Tiger News

Scholars who were selected from the lottery are permitted to attend club sessions. A Class Dojo group has been created for clubs. Students may be removed from club for a combination of three absences, late pickups, or behavior infractions. If your scholar has not received a message they are placed on the waitlist.

Week 7 of Saturday Academy will take place this Saturday, December 13, 2025 from

9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Please be sure to arrive on time and pick up your child by 11:00 a.m. Please keep a look out for any weather related closings.

Week 7 of tutoring will take place starting, December 15, 2025. Please be sure to arrive on time and pick up by 4:00 pm. Tutoring is by invitation only. NO Tutoring Friday, December 19th.

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

CLICK HERE TO VISIT: https://sites.google.com/cmitelementary.org/cmit-nes-front-office-news?usp=sharing

It is imperative that we are aware of any health issues. Please update the school nurse for any new or important medical information. Our immunization compliance is almost at 100% please continue to forward documentation to the nurse.

Please help yourself and others -- keep your scholars home when they are not well.

Immunizations must be up-to-date and received by the school nurse to prevent exclusion from school.

Medication forms are attached. Please hand carry newly prescribed medication in the pharmacy packaging. Any adult may deliver the medication to the nurse. (appointments must be made)

Spread cheer AND support CMIT North Elementary PTO while you finish your gift lists!

🛍️ Shop at Five Below – Laurel Lakes Centre (14220 Baltimore Ave)
December 15–20 • 9AM–9PM
When you shop, 10% of your purchase comes back to our school — but only if you bring the paper flyer!

✨ Important!
The paper copy of the flyer is required for the school to receive the donation.
Feel free to make extra copies and share them with friends and family—more shoppers = more support for our Tigers!
Fliers will be sent home with scholars, so be on the lookout in those backpacks!

Let’s make this season bright with Tiger pride, holiday joy, and a whole lot of community spirit!

The PTO will not hold a monthly meeting in December.
Enjoy the holiday season with your loved ones, and we’ll see you at our next meeting on Wednesday, January 28, 2026 at 6:00 PM, held virtually on Zoom! We can’t wait to kick off the new year together and continue making a difference for our scholars and school community!The PTO will not hold a monthly meeting in December.

💫 Mobile Fingerprinting Is Back! 💫
Missed the last session? Now’s your chance! We’d love to get you cleared and added to our amazing PTO volunteer team — and this makes it easy.
📅 Save the date: Saturday, January 10, 2026 | 8–11 AM
⏳ Space is limited! Book now : https://cmitespto.setmore.com
Volunteers are especially needed for our upcoming events:
✨ Muffins for Moms ✨ Grub with Grands ✨ Sneaker Ball ✨ 5th Grade Camp Schmidt

https://www.donorschoose.org/donors/search.html?school=107558&includeNearbyLocations=true

Hello Families:

Our weather has changed and it is cold. Our scholars go outside for recess at 9:30am, and the temperature has dropped the past week. Please send your scholar to school with winter jackets, hats and/or mittens, 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

Continue working on your STEM Fair Project. By now your scholar should be in the hypothesis, material collection and experimental phase of their project.

ELA Topic: Unit 2 Living Together Week 5
Sight words: go, from, yellow
Letters: Middle sound /e/, “Ww” and “Yy”.
Build background knowledge to connect a reader’s background to text to better understand it. Readers will also be able to read at a pace that is smooth with automatic word recognition.

Social Studies Chapter 3: Work Now and Long Ago

Math Topic 7: Understand Subtraction

Science Topic 4: Earth’s Weather


***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.

Enjoy your holiday and winter break!

The Kindergarten Team

Hello First Grade Families,

First grade had a great week. A friendly reminder that the first dojo party starts the week of the 15th, during your scholar’s gym time.
First grade’s gingerbread stem and movie day is also this week. Please send in the permission slips by Tuesday.

Our lessons for next week:
RELA: Elements of Drama review
Social Studies: American Symbols
Math: Represent and Interpret Data
Science: Daylight Changes and Seasons
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_Upcoming Dates:
12.18 Gingerbread STEM Day
12.19 - 3hr Early Dismissal/ Movie Day
12.22-1.2 Winter Break

Best,
The First Grade Team

A big thank you to the parents who joined us during our virtual honor roll assembly! Your presence added to the joy of celebrating our scholars achievements. Congratulations to all the amazing second graders for their hard work.

Next week, we will complete Unit 2 theme Nature's Wonders. Students will research trees and the patterns in the tree bark? Our spelling pattern is compound words. In math, we will complete topic 6, fluently subtracting within 100. In science, we will complete Topic 3 Lesson 2, Water on Earth. In social studies, we will continue chapter 3 titled Government.

Our Winter "STEM" Activities will take place December 17–19! Permission slips were sent home, please be sure to sign and return them at your earliest convenience.
Your scholar’s teacher will follow up with specific items needed for the class activities. Thank you in advance for your support and for helping us make this a fun and engaging learning experience for our scholars!
Reminders:
STEM Fair Project- Please ensure your scholar is working on their project.

In Reading, students will participate in an in-class mock spelling bee to help them practice and reinforce the spelling words in a fun, engaging way. Students will also be introduced to Unit 3: Historical Fiction Writing. During this unit, they will learn how authors use real historical events combined with fictional characters or scenarios to tell meaningful stories. We will explore key features of historical fiction and begin preparing students to write their own historical fiction pieces later in the unit.

In Social Studies, students will begin Chapter 3: Lesson 5 Early English Communities. Students will learn why settlers came from England to North America.

In Math, we will be finishing Topic 7. Our topic 7 test will be on Tuesday, 12/16/2025. The extra credit will be due this day, as well.

In Science, we will be completing a class STEM fair project.

On Wednesday, 12/17/2025, we will be completing a Candy Cane STEM Challenge. On Thursday, 12/18/2025, we will be completing rotations amongst the 3rd grade classes. Students will rotate through all 4 classes and will complete activities about Holidays Around the World. If you're able to help, we would love the support! The amazon wish list link to the items we need to make it successful is below.

Amazon wish list link: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1DTR9UOQ3CAOJ?ref_=wl_share

***We are also running low on pencils if any families would like to donate to our school supplies. We would greatly appreciate it!***

Next week in Reading, students will synthesize information in an informational text. In Social Studies, students will understand that both individuals and families make economic decisions. In Math, students will complete topic 8 Fractions and take the assessment. In Science, students will investigate how people extract and use natural resources and give examples of nonrenewable energy sources.

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

Tigers! Tigers! Thank you for another productive week! Next week will be our last week before we celebrate the winter break! We made it! Happy New Year to you! Please make sure you continue to be your best selves. If you need to reset and restart, do so, and make every moment of the day count! Have an outstanding week! Blessings to you and all of your endeavors!

Week at a Glance:

Holiday Celebration Week
The 5th grade team will have daily celebrations for the week to bring in the new year and celebrate the season. Please be advised. We will need donations to help with our class celebrations on Wednesday and Thursday, December 17th and 18th, 2025. Please see the SignUp Genius list to identify what you'd be willing to contribute. We appreciate your outstanding support! Bless you!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E4CACA629A0F9C61-61205643-holiday

Please use the link to donate. Thank you dearly for your support.

Subject Content

RELA
Scholars will migrate into argumentative texts and compare and contrast two topics to identify how topics can differences of opinions and factual texts. They will learn the skill of opinion writing and how authors use argumentative texts to express differences of opinions and comparisons of facts with details to support a claim.

Social Studies
You're going to imagine being a person who has to leave your homeland and move to a new colony in North America. A journal or blog is the perfect place to describe all that happens on your journey! You'll want to explain why you're moving and what you're going to do in your new colony once you get there.

Math
In math this week, we will continue to explore fractions and write our topic test on Tuesday.

Science
In science this week we will be exploring the Hydrosphere and Atmosphere.

Have a Happy New Year and a wonderful holiday!

Team 5th Grade

Art
Greetings Parents!
Tigers are finishing projects and starting new projects. Kindergarteners are finishing their designs that integrate color wheels into their designs. We are starting our Utopian Environments. 1st grade took their still life designs home and are now working on their landscapes which will include more overlapping. 2nd grade They have planned and are currently working on their landscape projects. 3rd grade chose to learn 1pt-perspective drawing to apply to a cityscape design. 4th grade Are doing presentations of projects that illustrate sound, translating sound into line and color with their Musical Gesture Drawings. And, 5th grade have finished their optical illusions. Their next project involves the merging of a self-portrait and “Zentangles”
Mr. Dorsey

Music
Kinder - Songs for the month Put the beat in your feet, Chubby little snowman. Created movements to show a steady beat. 1st - Songs for the month Elevator, Lemonade. Learned the whole scale on solfege. Reading simple rhythms and melodies.
2nd - Song of the month Pease porridge hot, Play instrumental arrangement hand game with song. 3rd - Song for the month Paw Paw patch and King’s Land. Focus on solfege Do - Mi - So - La, Practice writing music. 4th - Review all 4 family instruments (String, Woodwind, Brass, and Percussion)
5th - Songs of the Month My Bonnie and Winter is here.Students learned about 12 bar blues structure.



Technology
Hello! K-2 students practiced, Digital Citizenship:
In this engaging animated assignment, Truman and Poppy discover ways to “be kind online.”
3rd students practiced, Netiquette in Online Communication
In this animated assignment, Trey and two of his classmates are collaborating on their Virtual Science Fair project in a private chatroom when netiquette issues derail them from their task. The lesson introduces what netiquette is, why it’s important, and shows some of the negative sides of online communication.
4-5 students practiced, Online Safety: Digital Citizenship
The learners receive direct instruction and practice in digital citizenship and responsible use of technology. They learn about digital footprints, the importance of privacy settings and creating a strong password and how to avoid websites that ask for personal information in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.


Lego
We have started our next set of builds and are enjoying making our creations. I will be sending assessments from the last lesson home this week. Enjoy the winter break!
K-1: Outdoor Activities: We are discussing things you can play with at a playground and playground rules. Students will build various pieces of playground equipment.
2nd: Protection from Wind: We will discuss how wind can change the landscape and be harmful to the land. We will discuss windbreaks and things we can do to help protect the land from the wind. Students will build windbreaks.
3rd: Cityscapes. We are cooperating with Mr. Dorsey on learning about what a cityscape is and how to create one. Students will build a cityscape.
4th-5th: Prepare for Natural Hazards. We will discuss natural hazards, specifically earthquakes, and how architects and engineers design buildings to withstand earthquakes. Students will build a building that is 12 inches tall that should withstand an “earthquake”.


STEM
In 1st, We are continuing our unit on Our Table. Scholars will begin collaborative planning within their table group. In 2nd, we began their unit on Fishing for Turkey. Scholars will begin collaborative planning within their table group on how they are going to build their fishing rod. Grades 3-5, we have now begun our Balloons Over Broadway unit!. In 3rd grade, scholars begin learning about color coding. In 4th grade scholars will begin independent & collaboratively planning their designs for their shoe box float. 5th grade Scholars will begin collaborative planning the storyline within their table group.

Monday 12/15 rotation 1

Tuesday 12/16 rotation 2

Wednesday 12/17 rotation 3

Thursday 12/18 rotation 2

Friday 12/19 No specials 3-Hour early dismissal

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1o78KYKRlZOJ52Sxj_XPtoqYMhAZl1WeR1ly-NsH1JwE/edit?usp=sharing

Our Vision

Inspire students to become STEM innovators and responsible global citizens

Our Mission

In partnership with families and the educational community, CLF provides an innovative, diverse, and safe learning environment that fosters the growth of academic, social, and emotional skills. The rigorous STEM curriculum prepares students to become college and career ready in an ever-changing global society.

How We Do It

With students at the center of everything we do, we strive to make our schools the best, we forge partnerships with parents and the community to provide our students with enrichment and additional STEM opportunities, and we hire the best people to support our schools!

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