CMIT South Elementary School

Hazel Health Services Coming to CMIT South Elementary

What is Hazel Health?

Hazel Health has partnered with Prince George's County Public Schools to provide access to quality healthcare services for all students, at no cost to families, this school year. Students can be referred by the school counselor or their parent/guardian. A designated person at the school or a parent/guardian can initiate a video visit with a Hazel health care provider while your child is at school or at home to provide either physical or mental health services. Therapy sessions with Hazel Health are a safe space and are private and confidential.

How can your child receive services?

Waitlists for mental health services for children are sometimes long or sometimes as parents it's tough to find the time to take our children to appointments which makes it difficult for them to receive the immediate support they need. Hazel Health is geared to bridge that gap. Students are able to receive these services free, virtually and while in school. If you have any questions please feel free to visit their website https://www.hazel.co/ or reach out to me.

Grade Level Blurb:

Hello Kinder Families,

We had a great time presenting the Black History Month posters. We all were able to learn about the amazing contributions of so many different African American men and women who have helped shape our nation. Students did a great job sharing the information that they have learned and the posters were so creative.

We will be conducting a limited number of parent/teacher conferences on Tuesday 2/20 between 7:30a-9:30a. This is a very small window of time, therefore teachers will be reaching out to the families that we would like to speak with. Keep in mind that you may always request a conference with your child’s teacher at any time throughout the year.

Upcoming Dates to Remember:

February 19th- NO SCHOOL

February 20th- Conferences and 2 hr delayed opening for all students

February 26th- Aquarium Field Trip

Reading Updates:

Traditional Stories

In this new unit, we will continue to read traditional stories, write a fiction story, and talk with others about why people like stories. We will also discuss how fictional, or make-believe, characters are different from real people.

This week we will continue to:

• Compare and contrast stories

• Ask and Answer Questions

• Understanding how context clues assist us within a text

• Possessive Case Pronouns

• Phonological Awareness: Syllables; Initial Sounds; Word Count

• Phonics: Consonants Zz / z / and Qq /kw

• High-Frequency Words: her, how, down

Math Updates:

Numbers 11-20

Your child is learning to count, read, and write numbers from 11 through 20. He or she

will learn to count forward from any number to 20. Your child will also learn to use logical

reasoning to solve problems when there is more than one possible solution.

We will discuss how:

• there is a unique symbol that goes with each number word

• counting tells how many are in a set, regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted. The last number said when counting a set is the total.

• counting is cumulative.

• you use the count sequence to count from any number within 20.

• numbers become greater when you count on them.

Science Updates:

Seasons

In this topic, we will continue to build on our understanding as they explore Earth’s weather. We will discuss each season with the class. Students will learn how to describe when each season is and what the weather is like during each season. We will also consider each season as starting on a particular date, understanding that the weather does not suddenly change because a new season starts.

Social Studies Updates:

Geography of the Neighborhood

This new topic will allow students the opportunity to compare and contrast the relative locations of people, places, and environments and recognize several different location words. For the next several weeks, we will discuss that places, and their relative advantages and disadvantages, can change over time. We will also build backgrounds by asking children what they know about their community and encouraging them to share what they know about where they live.

Health Updates:

Going to the Doctor & Dentist

This monthly lesson will continue to help students identify health helpers, get a checkup to keep their bodies healthy and safe, care for their teeth, and make healthy decisions.

Grade level blurb:

Families,

We hope that you are enjoying these short stories for homework. Please have students read and reread these to practice fluency and comprehension. Remember the importance of students completing all assignments in the homework packet. Reminder: Teachers are re: conferences for students. Please know that if you have concerns and/or questions, please let us know. Many projects came in this week. Looking forward to the presentations next week. These will be returned at the end of February. Thank you for always supporting student learning.

Please support students to become members of a public library.

1. It builds interest and experience for early literacy.

2. Great books to use and read

3. Good habits for life

Reading Updates:

Unit 3

Week 3-Poetry

Genre- Poetry

Vocabulary: be,

Phonics_ Long /e/

Spelling Words: see, me, tree, we, she, Three, be, Bee, he, live, work, who, out,

Pronouns

Math Updates:

Topic 8-Understanding place value

Ongoing skills: counting by 10’s, addition, subtraction, and word problems. Please teach students to tell the time, it is a difficult skill to learn even for ⅔ graders. Teach both ways to write and tell time. Note: As we wind down into the year, some H/W math packets may have all types of skills, not just the current learning. Math skills are ongoing to build fluency.

Science Updates:

Living Things

Social Studies Updates:

Continents and Oceans

Black History discussion and projects

Project presentation and celebrations.

Health Updates:

Lesson 4: Expressing how you feel

Grade level blurb:

We are halfway through the third quarter already! Please be sure to check SchoolMax regularly for current grades. Please also check Blue folders nightly for graded work and behavior. Agenda books should also be checked nightly for homework assignments and expectations.

Reading Updates:

Unit 3 Week 5 is all about Procedural Text. We will be reading My Food, Your Food to understand text features and make inferences.

Our Spelling Words will focus on the vowel teams oo, ue, ew, ui. Homework will be sent home on Tuesday, February 21st.

Math Updates:

We have all begun Topic 8 - Time and Money. Please spend time with your scholar counting and identifying U.S. coins and dollars.

Your scholar must be only completing the page of the lesson that we have learned in school that day. Those lessons will be in your scholar's agenda book.*

Science Updates:

We have begun Topic 4- Earth's Processes. We will focus on Quick, Slow, and Human-made changes on Earth. Such as Earthquakes, Erosion, and Leeves.

Social Studies Updates:

Many classes are wrapping up Topic 3 - Government and will be moving onto Topic 4- People who supply our Goods and Services.

Health Updates:

We are working through and wrapping up Fear and what your body does when you feel afraid. Our next topic will be Babies and How You Grow.

Grade level blurb:

Another week is in the books! Please be advised progress report grades are due this week. This means we are halfway through the 3rd quarter. Please make sure students are coming to school on time and prepared to learn. We will be gearing up for state testing season soon. Chromebook collection will be taking place towards the end of the night; please be on the lookout for more information.

Reminders:

There is no school on Monday, February 19th for President’s Day. On Tuesday, February 20th there is a 2-hour delay for parent-teacher conferences. Teachers will be communicating with specific families to schedule conferences.

Reading Updates:

Fleet/Lewis: This week we finished discussing persuasive text using Welcome Back Wolves and Wolves Don't Belong In Yellowstone. We were able to identify what was opinion and fact. They also have received their new spelling words and will have a spelling test on Tuesday, February 21, 2024

Math Updates:

Fleet/Lewis: This week we completed lessons 2 and 3 of topic 7 which was creating picture and bar graphs. Next week we will be focusing on answering word problems based on graphs. This will conclude topic 7 so be on the lookout for a study guide and date for the topic assessment.

Madison/Mathews: We are currently working on Topic 8 (Strategies and Properties to Add and Subtract)! Specifically, we worked on mental math strategies and reviewed regrouping. We will continue with lessons on rounding and estimating next week!

Science Updates:

Fleet/Lewis: This week we discussed patterns of life cycles and inherited traits. Next week we will be reviewing all lessons discussed in topic 5. The topic assessment is scheduled for Monday, February 26th. Please be on the lookout for updates and a study guide.

Madison/Mathews: We are still working on Topic 4 - Climate! We mainly discussed climate change, and we will learn about world climates next week.

Social Studies Updates:

Fleet/Lewis: Our next Social Studies assessment will be on Chapter 3. The study guide for this assessment will be handed out next week, assessment date TBA.

Health Updates:

The theme for February is “My Family, Your Family.” Students will explore different types of families, family traditions, the role that genes play in development, special qualities, and personal safety.

Grade level blurb:

I hope that everyone is doing well. We have completed our fourth week of the third quarter. The Progress Report Window has opened and teachers are busy updating their grades in Schoolmax. As always, please check Schoolmax to stay up to date with your scholar’s grades and progress in their classes.

This upcoming Monday, February 19, 2024, is Presidents’ Day and school will be closed. On Tuesday, February 20, 2024, we will have a two-hour delayed opening for parent-teacher conferences. All teachers have created their own conference schedules and have shared those with parents who have been invited to conferences. We ask that you check your Classdojo to see if you have a message from your scholar’s teacher and to sign up for a conference spot. If you were invited to a conference please do not share this information with any other family, we are only meeting with selected students. We also enjoyed seeing our scholars dressing down on Friday in their black and red to show Black love! Finally, the school celebrates every Friday for Black History Month. Please see the information posted to Classdojo for the themes for each Friday. As always students should be dressed appropriately and follow the county dress code.

Fourth graders are slated to return their Chromebooks on Friday, March 1, 2024. In preparation for Chromebooks to be returned, we required the charger that was given with the computer. We also ask that all stickers and other labels be removed from the Chromebooks. Please ensure that your scholar has also removed any plugins they may have for their computer mouse or headphones. For more information regarding the next steps for Chromebook usage outside of school please contact the administration or our technology department.

This is a friendly reminder that late work is only accepted if a student has an excused absence! If a scholar is absent and does not bring a note they will earn a 0 on the assignment that was missed. Please read the reminders to ensure that you are partnering with your scholars to make them successful in school.

Fourth Grade Reminders:

Scholars should come to school each day with a fully charged Chromebook. As a STEM school technology is utilized in all classes and students are completing assignments digitally. It is difficult to charge Chromebooks during class.

Please check Schoolmax weekly to see the scholar’s updated grades. Canvas is a Learning Management System that scholars utilize to complete assignments and get access to materials. The grades provided in Schoolmax are those that will be used to calculate progress reports and report cards.

If your scholar is absent, please share a note with the homeroom teacher within 3 days of your scholar returning to school. For students to receive make-up work you must provide a note stating; the student’s name, the date of absence, and the reason for absence. Work is provided to students upon their return to school with an absence note.

Each week we suggest checking your scholar's browser history and YouTube history. This is to make sure that your scholar isn’t going to a site or watching videos that you would not approve of. Teachers are limited to only seeing activity on your scholar’s screen when they are in class. We utilize a system called Hapara that allows us to prevent access to certain sites. We are asking that you check your scholar's computer history weekly.

Reading Updates:

This Week: Students concluded Unit 2 and textbook Vol. 1 by creating a brochure about an endangered animal. Students brainstormed animals, gathered information on the animals through research, and finally created an informational brochure on their animals. Students got a chance to present their brochures to a partner and also reflect on ways to improve their projects for the next time. Their Vol. 1 textbooks have come home and are to remain home.

Next Week: Students will begin unit 3 Diversity. In this unit, students will be reading various literature texts that explore different characters in different situations. Our first story of the text is called “Out of My Mind.” In this text, students will explore reasons why people communicate in different ways. Students will monitor their inner conversations while reading closely, make inferences about the story, and determine the traits of a character. Students will resume spelling words this week.

Math Updates:

This week, students wrapped up work in Topic 4 by reviewing previously taught skills. Students completed the Topic 4 assessment and as well as the Topic 4 Performance task. Sections 41 and 42 completed the Unit 1 Test, this assessment covers Topic 1-4. Sections 43 and 44 will take the Unit 1 assessment on Tuesday. The next topic will be Topic 5 Dividing, by the end of Topic 5 students will be able to solve division problems that involve rounding, estimating, and computing whole numbers. Students will take the Topic 5 Pre-test next week.

Please check Schoolmax and Canvas with your scholar to ensure completion of assignments.

Science Updates:

In Science this week students began presenting their African American STEM/ Inventor research project. For this project students were required to choose an African American inventor or member of the STEM community, then research and compile information about their life, and complete a slide presentation based on their research. Next week we will be taking our lesson quiz assessing lesson one from Topic 2.

Social Studies Updates:

This week: Students read Lesson 2: How Our Government Works and identified the three branches of government of the United States.

Next Week: Students will read Lesson 3: Our Rights and Responsibilities and explain how citizens in a democracy have both rights and responsibilities.

Health Updates:

In health, we are learning about our Digestive Systems! How does our digestive system contribute to the overall function of our bodies? What can we do to promote a healthy digestive system?

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Grade level blurb:

Hi everyone!

We are in February, and we are focusing on our character trait, peace! We want to show peace in any way we can! It is also Black History Month, so we are excited to celebrate and discuss many influential people throughout history! We will have themed spirit days every Friday this month, so keep an eye out for more information! We have our Black History Month production next week on Friday so we are getting prepared for that!

Please check the assignment calendar on our Google site to see what upcoming assignments students may have. We have been having tests, quizzes, and homework, so we want to make sure students are keeping up with their work. 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

Reminder that we are happy to have volunteers come in to assist us with different things throughout the year, so if you are interested, please make sure your volunteer requirements are completed. We would love it if people wanted to come in and volunteer during lunch times for students, so let us know if you are interested.

The temperature is low, and students MUST have a winter coat to be allowed outside for recess. The CMIT fleeces are no longer warm enough for recess. If the temperature drops below 32 degrees or is wet outside, we will have indoor recess!

Reading Updates:

We are working on unit 3 week 1 and our first section is about realistic fiction. We are also getting our new spelling words for this section!

Math Updates:

Students are in unit 7 of Math which is about common denominators and adding fractions. Homework will be posted on the assignment calendar as we get started so keep an eye out!

Science Updates:

Students are working on unit 4 of Science, about the water cycle. Homework will be posted on the assignment calendar as we get started so keep an eye out!

Social Studies Updates:

We are finished with chapter 4 which is about life in the colonies. We will be taking our test next week!

Art:

Updates from the Art Room!

This week I want to bring to your attention another art contest opportunity!

Earth Day 2024

Visit Organization Website

Contact Email: metroart@wmata.com

Entry Deadline: 2/29/24

APPLY NOW

EARTH DAY 2024

In honor of Earth Day (Monday, April 22, 2024), Metro’s Art in Transit program is inviting K-6 students from Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia to submit 2-D (two-dimensional) artworks that highlight and celebrate the significant role of public transportation in fostering a sustainable environment and healthy communities.

The selected artworks will be featured on bus wraps as part of Metro’s celebration of Earth Day.

You can learn more about Metro Art in Transit here: https://wmata.com/initiatives/art-in-transit

You can learn more about Metro Sustainability here: https://www.wmata.com/initiatives/sustainability.

Application Requirements:

• Each applicant may enter one (1) piece of artwork.

• Artwork must be an original composition created entirely by the entrant.

• Each applicant may submit one (1) 2-dimensional artwork, including the following format: drawing, print, collage, or painting.

• The artwork must measure 8.5" x 11" and be horizontally oriented.

• Participants are required to submit a high-quality photograph of the original artwork in JPEG or JPG format. Only the artwork should show in the photo (no frames or extraneous backgrounds).

Selection:

An Art Selection Committee, with the Metro Art in Transit Program, will select five (5) artworks from each jurisdiction (Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia). The artworks will be displayed on three specially designed buses as part of our celebration of Earth Day in April.

Eligibility Criteria:

• This call is open to K-6 artists in Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia.

• Participants may attend public, private, or homeschool.

• Submitted artwork must be original and cannot have been previously exhibited.

• By submitting an artwork, parents and/or guardians agree that the artwork can be reproduced for the purpose of this call, and any associated promotional material, including social media.

• Parents and/or guardians of the student whose work will be selected will be required to execute a written release authorizing WMATA to use the selected artwork and the student’s name.

There is no entry fee for this call.

PE:

Hello,

This week in PE students learned about flexibility/balance and the many ways we can improve our flexibility/balance. We practiced static stretches and a few yoga poses. Next week we will focus on yoga and how we can use it to increase our flexibility.

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