Saturday Academy is cancelled for this Saturday 11/26. We will resume on Saturday 12/3 at 9:00a.m. Enjoy your break!

Michelle Crosby, Program Coordinator

If you would like to volunteer for the Holiday Shop, please click on the link below to sign up. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090E44AFA82EA2FB6-2022. Thanks in advance for your help and support Stay tuned for more information coming soon.

PTO

Hello Kindergarten Families: This year is flying by fast, can you believe that Thanksgiving is this week. Please make sure that you are reading any messages via dojo, class story, or emails pertaining to your scholar's class or any events happening at school .Please check the weather daily so your scholar is dressed appropriately for outdoor recess. We have seen some scholars come to school without a sweater or a coat. We have read through information that families shared at pastries with the principal and we are going to implement some of your ideas and suggestions. *Homework will be provided on Friday’s for the upcoming week, starting on December 2, 2022. *Communication: Teacher’s will begin reaching out to families via dojo, email, or by phone, to touch base and give you feedback on how your scholar is doing in class. Our goal is to reach out to 1-3 students per week, please be patient and understanding for the feedback from your scholar's teachers, as we have 23-25 scholars per class. As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to your scholar’s teacher. Clubs have begun and your scholar’s are excited to be a part of them with their peers. With that being said, if you signed your scholar up for clubs, their afternoon dismissal is for them to be in holding with the enrichment scholars. Please remember the days that your scholar is in a club, if they are usually a car or van rider, they will not be at their regular scheduled dismissal area. If for some reason, they are not to go to club that day, please notify your scholar’s teacher ahead of time, so they can be at the correct dismissal location. When we return after Thanksgiving break, we will be working on the following in each subject: ELA: Our sight words will be working on ask and answer questions, to help them better understand the text before and after they read. We will review the sight words; you, do, they, and one. Math: We will continue to work on Topic 6 with the understanding of addition; representing and explaining addition problems and equations. Science: We will investigate the sun; using our senses to observe and describe how sunlight feels, and observe how it affects ice. Social Studies: We will discuss these heroes: Benjamin Franklin, Pocahontas, and review these vocabulary words: landmark, patriotic, government. Health: We will discuss what makes a good friend, and how we can be a good friend. 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. Teacher emails and the communication folder are other ways to stay connected as well. Ms. Bryant: sbryant@cmitelementary.org 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 complete the necessary forms and upload into the document, as well as notify your scholar's teacher. Upcoming events: Stem Fair questions are due 12/2/202 (Parents should help the students create a good question). Students should formulate a good experiment question and begin their experiment and research. Our homework is given every Monday, until 12/2. 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 class dojo 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

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Kindergarten Team

Greetings First Grade Families: Hopefully everyone enjoyed a relaxing Thanksgiving Holiday break! Scholars are now back and ready for learning. Upcoming Events: December 2nd- STEM Fair Questions and Hypothesis should be completed. Reminder: If your dismissal plans change, please notify your child's teacher via dojo as well as the front office before 1:00 p.m. on the day of the change. Content area focus this week: Reading/ELA Unit 2: I Spy Genre: Poetry Literary Focus: Describe Elements of Poetry Phonics: Rhyming Words Language and Conventions: Capitalization; Common and Proper Nouns. Pronoun "I" Math Topic 4: Subtraction Facts to 20: Use Strategies Focus: Subtraction using number lines and making 10 to subtract. Social Studies Lesson 4: Continents and Oceans Objectives: Identify and describe the physical characteristics (such as landforms and bodies of water) of a place. Locate and identify continents and oceans on maps and Science STEM Fair Preparations STEM Fair Questions and Hypothesis complete by December 2nd 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 a terrific twelfth week in second grade. We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving Break! Next week, we will continue 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 use text features to locate details in an informational text. The spelling pattern will be long a: ai, ay, ea. In Math, we will begin Topic 5. This topic covers subtraction within 100 using strategies. In Social Studies, we will talk about Earth and its continents. In Science, changing matter will be the focus. Updates: There may be a chance to be a chaperone coming up! If you have all your paperwork done, please be on the lookout for a Dojo message from your scholar's teacher! 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 next week!

- The Second Grade Team

In Reading this week, students will begin Unit 2 : Interactions. Students will learn about how plants and animals live together. In Social Studies, students will begin Chapter 2: Economics. Students will learn about how people get what they want and need. In Math this week, we are focusing on fluently multiplying, using strategies such as arrays, bar diagrams, and the distributive property to solve word problems. In Science, we are finishing up our unit on electricity and magnetism. Our end of unit project is designing a tool to help sort objects using magnetics. Reminders: STEM Fair Hypothesis and Experiment Question due Friday 12/2

3rd Grade Team

In Reading, we will continue identifying the main idea with supporting details and monitoring our comprehension in an informational text. Students will also take Unit 2 Week 1 Progress Check. In Social Studies, we will be studying the government in the United States. In Math, students will continue to work on division including division with remainders and partial quotients. A video will be shared on how students should be solving these kind of problems. In Science, students will use models to show how electric currents flow in circuits. As the cold and flu season quickly approaches, 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!!

Fourth Grade Team

5th Grade Newsletter RELA Next week we will begin Unit 2 Week 2 reading "A Place For Frogs". We will focus on Analyzing Text Structures. Students will be writing informational articles. Social Studies The adventure continues! Students are delving deep into the colonies formation and the impact of settling. Students have analyzed the text of the 13 Colonies and the process of territorial possession. There is now the process and objective of the events that have lead to war. They are studying why war was active and how the war impacted society. The quest of the American Revolution is now active. Students are learning the impact of the war towards the Native Americans and the impact of the English colonies. Students are also learning how Africans and African Americans were impacted and why division was amongst our nation! Wow! What an adventure! Tigers are conceptualizing and gaining understanding of the author's intent and incorporating the reading skills of analyzing text structures, analyzing text features, and evaluating details to identify the main idea and the purpose of the text. Let's go Tigers!!! Math This week in Math, students will work on decimal multiplication and whole number division. Students will use an area model and the Distributive Property to find quotients with 2-digit divisors, and students will estimate products of a decimal and a whole number. Science In Science, we are learning about the Earth’s Systems and Earth’s Water. Remember, this week we are giving thanks for all the wonderful things in our lives and celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday starting Wednesday, November 23-25, 2022. Thank you for all that you do for our scholars' success, development, and progress! Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family! ~Ms. Tellis & the 5th Grade Team

5th Grade Team CMIT Elementary

Happy Holidays! Art Greetings, Classes will primarily consist of independent work to finish their projects before the holidays. Projects include portraits, landscapes, cityscapes, and other activities that develop their understanding of depth of field and value applied to create 3D illusions. We will continue to stress craftsmanship as a priority. Thank you, Mr. Dorsey Music Students in grades 3-5 are finally beginning their piano units! We 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. Technology K-2 students practiced Cyberbullying: The Final Cyber-Quest In this engaging and interactive digital lesson a cyberbully targets Rocki. The friends must make smart choices when handling this bullying situation. 3-5 Students practiced Internet Usage: Online Information Basics In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice browsing the Internet as they examine the difference between a web page and website, browse by following a series of hyperlinks, and learn to differentiate the Internet from the World Wide Web. PE Good week everyone. Last week we celebrated our students good behavior/achievements with our dojo party! Thank you and have a great week! Spanish K-2 Students will be introduced to the letter “K” and the four seasons of the year. 3-5 Students will be introduced to the verb “ESTOY” and review the verb “SER”. STEM Happy Holidays, students will be in the holiday spirit for this short week and be building a turkey or anything Thanksgiving related.

Creative Arts Team