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Front Office Site of News & Events
We are always striving to improve daily practices. New ways of communicating and keeping everyone updated are coming from the Front Office, so please take a few moments to view our Front Office Site of News & Events. (https://sites.google.com/cmitelementary.org/cmit-nes-front-office-news?usp=sharing). The site can also be located on the school's website under CMIT Families.
On this site you will find useful information on the HOME, FORMS, SCHEDULE, and NEWSLETTER pages that will help you during the school year. This site is interactive with links to assist you with navigating to important information and forms, so please read it in its entirety. We look forward to working with you and your scholar(s) during the school year!
Front Office Staff
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Kind Kindergarten News
Hello Families:
Our weather has changed and there is a little chill in the air. Our scholars go outside for recess at
9:30 a.m. and the temperature has been in the low 50’s the past week. Please send your scholar to school with weather appropriate outerwear, so they can enjoy being outside.
STEM FAIR:
***All scholars are required to complete a STEM FAIR Project.
A copy of the STEM Fair packet can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fsDYSuotxgWhQux2Tvho8Ekf8R4wecx-gSrZRJja794/edit?tab=t.0
I strongly suggest keeping track of the schedule to ensure that your scholar's project will be completed by the due date.
ELA Topic: Unit 2 Living Together week 4
Sight words: four, five, six
Letters: “Hh” and “Ll”
Listen actively and ask questions to understand information.
Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative texts that name a topic and supply information about it.
Social Studies Topic: Our National Holidays
Math Topic: 6 Understanding Addition
Science Topic: Weather
Have a great holiday weekend.
***Friendly reminder: If your scholar is not feeling well, please keep them home. The beginning of the school year comes with colds, runny noses, sore throats, and scholars not feeling well. We are trying to keep from spreading germs to a minimum.
The Kindergarten Team
Fascinating First Grade News!
Hello First Grade Families,
We have a short week next week, and we hope you enjoy the holiday break. We absolutely love the Turkey projects. Thank you, parents, for your continued support of our scholars!
Math: Unit 1-4 test
Reading: Unit 2
Science: The Sky and the Earth
Social Studies: Geography of the Community
Upcoming events
11. 26-11.28 Thanksgiving Break
Thank you,
The First Grade Team
Spectacular Second Grade News!
A special thank-you as well to everyone who attended our Parent University! We hope the information shared was both informative and helpful in supporting your scholar’s growth and success. If you were unable to attend, your scholar’s teacher will share the link to the presentation.
Next week in Reading, we will continue Unit 2: Nature’s Wonders. Our genre for the week is realistic fiction, and our Question of the Week is: How does a tree show patterns as the seasons change? Our spelling pattern will focus on -ie. The letters ie can make the long e sound (as in chief) or the long i sound (as in pie). In Math, we will continue Topic 5: Subtracting Within 100 Using Strategies. Students will practice using various strategies to solve subtraction problems accurately and efficiently. In Science, we will begin Topic 2, Lesson 3: Matter Within Objects. Students will explore how different materials make up the objects we use every day and how properties of matter help determine their purpose.
We will begin working on our STEM Activity (2nd Grade CMIT Day Parade Floats). Please send a small shoe box and crafts items. Students will design and present their shoebox during our grade level parade.
As we continue to settle into the school year, we kindly request your support in reinforcing the importance of following our School Motto with your scholars. I will Respect Myself and Others, I will Opt to Be Scholarly, I will Act Responsibly, and I will React with Kindness. Lastly, please label your scholar's school uniform jackets and coats.
Important information:
Picture Day- November 18th
Thanksgiving Break-November 26-28
Terrific Third Grade News!
In Social Studies, students will explore the Native American Culture.
In Math, we will continue to work on finding the area of squares and rectangles with standard and non-standard units.
In Science, we will continue to work on Topic 3, which is water and weather.
Since it is a short week, we will not have homework.
Have a great week!
Fourth Grade Weekly News!
Students should begin thinking about their testable question for their STEM Fair project. STEM Fair projects are due on January 20, 2026. Families and scholars should utilize the timeline in the STEM Fair Packet to stay on track to have their project submitted on time. No late projects will be accepted. Please view the packet below. If you have any questions, reach out to your scholar's Science teacher.
https://out.smore.com/e/4v50z/Ho_zmP?__$u__&nk=NjhmYjVmZDIzNmFiMDE3NmIyNDA2ZDBiLHlkYW5pZWxAY21pdGVsZW1lbnRhcnkub3JnOjo6ZGIydjI1dXl3NzZlaWxtNQ
Lastly, please check grades weekly on Google Classroom & Synergy to stay abreast of your scholar's grades in all subject areas.
Let's have a great week on purpose!!
Fourth Grade Team
Fabulous Fifth Grade News!
Tigers! Tigers! Thank you for a productive week!
Thanksgiving Holiday
Happy Holidays to you and your families! CMIT will go on Thanksgiving break from the 26th through the 30th. Have a wonderful break and get some well needed rest.
RELA
Students will begin the realistic fiction story "Hatchet" and learn the attributes of realistic fiction and characteristics of a narrative (characters, plot, problem & solution, rising action, falling action). Students will continue with writing an article and summarizing the article based on the text structure.
Science
This week in science, we will explore geosphere and biosphere.
Social Studies
In chapter 3, students will learn about a period in history when Europeans started settling colonies in North America.
Have a great week ahead!
Team 5th Grade
Superior Specials News!
Art
Greetings Parents!
We have finished plans for our second quarter projects. Kindergarten are creating designs that require their imagination to integrate color wheel images. 1st grade is working on understanding overlapping to be used with other skills in their still life creations. 2nd grade is in the initial planning stages of their landscape designs. 3rd grade is in the beginning stages of the cityscapes lesson. This may be a collaborative lesson between Art and Legos (We are working on it). 4th grade is sorting out how to translate sound into line and color with their Musical Gesture Drawings. And, 5th grade is creating optical illusions, Op Art.
Mr. Dorsey
Music
Hello, Kinder - Songs for the month Grumpy Grizzly and Take My Little Car. Fast and Slow identification
1st - Songs for the month Bounce the Ball, Cuckoo, and Peter Rabbit. So - Mi solfege with high and low
2nd - Song of the month The Grand Old Duke of York. Reviewing musical terms for Tempos. Timbre: the unique sound for a voice or instrument
3rd - Song for the month Old Brass Wagon. Learning about groups of sixteenth notes (tika-tika). Learning about woodwind families.
4th - Learning about new rhythms (tika-tika, ti-tika and ti ta ti) Learning about brass family instruments
5th - Songs of the Month Pitter Patter and Our Old Sow. Performing songs in ¾. Understanding the duration of dotted quarter notes.
Technology
Hello! K-2 students practiced, Online Safety & Digital Citizenship
3rd students practice Virtual Classroom Meetings
In this assignment, Trey introduces the learner to video conferencing and how to prepare for and participate in virtual classroom meetings using available software and hardware tools.
4-5 students practiced, Taking Care of Your Devices
In this lesson students learn three tips for proper device care and maintenance, including how to care for their 1:1 student devices
PE
This week in PE, we are transitioning into throwing and catching. This week, we will be focusing on throwing and next week, we will be focused on catching. Please remember to send students to school in comfortable sneakers and with their water bottles. Thank you!
Lego
We are continuing with the next lesson in the LEGO curriculum.
K-1: Traveling around. We will discuss how people can use public transportation to get around the city. Kindergarten will build a bus, plane, and boat. 1st grade will build a bus and bus stop. Both grade levels will take a quiz on the lesson.
2nd: Classify & Choose Materials. We will discuss why materials are used for different things and the importance of choosing correct materials. We will build a chicken coop.
3rd: Animal Behaviors. We will discuss why some herd animals behave the way they do and build a herd animal.
4th-5th: Energy Resources. We will be discussing renewable and non-renewable resources. Students will build a windmill/ wind turbine in which the blades will spin.
STEM
First grade students are continuing our unit on Our Table. Scholars will begin collaborative planning within their table group. Second grade students began their unit on Fishing for Turkey. Scholars will begin collaborative planning within their table groups on how they are going to build their fishing rod. Grades 3-5 have now begun our Balloons Over Broadway unit! Each grade has learned the history of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. In third grade, scholars began learning about color coding. In fourth grade, scholars will begin independent & collaboratively planning their designs for their shoe box float. Fifth grade scholars will begin collaborative planning the storyline within their table group.
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