Happy Friday Tigers, There will be a Developmental Reading Assignment (DRA) test for Kindergarteners to 2nd graders and Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) -Math Tests for all of our students during the next couple of weeks to diagnose the students’ needs and to serve our students accordingly. Please make sure that students get well enough sleep and have breakfast before they come to school. The MCAP (State Test) Reports which were implemented in spring 2019 were sent via the 4th and 5th-grade students. Please check the backpacks. You will get the clubs list soon, hopefully, by next week. Please check your emails and our WEB page for more information about the clubs and registration procedures. Have a great weekend!

Fatih Metin Program Coordinator & Testing Coordinator

Arrival and Dismissal ParentsGuardians, Please adhere to the arrival and dismissal procedures to ensure that you and our students are safe. Do's Do take our scholars to school every single day. Do take them in even if you will be late Do drive around through the dismissal lines. Do follow the procedures and the adults who are in charge. Do follow the direction of the officers on duty. Do allow your child to enter and be seated before trying to drive off. Do Not's Do not leave your vehicle unless you are in a parking space Do Not encourage your children to come to your vehicle without an adult taking him/her. Do Not park on the road and send our scholars by themselves to enter through the busy exit gate. Do Not try to enter the office before 8:00 AM. Do Not come in for Early Dismissal after 1:30 PM. We are beginning incentives for students who are here at school every day. Sponsors of clubs are interested to work with students who are serious about consistent attendance. Dismissal and arrival take place on CMIT grounds. We need your HELP!!! (Am I shouting loud enough?) Send students to school -Our school will be severely affected if our students are NOT in school. Additionally, they are missing important skills in the mornings. Missing days lead to missed opportunities for a good grade. Perfect attendance counts at CMIT Elementary South. Congrats to all the fabulous parents who are always doing.

L. Watkis (Assistant Principal)

Hello from the Art room! This week our fifth grade artists sketched out an imaginary monster after choosing one verb, one body type, 1 adjective, two colors, and two body features at random, third grade started their sketchbook covers, second grade drew a household object four times for forty five seconds each, and kindergarten learned about a bunch of different types of lines! All this week was sketching so our local artist have their visions down on paper, but next week is when the final products begin! Let's get creative!

Miss James

Dear Parents and Guardians, This week in P.E. all grades were learning about the definition of what a locomotor movement is, how it differentiates from non-locomotor movements, and then learning/reviewing each of the six chosen movements. The six movements covered included; skipping, hopping, sliding (side stepping), jumping, walking, galloping. Next week we will cover a few more locomotor movements as the students continue to practice their skills in new group activities !

Garrett Loomer P.E. Teacher - Department Chair CMIT South Elementary gloomer@cmitsouthes.org

Hello parents! We are so excited that second grade has finished their MAP- R testing. Scores will be provided, sent home, and further discussed during Parent-Teacher​ Conferences in November. We want you to give a huge welcome to the newest edition to the second-grade team, Ms. Damili Lambert. She will post her biography in the next newsletter. She is active on our classdojo and will be free to answer any questions. With the recent change in weather, we are asking that all students come to school with a sweater or a jacket to keep warm while playing outside on the playground. We are still in short supply of Lysol spray and would like to keep the classroom happy and healthy during the upcoming fall season. Please continue to donate to our classrooms so that the students will have abundant supplies.

Ms. Phillips and​ Ms. Lambert

What a week! Our students have been very busy this week. Many of you know that we have started our Kindergarten Readiness Assessment this week. We will continue this next week. Ask your student about it. We have been working on the sight words "I" and "can". Students are recognizing 2D and 3D shapes. Students are getting more and more comfortable with the school, routine and friends. We are seeing their personalities shine. We are working hard on getting our first field trip set up. We will have more opportunities throughout the year to volunteer as chaperones and classroom volunteers. Please let your child's teacher know if you are interested in coming in to help in anyway, help laminate, read a book, help with small groups, etc. If you have any concerns please dojo your child's teachers. Hope you have a great weekend!

Kindergarten Team Ms. Curtis, Ms. Lucas, Ms. Herbert & Ms. Derfler

This week in Kindergarten and 1st grade, we learned about steady beat and how we experience it every day in life. Feel free to ask your students to identify things that have steady beat.

Jared Bailey Music Teacher CMIT South Elementary

Greetings Parents Students worked very hard this week. They are getting a better handle of the technology and working hard in Math. We are trying to bring mastery to multiplication and division. Next week, we will be doing our first Science experiment dealing with engineering. - Remember the policy for Late Work, just have students do it - Assignments will be coming weekly now that students are accustomed As usual, email me or Classdojo for any questions. Have a good week.

Victor Hawkins

Greetings Parents/ Guardians, This week I gave students two website links to practice different skills. K-2 students will develop mouse skills such as pointing, clicking, double-clicking, and dragging while practicing counting, as well as matching shapes and colors. You can click the following link to practice at home: http://www.abcya.com 3-5 students learned how to place hands on keyboard and practice typing certain letters. Focus on typing accuracy and correct finger placement, not speed. Speed will be acquired naturally over time in the future months and years of typing lessons. www.typing.com Grading Assignments will be graded based on participation and effort during the class assignments. Thank you, Mrs. AK

Mrs. Ak

Fourth Grade Parents, In Reading, students have identified the characteristics of realistic fiction, mastered the concept of sequencing as well as summarizing in preparation of reading Because of Winn-Dixie. Students have also taken the first spelling test to demonstrate competency of specific short vowel words. Next week we will focus on practicing acquired skills as we read our text and brainstorm ideas of experiences that bring diverse people together in order to respond to our writing prompt. Standard:RL.4.1, SL. 4.1, In Math, we will specifically be targeting 4.NBT.3 - rounding. It will be a short unit, and the quiz will be on Monday, September 30, 2019. Standard: 4.NBT.3 In Science, we are discussing what it means to be an engineering and the engineering design process. We will be wrapping up our engineering unit next week, and have our unit test on Thursday, September 26, 2019. Standard: ETS1.A In Social Studies, we have discussed the 4 regions of the Earth, longitude and latitude lines and how to use them. Additionally students located the 7 continents and 5oceans of the Earth. Standards: CS.GEO.4.1 In Health, we will be having a guest teacher, Dr. BB, coming in on Fridays this year. Next week she will be discussing self-esteem/self-image.

4th Grade Team

This week was a jammed packed week with lots of learning! In reading we have been working on beginning middle and end in the stories Jack and the Beanstalk and Tortoise and the Hare. We also worked on comparing and contrasting the Tortoise and the Hare using a Venn Diagram. In math we have been working on counting up to 10 using manipulatives, a number line, and drawing pictures. In science we have been talking about engineers and the difference between engineered made items and nature made items. Social Students we are working in differences between Laws and Rules! Friday we went to the Makers Lab! Be sure to ask your scholar about their exciting week!

-Ms. Pavignano

Happy Friday! Students covered so many things this week and I'm so proud. In Math, we've been exploring how to represent numbers with base ten blocks and how to solve addition and subtraction word problems. (1.OA.A.1) In RELA, we learned the short a and short I sound and the students had so much fun discovering how many words had those sounds. In Social Studies we're learning the importance of rules both at school and at home; and in science, we're learning the 5 senses and what makes a scientist! Thank you all for your support and for floating through our little hiccups and we sort things out for the rest of the year. Your patience is truly appreciated.

-Ms. Libebe

This week in 2nd grade students have worked on: -skip counting -using coins to solve problems -spelling words with double letters -identifying main idea and key details Students have also taken the Fall administration of the MAP-R this week. Scores were sent home in student's homework folders. Please remember to check student's folders and Class Dojo for any important information and homework. See you next week :)

Ms. Fleet and Ms. McDonagh

Room 162 is going with the (structured!) flow - we have started small groups for RELA! We even got to visit the Makers Lab on Wednesday afternoon (which will be a weekly class) and we had a blast! We have learned the following content in each area: RELA - Students are learning sentence structure, short vowel sounds, spelling, and retelling stories using key details! We are also learning how to write personal narratives. Math - We have continued learning about place value, as well as using different strategies to solve part-pet-whole word problems. The strategies taught include base ten blocks, number lines, and ten frames! Science - Students are continuing to learn about engineering and how engineers solve problems! We even sketched models of machines used to untangle headphones! Social Studies - We are continuing to learn about rules, responsibilities, and citizenship in a community! Have a wonderful weekend!

Ms. Madison

A busy third week in third grade! This week students worked hard on completing many mandatory test for the county and state. Students worked hard and completed the MAP R Test this week! In math, we continued working on rounding to the nearest tenth and hundredth place. We have started to dip into adding and subtracting with 1,000. Students are doing well on this! Students have also been “challenged” on this topic on Prodigy. Please encourage your student to “play” this math game as it is not only fun but educational and allows us to see into their understanding on specific topics. In science, we also began talking about being scientist and engineers! We are looking forward to growing into the best scientist this year! Lastly, in RELA and Social Studies please remember students should have three notebooks. Also, another great habit to get into early in the year is to read nightly! Thanks for all you do in supporting your scholar!

Ms. Cunningham and Ms. Harris

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"The" CMIT PTO Board

Hello Parents, We have rolled out our new CMITSES PTO Website! https://cmitses.classroomparent.com You should receive a form from your teacher with a unique individual code that you will use to register for the site. From here, you'll be able to pay for your yearly dues ($20 per family). Pretty soon, this will be the prefered way to keep in contact with the PTO. We encourage you all to register to keep informed. Our Constant Contact messages will cease next month. There will be class suprises for the class who registers the most parents! There will be a class party for the class who has the most "Dues Paid" PTO Parents! If you have any questions, please contact us at pto@cmitsouthes.org.

"The" CMIT PTO Board

Hello, It has been awesome meeting and engaging with the students in the school. As the school counselor I will be visiting the students once a month to conduct classroom guidance lessons. This month each student will receive a lesson based on the role of a school counselor. With some classes I read " Mrs. Joyce Gives the Best High Fives: Introducing the School Counselor" and others I presented a powerpoint. Attached to this newsletter is a copy of the powerpoint for your viewing. Best,

Deidra Chandler Professional School Counselor