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The Weekly Newsletter of the New Mexico International School
Todd Knouse
Head of School
– From the Head of School “All the Knews You Kneed to Know”
Now that’s a party!!! We are having a major event at NMIS on May 13. This is our annual celebration of International Day of Families and Spring Violin Concert! For International Day of Families, we will have our traditional “family lunch” set up in an outdoor pavilion just outside the school. There will be music and tables set up. We encourage everyone to come and bring the whole family. You will have the option to bring your own family lunch, or order from our catering service on our lunch program website. Please come and eat lunch with your child on this day. Let’s celebrate families! This year, however, we are taking this event up a notch and combining it with a Spring Violin Concert! Our neighbor, Hope in the Desert Church, has graciously agreed to let us use their facility to host our Spring Violin Concert. It has space for 200 and great acoustics.
The schedule for this event is as follows: Group A: Ortiz, Rodriguez, Roman, Pell and Cooper de Uribe: Concert: 10:15 @ Hope in Desert Church Family Lunch: 11:00 @ NMIS Group B: Bouche, Martini, Salley, Tuttle, Sayer Family Lunch: 12:00 @ NMIS Concert: 1:00 @ Hope in Desert Church
This is going to be a great event! What a wonderful way to celebrate our children and our families! Please join us.
Library Books due Please be sure that your child returns all NMIS library books by May 13. Please see the update in the Library Committee section on page
Registration Packets Due Do not forget to turn in your completed registration packets by May 13. Failure to turn them in completed on time constitutes a forfeiture of your child’s reserved enrollment spot for 2016-2017. See
Knouse Knews 1
Accolades 3
Kinder News 4
First Grade News 4
Second Grade News 4
Third Grade News 5
Fourth Grade News 5
4th/5th Grade News 6
Curriculum Corner 7
Committee News 8
Upcoming Events 9
Help Wanted 9
NMIS Sponsors 10
Volume V-38
2 May 2016
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page 29 of the NMIS Family Handbook for details.
Last Book Order of the
School Year Scholastic Reading Club flyers were sent home with students last week, and orders are due by this Wednesday, May 4th. Please have all orders in by that morning so I can get them submitted while the kids are at school. Paper order forms can be turned into the box by the front desk with a check for each child (orders are submitted separately by classroom), or you can pay with credit card by ordering online at clubs2.scholastic.com. Please contact [email protected] with any questions, and see the Scholastic committee section for more details and online class codes.
Student Literary Critics Calling all NMIS students! Have you read a good book lately from the NMIS Library? Tell us about it and help your clan earn points in the Library Book Review competition. Book Review / Reseña de Libro forms are available in the library, as well as attached in this week's El Correcaminos. Drop off your completed book review in the NMIS Library, and then, keep reading! Students may submit multiple book reviews through May 11. Which clan - Coyote, Oso, Puma, Víbora - will win this challenge?
Art Patrons Thank you to our many Art Patrons who have sponsored their child’s art work! You should shortly be receiving those amazing works of art!
Before School Childcare If you are interested in before-school child care, please contact Jeret Snider of Roadrunner ASP. They are gathering interest of families looking for such service. You can reach him at [email protected]. Roadrunner ASP is the CYFD-approved child care currently offered at NMIS afterschool.
Mother’s Day May all the mothers of our NMIS community have a wonderful, blessed Mother’s Day this Sunday. Thank you for caring for and raising these amazing children of our school.
Logramos Data I wanted to share some school-wide data on the Logramos test your child recently took. We combine this to look at how well our children are doing across the board. Here are some data that shows how our students’ Spanish increases the longer they stay in the program: % Proficient on Core Total Logramos
K: 44% 1st: 66% 2nd: 68% 3rd: 74% 4th: 85% 5th: 90%
This is data to celebrate!
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Spotlight on NMIS Students Doing Great Things
(left) Congratulations to second grader Alex Starr for winning 2nd place in the BMX Mile High National at Grand Junction in Colorado this weekend!
(right) Second grader Dylan
Brinckerhoff ran the whole 5K
"Run for the Zoo" this
weekend. We are very proud
that he push himself to run the
whole distance and not
walk. Great Job Dylan!
(below) Congratulations on a great show to Gabe and Ella Gettys!
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by Maestra Salley ([email protected]) & Maestra Román ([email protected])
Next week, we are going to work on our number 9 “Tesoros” unit where we are learning about “amazing animals”. The letter we are working on are the letters “ll” and “g”. We will read the books “Los escarabajos” (Beetles) and “Los peces” (Fish). The important words are “somos” (we are), “amigos” (friends), “mira” (look), and “támbien” (also). From now on, in IB, we are going to focus on the IB learner profile attributes (thinker, inquirer, knowledgeable, open-minded, reflective, balanced, risk-takers, communicators, principled, and caring) through different activities and approaches.
In math, we will practicing additions and subtraction exercises through different games. We will wrap up patterns by doing a fun project involving fruit. In science we will learn a little bit about rotation of the Earth, the Sun and the Moon doing a role play exercise, watching videos, making crafts… This week is the last week we are going to have after school tutoring. Have a wonderful week.
by Maestra Cooper de Uribe ([email protected]) & Maestra Sayer ([email protected])
Hola padres! Hope everyone survived the blustery weekend! For Social Studies, we have been reading stories (in Spanish) about famous people (Leonardo Da Vinci for one) from the Renaissance era. The students have been doing a great job with their reading and learning about these famous people! We will continue to work on the projects of recreating and reenacting what the students have learned about the societies in the Americas and Europe.
In math we will review what we have learned in unit 9 and then take the Unit 9 assessment, on Monday. From there, we will go into the final unit! How exciting how far we have come! In language arts, we will continue to practice editing texts for capitalization and punctuation, reader response journaling, recreation outline, and continue working on their timelines. Keep on practicing reading with your kiddos! Remember: it does not just have to be a book!
by Maestra Tuttle ([email protected]) & Maestra Pell ([email protected])
It is hard to believe that May is already here and that we are wrapping up another school year! In math we are starting a new unit. The main focus of unit 11 is revisiting whole number operations. This week we will reviewing adding and subtracting number stories with
dollars and cents. Students will be working with number stories where they will have to estimate sums of money, calculate values of coins and bills combinations. We will also introduce and provide practice with the trade-first subtraction algorithm.
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Last week in science students experimented with sound by creating some “guitars” using rubber bands and observing how the size and the tightness and/or force increases or decreases pitch and volume. This week students will be experimenting with a different “instrument”. They will observing how specific factors affect the type of sound that they might hear. The main focus in our IB unit this week will be reading, talking and analyzing specific types of transportation in specific places of the world
and terrains ( i.e. mountainous terrain, the desert, jungle, etc.) For Social Studies students will be reading about the ways that goods from other countries get to the United States and vice versa in the article titled “Los países comercian y transportan bienes”. Towards the end of the week, our second graders will be writing and sharing riddles in Spanish where they will have to use all the information learned during the week to challenge the minds of their peers. manipulatives (play money).
by Maestra Martini ([email protected]) & Maestra Rodríguez ([email protected])
IB trans-disciplinary unit- This Friday, our unit on How the World Works will end on top of the Sandia Crest! Students will take the tram up to the top, take a short walk, look for cool rocks, and enjoy their lunch whilst gazing over the city of Albuquerque. Math- Students are excited about learning long division. We will continue practicing this skill throughout the week. Third graders will also work with negative numbers and how to complete operations with them. Social Studies- We will do a Pangea craft this week to visualize how the Earth may have been like a long time ago.
Science- Students will create a landscapes poster and identify earth’s various features. Writing- This week we will review subject and object pronouns as well as possessive pronouns in English. We will have dictation exercises in both English and Spanish. Spanish Reading- Our reading selection for this week is Mensajemanía. The accompanying lessons for this story are homographs, problems and solutions, and words with silent h.
by Maestra Ortiz Mingorance ([email protected])
!Feliz Dia de la Madre! Happy Mother’s Day! I hope you enjoy next weekend’s celebration with your family. Our IB learner profile for this month focuses on caring. What a better way to show caring is there than to show our moms how much we love them and care for them! We will be completing our last MAPs tests for the year this week. We will take Math on
Tuesday morning, and Reading on Friday afternoon. In Language Arts, we will continue evaluating examples of texts with cause-effect structures. We will practice spelling words with the sounds /ä/ (ward) and /ô/ (door). We will also practice answering questions by restating, answering, providing evidence and expanding on our answers.
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We will discuss 7 kinds of environmental pollution as part of our IB unit. In Math, we will focus on multiplying and dividing decimals to complete the final lessons of unit 9, and we will complete the assessment for this unit which includes some review questions regarding perimeter and area. In Math
in Spanish, we will go over basic ideas of probability to apply fractions to spinners. In Science, we will learn more about gravitational potential energy, gravity, and center of gravity. We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. Margaret Mead !Feliz Semana!
by Maestra Bouché ([email protected]) We had an amazing time at the Gathering of Nations! I hope your child went home telling you all about it. As you may know, our current IB unit is about Sharing the Planet. Our central idea and lines of inquiry are as follows: Central Idea: Distribution of wealth and information affect children world-wide and their access to equal opportunities. Lines of Inquiry: Relationships between wealth, information and power Equitable access to resources and opportunities The impact of distribution of information and wealth on children (locally, world-wide) We are working with the above lines of inquiry which may have your child talking about certain issues at home. Please welcome their inquiry and speak to them about your thoughts on this central idea. Also, if you believe you have information that could be beneficial to our unit or if you would like to come in to our class and speak about this, you are welcomed as a guest speaker. Please email me and we can schedule something in these last few weeks. During this unit, we have been working with another class, taking steps towards a pledge in sharing our planet with our communities. We
are looking at plants both inside our classrooms and outdoors in the fields by our building. We will be talking about the plants that are native and non-native to our environment. Have your child take a look at your garden and their environment at home. We are attending these workshops every Friday morning for the rest of the month. We will also be attending one on recycling. I am collecting different forms of trash that I will be bringing in for our workshop. If you have an item at home that you are not sure if it's recyclable, please send it in. We probably have other families asking the same question. Artifacts. We will be having a live museum on Tuesday, May 10th. Your child may bring in their artifact that they have selected for this activity only on that day. If you can take a picture of it and send it to me, I can prepare the picture for their pamphlet. You may have seen an artifact sheet they were allowed to take home this past Friday. It was to help them answer some of the questions for a the pamphlet they will be creating this week. Please do not allow your child to bring in any item that is of value or priceless to your family. Scientists. Your child has been working on a scientist biography and will be presenting their research on Thursday, May 12th to the younger grades. I am allowing them to dress up as their scientist for this assignment. They may bring in those extra clothes for their presentation.
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MAPS testing will begin this week and will continue until next week. Graduation will be Monday, May 23rd. We will have a walking field trip to Domingo de Baca on Tuesday, May 24th for a recycling activity. I will send those field trip forms out later this week.
Gratitude Corner: Thank you for all you do to help our school. Thank you to Karen for coming in to help sanitize our classroom. Thank you to all the parents who accompanied us to the Gathering of Nations field trip and to those that offered. I am very grateful. We had a fabulous time!
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An Update on Curricular Issues of the School By Yvonne Martini IB PYP Coordinator
PYP Transdisciplinary Skills In my past articles, I have explained how the PYP is a 3-dimensional curriculum encompassing concepts, facts and skills. I have mostly investigated the conceptual aspect of our program as this truly draws the students’ learning to a deeper level. However, the curriculum is not just a fanciful, idealistic framework. It has specific guidelines on how to integrate facts and skills. The main way it does this is through the use of Transdisciplinary Skills. These are skills that are expected to be taught an learned throughout all subjects. With the Transdisciplinary Skills, the development of skills in authentic learning situations is complemented by the construction of meaning. Within their learning in the Primary Years Program, students acquire and learn to apply transdisciplinary skills. These universal skills are not applicable to just one content area, but rather transcend all of them to fully support the development of children as life-long learners. Daily opportunities are provided at school for students to practice using the transdisciplinary skills and to reflect on how they are applying them to their learning. Parents can support student use of these skills outside of school by referring to them with their children at home and in the community. As with any learning tool, the more purposeful, guided opportunities students have to use it, the more skilled they become in its use! The following table lists the five transdisciplinary skills and examples of how they are manifested.
Transdisciplinary Skills Students can:
Research Skills
Thinking Skills
Communication Skills
Social Skills Self-management skills
Develop good questions
Draw on prior knowledge
Listening Respect others Organize yourself and your belongings
Make good observations
Think about how you learn (metacognition)
Speaking
Accept responsibility for own behavior
Use time productively
Make a plan Comprehend material
Reading Work cooperatively
Think about own behaviors
Gather information Take knowledge apart to better understand it
Writing
Be a leader or a follower, depending on the situation
Make good choices
Record and organize data
See things from different viewpoints
Non-verbal communication
Get proper rest and nutrition
Interpret data
Present findings
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Library Committee – Heather Norfleet The NMIS Library will be closing for this school year on Friday May 13th. We would greatly appreciate everyone's help in finding and returning any library books by this date. Over-due Notices will be generated and sent home next week, as a helpful reminder of what each student has out. If for some reason the book has been lost or damaged, you may either: 1) Purchase a new copy of the missing item for the library, OR 2) See Corinne Teller and pay a $20 replacement fee to the library. (Logistically, the library has to have one replacement fee for all lost books. As there are a range of price points for the books, an average price of $20 was selected. Additionally, this helps off-set the price of other library supplies needed to enter the book into the library system (e.g. bar-code labels, spine labels, stamps, etc.) IMPORTANT: Please return the Overdue Notice with the replacement copy, or, to Corinne when paying the fee. This will ensure that your student's account is properly updated. Thanks for everyone's cooperation! The library is a great resource at our school and we are eager to keep improving and expanding it for next year. If you have any questions, please feel free to talk with any of the Library Committee Volunteers or email me at [email protected].
Scholastic Book Fair Subcommittee – Amelia Klauser
It's already time for the last book order of the school year! Scholastic Reading Club orders are due by 8:30 am this Wednesday, May 4th. If you're interested, there are two ways you can order books for your child/grandchild: 1) Students should have brought home paper flyers last week, or there are flyers for Spanish titles in the front office. Simply complete the order form(s) on the flyer(s) and return it to the box next to Anna's desk with a check for each child's total. No cash please. 2) Order online at clubs2.scholastic.com, where you'll find everything from the flyer plus many more options. If it's your first visit, click on the orange "connect to your teacher" button under "First Time Here? Parents", and reference the class code below (and on your child's flyer) to get going. If you already have an account, just sign in and go to "Your Account" to update your child's class activation code (if this is your first order this school year). Scholastic Reading Club Class Activation Codes: Salley MZ72W Roman P7DJ4 Cooper de Uribe MWZN6 Sayer PP378
Tuttle NFPYG Pell P7DJW Rodriguez P7DK3 Martini MKJZN Ortiz NFPZM Bouche NFQ2B
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Fundraising Committee – Susan Martinez [email protected]
Grant writing Subcommittee – Tiffanie Cortez [email protected] Box Tops Subcommittee – Ericka Lucero
Special Events Committee –Parisa Wright and Brenda Vigil [email protected]
Enrichment Committee – Kelli Bishop [email protected]
Yearbook Committee – Alexa Verardo [email protected] School Advisory Committee – Next SAC meeting is 4 May, 2016 at 6:00 pm here at NMIS Grade level representatives:
Kindergarten Shonesha Rogers [email protected] First Grade Lotem Levitan [email protected] Second Grade Mark Brooke [email protected] Third Grade Joanna Cosbey [email protected] Fourth Grade Sarah Baca [email protected] Fifth Grade David Vigil [email protected]
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New Mexico International
School
8650 Alameda Blvd. NE Albuquerque, NM 87122
(505)503-7670 www.nmis.org
School Hours: 8:30-2:40 M-F Office Hours 8:00- 3:00 M-F
(or by appointment)
For general information and questions; as well as to
report an absence, contact our registrar,
Anna Thompson, at [email protected]
Can you help us this summer by doing volunteer facility maintenance? This includes touch up painting and various building repairs and landscaping. If you are willing and able, please drop your name with our registrar Anna. She’s just gathering names now, and once we have a group, we will get dates and jobs hammered out.
Monday, April 25 – Friday May 13: Spring MAP Window
Wednesday, May 4: SAC Meeting 6:00
Friday, May 13: Spring Violin Concert & Int’l Day of Families
Friday May 13: Deadline for Registration Packets for 2016-2017.
Friday May 13: Library Books Due
Monday, May 16 – Friday May 20: End of Course Assessments for Art and Music (4th and 5th grades only)
Friday, May 20: Talent Show
Monday, May 23: Graduations @ NMIS o Kinder: 9:00 am o Fifth Grade:1 pm
Wednesday, May 25: Last day of school (dismisses at 11:30)
Wednesday, May 25: Yearbooks distributed
Tuesday, June 14: Governing Council Meeting 5:00
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