria. On the day of the meeting, we will post a secure Zoom link on dojo for the meeting if are unable to make it in person. There will be a gently used uniform sale during the meeting. Dinner will be served. Hope to see you there!

PTO

We are looking for volunteers to help us during our Donuts for Dads + Dudes event on Friday, November 11th. Please click the link below to sign up. Thank you in advance for your help! YOU MUST HAVE A VALID FINGERPRINT AND BACKGROUND CHECK WITH PGCPS AND THE SCHOOL TO VOLUNTEER. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090E44AFA82EA2FB6-donuts2

PTO

Mark your calendars: Picture day is Tuesday, October 18, 2022 School Name: Chesapeake Math and IT Elementary Picture Day Date: Tuesday, October 18 Picture Day ID: EVTWBRTMK Visit this website to order your pictures: https://my.lifetouch.com/mylifetouch/#/ Uniforms are required! o Kindergarten - 2nd Grade:  Burgundy or Blue polo shirt, khaki or navy blue bottoms o 3rd - 5th Grade:  White oxford shirt, blue or burgundy tie, khaki or navy blue bottoms (if your scholar does not have the oxford shirt they should wear their regular blue or burgundy polo shirt). ​ Mylifetouch.com gives families an easy and flexible experience when ordering school pictures. Families can shop a wide variety of backgrounds and products to create their ideal school picture package online. Secure access to student images is only available to those with unique-to-their-student credentials. Along with quick, mobile-friendly ordering, mylifetouch.com makes ordering school pictures faster, easier and more fun for everyone. Visit this website to order your pictures: https://my.lifetouch.com/mylifetouch/#/

Mrs. Virgil, Principal Secretary

Hello Kindergarten Families; Our scholars have their routines down to a science now, walking down to their classrooms independently, placing their belongings in their cubbies, and starting their day greeting their classmates and teacher. Please continue to label your scholar's items with their first name and last initial and the grade level too. If an item is found and it isn’t labeled, it is brought down to the lost and found that is located in the cafeteria. The Kindergarten Team is working hard at completing our last two assessments for the fall, Dibels, and DRA. We are looking forward to completing them and using the data to help assist with instruction and identifying areas that your scholar may need support. Our kindergartners are working hard and pressing through these assessments. 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. A routine dinner schedule and a routine bedtime schedule will help elevate sleepy scholars and promote good behaviors. We will be having “Pumpkin Day” on October 25, 2022. It will consist of a virtual field-trip to a pumpkin patch. We will learn about the life cycle of a pumpkin, how the pumpkin patch is maintained throughout the year, and all the cool things related to pumpkins. Our lessons for the day will all be related to pumpkins. We will get to explore the ins and outs of a pumpkin in our classroom. There will be a permission slip going home with your scholar that will need to be signed for your scholar to participate in exploring the pumpkin. Book Character Day Parade will be on Monday, October 31, 2022. It is a school-wide event that your scholar may participate in. Your scholar may choose a character in a book to dress up as and have the book with them. Costumes must be age appropriate, with NO MASK, and it should be easily accessible for your scholar to get on and off by themselves. We are asking that our kindergarteners create a book report about the book they bring in. We sent home information regarding this activity and the template for your scholar’s book report on Friday. The completed book report will be an assessment grade for ELA. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to your scholar’s teacher. This week we will be working on the following in ELA: We will introduce 3 new sight words: “me, for, with, said” we will work on forming words with the letters "b, a, m, l " and continue to review cvc and ccvc words. We are working on recognizing spoken alliteration and groups of words that begin with the same spoken onset or initial sound. We will discuss what is a setting of a story? Social Studies: Our topics that we will discuss: What does it mean to be American? Recognize that we all live in a country: The United States. Math: We will finish up topic 3 next week; working on problem solving with patterns, and introducing the ten frame. We will use counting patterns to solve problems, we will color and write numbers to show counting patterns for groups of objects. We are also learning different ways to show numbers. Science: We will explore and discuss our five senses. While exploring the object we will explain what it looks like, sounds like, feels like, smells like. Scholars will work on using descriptive words. We will not have health this week, due to no school for the students, teachers will have a professional development day. 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. Teachers email and 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 scholar's 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: Picture Day October 18, 2022. Professional Development Day October 21, 2022. No School for Scholars Pumpkin Day October 25, 2022. Book Character Report/Parade October 31, 2022. Friendly Reminder: If you have not done so, please provide your scholar with a Spanish journal for class. 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. Thank you

Kindergarten Team

Hello Families: The PTO Read-A-Thon begins this week! The Read-A-Thon is a great fundraising opportunity that focuses on building literacy with our CMIT Tigers! If you have any questions, please be sure to contact the PTO for further information. Reminder: 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. Content area focus this week: Reading/ELA Story: "The Life of a Frog" Genre: Informational Text Literary Focus: Main Ideas and Details Phonics: Initial Consonant blends; Final Xx Language and Conventions: Simple Sentences Math Topic 2: Fluently Add and Subtract Within 10 Objective: Students will build upon their understanding of addition and subtraction to add and subtract fluently within 10. Topic 2 Review and Assessment Social Studies Chapter Closer: Rights and Responsibilities of Government Chapter Test Science End of Topic 2 Review: Light Chapter Test Health/Social Emotional Learning Lesson: Empathy and Critical Thinking Learning Goal: Students will be able to recognize feelings and emotions in others. Have a prosperous week!

First Grade Team

We had a great seventh week in second grade. Thank you to everyone who participated in dressing up for Kindness Day, Breast Cancer Awareness Day, and grade level colors for the Hispanic Heritage Assembly. 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 realistic fiction. The weekly question is, "How can a new place help us change and grow?" The spelling pattern will be Inflected Endings -s, -es, -ed, -ing. In Math, we will continue Topic 3. This topic covers adding within 100 using strategies. In Social Studies, we will continues to talk about communities. In Science, matter will be the focus. Updates: CMIT Read-A-Thon begins on Monday! Let's see how much we can raise for our school!! 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 next week!

- The Second Grade Team

In Reading, students will continue DIBELS testing. We will also begin Unit 1, Week 4. We will read an information text “Living in Deserts”. We will focus on the vowel sounds long o and short o. In Social Studies, students will continue to read Chapter 1: Lesson 2 Weather, Climate, and Forces of Nature. Students will complete a quiz on Lesson 2 on Thursday, October 21. In Math this week, we are reviewing the distributive property of multiplication to make sure we have multiple ways of solving multiplication problems. In Science this week, we are looking at how objects stay balanced, and how to determine the net force of an object.

Third Grade Team

Next week in Reading, we will be learning about text features and predictions on an informational text. In Social Studies, we will learn that the United States grew out of the English colonies and became an independent nation. In Science, give examples of energy being transferred from place to place. Students will also explain how heat flows from hot objects to cold objects. In Math, scholars will use mental-math strategies to multiply 2-digit multiples of 10 by 2-digit multiples of 10. Please note that students receive homework on a weekly basis in Math & Reading. Please encourage your scholar to complete their homework and submit in a timely manner. We are growing our classroom libraries! Scholastic Book orders will be placed on October 21st, 2022. With a $25 order, you can pick a FREE $5 Book (use code: READS). All orders also earn FREE Books for our classrooms. Shop Our Class Page: https://orders.scholastic.com/R4X2P 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 10/21 Professional Development No School 10/26 Red Ribbon Day “Celebrate Life, Live Drug Free” Students can wear red shirt with uniform bottoms.

Fourth Grade Team

RELA This week in RELA U1W4: Poetry Collection, working with figurative language, visualizing; common, proper, collective nouns, and suffixes -able and -ible. We will continue to write personal narratives. Next week we will finish Unit 1 Week 4. Mrs. Moon Social Studies Tigers! The adventure continues! Ah! This week we learned how Jamestown was formed in New England and the formation of Virginia and its impact of the tobacco trade with England. We will travel to the area of study with the Pilgrims and Puritans in New England and how they impacted the structure of the land. We will then prepare for our Chapter 3 assessment by reviewing the Assessment Review Section for thorough analysis. We will review pertinent vocabulary words and reading skills to clarify and correct any misconceptions. Let the adventure continue! Ms. Tellis Science This week in Science, students will continue to discuss the properties of matter. Students will use evidence to explain that matter is made of tiny particles too small to be seen. Ms. Johnson Math We are wrapping up multiplication of whole numbers in math this week. Students are expected to solve word problems using multiplication. Mrs. Linton-Philp

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

Specials News Art: Greetings, Tigers are focusing their attention on completing their work with good craftsmanship. We are reviewing expectations and discussing what completed work looks like.   The Chess Club donations came in and we have our chess sets!!!  Special thanks and appreciation to all of our donors!   Thank you, Mr. Dorsey Music: Hello Tiger Family! I’d love to send out a huge THANK YOU to all families that have donated to our Donors Choose projects this year. We have 27 new keyboards in the music room and a new set of Boomwhackers on the way. I am so excited to replace some of our broken instruments and even more excited to add a piano unit into all of our grade levels’ plans this year! Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! Our program wouldn’t be the same without you. 💙 With gratitude, Ms. B 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 including letters e, i, r and u Spanish: K-2 Students are learning the letter B phonetic sound 3rd graders are learning pronouns. 4th-5th recognition of different Hispanics who made contributions to society. STEM: Welcome to Stem. Students had fun building with lego’s. PE: Hello everyone, this week we will be playing a game that works on our teamwork skills, and also our strategy making skills in order to better our classroom environment.

Creative Arts Team