CUESD Textbooks for 2013-2014

The officially "Adopted Textbooks" for the Corning Union Elementary School District, for the 2013-2014 school year, are available on a list. 

Common Core Standards Information

There are excellent Parent Handbooks for the new Common Core Curriculum.  These Parent Handbooks are available in both English and Spanish.  We are now using the Common Core Standards for our academic programs at all our five schools in the Corning Union Elementary School District. 

Accelerated Reader Quizzes - Maywood Middle School

Our Maywood Middle School, Grades 6-8, has 7,259 Accelerated Reader (AR) Quizzes for our students to use. Our collection of AR quizzes includes books with AR reading levels from 3 to 12.

Parents and students can use the online database of our AR Quizzes. They can search for AR Quizzes by author, title, subject, AR reading level, AR points, fiction and non-fiction, and by reading interest levels.

Our Maywood Middle School Library has all books with AR Quizzes marked on the inside and outside of the book.

Reading - Houghton Mifflin

I noticed on Kevin Mathiesen's webpage a link to Kid's Place Houghton Mifflin Reading.

You click on the grade level button for 1st to 6th grade, and enter tutorials for reading lessons. There is a word game for each lesson, vocabulary, and author information. These activities are, of course, keyed to chapters in the Houghton Mifflin reading textbooks used at our schools.

The graphics display of the games is simple, small, and left justified. They should work on anyone's screen - even for those on dial up connections with small screens.

Education Place

Students should visit the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Education Place online.

Find Textbook Support Materials

Pre-K–6 resources for teachers, students, and families to support instruction in the classroom and at home.

Reading and Language Arts
Mathematics
Science
History and Social Science
Spelling

Everyday Math

We have provided information, primarily for teachers of mathematics, for our Everyday Math program. The links cover grades Kindergarten through the 6th grade.

Everyday Math Links

Holiday Fun

Mrs. Stout, Computer Center Specialist at Maywood School, has a variety of interesting webpages that might be useful with 5th to 7th grade students such as: Halloween Scavenger Hunt, Thanksgiving History Scavenger Hunt, Google Earth Hunt, and Christmas Tree Scavenger Hunt.

She also has a good links page for 8th grade students working on researching Careers.

Practice Tests Online

Some of our teachers have placed practice tests online for students to use.

Mr. Rypka, 6th Grade Teacher of mathematics and science at Maywood, has places mathematics tests online for his students to use. For example, check out the Unit 5 Cumulative Test Practice.

Mr. Barletto, 6th Grade Physical Education Teacher at Maywood, has placed numerous tests online for his students to use. For example, check out the Volleyball Test.

Drupal Teacher Accounts

Every teacher at Maywood Middle School now has a Teacher's Page in the new Maywood Drupal Website. Each teacher was sent their new Drupal username and password. Each teacher was sent basic instructions on how to use a Teacher Page: http://cuesiz.blogspot.com/2010/09/maywood-drupal-website-teacher-accounts_28.html

The new Maywood Middle School Website is now online at: http://maywoodcuesd.org/

Each teacher can edit their Teacher's Page, add links, cut and past text into the editor, add images and photographs, import files, etc. This new situation is a break through in terms of freeing teachers from the need to work with a IT Webmaster to get information online for their students, parents, or other teachers.

Speak to Mike Garofalo for more information.

Mathematics - 6th Grade

The first CUESD teacher to post a content page using the Drupal content management system is Martin Jimenez, 6th Grade Teacher at the Maywood Middle School.

Mr. Jimenez posted useful information on using the 6th grade mathematics textbook. The webpage has over 100 links to useful resources.

The content page is titled: Math Book Resource Links

The URL is: http://maywoodcuesd.org/content/math-help

Physical Education: 6th Grade

Mr. Phil Barletto, Physical Education Teacher at Maywood Middle School has developed an excellent website with many resources for students and teachers regarding physical education for 6th grade students.

He has developed a collection of "Classroom Assignments" documents for the following subjects: Badminton, Basketball, Dance, Field Hockey, Football, Soccer, Softball, Tennis, and Volleyball.

Each subject includes documents for: An Outline, Checklist, Standards, Vocabulary, Timeline, Word Search, Crossword, Vocabulary Answers and a Test.

Take a look at Mr. Barletto's fine website: http://www.maywoodcuesd.org/old/staff/barletto/index.htm

Mathematics: Grades K-6

Mrs. Miller, Principal at Woodson and Rancho Tehama Schools, has put up a very useful collection of resources for Mathematics. The resources are arranged by Grades K-6.


CUESD Everyday Math Links


The URL for this website is: http://www.woodsoncuesd.org/old/Math/Math%20Web.html

Ancient Civilizations - Online Resources

One our popular webpages for 6th grade students is Social Studies for 6th Grade Students: Ancient Civilizations. It covers Egypt, Rome, India, China, Greece and other ancient civilizations; as well as paleolithic hunting and gathering cultures.

It is a useful pathfinder for helping students studying online materials about Ancient Civilizations in a computer lab.

Ancient Civilizations, Discovering Our Past
Glencoe California Series. New York, McGraw Hill, Glencoe, 2006. By by Jackson J. Spielvogel, Ph.D.., and the National Geographic Society. Index, glossary, standards, 606 pages. This is the textbook that our sixth grade students are using in 2010-2011.

History and Social Science - Grades K-8

The San Bernardino County Department of Education, from 2000-2008, developed the SCORE History/Social Sciences Resources for students and teachers.

This project was part of the Schools of California Online Resources for Education (SCORE).

The website is still a useful collection of annotated links to over 500 online resources.

SCORE History/Social Sciences Resources

The URL for this website is: http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/