Greetings Tiger Families,

Thank you for a wonderful week! We started this week off with 5th-grade MCAP testing. Our 5th graders tackled two days of math and two days of reading of Maryland state testing. We also concluded our last day for clubs this past Thursday with a celebration, which included certificates, pizza, cookies, cupcakes, and juice. Our students enjoyed celebrating one another, sharing what they learned, as well as designing poster boards for our Clubs Presentation this Friday. Thank you to our Reader’s Theater, Maker's Space, and Music Club for a great presentation of “The Wiz” for our scholars, staff, and parents. Thank you to all our parent volunteers who supported clubs with donations as well throughout this year. If you are interested in volunteering at CMIT South Elementary we have several upcoming activities, the next being Career Day on May 18, 2023.

Families, we are also asking you to have conversations and reinforce your expectations with students regarding behavior in the bathrooms. School bathrooms should be correctly used in a clean manner. Bathroom facilities are also not social gathering places. Students have been having unnecessary messes and issues because they are not being responsible in the restrooms. Our two-person custodial team is responsible for the cleanliness of the whole building and they work tirelessly to maintain our school with pride. Students will be held responsible to do their part to take pride in respecting our beautiful building.

May is also Mental Health Awareness Month and we are excited to partner with the Willow Oak MD Chapter of the Links, Inc. to bring mental health awareness and education to our 3rd-5th graders. Our Charter Operator, Chesapeake Lighthouse Foundation, will also be advocating and sponsoring several activities all month long to encourage students, staff, and families to take steps to improve their mental health including getting outside to learn, move and relax.

Finally, this past week was Administrative Professionals day and, to all of the administrative professionals in the Tiger family, we want to say thank you for all you do. We want to specifically highlight our front office team of Mrs. April Joy, Ms. Jaime Bull, and Mrs. Juliana Derin for all their hard work, consistency, and dedication to our school community. Thank you for all you do.

CMIT South Elementary’s May Themes

Character Theme: Perseverance

STEM Theme: Greenhouses

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” -Maya Angelou

Please take note of these May and June calendar reminders:

• Monday, May 1,- Thursday, May 4, 2023 - MCAP (4th grade)

• Monday, May 8, -Thursday, May 11, 2023 - MCAP (3rd grade)

• Thursday, May 18, 2023 - Career Day

• Monday, May 29, 2023 - School Closed -Memorial Day

• Thursday, June 1, 2023- Field Day

• Monday, June 5, 2023- Kindergarten Promotion
  

• Monday, June 12, 2023- 2-Hr. Early Dismissal for Students

• Tuesday, June 13, 2023- Last Day for Students and End of Fourth Quarter 2-Hr. Early Dismissal for Students

• 2022-2023 SY Calendar

• May Lunch Menu

PTO is excited to kick off personal ad sales for both the Kindergarten Promotion Ceremony and the 5th Grade Moving Up Ceremony.

Ad specifications and ad submission instructions are noted on the website. Ad pricing is below. We will accept ads until May 19, 2023, at 8:00 pm.

Purchase an ad for your tiger today at www.cmitsouthespto.org.

Please contact the PTO with any questions:
e: pto@cmitsouthes.org
p: 202.810.2250 (phone or text)

This school year clubs were truly a blast. Thanks to all the club participants and leaders who helped to make it successful! Thanks to all our wonderful parents and guardians who supported each club with their time and/or donations! We couldn't have done it without each and every one of YOU! Check out our club presentation video below.

Spring allergy season has arrived! Parents should START ALLERGY TREATMENTS AT THIS TIME.

Signs & Symptoms: sneezing, coughing, watery eyes, and nose.

~~NO continuous coughing, sneezing, draining eyes or nose in the school building~~

Nurse Aneke has medication forms available for all medication that must be administered at school.

The Board of Education approved the 2023-2024 school calendar during their March 23 meeting. The first day of school will be on August 28, and winter break has been extended through January 2, 2024.

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:

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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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.

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.

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).

Greetings Kindergarten families!

We would like to share with you the date for our Kindergarten promotion ceremony. Once all information is finalized, we will give you the pertinent details such as tickets, parking, and procedure regarding our special day.

SAVE THE DATE: Monday June 5, 2023

TIME: To be verified, time will be between 8-11am.

ATTIRE: Dress to impress

IMPORTANT REMINDER:

• Students need a refillable water bottle daily

• Please make sure you are practicing shoe tying skills at home. They need your support!

• Chromebooks should be charged daily.

• Permission slips for the in-school field trip will be sent out on Monday May 8th.

• Families will be given info on student’s assigned roles (speaking roles, video submissions, or etc) for the promotion. Please wait to hear from the teacher by next week.

UNIT 4: Then and Now

Essential Question- What was life like in the past?

WEEK 4- Changing Laws, Changing Lives

• Phonological awareness: Identify and count words in a sentence, recognize alliteration, produce rhyming words

• Phonics: Review and reinforce words for Pp and Yy, Short and Long Ii

• Sight words: good, open, could

• Spelling words found in our weekly readings: in, it, if, is, good, open

• Vocabulary: laws, speech, country, matched, time, change, discover, traditions

• Learning Goals

- I can read narrative nonfiction

- I can use words to tell about narrative

- I can write a story about myself

• Finding text features

• Vocabulary related to the Civil Rights Movement

• Writing using text evidence

• Finding supporting text information

• 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 10: Compose and Decompose Numbers 11 to 19

• Numbers from 11-19 can be represented as a sum the sum of 10 and some more

• Representing composition/decomposition with objects, drawings, and equations

• Explore different ways of representing our understanding of teen numbers

• Building a foundation for understanding place value

• Vocabulary: How many more?

TOPIC 6: Environment

Lesson 4: People Can Protect the Environment

• New uses for old things

• Making something that is useful

• Ways to help the environment/Earth

• Vocabulary: recycle, reuse

CHAPTER 5: Time and Chronology

Lesson 4 and lesson 5

• Discuss how people and the weather change over periods of time

• Interpreting timelines

• Vocabulary: year, decade, generation, century, weather, season, dry, cold, windy, hot, wet

UNIT 8 Lesson 3: Helping Those Who Are Sick

• Name different ways to help or express concerns for those who are.
  Vocabulary: sick, well, germ, illness, medicine, doctor, thermometer, nurse, communicable, noncommunicable, “cheer up”, lonely, diseases

First grade parents,

Thanks for sending our scholars to school each day. You guys are awesome, and we value your partnership. Take some time to read with your children. Listen to them read and encourage their growth in reading. It is very important that you are also providing feedback. Encourage students to put their ideas in writing as well by completing book reports.

Thanks for supporting student learning.

Essential Question: Why is the past important?

Students are learning and reviewing the following: Story Retell, Describing characters settings, and major events in a story.

Writing goals will include: writing narratives using temporal words such as after, before, during, next.

High Frequency Words: new, found, thank, please, always

Spelling Words/Phonics: R-controlled Vowel ex./ar/

Genre: Biography

Students are reading biographies this week. See below for topics to add to your home libraries.

Place Value

Essential Question-How can you count and add using tens and ones?

Students are learning the strategy“ Break Apart”.

Here is a short video to support students learning and using the strategy

How do the Parts of Plants help animals?

Vocabulary Words: root, steam, leaf

Make real life connections to this topic. Have children care for a plant at home. Connect this to the plants needing sunlight and water. They could also keep a journal and write what they notice each day. This is a fun activity to complete over the summer as well.

Heroes work to help people who are not treated fairly. Talk about and share ideas of what heroes do that set them apart from others. A video is HERE

Lungs and breathing

Vocabulary Words: breathe, smoke, diaphragm, oxygen, lungs.

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

• Students will be invited to participate in an in-school field trip on Friday, May 22nd. Permission slips and money are DUE on Monday, May 1st. The cost of this trip is $9.00.

• 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 interventions 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.

This week, students will continue reading informational text as it relates to our amazing Earth! Students will explore the weekly question of, "How do natural events change the Earth?" They will compare and contrast texts and make new connections this week. They will also focus on comprehension.

In phonics, students are decoding and spelling words with double consonants. They will also practice breaking these words into syllables as they follow a VCCV pattern. When a word follows this pattern AND has two consonants, the word is split between the two consonants. For example, happen can be split into hap/pen.

Students are wrapping up Topic 12 on measurement. In this topic, students have practiced measuring with inches, feet, and yards as well as centimeters and meters. They have practiced estimating length and using appropriate measuring tools to solve problems.

Please be sure to work on the optional homework packet sent home and review the supplementary resources on CANVAS. Also be on the lookout for an update for testing!

We are continuing to work through Chapter 5- Plants & Animals. Students are exploring plant and animal life cycles, plant needs, animal needs, and how animals can help plants to reproduce.

Students are continuing to work through Chapter 6 in Social Studies. In this chapter, students are learning about American Culture. Subtopics in this chapter include what culture is, cultures in our country, American stories, and American holidays.

Our health unit this month is "Babies... And How You Grew." Students are learning about how they have grown and changed over time, from new babies to children. They are exploring why families are important to the growing process. They are also reviewing how food contributes to growing.

Hi everyone! We are already finishing up another month in 3rd grade and we’re ready for the last 2!

We have been reviewing for our state assessment, MCAP for Reading and Math a lot. The test for third grade will begin the week of May 8th! Students can be working on the practice tests and studying the academic vocabulary to prepare for the test!

After MCAP, we still have other assessments such as MAP Reading, MAP MAth, DIBELS, and IReady! We know it’s a lot but we can do it!

We have collected money for our field trip to Skate Zone coming up on May 25! Please make sure that the volunteer process is complete if you are a chaperone!

Let’s stay on track of our assignments as we move through each unit! 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

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 finish out the LAST QUARTER of third grade as strong as possible!

This week, students continued on in Unit 3 which is about heroes. We are reading many historical fiction stories in this unit. We are also continuing working on comprehension questions and understanding how to look back in the text to find direct evidence. We are finishing up on abbreviations. We are also focused on MCAP prep with our vocabulary words, practice tests, and test taking strategies!

This upcoming week, students will be learning about perimeter. We are also focused on MCAP prep with our vocabulary words, practice tests, and test taking strategies!

Students will be learning about life cycles and traits.

We are on to chapter 4 which is about civics and government! We will continue discussing the branches of government and how our government was first created.

Just a reminder that the 4th Quarter is full of testing so please ensure your scholar is present on time, with a fully charged device, and energized daily for instruction as well as testing. MCAP will take place this coming week (May 1, 2023 - May 5, 2023) for 4th grade! Please ensure scholars are well rested, eat breakfast, and are present and on time daily. We want to congratulate our very own Ms. Crusoe, Ms. Womack, Ms. Lewis, Mr. Weldon, the Reader's Theater Club, Makerspace, and the Chorus on their successful production of The Wiz. We were amazed at all of the talent and are very proud of our participating Tigers! Remember to check SchoolMax weekly to remain informed regarding grades and student performance. Enjoy your weekend!

Reading: This week we continued our preparations for MCAP. Students compared and contrasted common themes given across two different myths. In the myths students learned the story of how good and evil got on Earth. Students found the common theme for both myths and identified how the actions of character affected the fate of others.

Next Week: We will continue our preparations for MCAP. Students will read a drama (play) that will have them identify the theme given in this story. Students will also identify the story elements given in the drama. Students finally were able to identify how actions of characters affect the fate of others.

Social Studies: This week we continued in Chapter 5 by exploring events and people from the Northeast that helped shape the country. Students got to further research facts about different people. STudents also explore amendments 13 & 19 and how

Next Week: We will continue reading Chapter 5 and exploring the Northeast Region. In our upcoming reading we will explore immigration. We will discuss reasons why people who leave everything behind, moving to a new country. We will also explore the inventions and growth of industries that came from immigration to the Northeast.

Math: Our final MCAP review week has consisted of all things fractions, which is the focus of the curriculum’s Topic 8. We have reviewed ways to find equivalent fractions; comparing fractions; converting improper fractions and mixed numbers; adding and subtracting fractions, as well as, mixed numbers; and multiplying fractions by a whole number.

Science: This week scholars have continued Topic 4: Earth’s Features. We discussed patterns in earth’s features like volcanoes, earthquakes, canyons, and buttes.

Health: All health activities are assigned at the beginning of the week and due on Friday. Because of this, retakes and late submissions are no longer accepted and all grades are final.

Scholars have been given their Math, Science, and Health reports which accurately reflects SchoolMax and student performance. all opportunities to complete and resubmit all activities thus far have been given. There are no make-up opportunities at this time.

Reading: This week in Reading Workshop, we wrapped up our MCAP bootcamp with reading different reading prompts and answering questions. Next week we will be taking the MCAP test. Students’ homework will be to charge their chromebook, get a goodnight’s rest, eat a healthy breakfast, and make it to school on time. Donations of hard candy and snacks are being accepted for the week of testing for our homeroom.

Math: This week we began preparing for MCAP Testing by focusing on analyzing and creating equivalent fractions, comparing fractions with like and unlike denominators and adding /subtracting fractions and mixed numbers.

Science: This week students continued working our way through lesson 3 “Waves and the Electromagnetic Spectrum”. Students conducted an investigation where they were asked to create a decipherable code using the patterns in a transverse wave to send a secret message.

Social Studies: This week we continued in Chapter 5 by exploring events and people from the Northeast that helped shape the country. Next week we will pause social studies, because of MCAP testing and will resume the following week.

We have officially finished MCAP testing! Thank you, families, for supporting our scholars this week as we powered through. We aren't finished with testing season yet! Students will be taking MAP and iReady tests in May. Keep the momentum going! Please be sure to send your scholar on-time, daily, with a charged ChromeBook and the necessary supplies to be successful.

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

Here are some updates from the Art Room!

To help prepare for MCAP, grades 3-5 created math and ELA related artworks in the first part of the final quarter! Third grade made a poem using the parts of a sentence in a Mad Libs style that they also will illustrate. Fourth grade created a radial design (an artwork that is symmetrical on every side) using ½, ¼. ⅛ fraction pieces. Fifth grade is creating a line design by making 24 half-inch strips out of a piece of 9x12 construction paper.

Stay happy, healthy, and creative!

Ms. James

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