P.E. Class this week February 10 to February 14, 2014

I would like to remind parents to send your children dressed in an appropriate way for the days that they have P.E. class:

-  No dresses for the girls

-  No jeans

-  No crocks

-  No sandals

-  No boots

Children who are not wearing the appropriate clothing will not be allowed to participate in P.E. class.

CANDIDATE FOR HEAD OF SCHOOL VISIT – We would like to remind our parents that Mr. Robert Gronniger will be visiting our school as a candidate for the Head of School Position. Mr. Gronniger will be on site this Monday, February 10 and Tuesday, February 11. There will be a Q&A Session for Parents on Tuesday, February 11, from 8:00 to 10:00 am in the school library. We encourage our parents to attend this session and seize the opportunity to ask questions to this candidate.

MIDTERM AND MAP REPORTS – The Midterm for the third quarter was last Friday, February 7. Midterm Reports and MAP reports will be sent out this Friday, February 14. Please review them and return them signed by Tuesday, February 18.

PICTURES FOR THE YEARBOOK – The individual and class pictures for the 2013-2014  yearbook will be taken from Tuesday, February 11 to Wednesday, February 19. Please send your child looking his/her best on the day that his/her grade is scheduled. Merlin Pictures will be taking the photos and will be offering different packets of our students’ pictures at a very convenient price for parents to buy.

SCHOLASTIC BOOKS! – TODAY (Monday, February 10) is final date to purchase books online. The books will arrive at the school in one single delivery, and we will distribute them to the students according to their orders, approximately three weeks after the purchase due date. Please email Ms. Marilis (mzambrana@discoveryschool.edu.hn ) if you have any questions.

CHANGE IN MOVIE DATE AND TIME FROM THE DPTO –In order to offer "The Lego Movie" to our school community in English, the DPTO has moved the date for the movie to Sunday, February 23rd, at the same time, 11:00 a.m. The current Tickets will work for this day. Once again, the DPTO apologizes for this inconvenience and hopes to see you at the theatre then!

P.E. Class this week

PRE-KINDER

We are having a lot of fun with pre-kinder as we are learning to do warm ups and exercises that the students can do if they follow instructions (such as “Follow the Leader” and boys and girls races). 

KINDERGARTEN

We are going to run obstacles races to develop gross motor skills and we will be playing “animal games”.

FIRST GRADE

We are still developing volleyball pre-sport activities by doing volleys (low and high), in pairs using the official size ball. 

SECOND GRADE

We are going to do low volley and high volley in pairs and threes with a volley ball. These activities will lead to the development of volleyball pre-sport activities.

THIRD GRADE

We continue developing teamwork activities by working on low volley and high volley activities in pairs and circles. The purpose of these activities is to develop volleyball pre-sport activities.

FOURTH GRADE

We will continue with the practice of volleyball basic skills. The students will put into practice what they have learned by playing a volleyball game in small groups.

FIFTH GRADE

This week the fifth grade students we will continue with the implementation of the volleyball basic skills by putting in practice what they have learned when playing a volleyball game in small groups.