We need the help of our school community in naming the newest addition to our CMIT family. Our CMIT tiger mascot. Please use the link below to help us choose a name. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/G8XHZ2W

James Screven, Assistant Principal

Please be advised that All American Wear is now stocked with the CMIT North Middle School Hoodies, just in time for the change in weather. Please note: Effective October 1st the store hours are: Monday - Friday 1:00 - 7:00 PM Saturday 1:00 - 6:00 PM Sunday Closed

Thank you, CMIT North PTO

Today, we are announcing an attendance incentive for our students called Atten-DANCE. Students that have 0 unexcused absences and no more than 2 tardies in a month will be invited to a dance. The incentive restarts each month. The dance will be held at the end of the day during the first week of the following month. We will alternate A day and B day for balance.

Mr. Andrew Brauer, Principal

Parents/Guardians We have an extra special Parent Workshop and Expo series this year taking place October 19th at 8:30 AM. We have speakers available to discuss topics that will make you more in touch with your student, what they need to be successful and what you need to know about them as tweens and teens. The following topics will be discussed Technology Social Media Dangers and How to Avoid Them Teens and the Law How to interpret High Stakes Test Results and How You Can Help Your Child Do Better. Accessing School Max, Black Board, Google Classroom and PRS in A Snap Additionally, we will have the following vendors for you to talk to i9 Sports - Sports Activities for your Child Appreciation Financial - College Planning Footage Society - Sneaker Apparel for school and sports. Chesapeake Lighthouse Foundation - Culture Fair and More Dance Makers - Dance and Gymnastics Mathnasium - Tutoring Services CMIT Cheer Squad Drama Club CMIT Band and Orchestra EF Tours - This Years trip is Japan More Vendors to Come. We will open the doors at 8:30 am you will have an opportunity to get coffee and donut, talk to vendors and get your children under 12 situated with our child care service. A Family BBQ will follow. Please sign up by following the link below https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0444AEAC29A7F94-fall1

James Screven, Assistant Principal

Dear Parents/Students: This is a friendly reminder that the STEAM Fair written Proposal is due this coming Monday, October 7, 2019, no later than 11:59pm. The STEAM fair project is a school-wide required assignment for a ALL CMIT students. The STEAM Fair Proposal template can be found as an assignment in STEAM Fair Google classroom...

Emmanuella Nhyirani

Hello CLF Creatives & Entrepreneurs Many of you have experienced CultureFEST before, but this year it's going to be a little different. CultureFEST 2019 will highlight our students, parents, and teachers who enjoy creating! That’s right, we want our community to share/sell their arts and crafts at CultureFEST! This is a unique opportunity to showcase our communities’ artistic talents! Please encourage your students to sign up for a FREE vendor booth or showcase your own artworks. Our educators are the foundation of STEAM, they help to create well-rounded students and for that service, we will provide our teachers with FREE vendor booths at CultureFEST 2019! For our CLF Parents, we are offering booth spaces for the low price of $50 and $100 for any local businesses interested in participating! CultureFEST is an excellent opportunity to introduce your art, crafts, products, or business to all six (6) school communities! Your booth rental is treated as a charitable contribution towards CultureFEST 2020. Exhibit and invite your business network to CultureFEST! We have expanded the festival to provide more opportunities for our visual artist, but we haven’t forgotten about our performing artist! The CultureFEST main stage is the perfect place to perform if you are a dancer, rapper, singer, poet, musician, etc. The performing arts have been a staple at CultureFEST since the very beginning. Our community comes to CultureFEST to see our students and teachers perform! Share this with your young performers and peers. Let's shine a bright light on all of our CLF artists! Join us on Saturday, November 2nd! Fill out our CultureFEST Sign-Up sheet! https://forms.gle/pPpSsheNtfhpUnTi9 Share your skills & talents!

CLF Community Partnerships

PGCPS has partnered with the Maryland Partnership for Prevention, to allow students and staff to receive a flu shot in school. The company will send a nurse to our school to deliver the vaccine. I have included the link to access the consent form and the fact sheet. Flu Clinics will be held in November. In order for a clinic to be offered at our school, a minimum of 30 students/staff members must consent to participate no later than October 18, 2019. Don't delay...sign up today! Link to Online Consent Form - www.vaccineconsent.com Vaccine Information Statement - https://tinyurl.com/HoCoFluVis

CMIT Nurse

Week of October 7th 8th Grade Chapter 5 Tobacco lessons 1 & 2 Chapter 2 Test on Mental and Emotional Disorders for B Day Students on Wednesday Homework worksheets packet will be due on October 16 & 17 7th Grade Complete Chapter 4 Chapter 4 Test on October 8 & 9 Begin Chapter 5 on Tobacco Ms. Curry

Ms. Danielle Curry

Amazingly, we are half way through the first quarter. The progress report grades have been submitted and you should be receiving a printed progress report grade soon. As most of you may already know, the class grade is continually evolving and will continue to change until the end of the first quarter. If you wish to receive a more up-to-date report, please refer to your child's grade on SchoolMax. Students have written their Quarter One Narrative Task, which required for students to compose a sequel to the story "The Circuit" by Francisco Jimenez. Students next week will continue to study the quarter theme entitled "Facing Adversity." The students will view non-print text in the form of a video on the Dust Bowl era and they will read an excerpt from John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Students will become acquainted the life of people living through the adverse times of the Great Depression and the severe drought suffered by Oklahoma farmers during the depression. Students should be making connections between the fictional characters and real-life individuals in all the selections we have studied: Aimee Mullins, Helen Keller, Panchito, and Wes Moore. Continue to examine how characters face and overcome adversity in their varied life experiences.

Mr. Conde RELA 7 Teacher

"Micro" refers to tiny, "scope" refers to view or look at. Microscopes are tools used to enlarge images of small objects so as they can be studied. The compound light microscope is an instrument containing two lenses, which magnifies, and a variety of knobs to resolve (focus) the picture. Because it uses more than one lens, it is also called the compound microscope in addition to being referred to as being a light microscope. Eight grade students both from Life Science and Biology class performed microscope lab this week. They learned the microscope parts and function, proper use and handling of microscope. They also learned how to prepare a wet mount of the letter "e", and calculate the total magnification of the microscope under scanner, low power and high power objective. They had able to locate an object under the microscope where they had a chance to see the beauty of some sample plant and animal cells.

Mrs. Crespo-Montano (Science Teacher)

This past Monday The girl's softball team played against Dwight D. Eisenhower. With the score of 9-3, The CMIT Golden Tigers took the win. When Eisenhower got three home runs, CMIT came back harder with 9 home runs. Watching these girls practice and finally play has been incredible, with coach powers expecting nothing but perfection, these girls rose to the bar. The effort put in and support given by these player's parents is very impressive and says something about CMIT Tiger spirit. The girl's softball team has another game this Monday , located at Montpelier softball field (5:30 to 7:30). Please come out to show your support! Hailey Johnson , Student staff writer

James Screven, Assistant Principal

This week CMIT Middle School will have the winter sports interest meeting, open to all students and parents. See below for details and attached flyer: What: CMIT North Middle School Winter sports interest meeting When: Froday, October 11, 2019 Where: CMIT North middle school cafeteria Mrs. Sabina Bond

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Mrs. Sabrina Bond

Thank you to everyone that took the time to join the PTO! To better support our schools, the PTO is seeking to operate with two separate Executive Operation Boards, one to support the High School and one to support the Middle School. This will allow more direct support from the PTO for the respective schools, but it also means we need parents to be involved. Below is a guide to help facilitate the process of registering and purchasing your PTO membership using AtoZ Connect. --------------------MEETING IDEAS-------------------- If you have an idea where the PTO can host a meeting or gather parents in a specific community to join the PTO meeting online, let us know! Please provide the name of the location, point of contact and how to reserve space if required. Free space is preferred but a small nominal fee may be possible. Please share your ideas by contacting information@cmitnorthpto.org. --------------------HELP WANTED-------------------- Parent Volunteers are needed to serve in a variety of PTO support roles throughout the school year. 1. Monthly errand to schools on selected Wednesday before 2pm 2. Social Media communicator 3. Leads for standing committees: Auditing, Bylaws, Events, Financing, Membership, Nominating If you are interested in volunteering your time contact the PTO at information@cmitnorthpto.org Thank you, CMIT North PTO

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To Join the PTO please visit http://www.cmitnorthpto.org/join-online.html You may also review the proposed Bylaws by visiting our website at www.cmitnorthpto.org

Students in need to complete Student Service Learning hours, you may volunteer to assist with the PTO Used Uniform sale. The sale will occur on Saturday, October 12th. Students who wish to earn four hours must be onsite from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm at the Middle School. Sign up no later than October 10th at https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0549A5AA2EA6FE3-used. If you have question, contact the PTO at information@cmitnorthpto.org.

Thank you, CMIT North PTO

CMIT Community - Please help us provide events and activities for all students at CMIT North Academy Middle School by supporting this important fundraiser through the ordering and selling from a variety of gift items and frozen foods. NOTE: Items are being sold by Middle School Students. High School Supporters interested in purchasing items that are not connected with a Middle School Student should email information@cmitnorthpto.org. SALE ENDS: Thursday, October 10, 2019 - Please turn in all money and order forms by this date! DELIVERY: Mid November. We will give you a one-week notice of exact date. *************** Deliveries MUST be picked up on the date provided. We have no place to store perishable items and cannot be responsible for orders not picked up on the delivery date. *************** MONEY COLLECTION: We accept cash, checks or money orders payable to CMIT North PTO. Please put student's name in the memo area on all checks. Please make sure money turned in matches amount due (count twice)! NOTE: There is a $25 returned check fee. IMPORTANT - INFORMATION -Please keep PINK copy of order form. You will not receive a copy back with your order -Return the WHITE and YELLOW copy with your order -Be sure SELLER Name (student) is on order form and order total matches money turned in -Please, NO DOOR TO DOOR SALES, just to relatives, friends, neighbors and co-workers

Thank you, CMIT North Fundraising Committee

Please save the phone number to the health room in your cell phone. The number is (240)547-4545, which is different than the main school line.

CMIT Nurse

Q: Is CMIT North MS a public school? 

A: Yes We are a public charter school who is staffed by PGCPS teachers and administration, along with CLF staff. We also benefit from additional guidance, management and financial support from Chesapeake Light House Foundation, whose educational concept this school is based on. 

Q: Do siblings get preference in applying to CMIT?

A: The process of gaining entry to any charter school in Prince George's County is through a lottery. However, siblings of already attending CMIT students are weighted differently during the lottery process. This different weighting gives preference to siblings. 

Q: What makes CMIT different then any other school in the district? 

A: Although we are a PGCPS public charter, we are given some autonomy over curriculum. This autonomy allows us to fast track students, who are academically ready, through selected high school courses in math, foreign language and technology. It is that fast tracking that opens up opportunity to more advanced  coursework on the college level while still in high school.  Additionally, we offer students supports and enrichments to every student, not available at most schools.

Q: Do you offer everything the big middle and high schools offer? 

A: Unlike many school in Maryland, we do not have a  full spectrum offerings in sports.  Instead, our focus is on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics). Therefore, our sports offerings are more limited.  We offer, boys and girls soccer, basketball, boy's softball, boy's baseball,  boys and girls track/field at the high school. With that said we recently (2017) won the girls county basketball championship and made it to the playoffs in soccer. Our High school recently opened a multi-million dollar, state of the art gym complex. The middle school has also added an indoor gym space.  Lastly, we do offer special educational services, but becuase we are a school of choice, the amount of service hours we can provide is limited to 7.5 hours a week. Services hours are delivered by special education teachers but are limited to literacy and math courses.