Fabulous Parents/Guardians, If you have a child in the 3rd-5th grade, they will participate in the spring MCAP assessments. Federal law requires that all students in grades 3-8 and high school take an annual statewide assessment. To support all scholars, CMIT is hosting: MCAP Parent Night. Please plan to attend. Respectfully, Ms. Watkis

L. Watkis (Assistant Principal)

Happy Friday Tiger Parents! We have survived another week of rigorous instruction. We're gearing up for MCAP, which is roughly 30 school days way. The Math department is encouraging ALL grade levels to practice the use of academic vocabulary daily. This will not only impact assessment scores but prepare our scholars for the arithmetic years to come. Below I have attached links to grade-level math vocabulary lists to practice with your scholars. Feel free to browse Youtube videos of Jack Hartman (K-2), Math With Mr. J (3-5), MathAntics (K-5), and more to reinforce mathematic skills. Please encourage your scholars to complete and master at least 2 math skills nightly. Keep in mind, Monday marks the start of the 2022 IXL-A-Thon Round 2 so feel free to push your scholar to do more. Though the year is slowing coming to a close, our dedication to the success of our Tigers never stops. Stay tuned for more weekly Math updates. Kindergarten Grade Common Core State Standard Vocabulary List https://cdn-59bd6cf5f911c923e82ee0ee.closte.com/mathvocabulary/wp-content/uploads/sites/49/2014/10/2nd-Grade-CCSS-Vocabulary-Word-List.pdf 1st Grade Common Core State Standard Vocabulary List https://cdn-59bd6cf5f911c923e82ee0ee.closte.com/mathvocabulary/wp-content/uploads/sites/49/2014/10/2nd-Grade-CCSS-Vocabulary-Word-List.pdf 2nd Grade Common Core State Standard Vocabulary List https://cdn-59bd6cf5f911c923e82ee0ee.closte.com/mathvocabulary/wp-content/uploads/sites/49/2014/10/2nd-Grade-CCSS-Vocabulary-Word-List.pdf 3rd Grade Common Core State Standard Vocabulary List https://cdn-59bd6cf5f911c923e82ee0ee.closte.com/mathvocabulary/wp-content/uploads/sites/49/2014/10/3rd-Grade-CCSS-Vocabulary-Word-List.pdf 4th Grade Common Core State Standard Vocabulary List https://cdn-59bd6cf5f911c923e82ee0ee.closte.com/mathvocabulary/wp-content/uploads/sites/49/2014/10/4th-Grade-CCSS-Vocabulary-Word-List.pdf 5th Grade Common Core State Standard Vocabulary List https://cdn-59bd6cf5f911c923e82ee0ee.closte.com/mathvocabulary/wp-content/uploads/sites/49/2014/10/5th-Grade-CCSS-Vocabulary-Word-List.pdf

Mrs. Jones 4th Grade Math Math Department Chair

Checking in on the art room at the end of second quarter you would have seen some awesome art! Pictured below are torn paper landscapes made by 2nd grade, inspired by the artist Romare Bearden! We had many great and insightful discussions on what makes Mr. Bearden so awesome. Then the 2nd grade learned about the parts of a landscape (background, middle ground, foreground). Lastly, they were given a box of construction paper, a glue stick, and their imaginations! The 4th grade completed a positive and negative shapes design, inspired by African masks! Positive space is the object and negative space is the area around the object. Usually, art like this is done in black and white, but I wanted the students to have more choices! For this artwork, the positive is the color paper and the negative is the white paper because I thought the white would look cool against the school walls when hung up, almost as though our local artists painted it. I love how detailed many of them were!

Stay happy, healthy, and creative! Miss James

Hi everyone! We are just about to enter SPRING and we are so happy for the warmer weather! We are continuing to learn about many different influential people for Women's History Month in our classes! We have been enjoying reading biographies about women of all different professions who changed the world today! Let's make sure we continue to check Canvas daily so we can keep up with all of our work for the third quarter! We are at the point in the year where school supplies are low and we are running out of cleaning wipes. If anyone would like to donate cleaning wipes, we would greatly appreciate it! Also, students have been coming to school without pencils, so please make sure your child comes to school prepared with all of their own supplies! 3rd Grade is the first year students will take the MCAP standardized assessment in the Spring! We are preparing students to the best of our abilities and we could use your help too! There are Reading Vocabulary terms posted on Canvas for students to get familiar with the language they will need, and there is also a Reading Vocabulary Quizlet to help students study! Use the following link for the Quizlet and please have students practice at home! https://quizlet.com/_b8pkyf?x=1jqt&i=4by79z There will also be a presentation on March 24 to help give parents an idea of how to help their child and what to expect on the MCAP. Please attend if possible, we would love to give you all the information we have! Please use our Google Site as it has many helpful resources for you all! There is a weekly assignment breakdown that can help parents keep up with students' assignments, a grade level newsletter, and many other important resources. Here's the link to our google site: https://sites.google.com/pgcps.org/3rdgradeclasssite From your 3rd Grade Team! :)

Leah McDonagh Kylie Fleet Tamara Mathews Rashidah Balogun

Level Up with Code Night PGCPS Level Up with Code Night for PreK-6+ students for Thursday, April 7 from 6:00-7:00 PM Registration is required. Registration - http://bit.ly/PGCPSlevelup See the flyer for more information!

Mrs. Ak

Parents/Guardians, It is March, and we are counting down. This is a great time for you to consider if your scholar has mastered/is mastering what they should know. Perhaps, you ask yourself, What should my child know for the next grade level? How can I find out? These are very important questions and your child's teacher is the first person to help answer these questions. So, go ahead! start this conversation and set new goals for learning. Remember to motivate and support your child to stay focused to reach them. Please use these lists as additional indicators to determine how you can help your child review and work towards being on/staying/exceeding grade-level standards. Finally, as you help count down with your scholar, learn and grow with them. Read the books they read. Have them teach you what they are learning in math. Pretend that you need them to explain because you don't remember how to do the skill:) This last one always get my students, so they were always excited to teach. K-5th grade lists: https://www.greatschools.org/gk/articles/k-5-benchmarks/At teh end of Kindergarten: At the end of 1st-grade my child should know: https://www.hasdk12.org/cms/lib/PA01001366/Centricity/Shared/1%20Files/1st%20Grade%20Expectation.pdf Next time, I will post a quick list for each grade level. Thanks for all your hard work to support scholars' learning. Respectfully,

L. Watkis (Assistant Principal)