CMIT South Elementary School

Greetings Tiger Family,

As we approach the end of the third quarter, please be reminded the last day that teachers are allowed to accept approved late work is Friday, March 24, 2023. We are proud of the hard work and gains our students have made academically thus far in the year. Please be reminded that CMIT South Elementary is a Prince George’s County Public School and all Administrative Procedures guide our daily work with students, staff, and our community. Please familiarize, or refresh, your knowledge and the expectations for our students regarding physical contact and personal electronic devices. We have had an increase in students not utilizing our established forms of communication and conflict resolution and touching, pushing, or crossing someone’s personal boundaries. Students should always seek a trusted adult when they have a conflict, who will be able to resolve their challenge. Students are also not allowed the use of personal electronic devices during the school day. They should be put away and off, or silenced, during the school day. For more detail please review the following documents;

Student Rights and Responsibilities - Click Link

Portable Electronic Device Administrative Procedure 5132 - Click Link

Please be reminded of the upcoming dates;

March

3/27/23 - Spring Picture Day

3/30/23 - Perfect Attendance No Tardies Celebration (Dress Down day all students)

3/31/23 - 2-Hour Early Dismissal Asynchronous Day (Virtual from home for students)

April

4/3-10/23 April Spring Break

Sincerely,

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

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Winston Churchill

Please take note of these March calendar reminders:

• 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 27, 2023 - Spring Pictures

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

• Thursday, March 30, 2023 - PANTS celebration

• 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.

• Monday, April 3, 2023 - Monday, April 10, 2023 - Spring Break

• 2022-2023 SY Calendar

• March 2023 Lunch Menu

Get ready... spring pictures are almost here!

Spring pictures will take place on Monday, March 27, 2023.

See package options at www.spring.legacystudios.com. Pre-Order is not required.

Tuesday, March 28, 2023, at 6 p.m., will be MCAP Night for parents. Join us to learn testing strategies and skills to help your 3rd- 5th-grade child prepare for the upcoming test. Attend to win a prize for you and your child. The Zoom link will be posted on Classdojo on the morning of Tuesday, March 28, 2023.

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:

CMIT South's Summer Enrichment Program

A free program to help currently enrolled CMIT South Elementary students stay connected with Math, Reading, and STEM skills during the month of July. The program will have 100 students in rising grades 1-5. Hours of the program are Monday -Thursday 9 am - 1 pm there is no before and/or aftercare. Students who have had behavior or attendance concerns during the school year will not be selected to participate. The 1st 100 students 20 per grade level will be selected. Use the following link to register:

https://forms.gle/ti4kSumVRMwErm8h6

Prince George’s County Department of Parks and Recreation

Summer Camp and Summer Programs Booklets were mailed out last week to residents. You can also view camps and programs at the following link or in person at PG Parks facilities.

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

Lacrosse

Kettering Largo Mitchellville Boys & Girls Club is working to establish a lacrosse program. A flyer for our upcoming clinic is attached. If you have any questions please see the link attached below.

https://www.klmbgc.com/

Marlboro Boys & Girls Club is working to establish a lacrosse program. Please see the link attached below.

https://www.mbgc.org/boyslax

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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).

Hello Kinder families,

Thank you so much for all of your support for our field trip to the Natural History Museum. We had an amazing time!

Next week, we will not begin any new material. We will be doing a review in all content areas. Friendly reminder that Friday, March 31st is an asynchronous day. Therefore, scholars will be working from home. Please look out for a brief assignment link that will be sent to all Kinder families Friday morning, in order for teachers to complete attendance on this day. The school will be closed from Monday, April 3rd to Monday, April 10th. School resumes on Tuesday, April 11th. We hope that everyone has a relaxing and fun-filled spring break!

UNIT 4: Then and Now

Essential Question- What can we learn from the past?

WEEK 1- Why is it important to make inventions better?

• Phonological awareness: Middle Sounds; Blend and Segment sounds; Count words

• Phonics: Short and Long Oo

• Sight words: find, over, again

• Reading a variety of Narrative Fiction

• Supplemental Reading Programs- Students will spend time working on IXL, Lexia or iReady to gain academic support in a variety of English/Language Arts skills

UNIT 9: Count numbers to 20

• Write numbers from 0 to 20.

• Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20

• Explore different ways of representing our understanding of teen numbers

Continuation….

TOPIC 5: Needs of Living Things

• Understanding what people need to survive

• Patterns that humans and animals have in common

• Things people need when they are outdoors in different weather conditions

CHAPTER 4/Lesson 6: Our Resources

• Learn about different resources available from our planet

• How these resources are now and how they have changed over time.

• Keeping resources safe

• John Muir: A protector of the environment

• Tell about healthy things that they can do for their bodies

• Explore how they are responsible for their body's condition

We’re going to Eco-Adventures on Friday, April 14. All field trip permission slips and money is due by Thursday, March 30, 2023.

First-Grade is hosting our own IXLathon! Scholars will compete to see who can master the most skills across math, language arts, science, and social studies. Students must achieve 15 or more master skills to be eligible for prizes. The goal of this competition is to encourage student growth across all subject areas. Research shows that students who reach a goal of 40 questions a week will see student growth. The competition will start on Monday, March 27, and end on Friday, April 28. The top 5 students with the highest number of mastered skills across all subjects will win a prize! Prizes include coupons, gift cards, and an in-school movie invitation. We will track skills mastered and announce weekly high scores. Please help us make this competition a success that will push our students toward first-grade mastery.

Essential Question: How can stories help us learn lessons?

Comprehension Strategy: Making Connections

High Frequency Words: down, drink, now, there, together

Spelling/Phonics: Words with Vowel Sounds of y

Genre: Fable

Vocabulary Words: angry, happy, sad, surprised

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

Students will use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, and event.

Students will count tens and ones to find a two-digit number.

Vocabulary Words:

tens

ones

Students will identify the major parts of plants and explain how plants parts help plants.

Vocabulary Words:

root

stem

leaf

Students will describe how families celebrate national holidays.

Vocabulary Words:

veteran

armed forces

memorial

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

Vocabulary Words:

nicotine

alcohol

medicine

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

• Quarter 3 is ending on Thursday, March 30th.
• Friday, March 31st is a 1/2 day asynchronous learning day for students. An instructional packet will be sent home on Thursday, March 30th. It will also be posted to CANVAS if extra copies are needed. A Google form will also be posted to CANVAS for attendance purposes.

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

• Students should be completing 4 spelling assignments and 5 DreamBox lessons weekly for homework.

• Please remember to check the intervention for completion. Students working on iReady should have at least 4 lessons per week. Students working on Lexia should have between 8-12 units done per week as determined by the program and discussed with their teacher.

• 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.

This week in reading, students will explore the weekly question of, "How can people work together to solve a problem?" They will explore this question by reading a variety of biographies. Remember, the purpose of a biography is to give information about the life of a real person. Some elements of biography text are: it is written by someone else, it is about all, or part, of the person's life, and it tells about how the person affected others. Students will focus on text structure, including chronological order of events, and making and confirming predictions.

In phonics, students will be learning about prefixes. A prefix is a group of letters added to the beginning of a word to make a new word. The prefixes they will focus on are: un-, re-, pre-, dis-. The definition of each is as follows:

un-: not, or the opposite of

re-: again, or back

pre-: before

dis-: not, or the opposite of

Please consider reviewing the definitions of these prefixes and the meaning of words while practicing spelling homework.

Students are wrapping up on Topic 8, which was solving problems involving money and telling time to the nearest 5 minutes. Stay tuned for an update from your teacher regarding the Topic 8 assessment. Please be sure to practice by completing the optional homework packet and reviewing the supplementary resources available on CANVAS.

Students are wrapping up learning about Earth's changes that happen quickly (i.e. earthquakes) and slowly (i.e. erosion). Please look for an update from your teacher regarding testing on this topic.

*Please check CANVAS for additional resources available for review.

Continuation...

Students are continuing through Topic 5, which is Making Differences. Students are learning about heroes and influential people who have made a difference in our world.

*Please check CANVAS for additional resources available for review.

Continuation...

Students are learning 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!

Let’s stay on track with our assignments as we move through each unit! Report cards are due next week! 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 have 1 week left until SPRING BREAK, and we are moving right along in our learning until then! We are starting to review for our state assessment, MCAP for Reading and Math. The test for the third grade will begin the week of May 8th! We have started before spring break to allow as much time as possible to review and prepare for the test. Next week on Tuesday, please join us at our MCAP parent night on Zoom! It will be in the evening and we will be presenting important information and resources regarding the MCAP assessment. The grade with the most participation earns a dress-down day!

This a reminder that next Friday students should NOT report to the school building; it is an asynchronous day! Students should complete any assignments posted to Canvas.

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.

Let’s have a great week!

This upcoming week, students just finished Unit 2 about interactions about informational text! Students will be preparing to start Unit 3. We are also continuing to work on comprehension questions and understanding how to look back in the text to find direct evidence. We are also talking about the author’s purpose and imagery. We will also be reading and writing about different biographies for Women’s History Month throughout the month!

This upcoming week, students will be learning about perimeter.

Students will also be learning about life cycles and traits.

We are finishing on chapter 3 lesson 3 which is about early spanish explorers. We are working on timelines and understanding the order of events in history. We also will be continuing learning about people for women’s history this month!

Thank you for another successful week. Please remember to have your scholars present and on time each day as we are still promoting our P.A.N.T.S initiative (Perfect Attendance No Tardies). We also want to thank all of the families who were able to log on for our second Pastries with the Principal. We appreciate the feedback and collaboration. Friday, March 31, 2023, marks the end of the 3rd Quarter and is also an asynchronous day.

Reading: This week we began our preparations for MCAP. During these next few weeks, students will read various texts and practice different reading standards. We used a text this week called “Planet Earth” in which students learned about the composition of the Earth. This week students practiced skills of main idea, inferences, causes and effects, and interpreting text features.

Next week we will begin our preparation for MCAP. Students will synthesize information given across two texts about stress. When students synthesize they are combining the information that was gained from two different texts about the same topic. This is something students will complete each day for the Reading MCAP. Students will also have a spelling test on Thursday, March 30, 2023, instead of on Friday. There is no school Friday and all work will be posted for students to complete on BrainPop. Students' homework will be to practice their spelling words in preparation for the quiz on Thursday.

Social Studies: This week we brought a close to Chapter 4 Our Nation’s Economy. In this unit, students learned about globalization and how it affects our everyday lives. Students also explore how businesses meet our needs and want in our communities. Students used what they learned to create a business plan for their own business.

Next week will begin Chapter 5 in which students will learn about the Northeast Region. We will view visuals and have collaborative discussions in order to build background and establish meaning for the unit. Students will also explore the landforms and bodies of water that can be found in the Northeast Region. Friday’s assignment will be posted to BrainPop for students to complete. Students will not have Social Studies Homework this week.

Math: This week scholars have completed Topic 7: Factors and Multiples where we have discussed various strategies that can be used to find all of the factors and multiples of numbers as well as how to identify prime and composite numbers. Next week will begin with students demonstrating their understanding of Topic 7 by completing the unit assessment. All assessment grades will be entered and are final. Please use the Lesson Resources to help prepare. We will move on to our introductory fraction unit. Topic 8 consists of comparing fractions, generating equivalent fractions, and representing equivalent fractions. Please continue to have scholars study their 6-9 facts families and we will continue these fact drills next week.

Science: This week scholars conquered Topic 3: Waves and Information and have completed the unit assessment. All assessment grades will be entered and are final. Next week, we will continue to Topic 4: Earth’s Features where we will learn about the composition and structure of the Earth’s surface in addition to how natural forces have continuously altered the features of Earth.

Health: Next week we will continue Topic 6: Be Cool, Keep Clean. This unit discusses 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 started our MCAP boot camp. We will be preparing students for MCAP by reviewing a wide range of standards. This week we read two articles on adaptations. We worked closely with vocabulary, details, and comparing one text to the other.

Math: This week we worked our way through 4-7 Make Sense and Preserve (the last subtopic in topic 4) and the Topic 4 Test. Along with the problem-solving work in Canvas, students also worked in small groups to solve and present a series of problems to the class.

Topic 4 Review Test is scheduled for Wednesday, March 29. Please begin reviewing Topic 4 with your student, by using previous assignments and activities as well as the review sections in the Math book pg 158-162.

Science: This week students began lesson 3 “Waves and the Electromagnetic Spectrum”. Students completed an investigation designed to study how light moves and changes. Students designed their experiments based on their background knowledge about light and provided materials. Students were also asked to analyze their observations and present their findings to the class.

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

Please have students complete and submit any assignments that are still open and available. Closed assignments will not be reopened.

Social Studies: This week we worked in Chapter 4 Economy by looking at the supply and demand of goods. Students also explored the meaning of barter and trade.

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Hello!

This week our fourth graders worked hard to finish their positive and negative space African mask-inspired artworks! First, they learned about the art vocabulary words: positive space, negative space, and contrast with a world map. Then they recalled the meanings behind some African masks we learned about last year. Lastly, they came up with designs using African masks as their inspiration. I love the way they turned out!

CHESAPEAKE MATH AND IT SOUTH ELEMENTARY

• Hours: 8:00 a.m to 2:25 p.m
• Grades: K-5
• Uniform: Yes
• Before After School Enrichment: Yes
http://clfmd.org/enrichment-2/
• School Colors: Hunter Green, Navy Blue
• School Mascot: Tigers
• School Website: http://www.cmitsouthes.org

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https://cmitsouthes.org/faq/