Hello Parents/Guardians! As we are now into cold/flu season and also still dealing with COVID-19, this note serves as a gentle reminder regarding a few things related to student health. WHEN TO KEEP YOUR CHILD HOME FROM SCHOOL 1. Sick children need to be kept home from school; to include excessive coughing, sore throat, runny nose/congestion, vomiting, and/or high body temperatures (fever). Resting at home will help them get better more quickly and will prevent them from exposing other children or the staff to their illness. 2. For additional information and/or questions regarding when to keep your child home from school please visit the link below: - When to Keep Your Child Home From School: https://www.pgcps.org/offices/school-health/when-to-keep-your-child-home-from-school

Mrs. Virgil, Principal Secretary

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School Nurse

We raised $41,635 during our 2nd annual Read-a-Thon. Individual prizes were sent home today. Last week, all scholars received a CMIT wristband in celebration of our tremendous success! Way to go Tigers!!!

PTO

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Program Coordinators

Please click the link below to sign up to volunteer for the Holiday Shop. Thanks in advance for your help and support. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090E44AFA82EA2FB6-2022.

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Program Coordinators

Hello Kindergarten Families: December is here and winter is right around the corner. 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. Please make sure that you are reading any messages via dojo, class story, or emails pertaining to your scholar's class. *Homework will be provided on Friday’s for the upcoming week, starting on December 2, 2022. Spirit Week will begin on Monday, December 5-9, 2022. Look out for information on your scholar's class story for each day's specific spirit wear and what should be brought in for the donations. We will also have a Holiday Shop, where your scholar may purchase gifts for their friends and families for the holiday. Your scholar will have a sneak peek at the holiday shop on December 12, 2022, there will be another date when they may bring in money to purchase items. *Communication: Teacher’s will continue to reach 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 scholars 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 stay 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 regularly 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. ELA: Our sight words will be four, five, and here. We will work on the letter sounds “Gg” and “Ee”. We will also work on blends, spoken onsets, and rimes to form simple words. Math: We will take our Topic 6 Assessment in the beginning of the week, and then begin our topic 7, which will be understanding and exploring subtraction problems. We will continue to use math manipulatives to assist with solving mathematical problems. Science: We will continue to investigate the sun and how we need protection from the sun. We will discuss why it is important to have shelter from the sun, and how we can create a shelter. Social Studies: We will review what we learned about these heroes: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, Pocahontas, to prepare for the topic test. Health: We will identify the five food groups and discuss why healthy eating is important. 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: Spirit Week begins on December 5, 2022. Holiday Shop (sneak peek) December 12, 2022. 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 located 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

Greetings First Grade Families: Please remember that if your dismissal plans change to 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: Drama Literary Focus: Making Inferences Phonics: Vowel Digraphs Language and Conventions: Imperative Sentences 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 Students should be gathering materials and conducting their experiments. 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 thrilling thirteenth week in second grade. 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 describe and understand setting and plot in realistic fiction. The spelling pattern will be long vowel digraph ie. In Math, we will continue Topic 5. This topic covers subtraction within 100 using strategies. In Social Studies, we will talk about people, places, and nature. In Science, changing matter will be the focus. Updates: Homework will be changing slightly next week. All students will be getting hard copies of homework. It will no longer be submitted via Google Classroom. Please be sure to check your scholar's backpack for that on Monday. 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, students will read the informational text Weird Friends: Unlikely Allies in the Kingdom. Students will work on the following skills synonyms, antonyms and r-controlled vowels. In Social Studies, students will begin Chapter 2: Lesson 2 Types of Resources . This week we are starting Topic 6, Connecting Area with Multiplication and Addition. Students will be using graphing paper to estimate and calculate the area of various shapes. In Science we are finishing up our 2nd topic, where students have been learning about electric and magnetic forces. Students should have their STEM topic and experiment question at this point! Reminders: -Please make sure that you are checking School Max often! -Don't forget to be on the look out for Teachers Donors Choose projects

3rd Grade Team

Next week in Reading, students will be analyzing text structure and making predictions in an informational text. In Social Studies, we will be finishing up Chapter 3 by studying how citizens in a democracy have both rights and responsibilities. Students will also take Chapter 3 assessment on Thursday and Friday. In Math, students will continue to use place value and sharing to divide. In Science, students will identify sources of nonrenewable energy, and learn how these energy sources are extracted from the ground. Flu season has arrived and we would like to keep the germs away. We are in need of disinfecting wipes and facial tissues. Please send in a box/pack with your scholar in the upcoming weeks. Students should be using the outline shared by Mr. Williams and Mrs. Terrell regarding the STEM Fair projects. By now students should have already formulated a good experiment question and begin their experiment and research. Here is the STEM Fair packet for your viewing and reference. Please encourage your scholar to use the timeline as a guide in completing the STEM Fair project in a timely manner. All projects are due January 27, 2022. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UuEpMapYRUIyR1-Sxo9UM-y-PKqPcky42JjxGBNSxDI/edit Upcoming Dates 12/5 Virtual Honor Roll @ 9:30 am

Fourth Grade Team

5th Grade Team RELA This week in RELA, we began Unit 2 Week 2 reading A Place For Frogs, focusing on Analyzing Text Structure. Students are be writing informational articles. Next week, we will finish Unit 2 Week 2, and begin Unit 2 Week 3. Social Studies Ah! The road to exploration! The adventure continues as we explore the road to war/American Revolution and the development of a New Nation! Students will continue to synthesize information regarding the path of war and how the new nation was developed with the creation of The Constitution, The Bill of Rights, and The Articles of Confederation. Students will be able to explain the connection of the New Nation and how it has impacted our developing society. Go Tigers! Math Tigers! In Math, we are finishing up division with whole numbers and getting ready to close the topic with a topic assessment. Science Science time! In Science this week students, will describe how most of Earth's water is in the ocean.

5th Grade Team CMIT Elementary

Music Our 3-5 students are diving deep into their keyboard unit. They are splitting their class time and taking half to explore their own choices of piano play alongs in addition to practicing chord structure and score reading as a whole group.  ALL GRADES have spent weeks practicing their winter songs about snow, Kwanza, Hanukkah, Christmas, or family. They are gearing up to perform for other classes in a winter fun assembly before winter break! Art Greetings, Tigers have studio time this week. Classes will primarily consist of independent work to finish their current projects. Projects include portraits, landscapes, cityscapes, and other activities that develop their understanding of the depth of field and value in 3D illusions.  We will continue to stress craftsmanship as a priority. Thank you, Mr. Dorsey Technology Our students are changing the future with an Hour of Code Dear Parents, We live in a world surrounded by technology. And we know that whatever field our students choose to go into as adults, their ability to succeed will increasingly depend on understanding how technology works. But only a fraction of us are learning how technology works. Only 51% of all high schools offer computer science. That’s why our entire school is joining in on the largest learning event in history: The Hour of Code, during Computer Science Education Week (December 5-11). More than 100 million students worldwide have already tried an Hour of Code. Our Hour of Code is making a statement that CMIT Elementary is ready to teach these foundational 21st-century skills.  See  https://hourofcode.com/us/en/learn for details, and help spread the word. PE Good week parents! This week we are working on our reaction time, and understanding the difference between inside & outside items. Please remember to ensure students are wearing athletic shoes on days they have PE. Spanish K- 2 Students will be introduced to the letters LL,  M, and N. Students will continue with the four seasons of the year. 3-5 Students will be writing sentences with descriptive words. STEM Students will be building objects that they feel thankful for as we get ready to close out November.

Creative Arts Team