Tiger Family, It’s not too late to sign up for the Read-A-Thon! So far we have raised $22,889! We’re still a ways away from our goal of $45,000. Top fundraisers will win prizes like Principal for a Day, Front Door Drop Off, and more! Proceeds will go towards curriculum enhancements like IXL, Reflex, and a Makerspace. The top classes are Glasper, Brillantes, Thornton, Echols, and Tate. You can sign up using this link: https://app.99pledges.com/fund/cmitnorthe/addme

Second Grade Team

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Program Coordinators

Students interested in MESA club should have signed up on the club Google form. Students who made the lottery were added to the MESA club ClassDojo class. Mrs. Mccain-Wigfall is your coordinator. Contact bmccain@cmitelementary.org. Lastly, club attendance is mandatory. Students may be dismissed from the MESA club if they miss three sessions or have two behavior infractions. Thank you for your dedication to STEM! https://secwww.jhuapl.edu/stem/mesa

Mrs. Mccain-Wigfall

Students can dress as their favorite book character and bring their favorite book to class.

CMIT North Elementary staff

Our book fair will be held November 4th through November 11th. Volunteer below https://forms.gle/r4jxC4sTcKu3Mfo89 View the homepage https://www.scholastic.com/bf/chesapeakemathanditelement Create an ewallet so your child may shop!

Program Coordinator

Hello Kindergarten Families: On Tuesday, October 25, 2022, our scholars enjoyed a Fabulous Pumpkin Day, starting out with a virtual field-trip to the pumpkin patch. Our scholars explored the ins and outs of a pumpkin, estimated how tall the pumpkins were by using math cubes, and predicted if their pumpkin would sink or float. They ended their activities with going to our indoor pumpkin patch and picking a pumpkin to take home, it was a great experience had by all 4 kindergarten classes. Our scholars' enjoyed dressing up for spirit week and putting 15 minutes aside each day to take part in “D.E.A.R.” Drop Everything and Read for the Read-A-Thon. We are also continuing to review story elements: Character, Setting, Problem, and a Solution, to prepare for our book character report that is due next Monday, October 31, 2022. 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. Disguising a Turkey will be a project that your scholar will complete at home. We will send home a picture of a turkey with your scholar, and you must disguise it so it does not get eaten up for Thanksgiving Day. Your scholar should be creative and imaginative, and return it back to their teacher by November 11, 2022. This week in ELA, we will be working on the following: We will have new sight words: “see, she, look” we will work on the short “a” sound, and realistic fiction. We will have our unit 1 assessment next week. In Social Studies, topics that we will discuss: What does it mean to be American? Recognize that we all live in a country: The United States. We will continue to discuss landmarks and symbols of the United States of America. Math: We have started topic 4 this week; working on problem solving, comparing numbers 1-10 using number sequence. We will have our topic 4 assessment on Friday. Science: We will explore, describe and sort a variety of objects. We will connect and investigate using picture cards and images of objects. Health: We will continue to discuss feelings and emotions; providing tools to our scholars to help them get through their feelings. A tool that we use is closing our eyes, breathing in slowly through our nose, and blowing out though our mouth 3 times, to relax the body. 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 scholars’ ClassDojo. Emailing teachers and the communication folder are other ways to stay connected as well. 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 the front office, as well as your scholar's teacher. Upcoming events: Asynchronous Day Nov. 7, 2022. Your scholar will be given worksheet assignments on Friday Nov. 4, 2022, for ELA and Math for the day to complete at home and they may also work on IXL. Disguise a Turkey Nov. 11, 2022 Topic for your scholar’s Stem Project is due on Nov. 18, 2022. Our homework is given every Monday. If your scholar attends enrichment in the afternoon, please provide your scholars homework journal. They can work on it during 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 scholars’ class story on Mondays, which is located in ClassDojo. Thank you Kindergarten Team

Kindergarten Team

Upcoming Events: -Monday, October 31-Book Character Day. -Monday, November 7-Asynchronous Half-Day -Tuesday, November 8-Election Day (school closed) 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 Unit 2: I Spy Literary Focus: Main Ideas and Supporting Details Phonics: Initial Consonant blends; digraphs Language and Conventions: Simple Sentences Math Topic 3: Addition Facts to 20: Use Strategies Skill: Building Addition and Subtraction fluency. Social Studies Chapter 2: Finding Places Goal: Describe the difference between a city and a town. Science Topic 3: Sky and Earth Lesson 1: Patterns in the Sky Objective: Students will describe the sun, moon and stars. Health/Social Emotional Learning Lesson: Empathy and Critical Thinking Learning Goal: Students practice using cues to predict how others are feeling. Have a prosperous week!

First Grade Team

We had an excellent eighth week in second grade. Next week, we will finish 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 research about our favorite places and write a persuasive paper. The spelling pattern will be a review of unit 1 words. In Math, we will begin Topic 4. This topic covers fluently within 100. In Social Studies, we will continues to talk about communities. In Science, matter will be the focus. Updates: CMIT Read-A-Thon ends on Monday! Let's see how much we can raise for our school!! Now that temperatures are dropping, please make sure scholars are coming to school with jackets. We will continue to go outside for recess. 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 this week, we are on Unit 1: Week 5 -Myths. Students will begin reading The Golden Flower: A Taino Myth from Puerto Rico. The skills for this week are diphthongs ou, ow, oi, and oy. In Social Studies students will begin Chapter 1: Lesson 4 - Interacting With the Environment. In Math, we are relating division to multiplication, such as using 3 x 4 =12 to solve 12/4 = 3. We are also learning different properties of division. In Science, we are putting the finishing touches on our pinball machines. We are also reviewing and taking our test for Topic 1 on Forces and Motion.

3rd Grade Team

In Reading, we will be reviewing content taught in Unit 1 in preparation for our upcoming assessment. In Social Studies, we will learn that the growing nation had deep divisions that led to the Civil War. Students will also learn that the United States became one of the most powerful nations after the Civil War. In Science, we will review 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 multiply a whole number of up to four digits by a one-digit whole number, and multiply two two-digit numbers, using strategies based on place value and the properties of operations 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 10/31 Book Character Day

Fourth Grade Team

Social Studies The adventure continues! We are exploring Chapter 4: Life in the Colonies! Students are learning the process of migration and settlement. New England, Middle and Southern colonies are now ready for exploration! They are learning the areas and regions of the 13 colonies and why they were divided. Let's go Tigers!!! RELA This week in RELA we began U1W5: Picturesque Journeys. We will be focusing on Informational Text, Analyzing Text Structure, Making Predictions, Regular and Irregular Plural Nouns, and vCe Syllables. Next week, we will finish U1W5 and complete our Unit 1 Review, to prepare for our Unit 1 Assessment. Math This week in Math, we will explore different strategies to multiply decimals. The steps involved in multiplying decimals and a whole number are similar to the steps used in multiplying two whole numbers. Science This week in Science, we will explore the systems of the Earth. Students will discover that these four systems interact in multiple ways to affect Earth’s surface materials and processes.

5th Grade Team

Hello! Our department has a new Donors Choose project live right now! We are trying to expand our social skills library to include more children of various ethnicities as main characters as well as boys expressing their emotions. Thank you to everyone that has already donated! We are SO excited! If you are interested in donating to this project, please click the link below! https://www.donorschoose.org/project/expanding-social-emotional-learning/6854034/?utm_source=dc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=proposal_message_via_donation&rf=email-system-2022-10-proposal_message_donation&utm_swu=9681

~Ms. McVeigh

Specials News Music Students in grades 3-5 are gearing up to begin their keyboarding units. They have been practicing the letters of the staff in collaborative (and competitive!) games, and have been comparing major and minor modalities using movies from TV and movies.  Grades K-2 used the past week for spooky percussion fun. We’ll be exiting this rhythm practice and diving into melody and melodic direction practice next week! Art Greetings, Scholars will be putting their final touches on projects with landscapes, directional lines, patterns, portraits, and understanding 3D imagery.  They are focusing on completing their work, with good craftsmanship. Thank you, Mr. Dorsey Technology K-1 students practiced Introduction to Online Safety: In this engaging animated video, Rocki comes up with a username and password to enter the Internet. Pearl must come up with her own secret credentials to enter. 2. grade students practiced Introduction to Digital Citizenship: Cyberbullying This colorful and engaging video introduces students to the basics of dealing with cyberbullying on the internet. 3-5 students practiced Troubleshooting Basics for Online Learning: In this animated video, Trey and Summer help fellow classmates and a teacher troubleshoot some technical problems related to the virtual classroom. Topics include no internet, no audio, and downloading software. PE Hello parents, this week students practiced balancing items while moving. Also, please continue to follow the rotating special’s schedule, and send your students to school in athletic sneakers on the days they have PE. Thank you very much! Stem Welcome to Stem. Students will be learning using Virtual Reality headsets. Spanish Students K-2 will be introduced to parts of the face. Students 3-5 will work in small groups to put in practice the VERB TO BE, numbers 1-20, and common phrases.

Creative Arts Team