Dear CIS Families,

TOMORROW is Halloween and students will NOT be allowed to wear costumes to school, as you know. As a special treat, however, students will be allowed to be out of uniform and in street clothes that meet dress standards delineated in our handbook.

Those students in Kinder and 1st grades that will be going on the field trip WILL NEED TO BE IN STANDARD UNIFORM DRESS (Friday dress is acceptable). These students will also need to bring a sack lunch to the field trip. 

This year's Dia de los Muertos Marigold Parade will be held this weekend, on Sunday November 2nd at 2 pm. CIS will again have a float in this parade and anyone is welcome to participate!  More information regarding the parade is available at http://www.muertosymarigolds.org/.  We will be meeting in the parade line up at 1230pm.  Please contact Tara ASAP at tprewitt@gmail.com if you will be joining us!

All participants must be dressed up like Calaveras and there should be no bloody or scary costumes.  Bring a bag of candy!

Thank you to the Volkmann Family for use of their trailer and to Furlow/Cremeens Grandmother, Cissy Prewitt for use of her truck!

  International Day

International Day will be held on Saturday, November 8th!  Please mark the date and plan to have your family attend!  This is also a good opportunity for our community to show off what we are all about! 

International Day Schedule and Costume Help needed at home

Students will need to be in Mr. Ripp's room 20 minutes prior to performance their time for attendance to be taken and performance preparation.  Parents of 1st, 3rd, and 5th grade students, please let Miss Amy Hughes (hughesa@corralesis.org) know if you can assist in costuming in the 20 minutes prior to the performance.

3:00-3:30 Open Classroom Museum visits

3:30-3:45- 7th-12th grades (students will need to wear school appropriate tropical attire- khaki shorts, Hawaiian shirts, etc.)

3:45-4:00- 6th grade (students can wear any ancient Egyptian costume pieces and/or gold hued clothing)

4:00-4:30-Guest Performance (Flamenco dancers)

4:30-4:40- Kindergarten (students can wear any costume that is associated with Mexico or how Mexican children dress, long flowy skirts are preferred for girls)

4:40-4:50- 1st grade (white shirt with black pants)

4:50-5:00- 2nd grade (Any outfit that a child in Vietnam would wear today)

5:00-5:10- 3rd grade (paper outfits made in class)

5:10-5:20 4th grade (any outfit in the colors of Peru's flag; red and white)

5:20-5:30 5th grade (white shirt with khaki shorts and prepared kilts/black berets)

5:30-6:00 Guest Performance Bagpipes

6:00-8:00 Movie!

CIS Families! It is that time of year again--time for our annual International Day raffle! Tickets are only $1 and enter you to win a 1st prize of a GoPro Camera, 2nd prize of an Ipod and 3rd prize is a $50 gift certificate for Express Styles Mobile Salon! If each student sells 20 tickets to family and friends, our fundraiser will be a great success!!!!! 

From the Attendance Committee

After our first time of issuing lunch detention, for PYP ever and for MYP this school year, a couple of changes are going to be made.

First off, we would like to explain why we are doing this.  We have several students who are tardy several times a week.  If a student is tardy 10 minutes three times a week,  over the course of a month they miss 2 hours of class.  This also disrupts the students who are already receiving their instructional time.

We met on Thursday October 30, 2014.  In that meeting, it was decided that we will use 2 codes for tardies.  One will be an Excused Tardy the other Unexcused Tardy.  Excused Tardy will be used in cases for example in which a student may have a doctor's appointment.  When the parent brings the student to school and signs them in for the school day, the parent will supply CIS with a doctor's note.  Also, an excused tardy may be when a major accident occurs.  At that time, the tardy will be marked excused.   Any other reason for the tardy will be unexcused.

When a student has accumulated 3 unexcused tardies, they will be required to attend Study Hall.  Study Hall will be on the last Wednesday of each month (that we are in session) at 7:30 am.  Parent will be required to sign their child in at 7:30 am.  Study Hall will be held until 8 am.  The students will be provided work from their teacher during this time.

If you would like to correspond with the Attendance Committee, please email us at info@corralesis.org  .  This is the ONLY way to communicate with the Attendance Committee.

Thank you for your cooperation with this matter,

The Attendance Committee