The Tiger Times

Dear CMIT South Families, Community Partners, and Scholars,

Welcome to November! To our families, thank you for all you do to support your scholars, day in and day out. To our community partners, thank you for standing beside us. And to our scholars , you've worked hard through the first quarter, and we are so proud of you. Let's make the second quarter even better!

Our Character Word of the Month for November is Gratitude, and here's a thought to carry with us:

"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more." — Oprah Winfrey

Let's take time this month to say "thank you" often, at school and at home!

💛 Thank You for Making Principal Appreciation Month ROAR-Tacular!

From the bottom of my heart, thank you for making National Principal Appreciation Month in October absolutely ROAR-Tacular! I was deeply touched and humbled by the kindness our incredible Tiger community showed me. Thank you for the beautiful cards, heartfelt messages, stunning flowers, adorable drawings, decorations, and thoughtful tokens of appreciation, and for the warm smiles in the hallways and parking lot. It warmed my heart and reminded me why I love serving this community.

Please know this: I cannot do this job without each and every one of you! Being your Principal is not a solo effort. It's a partnership built on trust, collaboration, and a shared commitment to our Tigers' success. Your support, understanding, patience, and encouragement fuel my passion every single day. Together, we create the magic that makes CMIT South Elementary such a special place.

You make me a better leader, and for that, I am eternally grateful. Thank you for believing in our mission, supporting our vision, and partnering with me to create a school where every child can thrive.

🗳️ School Closed Tuesday, November 3 (Election Day)

Schools and offices will be closed on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, for Election Day.

📋 Climate & Culture Survey: Make Your Voice Count!

Safe, welcoming schools start with you! Help us build a stronger organizational culture by taking the Climate & Culture Survey. Your input directly improves our learning spaces.

🔗 bit.ly/26ClimateSurvey

☕ Quarterly Principal Chat & Chew

Join us for our quarterly Principal Chat & Chew, where I'll share school updates, celebrate grade-level successes, and address common concerns. These sessions are interactive, so bring your questions, feedback, and ideas on the topics that matter most to your family. Light refreshments will be provided!

1st Quarterly Meeting Schedule (8:30 AM – 9:30 AM):

• Kindergarten & 1st Grade: Wednesday, November 4th

• 2nd & 3rd Grade: Thursday, November 5th

• 4th & 5th Grade: Friday, November 6th

Please use this Google form to submit your questions and confirm your attendance so we can address your most pressing concerns: Chat & Chew Form

⏰ The form closes Tuesday, November 3, 2026, at 3:00 PM.

📅 Parent/Teacher Conferences: No School Wednesday, November 11

School will be closed for students on Wednesday, November 11th for Parent/Teacher Conferences. Please sign up or reach out to your child's teacher to schedule your conference. This is a valuable chance to discuss your Tiger's progress, celebrate successes, and partner with teachers to support continued growth.

🎟️ Charter School Lottery Information: 2027–2028

The 2027–2028 Charter/Specialty Lottery opens Monday, November 2, 2026, at 9:00 AM and closes Friday, February 5, 2027, at 5:00 PM.

How to apply:

1. Submit your lottery application through ScribOrder: PGCPS Registration and Specialty Program Lottery Application

2. Get your order number. You'll receive one after submitting your ScribOrder application.

3. Complete the Sibling Preference Application using your order number: Sibling Preference Application

4. Submit it. Send the completed sibling application directly to Jamie Bull, Registrar, at jamie.bull@pgcps.org.

Critical requirements:

• Students must have a Student ID number to apply.

• If your student needs one, complete the Student ID Application in ParentVUE.

• Please enter all information accurately. Incomplete applications will delay processing.

Questions? Contact Mrs. Bull, School Registrar, at jamie.bull@pgcps.org.

📞 Parent Communication Protocol

This school year, we created a Parent Communication Protocol to help you reach the right staff member quickly. Please follow it when contacting staff: Parent Communication Protocol SY26-27

Thank you for all you do for our Tiger family. Let's Gooo, Tigers! ROAR! 🐯📖

With Grateful Tiger Pride and Endless Gratitude,

Tauheedah N. Simmons-Lewis
Your PAWW-rific Principal
CMIT South Elementary School
Home of the STEMTastic Tigers 🐅

The CMIT South Shoe Drive is officially underway, and we’re working toward a BIG goal: 4,000+ pounds of shoes — approximately 160 bags!

Have shoes your family has outgrown or no longer wears? Put them to purpose! We’re collecting new and VERY gently worn shoes of all sizes and genders. Every pair donated brings us one step closer to our goal and helps create opportunity beyond our school community.

Every Pair Has Purpose. Let’s STEP UP, CMIT South!

Questions or concerns about the Shoe Drive Fundraiser? Contact the PTO at pto@cmitsouthes.org.

🍂 IT’S FALL, Y’ALL — HOODIE SEASON IS HERE! 🍂

Cooler days call for CMIT South ES hoodies! Our uniform-approved hoodie is available now in The Roar Shop.

Stay warm. Stay school-approved. Stay ready to ROAR.

🛒 Shop now: https://www.givebacks.com/causes/cmitelementarypto/shop?category=255127

November is a wonderful time to slow down, reflect, and recognize all the things we have to be thankful for! This month, our schoolwide character theme is GRATITUDE. We will be encouraging our scholars to develop an attitude of gratitude by recognizing the people, experiences, and little moments that make our lives special.

Throughout the month, we will explore what it means to be grateful, how to express appreciation, and how showing gratitude can positively impact ourselves and those around us. Scholars will be encouraged to practice gratitude through kind words, thoughtful actions, helping others, and recognizing the good in each day.

Families, you can help us grow gratitude at home! Try starting a daily gratitude conversation by asking your child to name three things they are thankful for. Encourage them to write a thank-you note, express appreciation to someone special, or find a small way to make someone else's day brighter.

Remember, gratitude isn't just about being thankful for the big things; it's about appreciating the little things, too. Let's work together to cultivate thankful hearts, spread kindness, and make gratitude a part of our everyday lives!

A grateful heart is a happy heart! Wishing all of our Tiger families a wonderful November! 🐯🍁

Grade Level Blurb:

CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS!!!! We can not have any field trips until we have enough chaperones to have a 1 to 4 ratio, according to PGCPS policy. Please visit Volunteer with PGCPS in order to register. Please follow all of the required steps and contact your scholar’s teacher with any questions. Inform the teacher when you are approved and ready to support. Once you get the email stating that you are cleared, please forward it to Ms. Reese so that you can be put on the approved chaperone list. Thank you for your assistance!

Also, we are halfway to our goal for a project on donorschoose, if you have the ability to donate or can spread the word that would be great. This project will benefit the whole Kindergarten team. THANK YOU ♥️!

https://www.donorschoose.org/sl/C7XLaWDHb9

Please make sure that students are dressed for the weather as it changes and have school approved jackets and sweaters as the thermostat is typically kept at 70 but controls all four Kindergarten classrooms, so the temperature may vary from class to class.

Students are losing their personal belongings. Please label all items, sweaters and jackets especially, so that students will know what belongs to them. Please use simple reminders to help students learn to become and stay responsible for their own items.

Important Dates

November 3: No School, Election Day

November 11: No school, Parent Teacher Conferences

November 25 - 27:Thanksgiving Break

Reading Updates:

UNIT 2: Living Together

Week 1: Animals on the Move

Essential Question: Why do some animals move from place to place?

• Phonological Awareness: Initial and Final Sounds; Segment and Blend Phonemes

Blend and Segment: Onset and Rime

• Phonics: Consonants Dd and Kk

• High-Frequency Words: of, are, that

• Spelling words found in weekly readings: butterflies, geese, whales

• Unit Vocabulary: grow, need, share, depend

Learning Goals:

• Identify the main idea to understand informational text

• Find the Main Idea and Supporting Details

• Make Inferences About Main Ideas

• Words that Name Different Animals

• Adjectives and Articles

• Rhyming Sort

Math Updates:

TOPIC 4- Comparing Numbers 0 to 10

Essential Understanding: Two groups can be compared by counting the number of objects in each group and telling which group has more objects or fewer objects.

• Finding the position of each number within the counting sequence helps to compare

• The number that tells more is greater than the other; the number that tells fewer is less than the other.

• The use of matching, drawing, ten frames, and counting to compare numbers

Vocabulary: zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, compare, ten frame

Science Updates:

TOPIC 2: Weather and Climate

Experience 1: Sunlight and Earth’s Surface

• Investigate the cause and affect the sun’s light on different materials

• Describe how they can reduce that affect

• Design ways to help avoid the sun’s light

Vocabulary: sunlight, shade, problem, design

Social Studies Updates:

CHAPTER 2 LESSON 1- Our Country and State

Essential Question- What does it mean to be American?

• I will know about America

• There are 50 states in our nation

• Discuss the people who live in our country

Vocabulary: nation, state, country

Health Updates:

NOVEMBER TOPIC: Healthy Foods

Lesson 1:Food Needs for Life

• Identify food as a need for all living things.

• Explain how choosing healthful food promotes a positive self-image.

• Identify routines for healthy eating.

• Compare and contrast the needs of living things.

Vocabulary: alive, not living, healthy, routine

Grade Level Blurb:

Happy November, First Grade Families!

We are excited to welcome a new month filled with learning, growing, and opportunities to practice gratitude! As we embrace our monthly theme of GRATITUDE, we encourage our scholars to recognize the many things, big and small, that they have to be thankful for. We are grateful for another wonderful month of learning alongside our amazing first graders! Be sure to read below for important updates, upcoming events, and helpful reminders. Wishing everyone a happy November!

Important Reminders:

🚨 There is NO SCHOOL on Tuesday, November 3rd in observance of Election Day.

➕ Math Topic 3 homework packets will be due soon! Please stay tuned for updates/due dates from your scholar's teacher. Remember, students should work on one lesson per night in alignment with the lesson taught in class.

🔤 We will not send home a homework for Unit 1 Week 6. We will practice these spelling words in class, but will not take a spelling test. Spelling homework will pick up again next week when we begin Unit 2.

Phonics & Spelling

This week in Phonics, students will review words with qu-.

We will review the following high-frequency words go, me, for, here, where. High-frequency words are words that appear often in books and everyday reading. Sometimes, these words follow regular spelling patterns and can be sounded out. Other times, they have irregular spelling patterns that must be memorized. We call these spelling patterns “heart parts” because students must know them by heart. Learning these words helps students recognize them quickly and read more smoothly and confidently.

Math Updates:

Topic 3

We are moving through topic 3! In this topic, students are learning strategies (counting on, open number line, doubles, doubles plus, making 10) to help them add to 20. Many classes will wrap this topic up this week. Please be on the lookout for important updates on testing due dates and homework updates from your scholar's teacher.

🏠 How Can Families Help at Home?

Science Updates:

Our first graders are working through Topic 1 in Science, where we are observing and investigating light and sound! Students are exploring where light and sound come from, making observations, asking questions, and investigating how they interact with the world around us.

🏠 How Can Families Help at Home?
Encourage your child to be a scientist at home! Look for different sources of light and sound, discuss what they notice, and ask questions such as, “What do you see?” “What do you hear?” and “What do you think will happen?” You can even explore how sounds change when objects are tapped, shaken, or plucked. 🔎✨

Social Studies Updates:

This week, students are continuing through Chapter 1 in Social Studies, where they are learning what it means to be a good citizen and explore how our community and government work together. Students are learning about rights and responsibilities, rules and laws, community leaders, and the role of government. They are also practicing important skills such as distinguishing fact from fiction, solving problems, and making thoughtful choices.

🏠 How Families Can Help at Home?

Talk with your child about ways your family members can be good citizens. Discuss rules, responsibilities, and why we have laws, and encourage your child to share examples of how they can help make their classroom, school, and community a better place.

Health Updates:

We are working through our monthly issue, "Head to Toe." In this issue, students will learn more about their great body parts, how these parts function, why they're important, and what makes us special.

🏠 How Families Can Help at Home?

Families can support learning at home by talking about different parts of the body and how they help us each day. Encourage your child to practice healthy habits such as washing their hands, brushing their teeth, eating nutritious foods, getting enough sleep, and staying active. Families can also discuss body safety and the importance of listening to their bodies and telling a trusted adult when something hurts or feels uncomfortable. Ask your child to share something new they learned about their body and explain how it helps them stay healthy!

Grade Level Blurb:

Hello, Team Third Grade Families!

November is here, and with it comes a fresh start! As we wrap up the first quarter and begin the second, it is time for our students to step up their game! We encourage all students to reflect on their progress, put forth their best effort, stay focused, and take more responsibility for their learning and behavior. Let's make this next quarter even more successful than the first! We can do it!

A friendly reminder to parents: If there are any changes to your child's daily dismissal routine, please notify the main office directly. Teachers are actively engaged in instruction and working with students throughout the day, so we are not always able to check emails in a timely manner. Contacting the office helps ensure that dismissal changes are communicated promptly and safely.

Finally, don't forget to fall back! Daylight Saving Time ends this Sunday, November 1, so remember to turn your clocks back one hour. Enjoy that extra hour of sleep! Also, do not forget that this Tuesday, November 3 is Election Day and schools will be closed.

Here's to a new month, a new quarter, and new opportunities to learn, grow, and achieve. Let's make November a month to remember!

This just in: The heat was ON in the third grade basketball tournament! The Flores Fever faced off against White’s Wizards in an exciting showdown on the court! Both teams brought their energy, determination, and team spirit, but the Fever was simply too hot to handle! With impressive teamwork, hustle, and some fantastic baskets, the Flores Fever worked their magic and pulled away with a 15–6 victory! Congratulations to the Fever on a sizzling win and a big shout-out to the Wizards for their effort and sportsmanship! The real victory was seeing our third graders cheering each other on, working together, and having a ball! Fever fans, turn up the heat! The final and championship game will be the Mystics vs the Fever. That date: TBD. Shout out to Ms. Howard for being our tournament referee 😀

Reading Updates:

In Ms. Howard’s class, the week was a reteaching week for main idea and supporting details, as many scholars are still working toward understanding and mastering this skill. Through teacher-led small groups and independent practice, scholars revisited how to determine what a passage is mostly about and identify details that support the main idea.

Ms. Madison’s students have started reading origin myths! Specifically, we are reading The Golden Flower, a Taino myth. This myth includes a lot of opportunities for students to visualize the author's descriptions, as well as the author's use of imagery. We have worked on vowel teams and suffixes, as well as parts of speech (specifically nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs). We will also work on reading and spelling words with vowel diphthongs next week. .

Math Updates:

Third-grade mathematicians are continuing their work with multiplication strategies and properties! Our current focus is the Associative Property of Multiplication, while also learning to differentiate among the three properties we have studied:

• Commutative Property — factors can switch order without changing the product.

• Associative Property — factors can be grouped differently without changing the product.

• Distributive Property — a multiplication fact can be broken apart into smaller, more familiar facts and the partial products combined.

Scholars are being challenged to do more than simply solve multiplication facts—they must identify which property is being used, explain their reasoning, and apply the appropriate strategy. Continued multiplication fact practice at home will greatly support their success as we move into more complex multiplication concepts.

Additionally some students have tested in Topic 3 and will be ready to move on next week to Topic 4.

Science Updates:

In Mr. White’s Science class, the STEM Fair process is officially underway! At this point, scholars should have already submitted their STEM Fair topic/question and hypothesis through the Google Form in Canvas.

STEM Fair Reminder: I currently have a number of scholars who have not submitted the required information. If your scholar has not submitted their STEM Fair topic yet, it needs to be completed ASAP so they can move forward with the remainder of the project.

If your family is unsure about the project requirements, needs help developing an appropriate question, or needs clarification about how to move forward, please reach out to me rather than waiting. I am happy to help!

Coming Up Next: Scholars will begin working on the next section of their STEM Fair project, which will include: Materials • Variables • Procedures

It is important that the initial topic/question and hypothesis are completed first, as each section builds upon the previous one. Please continue checking Canvas for STEM Fair information, forms, and upcoming deadlines.

In Mrs. Flores’s Science class, the students will move to lesson 2 which focuses on magnetism. Please make sure you have seen my post on Class Dojo concerning the upcoming STEM Fair due dates. I have discussed this information with the students. I would like the students to focus on completing and gathering the necessary information and documentation for their display boards.

Social Studies Updates:

In Ms. Howard’s class with the spirit of Election Day coming up, scholars participated in a short lesson on voting and the importance of having a voice in their community. Scholars are especially excited about the upcoming SGA election and the opportunity to cast their votes!

As for social studies in Ms. Madison’s class, we have started learning about natural resources (specifically renewable and nonrenewable resources)! We will continue to do so next week.

Health Updates:

In Health, the students have completed their unit on “The Eyes.” We will start our new topic this coming week.

Thank you, families, for helping our scholars stay on track!

Grade Level Blurb:

Greetings Fourth Grade Family,

As we move further into the school year, we want to share a few critical updates regarding your child's academic growth, daily routines, and how you can track their progress in real-time. We appreciate your continued partnership in making this a successful year!

We have reached the end of the First Quarter!! All work that has not been submitted is unable to be submitted at this time. Teachers are finalizing our gradebooks and will publish the grades that we have. Please remember that if a student has an unexcused absence or unexcused early dismissal they will not be permitted to make up an assignment that is missed.

Here are some ways to help your scholar be successful for the 2nd Quarter:

• Check the agenda book daily for homework assignments

• Review Synergy weekly, students can monitor their progress using StudentVue found on their Clever

• Ensure your scholar get at least 45 minutes on i-Ready (Reading & Math)

• Ensure your scholar arrives at school on time and stays the entire day (Students are working until 2:20 daily!

Many class activities use online tools. A charged computer ensures your child can fully participate in lessons and complete assignments. Our students also need a pair of wired headphones to complete activities and for testing. Students who arrive on time are better prepared for learning and reduce classroom disruptions. Please plan to have your child at school a few minutes early each day. A healthy breakfast helps students focus and have energy for learning. School breakfast is available daily until 8:00 when students arrive in the morning. CARTS begin at 8:05 AM

Uniforms:

We are a uniform school. Students must be in the proper uniform each and every day. Students are expected to have mostly black shoes. They may wear a navy blue or school logo jacket or pullover during class. Students will be asked to remove any jacket or sweater that is not following the uniform policy. To keep all students safe during recess, PE, and daily hallway transitions, please remember that closed-toe shoes are required every day as part of our uniform policy. Students are not allowed to wear Crocs, slides, or slippers on school grounds.

Students may only wear these items if we are having a specific, pre-announced themed dress-down day (such as "Pajama Day").

We are grateful for your teamwork, and we appreciate everything you do to support learning, safety, punctuality of our scholars.

Warmly,

Team 4Ward

Important Upcoming Dates:

• Election Day School Closed Tuesday November 3, 2026

• Parent Teacher Conferences Schools Closed for Students Wednesday November 11, 2026

Reading Updates:

This Week:

We read a biography called “Barbed Wire Baseball.” In this text students read the story of a baseball player named Zeni who was sent to an internment camp during World War II. In this text we will identify the text structure of chronological order to retell the events of Zeni’s life. Students will also monitor their inner conversations while they read the text closely. This week’s word study will be prefixes (em-, en-, mis-) students will determine the meaning of these prefixes to determine the meaning of multiple words.

Next Week:

We will revisit the biography “Barbed Wire Baseball.” This week students will determine the text structure of the story which is chronological order. Chronological or sequence is normally how biographies are organized. This is when the events of someone’s life are told in order of their lives. Students will also write an essay about how people can influence the places that they live like Zeni did at the internment camp. Students will also have their story quiz and word study assessment on prefixes (em-, en-, and mis-).

Math Updates:

We have completed Topic 2: Adding and Subtracting Multi-Digit Numbers and will now move into Topic 3: Multiplication!

In this topic, scholars will focus on multiplying single-digit numbers by multi-digit numbers. They will explore and practice several strategies, including partial products, the area model, arrays, and the standard algorithm. Scholars will also learn about the properties of multiplication, including the commutative, associative, identity, and distributive properties.

In Ms. Felton and Ms. Crusoe’s cohort, scholars will receive recommended IXL skills and Iready recommendations to practice at home and during available classroom practice time. These targeted skills will help reinforce previously taught concepts, strengthen foundational math skills, and support continued growth.

Families can support their scholars by encouraging regular practice at home.

Vocabulary to Support Learning

Please review the following terms with your scholar:

• Factor: A number that is multiplied by another number.

• Product: The answer to a multiplication problem.

• Partial Products: A strategy that breaks numbers apart and multiplies smaller parts before combining the results.

• Area Model: A visual strategy that uses a rectangle divided into smaller sections to represent multiplication.

• Array: An arrangement of objects in equal rows and columns used to represent multiplication.

• Standard Algorithm: A step-by-step method for solving multiplication problems by organizing numbers vertically.

• Commutative Property: Changing the order of the factors does not change the product. Example: 3 × 4 = 4 × 3.

• Associative Property: Changing the grouping of factors does not change the product. Example: (2 × 3) × 4 = 2 × (3 × 4).

• Identity Property of Multiplication: Multiplying any number by 1 gives the same number. Example: 7 × 1 = 7.

• Distributive Property: Multiplying a number by a sum is the same as multiplying the number by each addend and then adding the products. Example: 4 × 23 = (4 × 20) + (4 × 3) = 80 + 12 = 92.

Science Updates:

As we continue through the first quarter, scholars will keep exploring the different forms of energy and how energy is transferred from one place or object to another.

This week, scholars also began learning how to write Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning (CER) responses. In a CER response, scholars make a claim that answers a question, provide evidence from an investigation, text, observation, or data, and explain their reasoning by showing how the evidence supports their claim.

Families can support this skill during everyday conversations by asking questions such as, “What do you think?” “What makes you say that?” and “What evidence do you have?” Whether discussing why an ice cube melted, which route to school is faster, or why a favorite team won a game, encouraging scholars to explain their thinking helps strengthen the same reasoning skills we use in science.

Social Studies Updates:

This week, students explored the relationship between people and the land. We learned how people interact with their environment, how they use the land and its resources, and how people can change and adapt to the places where they live.

Next week, we will begin preparing for our first in-class Quest project! Students will research one region of the United States, identifying its natural features and resources, climate, recreational activities, and how people adapt to the land. They will use their research to create an informative brochure highlighting the unique characteristics of their chosen region.

Grade Level Blurb:

Quarter 1 in the Books: Next Stop, Quarter 2!

We made it through the first quarter! We are so proud of our 5th graders for all of their hard work, growth, and determination. The transition into 5th grade comes with unique challenges, but our scholars stepped up, met our high expectations, and finished the first quarter strong!

It was wonderful seeing everyone dress up for Character Day! The students (and staff!) had a fantastic time bringing their favorite characters to life and celebrating creativity together)

As we transition directly into Quarter 2, please help us keep up the momentum:

• Positive Behavior & Expectations: Talk with your scholar about making good choices, staying focused during instruction, and showing kindness to peers.

• Charge Chromebooks Nightly: Please ensure your student arrives at school every day with a fully charged Chromebook.

• Homework & Assignments: Remind students to complete and submit all assignments on time as we begin the new quarter.

What We Learned This Week

Here is a look at what our students focused on during our final week of the quarter:

Reading Updates:

📖 Reading (Unit 2, Week 1)

• Informational Text: We dove into informational texts to learn how authors present non-fiction facts, structure key concepts, and use text features (such as headings, diagrams, and captions) to build clarity. Students practiced identifying main ideas and supporting details to deepen their comprehension of real-world topics.

🔢 Math (Topic 4: Multiplying Decimals)

• Lesson 4-1 (Multiplying Decimals by Powers of 10): We reviewed how multiplying by powers of 10 moves the decimal point to the right, which increases the place value of each digit.

• Lesson 4-2 (Estimating Decimal Products): Students practiced estimating products to check if their answers are reasonable before solving complex problems.

🧪 Science

• Topic 2 (Changes in Matter): We have wrapped up Topic 2, where scholars explored physical and chemical changes, mixtures, and solutions. Through hands-on investigations, scholars learned how matter is conserved during different types of changes.

• 📝 Topic 2 Assessment (Rescheduled for Monday, Nov 2): Scholars have received their study guides/guided notes to prepare. Please encourage your scholar to review these materials, study key vocabulary, and revisit the Topic 2 lessons in their Science textbook. The Key Ideas videos are also available in Canvas under the Modules tab for additional review.

• What's Next: Following Monday's assessment, we will begin Topic 3: Earth's Systems.

Health Updates:

• Healthy Lifestyles: We introduced our new unit focused on healthy habits, personal wellness, and making positive daily lifestyle choices.

General CARTS Updates:

General CARTS Updates:

Please remember to check your student's Canvas assignments and Synergy grades regularly.

We are starting our “Around the World” projects! Here's what we're doing:

Dear Families,

We will be making pamphlets of the grade levels’ chosen countries! More information to come.

Music:

Hey CMIT family!

As a reminder 2nd - 5th graders need music journals.

For our around the world, we will be working with Mr. Adu and Ms. Washington on a dance! Families in grades 3-5 please refer to Class Dojo for information on their music research projects.

LEGO:

Hi 5th Grade Families!

Fifth grade will soon begin our Build the World: A LEGO Country Challenge. Students will research a country and create a more detailed LEGO model that represents its landmarks, cities, transportation, environment, and other important features. Students may also design a solution to a real-world problem connected to their country.

Maker’s Lab:

Hello Families,

For our projects, we will research scientists from around the world! Each grade level has chosen a continent.

Art:

Hello!

In art, each grade level will examine artwork from their chosen continent and then will make a work inspired by that artist's style!

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