I am so excited to announce that our Middle School cheer team won the countywide Anti-bullying cheer competition!!!!! Their video was submitted for judging on October 15, 2019 and was announced as the winner on Wednesday, October 23, 2019. The video was posted on PCPS Instagram page as a story on that day along with the winning high school team and winning elementary school team. You can view the winning video using the link below. Please help me in congratulating the girls for their fight against bullying!!! https://drive.google.com/a/pgcps.org/file/d/1ulkl11M0YEWyRm2nLKlxKUmnIeGHUMNe/view?usp=drivesdk

Coach Bond cmitcheer1516@gmail.com

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, keeping hands clean is one of the most important steps we can take to avoid getting sick and spreading germs to others. Many diseases and conditions are spread by not washing hands with soap and clean, running water. Handwashing can prevent about 30% of diarrhea-related sicknesses and about 20% of respiratory infections (e.g., colds). Please click on the attachment below to see when and how you should be washing your hands.

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CMIT Nurse

Parents and Students, 10/28 -- Crazy Hat Day (no ski masks or any items that covers the face) 10/29 -- Twin Tuesday 10/30 -- Wacky/Tacky Day (wear mismatch clothing, colors, patterns...) 10/31 -- Character/Superhero Day (no masks or face paint, no pajamas) 11/01 -- Favorite Team/College Day Each day is a dress down day as long as the clothing fits the "spirit" or theme of the day. Please refer to the email sent to parents for exact rules. It should not be assumed that any day is dress down day if not participating in the theme. During the week of October 21st, a ballot was sent out for nominations of the: Prince and Princess (for 8th graders) Duke and Duchess (for 7th graders) Baron and Baroness (for 6th graders) The nominees will be placed on a ballot for voting during the week of 10/28. Students will be able to vote up until 10/31 11:59 PM. The dance is Friday, November 1, 2019 between 7pm and 10pm. Students will need to be picked up by 10:15pm. Dance tickets will go on sale Monday 10/28. They will be $10 in advance and $15 at the door. Pizza, chips and sodas will be on sale. All items $1. We ask that students please stay in the spirit these events are intended and not to stray from their intended purpose, so that we may continue to do events like this in the future.

James Screven, Assistant Principal

Science Olympiad had its first meeting on Saturday, October 19, and it was a blast. Students came in, had a donut, and were ready to work. As warm-up, Haris Chaudhry led both high school and middle school teams through team-building exercises. It was so fun to talk to new teammates. Afterward, students went to their scheduled periods to study/work on their events. It all went smoothly, thanks to our Science Olympiad Leadership Team. Mr. Bayram, Ms. Compton, Dr. Clarke, Mr. Ozdem, Mr.Simfers, Mrs.Inci and Reina Finch have even volunteered to assist both high school and middle school. With seven coaches, the team is determined to make it to nationals. Even though it was the first meeting, the team is already working so hard. The Science Olympiad Leadership Team is offering amazing ideas that will definitely improve the team and their skills. These include fundraising, field trips, and other team-building activities. Keep up the good work, Science Olympiad. GO TIGERS! Written by: Reina Finch Team Captain Assistant Coach Senior Science Olympiad Student

Esra Inci

From STEM to STEAM, Art is added to science, technology, engineering, and Math to this modern days. Research studies revealed that training and studying the arts helps students to build essential interpretative skills and contributes to the development of essential skills like cross-cultural, social, problem solving, and critical thinking. According to Einstein, “after a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.” Eight grade students in Mrs. Crespo's class designed and created an educational board game based on the structure and function of cells and cell theory. Students' final product includes the following components: game name, number of players, intended age of players , instructions on how to play, goal of the game, game board with start and finish, player cards with a designated spot on the board (minimum of 25 questions), an answer key, and game pieces such as, dice, spinner, player pieces, etc.

Mrs. Crespo-Montano (Science Teacher)

It has been an exciting week! We completed out first novel study and are working on developing the unit project (a podcast based on a subtopic of human intelligence). Please check with your scholar to ensure he/she has a script started, has jotted down some research questions to delve into, and can talk about his/her topic (question) for at least a few minutes. The podcast rubric is in Google Classroom; the final product (recording) is due Friday, November 1st, and Quarter 1 ends on 11/04 (the following Monday). We have continued our look at current events through Articles of the Week. The newest one (due Friday, 11/01) is about fast food drive-thrus and can be found at: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/10/765789694/why-u-s-cities-are-banning-new-fast-food-drive-throughs. This is from NPR's "Food for Thought" section -- can your scholar explain the double meaning behind this phrase? We also utilized FlipGrid for the first time. Students created video responses to a variety of prompts about their personal interests, themselves, and the novels we've read. We'll continue to use this platform as a way to communicate with each other, share ideas, and look deeper at content from class. COMING UP... Honors: Please procure your copies of Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (not abridged) and House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer. We will be reading both of these beginning in Quarter 2. Grambling University: We'll be reading Dear Martin by Nic Stone starting in Quarter 2. This is a book worth having...worth annotating...worth discussing. Please get your copy asap -- and feel free to begin reading and annotating early! Looking forward to seeing you all at conferences on 11/11!

Danica Justsen, NBCT

Hello everyone, Winter season is upon us, which means Cheer tryouts are finally here!!!!! Please see below for details: What: CMIT North Middle School Cheer Tryouts When: Wednesday, October 30, Thursday, October 31, Friday, November 1 Where: CMIT North Middle School Gym Time: 3 pm to 5:30 pm We are looking for: 1. All cheerleaders, male and female (prior cheer experience not required). 2. A school mascot, male or female 3. Team manager, male or female All athletes trying out must wear a white top and black bottoms during the tryout period. Attendance on all three days is required in order to tryout on the final day. Please be sure that your athlete has an updated physical on file as well. Athletes are not eligible to participate without a current physical from your doctor on file. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me. Thank you.

Coach Bond cmitcheer1516@gmail.com

Parents are encouraged to attend the next CEO Listening Session Date: November 5, 2019 Time: 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm Location: Fairmont Heights High school 6501 Columbia Park Road Landover, MD 20785 - Please see attachment for the 4th Annual Family Institute Conference -- November 2, 1029 -Please see attachment for the Family Institute Fall Sessions -- November 6th and November 20th - Please see attachment for the Prince George's County Community Forums -- November 18th - Please see attachment for the Strong Schools Maryland and Kirwan Commission Updates

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Thank you, CMIT North PTO

Attention PTO Members: The PTO is still accepting nominations for the following vacant middle school executive board positions: -MS President -MS Vice President -MS Treasurer -MS Corresponding Secretary -MS Recording Secretary If you are a PTO Member interested in servicing in one of the Executive Board positions, please email information@cmitnorthpto.org. These positions must be filled in order to appropriately operate in support of both Middle and High School. Note: There is also a vacant HS Recording Secretary and HS Corresponding Secretary.

Thank you, CMIT North PTO

The PTO is looking for creative ways to encourage parent attendee in meetings. Members have suggested meeting in your community. A host for each community (i.e., Bowie, Beltsville, Lanham, etc.) is needed to make this a reality. If you would like to gather parents in your area to join a PTO meeting, contact the PTO to confirm your interest at information@cmitnorthpto.org.

Thank you, CMIT North PTO

Q: Is CMIT North MS a public school? 

A: Yes We are a public charter school who is staffed by PGCPS teachers and administration, and support staff who work along side of a limited CLF staff. We have access to PGCPS support but 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, science 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. Lastly, we are a uniform school which takes away the distraction, the competition and the social stratification that is brought on by non uniform dress in a school. 

Our test scores oustrip not only county averages but also state avaerages. This, along with other metrics has made us a 5 star school. 

Q: Do you offer everything the big middle and high school's 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, girl's softball, boy's baseball and club lacrosse in the middle school. Additionally, boys and girls basketball, track/field and volleyball at the high school level. With that said we recently (2017) won the girls county basketball championship and made it to the playoffs in soccer. Our high school opened a multi-million dollar, state of the art gym complex, competitive with all schools of their size. 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, split between literacy and math. Services hours are delivered by special education teachers but are limited to literacy and math courses.