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Corrales International School Newsletter
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| IB LEARNER PROFILE | |
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Activities for parents
- Encourage your child to participate in a wide variety of structured activities.
- Discuss the food groups with your child. Spend a few minutes during a mealtime deciding if what your family is eating is balanced.
- Role model this attribute. Spend time as a parent or family doing many different things.
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PICK-UP TIME
Parents it is essential that when you pick up your child/children they stay with you at all times. Students left unattended on school property will be escorted to after-care and a fee will be charged.
MYP students who do not attend tutoring or an after-school club will also be escorted to
after-care and a fee will be charged.
Our school policy is to have all students supervised at all times and we can not have students wondering in the halls or playground unsupervised.
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ATTENDANCE
Every day counts in March, April and May.
Please make every effort to ensure your child is present and on time.
Friendly Reminder: Family Vacations are unexcused absences!
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Dear Fabulous Parents!
The SBA testing continues this week for all students in grades 3-8 and 10-12. Click here to see entire schedule: NMSBA 2014 Testing Schedule
Please sign up to bring testing snacks for our students. All students deserve to go into testing with the benefit of brain-boosting snacks! Just click on this link to sign up to bring a NUTRITIOUS SNACK FOR OUR STUDENTS
Please take a few minutes to review the upcoming events at CIS, which include a PTA meeting on March 24th, the CIS FAMILY PREVIEW OF OUR NEW FACILITY on March 29th, and Family Science Night/Science Fair! We can't wait to share these events with you!
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Why do students have to take the test?
The NMSBA (New Mexico Standards Based Assessment) serves several purposes:
- The state-mandated, standardized test is used to assess whether students meet grade-specific state standards.
- The SBA will serve as the high school exit exam for the first time this year. Students in the class of 2013 and beyond will have to pass the reading, math and science sections of the high school SBA by the end of their senior year in order to obtain a high school diploma.
- OUR SCHOOL GRADE: The state's new A-F school grading system relies heavily on SBA results. This affects all of us.
So let's all pull together and make sure that all our students are prepared for the NMSBA test.
I hope you have a wonderful week.
Kind Regards,
Dr. Elsy Diaz
Head of School
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| QUALITY OF ED SURVEY DUE TOMORROW |
If you have not returned your Quality of Education Surveys, please do so no by tomorrow! If your student has misplaced their survey, please see Ms. Patti . This is very important being that we have a deadline to return to APS.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation in completing this task!
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| CIS FAMILY PREVIEW OF NEW BUILDING!!! MARCH 29th at 9:30 a.m - 11:30 a.m. | |
Mark your calendars!! CIS Family Preview @ CIS's new home! Saturday, March 29th from 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Light snacks will be served while we tour our new building and chat with other CIS families.
5500 Wilshire Ave NE, Albuquerque, NM 87113
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| SCIENCE FAIR/FAMILY SCIENCE NIGHT |
The CIS Science Fair will be held on April 1st this year! This is a mandatory event for students in 4th grade and above. Participation in this is optional for lower grades.
Our Family Science Night is at 5 pm on that date and it would be a fantastic opportunity for students to present their projects to families during this event as well!
We encourage everyone to come out and participate in this fun event!
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| JOG-A-THON |
Hello CIS families! It's that time of year again...Jog-A-Thon! As many of you know Jog-A-Thon is our school's biggest PTA fundraiser of the year, and this year all proceeds will go towards playground equipment for our new building! Last year our amazing students brought in close to $8500 and this year (since we are so awesome), we're hoping to exceed that amount. We need all the help we can get from our fabulous CIS families though! We need help in securing donations and general planning of the event. This year's event is scheduled for April 25th the we will have an Earth Day theme. If you are interesting in assisting please contact me at 505-903-2787 or abbiej76@comcast.net. Abbie Jackson
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| CIS YEARBOOK SALE DEADLINE! | |
Order your CIS yearbook asap to avoid missing the deadline! The yearbook is full of fun pictures chronically your child's year at CIS. There will be an opportunity at the end of the year for students to sign each other's yearbooks!
You can fill out the paper order form and pay $25.00 to order your yearbook or you can click the link below and order online!
Please remember to get in your special messages for your children as well!
http://www.entourageyearbooks.com/YBStore/YearbookStoreMain.asp?YBID=7A040E1B19
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| KUDOS
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Kudos to the CIS ALT Drama Club for an awesome production of Hansel and Gretel and the Kingdom-Wide Sugar Ban last week! What a great job our kids did!
Congrats to the CIS Chess team on their hard work at the Albuquerque Schools Chess league this year! Great work kiddos!
Kudos to Nate Hutchinson for taking 3rd place all around in level 8 this weekend at the State Gymnastics Competition!
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| SUPPORT CIS
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Imagine winning $30,000 and a new playground for our school!
Enter daily until March 20th!
Win BIG for Our School!
On behalf of our school, we encourage you to enter the Healthy Playground Makeover Sweepstakes. As part of the Together Counts initiative to promote active, healthy lifestyles, Discovery Education and the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation are giving away more than $140,000 in prizes this year. Our school could be the next lucky winner of a $30,000 grant and a new playground!
Anyone can enter to win on behalf of our school, so spread the word to other parents and members of our community. To increase our chances of winning, please take a minute to enter daily until March 20, 2014.
Two Grand Prize Winners will receive a $30,000 grant and a NEW playground. One of the Grand Prize Winners will be chosen from a special drawing for Title I Schools.
Three Second Prize Winners will receive a $5,000 grant.
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| Please see the March Hot Lunch Menu from NAMA Catering on our school website www.corralesis.org or at Ms. Patti's desk! |
UPCOMING EVENTS
Monday, March 24
3:30pm
PTA Meeting
Wednesday, March 26
New Fencing Session begins after school
Saturday, March 29
CIS FAMILY PREVIEW OF NEW BUILDING
9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Tuesday, April 1
5:00pm
Science Fair
Wednesday, April 2
SAC cancelled and rescheduled for Mon, 4.7
Monday, April 14-Friday, April 18
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