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.

Hello families!

Friendly reminder that our field trip will be this upcoming Monday, February 26, 2024. All chaperones should park in the back of the school and enter into the cafeteria by 8:15a. We should depart our school around 9 am and return by 2 pm. For families meeting us at the site, it is very important that your child’s teacher is aware and that it is understood that if your scholar rides the bus to the Aquarium, they must ride the bus back to our school. Your child must also, stay with the assigned chaperone, so you must join their chaperone group. Students will not need their bookbags unless they are needed for clubs or enrichment. Please do not send any items with them, only their bagged lunch and a jacket. Also, please pack their lunch in a disposable bag (paper or plastic) and label it with their name. It is imperative that no glass, plastic containers, lunchboxes, or thermos containers be sent on this day. Only items that can be thrown away should be taken on the trip. We will be eating lunch on the bus on the departure back to school. Here is no lunch area inside of the Aquarium. Therefore, allow your child to have a nice breakfast on Monday morning since we are eating lunch later than usual. Students should wear their PE uniforms for our trip as well so all scholars can be dressed similarly.

Lastly, please remind your child about the importance of listening to all adults on the trip and making safe choices. Thank you and we look forward to a great field trip!

Grade level blurb:

Families,

Thanks to all the families that visited /attended the Meet and Greet on Tuesday, February 20. The 1st-grade team values your partnership. Poetry reading and writing will continue into next week. Parents can help support students’; growth and development in this genre by reading poems aloud to students, having students write acrostic poems using family members’ names, and writing poems on “I am” (writing about themselves). Celebrate what they write!

Reading Updates:

Unit 3:

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

Content Vocabulary: feel, map

Singular/Plural (review)

Pronouns

Math Updates:

Math:-:Topic 8-Understanding place value

This unit has several lessons. The skills are ongoing through elementary grades.

Science Updates:

Topic 5: Living Things

Animal parts, Plant Parts, People learn from living things, Where plants and animals live

Social Studies Updates:

Maps and Geography.

March is Women’s Month. Looking forward to having our moms read to students during March. A project is coming soon.

Health Updates:

Feelings: Expressing how you feel

Coming Soon: Women's Month

Continue with the conversation of how important women have helped pave the way for freedom and independence in America.

Have students research and identify one person. They can search videos for information.

This skill will serve as a prerequisite for a project that is coming soon. It will also build their repertoire so that they will have facts to share as teachers talk about Women’s Month

Reading Updates:

We are wrapping up Unit 3, scholars will be doing opinion writing on a tradition our school should begin.

Phonics:

Our Spelling Words this week will focus on soft c and soft g: /s/ spelled c if it is followed by any of these letters: e, i, or y. We call this “soft c” Examples: peace, face, rice, juice

When g is in front of a vowel it says /j/. You will also see dge /j/ when you hear /j/ at the end of a word and it has a vowel before it. We call this “soft g” Examples: edge, pledge, giraffe, gem

Math Updates:

We are diving deep into Topic 8 - Time and Money. Scholars should be able to count and identify coins and dollar bills. We will be wrapping up this topic within the next week.

Science Updates:

We are wrapping up Earth's Processes and will be moving on Plants and Animals

Social Studies Updates:

Many classes have wrapped up Government and will move on to Chapter 4 : People Who Supply Our Goods and Services

Health Updates:

We have moved on to learning about babies and how they grew

Grade level blurb:

Greetings amazing parents! Thank you for your continued support this school year. Please help us to support scholars by encouraging them to follow classroom and school expectations. We want to promote a safe and productive learning environment.

Reading Updates:

Fleet/Lewis:

Mathews/Madison: This week students continued comparing and contrasting different claims found in Welcome Back Wolves and Wolves don’t belong in Yellowstone. Students participated in a Writing Workshop where they learned about Opinion Writing using the OREO method. Finally, students took a quiz to demonstrate their knowledge of the information in the story of the week.

Math Updates:

Fleet/Lewis: We have officially wrapped Topic 7 on Interpreting and Representing Data. REMINDER: Topic 7 Pick-a-Project is due on Monday, February 26th. NO LATE PROJECTS WILL BE ACCEPTED!

We will be moving into Topic 8 next week which focuses on Using Strategies to Add and Subtract.

Mathews/Madison: We are finishing up Topic 8: Strategies to Add and Subtract. Our test will most likely be next week.

Science Updates:

Fleet/Lewis: We are wrapping up with Topic 5 which focuses on Life Cycles and Traits. We will be pushing back the topic assessment to Wednesday, February 28th. This will allow us more time to review in class. The study guide will be posted on Canvas for students to complete and review.

Mathews/Madison: 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: Review Communities Build a Nation preparing for our upcoming assessment.

Mathews/Madison: In Social studies, we jump-started our new topic: America’s First People. We began taking notes and learning the new vocabulary. With support, students began noticing the text features including highlighted and boldfaced words, headings pictures, and captions to gain a better understanding of the text. Students will continue exploring more on this topic next week.

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:

Hello Tiger Family,

I hope that everyone is doing well. We have completed our fifth week of the third quarter. The Progress Report Window has closed and progress for the quarter has been updated for your review on Schoolmax. As always, please check Schoolmax to stay up to date with your scholar’s grades and progress in their classes.

Fourth graders are slated to return their Chromebooks on Friday, March 1, 2024. In preparation for Chromebooks to be returned, we require 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.

Read Across America Day

On Friday, March 1, 2024, fourth-grade students will celebrate Read Across America Day. To prepare for this day we ask that students on Friday bring their favorite books and a stuffed animal. We will “Drop Everything And Read” D.E.A.R. on Friday in the afternoon. Students will have an opportunity to read whatever book they would like with their stuffed animals. We ask that the stuff animal students bring is not bigger than a composition book. Students are not permitted to have the stuffed animal during class; it will only be allowed during our D.E.A.R. time. For more information please reach out to your scholar’s reading teacher.

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 began Unit 3 Diversity in Vol.2 of our textbook. Our first story is a realistic fiction story called “Out of My Mind.” In this text, students learned about a girl named Melody who had cerebral palsy and had to communicate differently. This week students monitored their inner conversations, made inferences about the character of Melody, and developed meaning with our vocabulary words.

Next Week: Students will continue to read the story closely to analyze the character of Melody through her actions, thoughts, and how she interacts with others. Students will complete a writing that asks them students to describe the character of Melody and support their opinions with evidence from the text. Students will also take a quiz on the story as well have a spelling quiz on this week’s words.

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 learned about African American Inventors and created a booklet of important facts about each inventor.

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?

Grade level blurb:

Hi everyone! We hope everyone enjoyed their three-day weekend last weekend!

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!

We are also getting prepared to plan our trip to Camp Schmidt at the end of the year for our 5th-grade students and we are so excited! We are going to need lots of parent volunteers, both men and women, so if you are interested in coming, please reach out to your homeroom teacher. The date will be in the first week of June, so stay tuned for further info!

We want to wish Mr. Rowland GOOD LUCK at his new job, and we thank him for all of his amazing years of service here at CMIT! He was a founding teacher here and helped build this amazing school into what it is today!

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 8 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 working on chapter 5 now about the American Revolution. Chapter 4 tests are finished and we are focusing on the first section of chapter 5!

Updates from the Art Room!

Please consider having your student enter CLF’s African American History Contest! Details can be found here. It is important that your student’s artwork is no smaller than 11x17. If the artwork is turned in to me (Ms. James) by February 28th, I will hand it to CLF for you!

Updates from Music:

Greetings Tiger Family,

As we are coming to the end of Black History Month, the students will have one final lesson about a Black Artist/Musician who has made an impact on society. So far we have learned about artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Stevie Wonder, Louis Armstrong, Michael Jackson, and more.

Update from Lego:

Hello,

This week in Legos and Robotics, the students worked hard to bring our lovely community together. We also discussed the importance of a community and how it works. This task was huge but they were up for the challenge!

Brick Fest is coming soon, get your tickets online now!

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