Click the following link to view Friday, September 9, 2022 newsletter:: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F7AJybYUwFVWJTY92LF_NHmOJLnpKw_yv5adIwrAo0U/edit?usp=sharing *For all NEW tiger family members, please fill-out our Emergency contact/early dismissal authorization form and send it with your student to school to be delivered to the front office/Mrs. Joy. You can add as many authorized emergency/pickup persons as needed for each of your students. For current tiger family members, if your home/cell phone numbers have changed since last school year or you would like to add/remove existing authorized persons to your form(s), please email Mrs. Joy at: ajoy@cmitsouthes.org. *CMIT South ES will have its Annual Back-to- School Night, virtually Wednesday, September 14, 2022 from 6:00 p.m.- 7:00 p.m. Zoom link coming soon. The primary focus is for the parents to meet their child's teacher. The teacher will familiarize you with their class policies concerning homework, make up work, and behavior expectations. Because of the limited time, individual conferences will not take place on Back to School Night. Parent-Teacher conferences are scheduled for Monday, October 10, 2022. If there is an urgent need to have a parent-teacher conference, please set up a conference with the teacher for an earlier date and time. *Hispanic Heritage Month is September 15 - October 15, 2022. The month honors anniversaries of independence for Latin American countries of Mexico, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. (Library of Congress) During this month we focus on the contributions Hispanic Americans have made to American culture. PGCPS staff, students and families are invited to join the celebration by submitting an artifact that captures your Hispanic/Latino identity. Whether it’s a poem, song, recipe, photograph, art, story or something else special, be creative in sharing something that represents who you are! Make your submission between September 6 -October 6, 2022 to be featured in the showcase! Be sure to share YOUR voice with the PGCPS community! SUBMIT HERE! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1BN1zVss8CxYuWJoaHvalp1qCz9KhRFQ1ne4D1XzroEw/edit?ts=630e5a9f *Nurse's Corner Ms. Sandra Aneke is our School Nurse. She is available daily from 7 a.m.-3:30 p.m. She can be contacted at 240-767-4820 or Email: sandra.aneke@pgcps.org or saneke@cmitsouthes.org . Immunization Delinquency letters are being sent home. Please check your child’s bookbag. If you have already turned in the updated vaccine records please disregard; all others please comply ASAP. Students that need medication at school must have the Medication Authorization/Prescriber form signed by a health care provider and parent. Review PGCPS Medication Procedure AP 5163 (https://offices.pgcps.org/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=161597 ) for complete details and link to specific medication forms you need to complete. Click Here: https://www.pgcps.org/offices/school-health/health-forms-for-parents-and-prescribers September is National Childhood Obesity Month. According to the CDC 1:5 or 19% of children in the US are obese. There are many factors that influence obesity such as: eating, metabolism, physical activity and various social factors just to name a few. In fact, obesity can lead to long term physical and mental health challenges. Learn more about ways you can prevent and support healthy growth (CDC.gov). https://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpao/features/childhood-obesity/index.html *School will be closed for students Friday, September 30, 2022 in order for teachers to participate in professional development. * Uniform Policy: CMIT South Elementary thanks our community for your compliance with our uniform requirements to ensure that all students are pressed, dressed and ready for success for the 2022-2023 school year! All grades K-5 must follow the official CMIT South ES uniform policy as follows: Tops All students must wear tops with an embroidered CMIT South Logo fulfilled by the uniform supplier. Polos/Oxford shirts: Students can choose between navy or hunter green polo shirts or white oxford with embroidered CMIT South ES logo. If they do not have the embroidered CMIT South ES logo shirt, they must wear a plain navy or hunter green polo shirt until purchase is made. A white oxford shirt with embroidered logo and tie are required for all dress up days (this includes Honor Roll assembly days, assemblies, and field trips). Sweater/ Fleece: Purchasing an embroidered fleece or sweater is advised, but not required. If a student does not have an embroidered fleece or sweater, they can wear a plain navy or hunter green sweater. Students will not be permitted to wear any of color sweaters or fleeces inside the classrooms. No other logos and/or graphics besides CMIT South ES will be accepted. Bottoms: CMIT South ES students wear khaki or navy blue bottoms. All students can elect to wear khaki or navy blue shorts, skorts or skirts depending on family/student preference. Students are also able to wear black or blue shorts/sweatpants on physical education days. Accessories: Shoes: CMIT South ES students are required to wear ALL BLACK SHOES. No flip flops, sandals, or open toed shoes as they are a safety hazard. Socks: CMIT South ES students wear white or black socks. Physical Education Uniform On physical education days (1 day per week), your student will not change clothes and is instructed to wear their preferred physical education uniform for the entire day. Students are to wear the logo gray or blue t-shirt with black or blue sweatpants or shorts. If you do not wear the logo t-shirt students can wear plain gray or blue t-shirt (no other logos and or graphics will be accepted). CMIT South ES requires that all embroidered uniform orders be fulfilled by the contracted uniform supplier. Supplier: Flynn O’Hara Uniforms: https://flynnohara.com/ Flynn O’Hara Uniforms * 8807 Annapolis Road * Lanham MD, 20706 * 240-764-4545 FlynnO'Hara Uniforms * 5210 Randolph Road * Rockville, MD 20852 * 301-838-8958 FlynnO'Hara Uniforms * 1608 Furnace Branch Road * Glen Burnie, MD 21061 *410-684-281 *Breakfast and Lunch is offered in all schools. Meals are no cost to students who are eligible for free or reduced priced meals. Parents are encouraged to complete the lunch application to determine eligibility for meal benefits. Households can complete an application at MySchoolApps.com. Online applications are processed within 24-48 hours. Students who are not eligible for free or reduced-priced meals must pay for their meals. See Meal Prices Full Price Lunch $2.75 Daily, $13.75 Weekly, $55.00 Monthly Full Price Breakfast $1.60 Daily, $8.00 Weekly, $32.00 Monthly NO CASH will be accepted during your student’s lunch time in order to make sure we can adhere to distributing meals to students. With MySchoolBucks, payments can be made 24/7 using a Visa, MasterCard, Discover, credit or debit card, and mobile app. ● Online Payment Service ● Mobile App To go to MySchoolBucks, please click on our CMITSES website hyperlink or enter this information into your internet browser: http://www.cmitsouthes.org/, then click on menu item Parent, when the drop down menu opens click on Lunch Payments. - Please complete the short form (via the link below) when you arrive at the school campus for dismissal. If you were assigned a family code last year, the same code applies this year. Staff members will be available to provide assistance to anyone who is not aware of their family code. If you do not know your family code, please ask your child’s teacher. Form Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfyY7nF-rSkyNhR-REuGLasB5usXeaLXi6yPUV1mHT5240tww/viewform *With declining local COVID-19 positivity rates, CEO Dr. Monica Goldson announced the mask-optional policy will resume in all PGCPS facilities on Tuesday, September 6, 2022. All staff, students and families are encouraged to support personal decisions on mask-wearing. PGCPS will continue to make health and safety decisions in consultation with health experts. *School hours are 8:00 a.m. - 2:25 p.m. The doors will open at 7:35 a.m. each day unless your child is in morning enrichment. There is NO adult supervision prior to that time, so please do not drop students off before 7:35 a.m. As instruction starts promptly at 8:00 a.m., please make sure your child arrives at school with enough time to eat breakfast, walk to their classroom, unpack, and prepare for the day. Students are considered tardy if they walk into the building after 8:05 a.m. Students who arrive at or after 8:05 a.m. need to be signed in by an adult in the main office. Any adult entering the building must have identification. Please use the electronic sign-in at the front desk area using your CMIT SES Household #. All visitors /parents to Chesapeake Math & IT Academy South Elementary School are required to report to the office as soon as they enter the building. Additionally all visitors should have an appointment approved by school administration. Visitation to the building may be altered in accordance with school district and Chesapeake Lighthouse Foundation guidelines. The health and safety of students, staff and guests to our building is paramount. All visitors will need to check in and receive a visitor’s sticker to wear while they are in the school building. It is important for the safety and instruction of our children that visitors do not go to the classrooms until after they have checked into the office. Important Dates to Remember 9/11 - Grandparents’ Day 9/11 -Patriot Day - (9/11 Day of Remembrance) 9/13 - 10/3 : iReady Diagnostics (Reading) 9/14 - Back to School Night 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. (virtually) 9/14 -15: 3rd - 5th MAP Growth Assessment 9/15 -10/15 - Hispanic Heritage Month 9/17- Constitution Day 9/21 -International Day of Peace 9/26-27- Rosh Hashanah( Starts at sunset 9/25) 9/29 - Schoolwide Pep Rally 9/30 - School closed for students- Professional Development for teachers

Tauheedah Lewis Assistant Principal (3rd - 5th)

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L. Watkis (Assistant Principal)

Support learning at home. Learning Space Find a space in your home that can be used every day for distance learning. If the space is shared, create a cardboard or cloth separation to minimize noise and distractions. Offer your child the chance to decorate this space to feel welcoming (draw a sign, bring a favorite pillow, etc.). Make sure the space includes essential learning materials. Ask teachers for help. Daily Schedule Understand what teachers expect from your child. Email, call, or text to clarify. Write a simple list of activities that your child needs to complete each day. Include breaks for snacks, physical activity, wiggles or stretches, and free-choice time. Younger children will need more breaks. Encourage your child to decorate the schedule and post it in their space. Revise to fit your family’s needs. Be flexible. Predictable Routine Start early when your child is rested. Review the daily schedule and make sure your child understands it (e.g., first you will…, then you can…). Help your child build independence (e.g., learn to prepare their own snack, troubleshoot computer problems). Let your child know when and how they can ask for help. Keep regular sleep times. Goals & Progress Together with your child, set behavioral expectations and review them daily. Set goals and timelines that your child can complete. It’s about progress, not perfection. Teach your child to use a timer to stay focused for a period of time. Start small! Mark daily progress (even on not-so-good days) with stickers, pennies, pebbles, etc. Use your child’s favorite activities as rewards for showing effort and progress. Managing Frustrations Use simple calming strategies: counting to 10, taking deep breaths, a short break. Help your child describe the problem and express their feelings (I feel…, when…). Together, come up with a potential solution and connect it to previously set expectations. Explain how the child’s behavior is linked to consequences. Set gentle and firm limits. Assume that everyone is trying their best. Be kind to yourself. Be patient with others. Ask teachers and others for help. Closeness & Connection Start each day with a brief joyful experience: a fun greeting, song, or dance. Create opportunities for your child to be helpful (e.g., household chores, cooking prep, reading to siblings). Each day, try to connect with your child without any distractions. Highlight positive experiences. If you have time, do a fun activity together that the child selects. Create opportunities for your child to share their worries, and provide reassurance. Taken from: https://ed.stanford.edu/news/supporting-distance-learning-home A downloadable version is here: https://ed.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/news/images/stanford_gse_spark-flyer.pdf Great ideas.

L. Watkis (Assistant Principal)

Back to School Night is this week on Wednesday! Be sure to join us virtually on zoom to meet your teachers and get to know the classroom rules, routines, and expectations. This is our weekly update for 5th grade where you can find information about what is going on in our classrooms in the upcoming week! Starting on Monday, students will have weekly spelling words. The word list is differentiated. Students will be assigned their list on Mondays after a pretest. Students who score 80% or higher automatically get list 2. All other students will receive list 1. Weekly spelling homework will be a norm going forward. It will be a choice board where students will have to choose and complete 3 activities by Friday using their spelling list words. This will be a virtual assignment. Students will also be given a weekly reading log assignment that will also be virtual. Student will be asked to fill out information about the book they read and choose/answer a comprehension question. In addition, students will be required to complete a specified amount of i-ready lessons. Any other work sent home is classwork that students were unable to complete during the school day. Spelling List 1 heroic dramatic organism deflective heroism artistic capitalism executive comic perspective Spelling List 2 historic federalism atomic tourism secretive narrative kinetic realism defensive representative Students will be reading informational texts by analyzing main ideas and details, developing knowledge about language to make connections between reading and writing, and using elements of narrative writing to write a personal narrative. In social studies, we will be starting off with our first topic and learning about the first Americans. Our essential question for this unit is, “How does geography influence how people live?” In math, students will continue working on converting decimals into fractions and place value as exponents. The first topic in science is properties of matter. Students will be expanding on their knowledge base built in K-4 by exploring various properties of objects and working on using descriptive words to compare and contrast a variety of objects and materials. We’re looking forward to a great year in 5th grade! Keep up the great work, tigers!!!! In Partnership,

5th Grade Team Mrs. McCargo Ms. Thomas Ms. Jenkins Mr. Rowland

Hi everyone! We hope you all had an amazing long weekend! Last week was wonderful getting to know our students and going over classroom procedures! This week, we will be picking up with our content areas and also beginning homework. Please use the 3rd grade google site to see all assignments for the week from each class. Students will not have homework every single night, but it is important to keep up with assignments throughout the quarter! We are using Canvas this year for some online assignments and homework so it is important to make sure we understand how to use it! We will review much of this during back to school night next week, Wednesday, September 14, so please join us then to discuss more! We hope to see you all there and we are so excited to be working with you and your children this year! Please make sure that you have accessed your child's homeroom teacher's Class Dojo page. This is where we will continue to post any important announcements and information. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to the 3rd grade teachers and we will be happy to help! Also, please make sure students are bringing their charged chromebooks to school everyday as we will be using them in class. Please use the 3rd grade Google Site for lots of helpful resources and links as well as an assignments page to help keep parents in the loop of everything we are doing! https://sites.google.com/pgcps.org/3rdgradeclasssite22-23/home From your 3rd Grade Team! :)

Leah McDonagh Kylie Fleet Tamara Mathews Rashidah Balogun

Hello Second Grade Parents! Our team is enjoying every moment with your scholars and we have accomplished many things from getting to know each other, learning how to be second grade students, and taking all of our baseline tests! This week, we will begin getting into our curriculum and we have a lot of cool things to learn! RELA We will begin unit one, “You are Here” in our new curriculum. Our unit essential question will be “How do different places affect us?” Our weekly question will focus on, “What can we understand about a place when we look at it closely?” Students will explore this topic more through a variety of Realistic Fiction Texts. We will also focus on handwriting. Science We will begin our first science unit on properties of matter. Students will be able to describe matter and distinguish between solids, liquids, and gases. Social Studies Students will begin chapter one in social studies where they are learning more about our community and country and how they fit in. Students are examining what a citizen is, how to be a good citizen, and what it means to be a citizen. Health This month’s issue will focus on safety. Students will learn more about how to be safe in both their school community and home community. Students will also learn more about rules and laws, how to handle common emergencies, and about how they can help to keep their friends safe. Math We have started Topic 1, and will continue to work through this topic throughout the week. This topic involves fluently adding and subtracting within 20. Students will refresh their skills on basic addition and subtraction in order to build their mental math abilities so that they can start solving problems quickly and accurately. A topic letter came home to families to provide more information on how you can support your student at home. Updates and Reminders: 1. Please be sure to check your scholar's purple folder every night! Sign their calendar nightly in acknowledgement of daily behavior. 2. All second grade classes will have afternoon snack. Snacks should be healthful. Please be mindful of students with allergies and attempt to send allergy friendly snacks. 3. Students should bring a water bottle to school with them daily. 4. Homework will begin this week. Second grade teachers will send more information out on Monday. However, students will have weekly spelling homework AND 5 DreamBox lessons weekly. Participation in homework will be graded. Thank you for all of your support so far this year! We are thankful for every one of you!

Mrs. Valera Ms. Barboza Ms. Womack Ms. Convert

Happy Friday Tiger Family! We have brought week 2 to a close! Though it wa short, scholars worked hard to achieve all of our goals this week! In Math, we began establishing Place Value understanding to help us with expanded form comprehension. We will continue to use these skills next week as we discuss place value relationships and begin rounding multi-digit numbers. In Science, we've discovered energy! Scholars also conducted their first science experiment for the year, as pictured below. They were able to demonstrate their knowledge by measuring the energy of objects of different sizes. Next week in Science, we will look into how the height of an object impacts its' energy, collisions, and how energy is transferred between objects. Thank you again to all who contributed to ensure our experiment was possible. On Wednesday September 14, 2022 and Thursday September 15, 2022 scholars will be taking MAP Reading and Math. Please ensure your Tiger is well rest, has a fueling breakfast, and is equipped with a charged chromebook , not just for testing days, but daily. If you are in need of a replacement chromebook visit the following link to make a payment and receive a replacement. Chromebooks are vital for scholars. Because all students have been provided access to technology, and we are a STEM school, there will be assignments/activities that are only available online. If students are without their devices, be it broken or not charged, they are missing out on learning opportunities which will impact their grade. Do not hesitate to email me at lyoung@cmitsouthes.org if you have any questions or concerns. Please allow 48 business hours of response time for any form of communication. I look forward to having another amazing week.

Mrs. Jones 4th Grade Math Math Department Chair

Greetings Tiger Family, We have had a great start to the school year but we want to keep moving ahead strong. Thank you for following instructions, packing your patience and offering suggestions as we collaborate to make sure our students have a safe year. Just a reminder regarding student uniforms. Students should wear black shoes daily no crocs, slides or open toe shoes. Shoes with bright colors or that are not black are not allowed. As the weather cools in the mornings students should have a CMIT logo or blank navy blue sweater or jacket. Non school logos or any other color including denim are not allowed. Please make sure your child has a refillable water bottle as we have invested in bottle refilling stations in the building. Please remember to label all of your student's items from sweaters to water bottles with their name so it does not end up in the lost and found. We also want to welcome our new school Nurse, Mrs. Sandra Aneke who started this week. Mrs. Aneke brings years of experience in traditional medical and hospital settings to CMIT South Elementary and we excited to have her. If you need to reach her you can do so at nurse@cmitsouthes.org or saneke@cmitsouthes.org Back to school night will be Wednesday, September 14th, 2022 starting at 6pm virtually. The Zoom link will be share next week to make sure we can have our entire school community present. Each day we want students present and on time! The month on September is School Attendance Awareness month. We start school promptly at 8:00am daily. Students should be seated in class ready to learn at that time. We dismiss daily starting at 2:25pm. Families should have students picked up no later than 2:55pm. Families can arrive on campus to wait for their students starting at 12:45pm. We end early dismissal pick up at 1:30pm each day. Thank you to everyone supporting our students. The smiling faces, eagerness to see friends and teachers and the high quality of learning students are engaging in has been a joy to see daily. Thanks for all you do.

Mr. Ronald A. Miller, Jr. M.Ed Principal Chesapeake Math & IT Academy South Elementary

Happy Weekend Tigers, Dear students and parents, MAP Growth Tests started for 1st and 2nd graders last week. This coming week 1st and 2nd graders will complete MAP growth tests and makeups. Additionally, 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders will have MAP Growth Tests this week. Please send scholars to the school with fully charged Chromebooks, with their headsets and mice (if their mouse pads do not work). Have a restful weekend.

Fatih Metin Program Coordinator & Testing Coordinator

The State of Maryland the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (KRA) to learn more about children’s early learning experiences that will provide information to parents and kindergarten teachers that can be used to help children learn and grow. The KRA will be used by kindergarten teachers to measure what children know and can do when entering Kindergarten in the early learning areas of social skills, language and literacy, cognitive development, and physical well-being and motor development. (This assessment will NOT determine whether a child can be enrolled in Kindergarten.) There are three ways for a child to show what he or she knows and is able to do: - Selecting the answer to a question (e.g., “Show me the block that is the largest of three.”) - Performing a requested task (e.g., retelling a short story) - Being observed by the teacher during the school day’s activities or collecting their work samples The Kindergarten teachers will begin assessing kindergarten readiness beginning on the first day of school through mid-October. It will help us to tailor instruction to the needs of each child. When the assessment is complete, teachers will have a report to share with families. The report will help families and teachers work as partners so that our children are successful in school. For more information, please visit R4K: Maryland’s Early Childhood Comprehensive Assessment System at https://pd.kready.org/105953

-Kindergarten Team

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L. Watkis (Assistant Principal)