Student Showcase (Correia Middle School)

4th Annual Spooktacular! – Scaring Up some Fun at Correia!!

On Thursday, Oct. 29th seventh and eight graders and their families weaved a web of fun as students came in costume (or not) and enjoyed a boo-ti-ful evening of games, music and fangtastic food! ASB teachers John Snedden and Keri Clark lead their Boo Crew to the costumed courtyard where the kids staffed games and concessions throughout the evening. Mr. Dwyer lead his advanced and intermediate bands as they played haunting Halloween arrangements such as themes from Harry Potter, Hits from the Broadway Musical The Wicked and other spooky classics. The orchestra carved out some terrific pieces as well and Ms. Ina Soliz lead the Corriea Choir with chills and thrills as her students gave a great performance

There were raffle prizes every witch way! More goblin’ good harvest time eats and treats were served up by the Band Boo-sters! The kids performed remarkably well considering it is so early in the school year. Look for more great things to come from Corriea kids.

Andy Roder wins '50 Best Moms' Essay Contest for the Unions Tribune!

50 Best Moms Contest
by Andy Roder
I am a 13 year old boy who has kidney failure, and my mom has learned so much information to take care of me that she is like a walking hospital. My mom has to put me on to peritoneal dialysis every single night. My dialysis machine acts as my kidneys by filtering my blood and getting the unnecessary liquid out of my body. Without my dialysis machine and my mom to help me, I would get very swollen ankles, and go into kidney failure. It has been over 60 days of every single night going to bed at 7:30 so I could stop dialysis in time to get to school. Each time the dialysis would hurt as it drained some fluid out of my peritoneum. During the painful parts of dialysis, my mom is always with me so she can make sure that I am okay. When I am not on dialysis, I still have to take a shot every Tuesday for energy, because when you have bad kidneys, you have low energy. My mom is the one who helps do every thing medical. We both practiced doing shots with a nurse who taught us at the hospital. For how to do my shot, my mom practiced on an orange again and again so that she wouldn’t do it wrong and to make sure that I’d be okay every time. Without my mom it would have been hard to get dialysis and my shot done. She helps me understand my homework if I don’t get it. Now it is turning into me explaining my homework to my Mom, it is so complicated, but it still helps me remember by explaining things to my Mom. She always tells me how strong I am and that I can do anything. My kidneys may fail on me, but my Mom never will.

Congratulations to Sam Schoonmaker, 8th grade student at Correia Middle school for participating in the 2011 California State Science Fair.

Congratulations to Sam Schoonmaker, 8^th grade student at Correia Middle school for participating in the 2011 California State Science Fair. It was held May 2^nd and 3^rd in Los Angeles at the California Science Center. Sam moved on from the Greater San Diego Science fair along with 100 other San Diego County students.

The title of Sam’s project was The Acceleration of a Skateboard and was in the Applied Mechanics and Structures category.

Sam’s science teacher Mr. Go Ozeni, provided guidance and support throughout this project and was a great mentor.

The California State Science Fair is the final science fair of the academic year for students throughout the State of California in grades 6 – 12. It has served California's future scientists since 1952. This year there were over 1000 participants from 403 schools throughout the state.

Pictured below is Sam Schoonmaker at the 2011 California State Science Fair in front of his board.

Optimist Oratorical Contest Winners at CMS!

Correia Middle School proudly announces that two HARD WORKING students, one female and one male, were named as 1st Place Winners in the annual Optimist Oratorical Contest. Congratulations go to MAIA HOUCK (1st Place Winner - Female) and DANIEL BENHAM (1st Place Winner - Male).

We acknowledge these students and every student who entered the contest!

Correia's Students Shine at the Greater San Diego Science & Engineering Fair

Congratulations to all the participants in the science fair. See how great our students did including the three that qualified for the California State Science Fair!

Correia Middle School Winners:

2011 California State Science Fair Qualified Entrants

Sam Schoonmaker

Sydney Johnson

2011 California State Science Fair Alternate Entrants

Kayla Meyer

2011 GSDSEF Place Award Winners

Arnold, Ryan 1st

Benham, Daniel 1st

Bergman, Nicole 1st

Jackson, Teresa 1st

Johnson, Sydney 1st

Meyer, Kayla 1st

Schoonmaker, Helen 1st

Schoonmaker, Sam 1st

Stevenson, Noah 1 st

Deak, Sierra 2nd

Estrin, Jaclyn 2nd

Hense, Hannah 2nd

Llerandi, Julian 2nd

Lund, Kaitlyn 2nd

Mather, Kyle 2nd

McKay, Sam 2nd

McPhee, Mercedes 2nd

Roder, Andrew 2nd

Scadden, Cole 2nd

Schrady, Jeremy 2nd

Verhees, Mason 2nd

Flora, Kailey 3rd

Folsom, Emilie 3rd

Speros, Crystal 3rd

Sullivan, Kenny 3rd

Van Arsdale, Cheyne 3rd

Davey, Megan 4th

McQueen, Tyler 4th

Daniel Benham also received 4 society awards and Jeremy Schrady received one society award.

For a complete list of winners, go to: www.gsdsef.org

Excellent, Superior and 1st for CMS at Music in the Parks!

CIMAs Success in LA!!

Congratulations to all of our student performers who participated in this past weekend's Music in the Parks Festival. Their outstanding performances added another 5 trophies to the music program's trophy shelf and a lot to be proud of.

In categories that were not competitive, our Orchestra and Intermediate Band both received ratings of Good while the new Guitar Ensemble program brought back a rating of Excellent for their debut festival performance.

In the competitive categories our Advanced Band received a rating of Excellent and took 1st place in the MS band category. Our Jazz Ensemble received a rating of Superior (one of only two superior ratings given for the entire day), received 1st place in the MS Jazz Band category, and received the highest score for the entire festival!!

Finally, congratulations goes to Spencer Gedestad who received the festival's Solo Award for his solo performance in Jazz Ensemble.

Congratulations Jazz Ensemble!

Correia's Jazz Ensemble gave a flawless performance this past Saturday at the CMEA/Jazz 88.1 Jazz Fest. For their performance, the ensemble earned a Unanimous Superior rating.

Great solos were performed by Spencer Gedestad, Thomas Herrin, Cole Van der Helder, Dalton Omens, Erich McMillian, and Daniel Benham.

CMS Students Shine: Many Will Play in SDUSD Honor Band

Congratulations to the following Correia Band students who auditioned and where admitted to the 2011 SDUSD Honor Band. Students competed for seats in this prestigious group open to all middle school (7th & 8th grade) students in all of San Diego Unified School District.

These students will join other honor level musicians from our district in a concert held at PLNU on March 12.

Cole Van Den Helder - admitted on Clarinet & Tenor Sax.
Alexis Kim - Clarinet
Astrea Villarroel - Clarinet
Spencer Gedestad - Trumpet Section Leader
Kei Takanami - Trumpet
Jesse Hall - Trombone Section Leader
Kaitlyn Lund - Trombone
Dalton Omens - Trombone
Max Halbert - Trombone
Matias Nuevo - Baritone Section Leader
Daniel Benham - Percussion Section Leader
Michael Brown - Percussion
Alex Allen - Percussion

"Cougar Tracks Blog" - Correia students coordinate, record, & enhance the campus experience

The Student Initiative utilizes the vision of the students at Correia to plan, coordinate, record, and enhance the campus experience. Combining elements of photography, video technique, and student governance we are working toward making the learning environment at Correia exciting and memorable.

Organizing spirit days, campus unity events, and being part of the visual and performing arts at Correia gives us plenty to add to the daily goings on for our Yearbook and Correia News broadcast. Stay tuned!

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AVID Students Produce College Promoting Newsletter

The newsletter is designed to promote college culture here at Correia. It is written, designed and edited completely by the 7th grade AVID class students. The February newsletter was distributed in REACH classes on Monday 1/3.