We will have our first day of Saturday Academy this Saturday November 5th from 9:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. Please make sure your scholar is picked up promptly at 11:00 a.m. Thank you and we look forward to working with our scholars. This only applies to those who received an invitation!

Michelle Crosby, Program Coordinator

Hey Tiger Family! Thank you so much for your support during our 2nd Annual Read-A-Thon! We raised $41,635!! Congratulations! Did you know your employer can help us raise even more even after the Read-A-Thon is over? Inquire with your employer about matching your donation to the Read-A-Thon!

PTO

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Program Coordinators

Our Family Fall Festival & Health Awareness Day will be held on November 19, 2022 from 11:30 a.m.- 2:30 p.m. We will have vendors, a moon bounce, blood pressure checks, guest speakers, and much more. If you would like to volunteer please click on the link below. We will have vendor tables available, and it's $25 to reserve for PTO members and $50 for non-members. Please click on the link if you would like to reserve a table. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdwNuL0tMglOtd2xgD6bcOLKCcnBnULBB_mPryg-yL1YfGLLw/viewform?usp=sharing Stay tuned for updated information. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeTqDsbeF4Nw62Bk1LRUhj2YCZMNGpjjAH8GCAYVvEhezRW4A/viewform?usp=sharing

HAFC/PTO

November 9, 2022 at 5:30 p.m. we will have an Open House for prospective families. Please join us using the link below. https://pgcps-org.zoom.us/j/99905007393?pwd=VzMrT0pzc2I2b1cybHB6R25CeGNVdz09

CMIT North Elementary Staff

Our book fair will be held November 3rd through November 11th. Please use the link below if you are interested in volunteering. https://forms.gle/r4jxC4sTcKu3Mfo89 View the homepage below to create an ewallet account so your child is able to purchase items from the book fair. https://www.scholastic.com/bf/chesapeakemathanditelement

Program Coordinator

Our Annual Donuts for Dads and Dudes will be held on Friday November 11th from 8:30-9:30am. A dude can be a male mentor, uncle, cousin, ect. You will have a chance to enjoy donuts with your scholar(s) and then head to their classroom. We recommend arriving by 8am to sign in to avoid any delays. Please use this link to RSVP: https://forms.gle/NgvjpV76MJbs6vJV6 ***If you have not had your ID scanned THIS school year we HIGHLY RECOMMEND you either stop by the school to have it done in advance (best option) or arrive by 8am to receive your badge to avoid any delay in connecting with your scholar(s).***

PTO

Hey Tiger Family! Our next PTO meeting will be on Wednesday, November 16th at 6pm via Zoom. Our meetings will be held via Zoom for the remainder of the year. This will allow you to join us from the comfort of your home! We will post a link on Dojo on the day of the meeting. Hope to virtually see you there!

PTO

Hello Kindergarten Families, We are heading into November with several upcoming days away from the school building. Monday, November 7, 2022 will be an asynchronous ½ day. Your scholar will go home with worksheets to be completed at home. Please make sure that you sign your scholar into the class, using the Google document for attendance from your scholar’s teacher. It will be posted in ClassDojo, and sent out in an email on Monday. 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 on Thanksgiving Day. Your scholar should be creative and imaginative, and return it to their teacher by November 11, 2022. This week in ELA: We will continue reviewing the sight words: “see, she, look” we will work on the short “i” sound, and realistic fiction. We will have our unit 1 Assessment next week. 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. We will continue to discuss landmarks and symbols of the United States of America. This week in Math: We will start on topic 5 this week; continuing comparing numbers 1-10- using number sequence We will have our topic 5 assessment in 2 weeks. This week in Science: We will explore, describe and sort variety of objects. We will connect and investigate using picture cards and images of objects. This week in 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 blow 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 scholar's 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 desk as well as your scholar's teacher. Upcoming events: Asynchronous Day Nov. 7, 2022. Disguise a Turkey Nov. 11, 2022 Donuts for Dads and Dudes Nov 11, 2022 from 8:30-9:30 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 scholar's 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 scholar's class story on Mondays, which is located in ClassDojo. Thank you

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Kindergarten Team

Hello First Grade Families: Upcoming Events: -Monday, November 7-Asynchronous Half-Day -Tuesday, November 8-Election Day (school closed) -November 3-11- Scholastic Book Fair (please create e wallets in lieu of cash) -November 9 OLSAT Testing begins -November 11- Donuts for Dads -November 18- STEM Fair topics due 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 OLSAT Testing Math Topic 3: Addition Facts to 20: Use Strategies Skill: Building Addition and Subtraction fluency. Social Studies Chapter 3: Maps and Models Goal: Identify the parts of a map, including the title, compass rose, legend, and symbols Goal: Recognize that maps can be used to locate and identify places. Science STEM Fair Preparations STEM Fair topics are due November 18. Health/Social Emotional Learning Lesson: Empathy and Critical Thinking Learning Goal: Describe ways to show empathy and caring to someone in a given situation. Have a prosperous week!

First Grade Team

We had an fantastic ninth week in second grade. Next week, we will begin Unit 2 in reading, titled, "Nature's Wonder's." The big question for the unit is "What patterns do we see in nature?" Throughout the week, we will identify text structures to facilitate reading informational text. The spelling pattern will be contractions. In Math, we will continue Topic 4. This topic covers fluently adding within 100. In Social Studies, we will talk about Earth and its continents. In Science, changing matter will be the focus. Updates: As a reminder Monday will be asynchronous for all students. This means students will need to complete school work from home. Students will bring Monday's work home on Friday. Please have your scholar complete the work on Monday and return it when we come back to school on Wednesday. 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

This week In Reading and Social Studies, we will begin reviewing for our first Unit Tests. The Reading test is on Unit 1: Environments and the Social Studies test is on Chapter 1: Our Environment. Students will engage in games, skill practice, and study guides to help students review and prepare for these unit tests. This week in Math, we are finishing up topic 4, using multiplication facts to solve division. We are focusing on word problems and figuring out unknowns in equations. In Science, we are taking a look at electric forces as a continuation of forces and motion. We will look at the interaction of positively and negatively charged objects.

3rd Grade Team

In Reading, we will be reviewing content taught in Unit 1 in preparation for our upcoming Unit 1 assessment on 11/11. In Social Studies, We will learn that the United States faces continuity and change in the 21st century. 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, students will complete cumulative benchmark or topics 1-4 and start division. Monday, November 7, 2022 is an asynchronous day for students. Students will receive a packet to complete which will have Reading, Science, and Math assignments. An attendance form will be shared via ClassDojo, email, and Google Classroom for parents to complete to log their scholar's attendance. Please only complete the form once. As the cold and flu season is quickly approaching we are in need of facial tissue, hand sanitizer, and disinfectant wipes to keep the germs away. 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 11/7 Asynchronous Day 11/8 Election Day- No School 11/10 Math Benchmark Assessment 11/11 Donuts with Dads & Dudes 1 11/11 RELA Unit 1 Assessment

Fourth Grade Team

5th Grade Newsletter Social Studies Adventurers!! We are journeying again! In Chapter 4 we are learning the daily life in the colonies of the new immigrants! Students will learn the patterns of life and work in the colonies different from the patterns today. Students are identifying where the colonies settled and how their daily lives are impacted by the land and its natural resources. The journey continues! RELA This week in RELA we finished U1W5: Picturesque Journeys and began reviewing our Unit 1 skills. Next week, students will take their Unit 1 Assessment. It will cover all skills from Unit 1: Analyze Main Idea & Details, Analyze Text Features, Analyze Text Structure, Understand Point of view, Explain Sound Devices & Figurative Language, Suffixes -ic, -ism, -ive, -able, -ible, Greek Roots: chron, meter, photo, bio, geo, logy, Vowel Teams, VCe Syllables, Simple Sentences, Independent & Dependent Clauses, Compound & Complex Sentences, Common, Proper & Collective Nouns, and Regular & Irregular Plural Nouns. Science and Math This week in Math, we are reviewing multiplying decimals and whole numbers. We will close out these two topics with an end of topic test. In Science this week, we will review the earth's systems and how matter is embedded in these systems and close out with end of topic test. Students will also take the Science Fast One test.

5th Grade Team CMIT Elementary

Wow!!! We are filled with so much gratitude! Our project was funded on Donor's Choose! Thank you all SO SO much for your support. We are excited to explore our new books when they arrive!

~Ms. McVeigh

Music Students in grades 3-5 are finally beginning their piano units! We have plugged in our mini keyboards to our Chromebooks and practiced our C chord, G chord, and Am chord. Scholars will be able to log on to our app (solfege.io) to practice from home on any piano or keyboard as soon as next week! Students in K-2 will begin piano 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. Technology K-2 students practiced Introduction to Online Safety-Protecting Your Privacy. This engaging video-based learning object provides the learner with foundational knowledge about the importance of protecting their personal information. The learner will understand that they shouldn't share any personal information online with anyone they don’t know and trust, and they should always log off or lock their device to protect their personal information. 3-5 students practiced Commenting in the Virtual Classroom In this animated video, Trey introduces the learner to an online classroom, his class message board, the right ways to leave comments online, and what to do if you see someone cyberbullying. PE This week, we are working on our throwing. We are playing a game that builds up our class chemistry/teamwork while also working on our throwing skills. Spanish Students K-2 are introduced to the letters G and J. Students in grades 3-5 are having conversations among themselves in Spanish. They are putting into practice lessons learned. STEM Greetings, I am the new Stem teacher, Mr.Hopkins. This is my second week at CMIT North Elementary. This is a new experience for me and I am enjoying working with our scholars. This week, students are challenging themselves by putting together all types of different animals with their legos. I am looking forward to having a great school year. Thank you,

Creative Arts Team