CMIT South Elementary School

Greetings Tiger Family,

Value and savor the moments we have together. Educating children is more than a job or profession, it is a calling and a privilege. This week has been emotionally taxing for staff and students alike as we celebrated the talent of our students and the contributions of African Americans in the phenomenal Black History Program, but we were reminded of how ephemeral life can be with the sudden passing of one of our former stand out students, Jackson Payne Buckner from the Class of 2022. Know that the staff of CMIT South Elementary truly cares about your children and that every encouraging word, high five, handshake, or hug is done with joy and the promise of what your child can be in their future.

Continue to take the time to hug your children, and be patient and kind with them in all you do. Show up for them and give yourself grace as parents and guardians that you may not get it right, but you will always have the support of the school. Together, there is nothing we can’t do for each other, or our children, in even the toughest of times

Please be reminded that there is no school Monday, March 6, 2023, for staff professional development. We look forward to seeing our scholars return on Tuesday, March 7, 2023.

With Love and Respect

Mr. Ronald A. Miller, Jr.

Principal

Chesapeake Math & IT Academy South Elementary

Prince George’s County Public Schools

CMIT South Elementary March Themes

Character Theme: Courage

STEM Theme: Music

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong." — Ella Fitzgerald

Please take note of these March calendar reminders:

• Thursday, March 2, 2023 - Read Across America Day and National Reading Month

• Friday, March 3, 2023 - Progress Reports Released online SchoolMax Family Portal or SchoolMax Family Mobile Portal

• March 1- 31, 2023 - Women's History Month - Diverse Books with Trailblazing Women

• March 1- 31, 2023 - Irish American History and Heritage Month - Irish Kid Books

• Tuesday, March 7- Friday, March 24, 2023 - Maryland Integrated Science Assessment (MISA)- 5th grade only

• Monday, March 6, 2023 - School Closed for Students (Professional Development for teachers)

• Wednesday, March 8, 2023 - PTO General Meeting In-person and online

• Monday, March 27, 2023 - Spring Pictures

• Thursday, March 30, 2023 - End of 3rd quarter

• Friday, March 31, 2023 - Professional Day for Teachers. It is a half-day of asynchronous virtual learning from home for students and a professional day for teachers. Learn more about virtual learning days this school year.

• 2022-2023 SY Calendar

• March 2023 Lunch Menu

March is Women's History Month in which we commemorate and encourage the study, observance, and celebration of the vital role of women in American history.

Families are invited to learn about the Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program (MCAP), Maryland School Report Card star ratings, and Individual Student Reports during two upcoming webinars. Zoom registration is limited. Both sessions will be live-streamed on the PGCPS YouTube channel and recorded for viewing on-demand following the events.

Thursday, March 16 | 6 p.m. - A Guide to Individual Student Reports

Learn how to interpret and best use the MCAP Individual Student Report to improve your child’s academic performance.

The Chesapeake Lighthouse Foundation is elated to be able to offer your child a unique extended learning opportunity. The goal of Saturday Academy - (MCAP focus) is to provide mathematics and reading enrichment to students toward academic mastery and improved test performance.

Saturday Academy dates - February to April. Students will take the MCAP May 1-8th. Saturday Academy dates are as follows and will be from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

February 11, 18, and 25, 2023

March 4, 11, 18, and 25, 2023

April 15 and 29, 2023

We look forward to partnering with you and your child as we work toward academic mastery. Please complete the enrollment form if you are interested in having your child join the program or if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to Ms. Caple-Price at kcaple@clfmd.org or kcaple@cmitsouth.org.

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Summer is just around the corner and programs are beginning to open up for registration. As we learn about more programs, we will add them to the newsletter. Please click on the following programs to view and/or register your child:

• Prince George’s County Department of Parks and Rec Summer Programs

Remember: masks remain a tool to reduce the spread of illness and vaccinations continue to be the best defense against COVID-19. When children are sick, please keep them home.

Want to send a Shout Out to a Teacher/Staff Member?

Do you want to say thank you or SHOUT-OUT a teacher or staff member for their great job? Complete and submit the SHOUT-OUT Google Form link and it will be shared with the faculty at an upcoming meeting and/or morning announcements.

Cell phones may be used on school grounds before school and after school. Cell phone use is prohibited in classrooms, restrooms, cafeteria, hallways, and school offices unless otherwise stated by a teacher. During the instructional day, cell phones must remain out of sight and must be turned off or on silent mode and stored in a backpack, book bag, pocket, purse, or locker. “Cell phones” include, and are not limited to, iPhones, “smart” phones, smart watches (i.e., Apple Watch, Samsung Galaxy Watch), internet-enabled phones, and other PEDs that are capable of placing and/or receiving telephone calls (including personal listening devices such as earphones, earbuds, “Bluetooth”, etc.), text messages, browsing the internet, creating and distributing videos, taking photographs, and the like. Please click to review the Portable electronic Policy (Administrative Procedure 5132).

Women’s History Month is a celebration of women’s contributions to history, culture, and society and has been observed annually in the month of March in the United States since 1987. This month, students will be learning about the contributions women have made to the United States and recognizing the specific achievements women have made over the course of American history in a variety of fields. Students will complete a project highlighting a very important woman in their life, sharing why she is so important to them and their families. We look forward to hearing about all the special ladies of the CMIT Tiger Family!

UNIT 3: Tell Me a Story

Essential Question- Why do we like stories?

• Phonological awareness: Middle sounds

• Phonics: Write and read words with Long Ii/Short Ii

• Exploring myths and traditional stories

• Interact with fiction stories to enhance listening comprehension skills

• Understanding and identifying pronouns and prepositions

UNIT 8: More Addition and Subtraction

• Understanding addition as putting together and adding to

• Understanding subtraction as taking apart and taking from

• Writing an equation to solve a word problem

Essential Understandings:

• Addition and subtraction facts have an inverse relationship

• Good math thinkers know how to think about words and numbers to solve problems

• Addition and subtraction facts can be solved using different strategies

TOPIC 5: Needs of Living Things

• Discovering what plants and animals need to survive

• Students will learn how plants and animals grow and change during their lives

• Recognize that there are patterns in the needs of living things

• Learn about the patterns in the life cycle of plants and animals

CHAPTER 4: Geography of the Neighborhood

• How can we travel to places that we know?

• My community and where it is located

• Locating our school and the cities we live in on a map

• Home addresses

UNIT 7: No Drugs, No Way!

• What is medicine…and why is it considered a drug?

• Who can give me medicine?

• Identifying dangerous substances at home, school, and on the playground

• Being responsible for your great body

Be sure to study your spelling words!

be

he

live

me

see

she

three

tree

we

work

Essential Question: How can imagination lead to a new idea?

Comprehension Strategy: Making Connections

High Frequency Words: or, live, work, who, out

Spelling/Phonics: Words with Long e (e, ee)

Genre: Poetry

Vocabulary Words: decorate, doodle, draw, scribble

Students will decode words with inflectional endings including -ed, -s, and -es.

Students will generate questions about text before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding and gain information with adult assistance.

Students will discuss rhyme rhythm, and repetition, and alliteration in a variety of poems.

Students will count by 10s to 120.

Vocabulary:

ten-frame

Students will describe how the weather changes from day to day.

Vocabulary:

shelter

Students will explain the history of American Songs.

Vocabulary:

anthem

grand

Students will define the word drug and identify various substances as drugs.

Vocabulary:

nicotine

alcohol

medicine

Hello Second Grade Families! Our team has just a few updates and reminders for the coming week.

• Please continue to check SchoolMax for up-to-date grades.

• Second grade is in need of many supplies! If you are able, please consider donating the following to our classroom: tissues, baby wipes, pencils, glue sticks, and Expo markers.

Students have finished Unit 3 and will be taking their Unit 3 assessment. Please look for information from your second-grade teacher on when this assessment will be given. We are moving into Topic 4, which is about Making Differences. Students will be introduced to biographies this week and will evaluate the text structure through cause-and-effect relationships and they will practice asking and answering questions related to comprehension.

In phonics, students will focus on closed-syllable VC/V words. Some examples include clever, comet, driven.

Students have finished up Topic 6 and will be moving into Topic 8. This topic involves working with time and money. Prior knowledge includes: telling time to the nearest hour and half hour on an analog clock and understanding the value of coins. If these are skills your scholar does not yet possess, please take time to practice with him or her in order to promote an easier acquisition of skills in the classroom.

Students are moving into our next topic on Earth's processes. Students will learn about Earth's changes that happen quickly (i.e. earthquakes) and slowly (i.e. erosion).

Students are beginning Topic 5, which is Making Differences. Students will learn about heroes and influential people who have made a difference in our world.

We are wrapping up our February unit on Heart Health. Please stay tuned from an update from your teacher on when testing will occur. Our next topic will be on fear. Students will learn about things that can cause fear, when fear can save them, and ways to manage anxiety and stress.

Hi everyone! We hope everyone had a great week! Reminder that there is NO SCHOOL for students on Monday, March 6!

Let’s stay on track with our assignments as we move through each unit! Please make sure you are using our weekly assignments breakdown page to always see what homework assignments are due each night. Here is the link for those who need it: https://sites.google.com/pgcps.org/3rdgradeclasssite22-23/assignments

We are now entering Women’s History Month, so we will be learning about and celebrating many different influential women!

Thank you to everyone who submitted field trip money and permission slips on time! We are going to the Baltimore Aquarium on Friday, March 17, so we need to make sure all students and chaperones have paid. Chaperones, if not already done, please make sure background checks, fingerprints, safeschools videos, etc have been updated/completed! Also, you will need to take an at-home covid test 48 hours prior to the field trip. Message your teachers if you have any questions. We are so excited about the trip and we hope everyone is able to come!

Please make sure students have the supplies they need for school each day (pencils, scissors, colors, etc.)! Also, make sure you are sending students to school with proper jackets for the cold weather. If it is above 32 degrees, there is always a chance that we will go outside for recess.

Let’s have a great week!

This upcoming week, students will be continuing on in Unit 2 about interactions finishing up persuasive text! Students will also be working on their new spelling words for the section we are starting. We are working on comprehension questions and sequencing. These stories focus on the essential question of how a chain of events affects plants and animals. We will also be reading and writing about different biographies for Women’s History Month throughout the month!

This upcoming week, students will be continuing Topic 4 which is division facts.

Students will also be continuing learning about electricity and magnetism this week.

We are finishing chapter 3 lesson 2 which is about early explorers and native american tribes. We also will be learning about people for women’s history month this month! Great job to everyone who turned in their Black History Month projects on time!

We have conquered another week. Progress Report Grades have been published and scholars have continuously worked hard despite this week's challenges. We want to congratulate all of our 4th graders who participated in the Black History Month Program. Amazing job! This week we celebrated Read Across America Day in a school-wide D.E.A.R (Drop Everything And Read) day, pictured below. We encourage all scholars to spend 20 minutes per day reading outside of school. this practice builds stamina, vocabulary, literary intelligence, and a love for reading overall.

Reading: Last week we began a new story of the week called “Mama’s Window.” In the story, we read about a boy named Sugar who is sent to live in the Mississippi Delta after his mother passes away. Students this week focused on the character of Sugar and how he grew and changed throughout the story. Students composed an essay that described in depth how the character of Sugar changed and how he was helped by his Uncle Free. Students showed their understanding of the story by completing an assessment of the story.

Next week we will continue to read the story “Trombone Shorty.” This is an autobiographical story written by jazz great Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews. In this story, we will learn how Troy picked up a Trombone one day and became the musician he is today. Students will monitor their inner conversations as we read the story closely. We will also determine the author’s purpose for writing this story and we will also get a chance to watch “Trombone Shorty” play with his bands through videos. Students spelling words for this story have been posted with this week’s homework in the Reading Canvas. The spelling Quiz will be on Friday, March 18, 2023, and the story assessment will be on Thursday, March 16, 2023.

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Social Studies: This week we continued in Chapter 4 Economy by looking at trade markets. Here the students explore different currencies that are used around the world. Students also explored how businesses provide goods and services to meet our wants and needs. We finally identified how businesses try to make a profit and the factors that affect them from making a profit.

Next week we will continue with Chapter 4. Students will explore how individuals and families make economic decisions. Students will discuss banking and saving and how this helps people make choices. Students will also explore how incentives and advertisements Homework for this week students will have an IXL lesson to complete that has them categorize goods and services.

Math: This week scholars have started to interpret comparisons as multiplication and addition equations as well as use multiplication and division to compare quantities. Next week we will build on our skills and begin to model and solve multi-step problems by finding hidden questions and using bar diagrams as well as equations.

Science: This week scholars have conducted experiments in hopes of understanding how light changes and moves. Next week we will explore waves and the electromagnetic spectrum. In this lesson, scholars will model how light reflection allows objects to be seen.

Health: This week concludes Unit 5: It’s My Body which focuses on self-care/hygiene, social and emotional wellness, reporting abuse, and being responsible. Scholars have received a hard copy of this unit’s magazine but I will still place reading sections in each lesson to help with each activity. Next week we will move into Topic 6: Be Cool, Keep Clean. This unit will discuss hormones and body changes, what good hygiene is, illness prevention, and good hygiene and looking good and feeling great. All health activities are assigned at the beginning of the week and are due on Friday. Because of this, retakes and late submissions are no longer accepted and all grades are final.

Reading: This week in Reading Workshop, we continued reading “Mama’s Window.” We read about a boy named Sugar, who is sent to live with his uncle after his mother passes away. He gets upset because the money his mother had for a new church window is about to be used to buy a brick. Students monitored their inner conversations while reading the story and were also able to identify the elements of the plot. Students showed their mastery with standards RL.4.1 and RL.4.3 which worked on settings, characters, and characters in depth.

New Vocabulary and Spelling words will be posted next week.

Math: This week students completed section 4-3 Estimate: Use Rounding or Compatible Numbers. As well as section 4-4 Arrays and Partial products. Next week we will be 4-5: Area Models and Partial Products and 4-6 Using Partial Products to multiply by 2 Digit Numbers.

Science: This week students continued learning about waves, this week students were put in groups and tasked with researching several vocabulary words and making themselves “experts” on the topics in order to create a presentation (of their choosing) and expertly explain (in their own words) the terms, their importance, and functions.

Please remember to check Canvas and SAVVAS with your student to review scores, and missing and or incomplete work.

Social Studies: This week we started Chapter 4. We talked about needs and wants. Also, about how needs and ants can differ from person to person. Next week we will continue in Chapter 4 Economy by looking at trade markets. Here the students explore different currencies that are used around the world. Students also explored how businesses provide goods and services to meet our wants and needs. We finally identified how businesses try to make a profit and the factors that affect them from making a profit.

We will be taking MISA over the next 2 weeks. Letters should have come home with students on Friday, but if they didn’t, it will be posted on the Class Dojo story as well. Students who need small group or pull-out accommodations for testing will be pulled this upcoming week to test and the rest of the students will be testing the following week. Please make sure students are coming to school on time, ready to learn, with all their supplies and a charged Chromebook. Classroom supplies are running low. Students who bring in tissues, pencils, wipes, etc. will be rewarded with roar bucks.

This week, we will be learning about influential women to kick off Women’s History Month as well as working on some informational texts in order to support students with MISA testing for the next two weeks. Students will also be focusing on compound words this week for our spelling. These words consist of two smaller words that work together to create a new word.

Spelling Words

• countdown

• candlestick

• barefoot

• bathrobe

• classroom

• fingernail

• roommate

• dashboard

• overdue

• breakfast

• wildlife

• guardrail

• surfboard

• tiptoe

• chairperson
  
  

Challenge Words

• tombstone

• shipwreck

• suitcase

• lighthouse

• earthquake

In math this week, we are moving forward with multiplying and dividing with fractions. You can support this at home by taking simple recipes and asking your student what if we needed to double it (multiplication) or half it (division).

We will be working on MISA over the course of the next few weeks! You can have your child take the MISA practice test in order to have the opportunity to become familiar with the structure, layout, and tools that will be available on the Maryland Integrated Science Assessment (MISA).

Students will learn about influential women in history in celebration of Women's History Month!

Greetings Tigers Family,

Thank you for purchasing the recorders for grades 3-5. We are wrapping up our unit on recorders/instruments next week.

In the coming weeks, grades 3-5 will be doing an in-class Women’s History Project on women in the music industry. Grades K-2 will also be learning about women who have made a major impact on the music industry.

Mr. Weldon

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• Grades: K-5
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