CMIT South Elementary’s September Themes

Character Theme: Respectfulness

STEM Theme: Observation/Discovery

"By showing your children that you acknowledge their ideas, views, and decisions, you are being a good example of respect." — Bethany Bridges

Please take note of these September calendar reminders:

• September 4 - Labor Day- Schools and Offices Closed
• September 8 - Movie Night 6:30 p.m.
• September 14 - Back to School Night 6 p.m. -8 p.m. virtual
  
• September 15 - October 15 - Hispanic Heritage Month
• September 25 - Yom Kippur- Schools and Offices Closed

August/September Lunch Menu

The school will be closed on Monday, September 4th in observance of Labor Day.

Tiger Families,

The PTO is seeking Parent Patrols to volunteer daily and assist with the morning car line!

Parent Patrols will assist scholars with car doors and direction to the rear school entrance. Parent Patrols are necessary in order to quickly and efficiently move the car line.

Fifteen minute shifts are available beginning at 7:30 AM. Parent Patrols should park their vehicles upon entering the blacktop and join other Parent Patrols. Sign up for as many time slots and days as you would like.

Please review the available slots via the link below and sign up today!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A0D4BADAF2AA0FD0-morning

🎟️ The wait is over‼️ Tickets are on sale and available for purchase now on the PTO website!

The Super Mario Bros. Movie will be played outdoors on a big screen in the rear parking lot of the school. Tickets are required for anyone attending age 5+. Please see ticket prices below and note the discounted rate for PTO members:

🍿 CMITSES Student | $5.00
🍿 CMITSES PTO Member | $10.00
🍿 CMITSES Non-Member Rate | $15.00

Each student attendee must be accompanied by an adult.

Concessions and gently used uniforms will be for sale. Cash will not be accepted for any purchases. All sales are final.

We are extremely excited to have this first-ever event for our CMITSES community. Please bring your family and chairs, and plan to join us at Movie Night!

For more information contact the PTO 202.810.2250 | pto@cmitsouthes.org

Movie Night Tickets: https://cmitsouthelementarypto.ticketspice.com/cmitses-pto-movie-night

Throughout the school year, Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS) and the Prince George’s County Board of Education conduct activities that may be publicized by local or national news media or used to promote the school system. Publicity activities include interviews, photographs or videos of individuals or groups of students, or student works (including, but not limited to, artistic works, athletic activities, performances and competitions) that may be used in websites, social media such as Facebook and Twitter, print or online publications, or videos.

Click here to access the required publicity release form.

In November 2020, PGCPS launched an online volunteer application and approval process. Click here for more information on becoming a volunteer and to access the application.

Need shots for school? Visit a back-to-school immunization clinic! All clinics are from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Space is on a first-come, first-served basis and limited to 100 students a day per site. Immunization clinics are designed to support students and families that are underinsured or uninsured.

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SEPTEMBER 5-8

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No Shots. No School. No Exceptions.

Please be sure to submit all required health forms! Please note that ALL medications, cough drops included, cannot be administered or consumed without appropriate documentation.

You can access all health forms here for the 2023-2024 school year.

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.

2023-24 School Year Meal Prices

Elementary (Pre K through Grade 5)

Breakfast: $1.60/day

Lunch: $2.75/day

How to Pay

MySchoolBucks, owned and operated by Heartland Payment Systems, is an online payment service that provides parents the ability to securely pay for meals, monitor student cafeteria purchases, make tuition payments for Before and After School Extended Learning programs, and receive email notifications for low account balances. With MySchoolBucks, payments can be made 24/7 using a Visa, MasterCard, Discover, credit or debit card, and mobile app.

• Online Payment Service

• Mobile App

Free and Reduced-Price Meals

We encourage all families to consider applying for free and reduced price meals! Visit www.myschoolapps.com/Home/PickDistrict to apply online today!

To apply, you will need:

• The name, school and grade for your school-age children
• The name of all adults living in the home
• Income information for all adults living in the home
• Student ID Numbers for your school-age children

Applications will also be sent home with students the first week of school. Applications are available at all PGCPS schools and can be submitted at any time.

August/September Lunch Menu

Welcome back CMIT Tiger Family and Hello to my new Tigers!

My name is Ms. Chandler and I am the Professional School Counselor. This is my 5th year as the counselor at CMIT and I would not want to be anywhere else! I am a product of Prince George's County and I am proud to serve in my community. I am a graduate of Temple University and received my master's in School Counseling and Mental Health from Trinity Washington University. My passion has always been in education and being an advocate for our youth. As a Professional School Counselor, I play an instrumental role in working directly with your child on their academic, career, and personal/social development. My goal is to provide all of our students with a wealth of knowledge and materials to encourage social-emotional development and academic achievement. Each year, individual and small group services are available for students, as well as classroom guidance lessons. These services promote personal and social growth which, in turn, raise academic standards. I believe all our students are resilient and have the ability to succeed with all the support from myself, teachers, and the staff here at CMIT. Thanks for the opportunity to work with your children! I am excited to begin the school year. If you should have any questions and/or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me directly at dchandler@cmitsouthes.org.

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.

UNIT 1 WEEK 1- Going Places

• Reading Diagnostic and Baseline Assessment

Essential Question- What makes a place special?

WEEK 1- How does imagination make a place seem different?

• Phonological awareness: Initial and Final

• Sounds; Recognize Alliteration

• Phonics: Consonants Mm and Tt

• High-Frequency Words: I , am , the

• Spelling words found in weekly readings: cube, circle, triangle square

• Unit Vocabulary: map, move, land, special

Learning Goals:

• Talk with others about what makes a

• place special.

• Read realistic fiction and understand its

• elements

• Demonstrate phonological awareness.

• Listen actively and ask questions to understand information.

• Use text evidence to discuss characters in literary text.

TOPIC 1 LESSON 1- Numbers 0 to 5

• Math Readiness and Baseline Assessment

• Count 1, 2, and 3 objects.

• Counting tells how many are in a group, regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted.

• Understand that counting is cumulative.

• There is a unique symbol that goes with each number word.

• Vocabulary: count, one, two, three, four, five, number

TOPIC 1 LESSON 1- Pushes and Pulls

Essential Question: What happens if you push or pull an object?

• I can observe how objects move

• Thinking of ways to make an object move

• Tell how a push and pull make something move

Vocabulary: push, pull

CHAPTER 1 LESSON 1- Where we learn

• Identify ways children act at school

• Recognize why people share and make good choices

• Analyze what it means to take turns

Vocabulary: school, learn, choices

SEPTEMBER TOPIC: How to Stay Safe

• Understanding safety rules at home and school

• Acknowledging safety helpers at home, school, and community

Vocabulary: stay, safe, helpers, danger, emergency

Parents/Guardians,

First graders are off to a GREAT start! I cannot recognize many of them as they have grown so much over the summer! I am looking forward to seeing all they accomplish this year in first grade. With that said, I have a few updates and reminders for the upcoming week.

• This week, students are learning how to get along with peers in their newly formed groups. They are learning new rules, routines, and procedures.
• Chromebooks were distributed and, by Friday, all students should be able to log in with their passwords. Please teach/remind students to keep their Chromebook clean and free from food particles and water spills.
• Lunch is at 10:30-11:00. Please be reminded to pack less snacks and more of an entree. Students tend to eat all the snacks and eat less meals. Do not send glass jars and/or bottles to school as this is dangerous.
• Attendance Matters, Students MUST attend school each and every day.
• Please join the PTO. We want 100% participation of 1st grade parentsLooking forward to very successful school year.

Please encourage and support students reading for at least 20 minutes each evening. After they read, please encourage writing about reading experiences. Do not put pressure on spelling-this will develop in time.

Thank you for your commitment to education!

Hello Second Grade Families!

We have successfully completed our first week of school! We hope you all are looking forward to a great school year with us! Our team has just a few updates and reminders for the coming week.

• All students should now be able to log into their chromebooks. Thanks Mr. Metin!

• Please join your teacher's Class Dojo, if you haven't already, for quick updates and messaging.

• Many students are still missing some school supplies. Ensure your scholar has four composition books and two folders.

• Remind students to bring a reusable water bottle daily.

• We will continue to build a classroom community across all subjects and begin baseline testing next week.

Thank you!

Welcome to the first week of school! We are so ecstatic to welcome Ms. Lewis, Ms. Fleet, Ms. Madison, and Mrs. Mathews: THE DREAM TEAM! We are off to a great start of the school year. In third grade, we are practicing rules and routines in the classroom, hallway, bathroom, cafeteria, playground every day. If necessary, we are reflecting on our behaviors, how they impact our learning environment, and how we change them.caboose.

This week in Reading, we are discussing Building a Literacy Community!

The two books we have read include First Day Jitters and Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No good, Very Bad Day. Students practiced monitoring their inner conversation and annotating. We are also distributing textbooks that will remain at school. Students will have access to the digital copy as needed for home use.

This week in math, we are distributing textbooks that will remain at school.

Students will have access to the digital copy as needed for home use. We have also been working on beginning of the year baseline assessments.

This week in science, we are distributing textbooks that will remain at school.

Students will have access to the digital copy as needed for home use. We have also been working on beginning of the year baseline assessments.

This week in Social Studies, we are distributing textbooks that will remain at school.

Students will have access to the digital copy as needed for home use.

Scholars will be using The Great Body Shop Curriculum for this school year. We are going over healthy routines that we will be practicing to stay healthy, keep our school environment clean, and monitor our mental health including hand washing, proper bathroom use, and checking in using Rhithm.

Happy School Year and welcome to 4th Grade. We are so excited to begin working with your scholar this school year. Each week, fourth grade will update you through the school newsletter. Students were given forms to fill out during the first week of school and those should be returned to the homeroom teacher as soon as possible. We will begin diagnostic testing next week during students' content classes. We ask that students come to school each day with a charged chromebook.

The fourth grade teams looks forward to the partnership that we will have this year.

Hi everyone!

We have successfully completed our first week in 5th grade! We hope you all had an amazing summer and are ready to start up students’ FINAL year in elementary school! Our students are the oldest in the school this year so this means we want to be LEADERS in the building, setting an example for the other students in our school.

Ms. McDonagh, Ms. Moore, Mr. Rowland, and Ms. Jenkins are excited to work in partnership with all of our parents to have a successful school year and prepare students to transition to middle school. Please let us know if you ever have any questions and/or concerns so we can work together and find solutions!

All students should now be able to log into their chromebooks using the password your teachers provided to you! We want to thank Mr. Metin for going through every single students sign in to fix the problem!

Next week we will be getting into our curriculum for each subject. Students have started taking their baseline assessments for each subject and we will work on our first unit in each subject. Please be checking the assignment calendar on our google site to see what upcoming assignments students may have next week. Students should click on their homeroom teacher’s name to see their assignments. Here is the link to the 5th grade website for those who need it: https://sites.google.com/pgcps.org/5thgradeclasssite/home

Hello and welcome back to another year of CARTS (Creative Arts) classes! This year we will be focusing, as always, on the mission and vision of a well-rounded education based on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math)! Whether it is learning about fractions through notes in music, coding in LEGO, creating architectural wonders in art, learning about the heart rhythm in P.E., building, conducting experiments, and learning about the scientific method in Maker's Lab, learning how to research and exploring various books, magazines, and literature in Library Media, or learning to type in Technology, our students come home with new facts every day over the next 40 weeks!

Stay happy, healthy, and creative,

The CARTS Team ( Ms. James, Ms. Washington, Mr. Weldon, Ms. King, and Mrs. Pinkard)

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
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• School Colors: Hunter Green, Navy Blue
• School Mascot: Tigers
• School Website: http://www.cmitsouthes.org

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