IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM: CORRALES INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

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December 10, 2010

PTA Meeting, Monday!

PTA MEETING, December 13th

Please plan on attending the PTA meeting on MONDAY!

You can review the agenda on the school website :

http://www.corralesinternationalschool.org/PTA%20Information/PDF/PTA%20General%20Meeting%20Agenda%2020100indf

CORRALES INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR

On Friday, December 10th, our Book Fair

officially began! The students have been anxiously sneaking peeks through the peepholes in the door!

Students previewede the Book Fair on Friday and completed their Wish Lists. We will have regular hours next week as follows:

Monday 3pm-4:15pm

Tuesday 8-9am and 3-4:15pm

Wednesday 8-4pm **Friends & Family Day**

Thursday 8-9am and 3-4:30pm

FRIENDS & FAMILY DAY

Invite your grandparents, aunts, uncles, friends and neighbors to our Book Fair. Students will get entered into a drawing for each referral that attends! We will be serving hot drinks and goodies, too!

JUST A REMINDER...

The front doors will be locked for the duration of the Book Fair. Please use the back door by the playground. Thank you for your cooperation!

Visit our Book Fair Homepage:

http://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bookfairs/cptoolkit/publish/corralesintl

ONE FOR BOOKS!!!!

One for Books is a chance for us all to be HEROES! Donate loose change and dollar bills to help those in need. Scholastic matches the money collected with donated books to a charity and we will also be donating our portion to a charitable cause. In addition, we will be having a Classroom Contest.

The class that collects the most money will win a Pajama & Popcorn Day and the teacher will receive a

$50 certificate for books for the classroom!!!! Look for the collection cans at Checkout!

CLASSROOM WISH LIST

Books and gift certificates are available for purchase for each individual class.

What a great way to thank your students' heroes!

Our Book Fair proceeds will be used to purchase books for our ever-growing library! To maximize our benefits, we need to reach our goal of $2000. Divided between our students and staff, that comes out to an average of about $10 per person...WE CAN DO THAT!!!!!!!

We are still in need of volunteers. Each shift worked will enter you into a drawing for FREE BOOKS! Contact Tammy Spatz

tamspatz@gmail.com

Family Science Night

WHAT IS A FAMILY SCIENCE NIGHT?

A Family Science Night is an evening program of hands-on science activities offered by Sandia National Labs that provides an opportunity for children and their parents to work together to conduct simple, inquiry-based, age-appropriate science activities. There are two primary goals:

Stimulate an excitement and interest in science among school children and their parents.
Get parents involved in the educational process.

Research shows that children with parents involved in their education perform at higher levels than those children whose parents are not involved. Surveys also indicate that parents pass to their children their own attitudes toward science and mathematics. Family Science Nights offer an opportunity to involve parents and children in fun science discoveries.

We have been lucky enough to reserve a Family Science Night event here at CIS on January 11, 2011 at 6pm. Mark your calendars to attend this night of fun!

SPRING DRAMA CLUB

Corrales International School Drama Club Spring Production
This club will meet on Wednesdays from 1:30-3pm and Fridays from 3:30-5pm with the first meeting after the Winter Break on January 5 running until March 11th, 2011.
All rehearsals will be held at CIS except for rehearsal on Friday March 11 which will be at ALT in preparation for a culminating performance at the theater!

Auditions for the play "A Generic Fairy Tale Named Murray" by Bill Hayden will be held during the first meetings of the group. Production will be held on Saturday March 12 at the Albuquerque Little Theatre. Time still to be decided (most likely late morning or early
afternoon).

The fee for this program is $125.00. Checks can be made out to ALT or they will accept credit card payments. Fees must be paid by first week of class. For families, the first child pays full fee, additional siblings will receive a $25.00 discount.

Contact Tara Armijo-Prewitt at tprewitt@gmail.com or 304-0672 for more information.

STUDENT SAFETY

Please keep in mind some of these safety precautions to keep our students safe. Also, please observe the stop sign (left side) when you are driving through our parking lot.

Mornings

Parents if you need to drop-off your child before 8:15 a.m. you must have him/her attend the before school program. Before care is located in Ms. Gaby Escobedo's classroom. There is no one else available to supervise your child. Children of all ages can not be left unattended.

Pick-up and Drop-off

Students cannot be picked up after 3:20 from their classrooms.
All students will be dismissed at 3:30 from the pick-up/drop-off area (Midway Blvd. entrance).
Since we have 70 more students this school year, some of you may choose to park on Midway Blvd. and walk to get your children from the pick-up area.
CROSS WALK. Please allow us to help you cross the parking lot. We have too many cars exiting plus the bus.
Please be aware that there is a STOP sign in the parking lot to allow pedestrians to cross.
Students not picked up by 3:40 will be taken to the Aftercare Program by their teacher. There is a charge for Aftercare service.

We ask that you abide by these safety precautions. Remember, your children are watching you and learning from your actions.

CIS FOOD PANTRY

We have started a food pantry to provide a healthy lunch for those students that forget their lunch or are not able to bring a lunch to school. Additionally, we would like to start collecting food for families that are in need. There will be a box by the front desk to collect canned or dried goods.

The following items are needed for student lunches:

- instant macaroni and cheese, instant noodles/ramen or other soups

- fruit cups, dried fruit, fruit leather, cheese crackers, granola bars, boxed juice, single serve pastas, pretzels etc

Please contact Anna Prewitt at annaprewitt@gmail.com for more information.

LOST AND FOUND

There are many items in the lost and found area. Please ask your student/s to look for lost items. ALL items not picked up by the end of the month will be taken to Goodwill.

PLEASE LABEL ALL YOUR CHILD'S BELONGINGS. Perhaps this will reduce the amount of items in our lost and found area.

ALBUQUERQUE JUNIOR YOUTH BAND AUDITIONS

Attention CIS Middle School Students:

Do you play a band instrument and would like to be in a band? Auditions will be held for the Albuquerque Junior Youth Band on December 11^th, at 9:00 a.m. at Hayes Middle School. You must be 11 years old by August 15^th to audition. For more information check out the website of the Albuquerque Youth Symphony Junior Youth Band program at http://www.aysmusic.org/orchestras/AJYB.php.

Community Service Committee (CSC)

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. ~Anne Frank

The Community Service Committee (CSC) would like to invite those interested in encouraging community service at CIS to join our committee and begin modeling the way in our CIS community. Please contact Carolyn (chilton18@gmail.com, 505-550-1557) or Anna (oligrahamcracker@yahoo.com) for more information.

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