P.E. Class this week, October 13 to October 17, 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.

KUDOS FOR CREATIVE INSTRUCTION – This Wednesday, October 15Ms. Marisela and Ms Norma will be sharing the digital stories that the third, fourth and fifth graders created on Storybird.com The final products will be shared with parents during our Student Led Conferences.

SCIENCE FAIR- Our Early Childhood and Elementary have begun working on their Science Fair projects. Grades K-2 will work on whole group projects with their teacher, grades 3-5 will complete a packet according to established deadlines, and will work on this project at home. Elementary parents need to keep in mind the deadlines that are established for each step of the project.

SENIORS BAKE SALE - The Senior class will have a bake sale on Wednesday, October 22 during snack and lunch recess.

PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDARS-

·        Our Student Led Conferences will take place next Friday, October 24. Conferences for the first quarter are mandatory at Discovery School. Parents will be contacted this week.

·        Our U.N. Day Celebration will take place on Wednesday, October 29. If you want to set a country up, or contribute with the organization, please let the DPTO know. 

·        There will be no school on October 30 and 31 in compliance to Congress’ decree for mowing the holidays this month.  Classes will resume on November 3

P.E. CLASS THIS WEEK

PRE-KINDER

We are working on learning to follow instructions, understand and listening commands, such as circles, lines, also through games children learned to recognize, clothing and colors, differentiate a boy and a girl.

 KINDERGARTEN

In this week we will start working on lateralities, to develop these skills we are using games like scorpion, will play the color race to further strengthen this knowledge

 FIRST GRADE

This week we are going to start developing baseball pre-sport activities. We are going to use plastic and tennis balls to develop skills for the game and we are going to include the use of bean bags to strengthen these skills.

 SECOND GRADE

This week we will start developing pre-sport skills for baseball, and some track and field activities to strengthen motor skills.

 THIRD GRADE   

We are working on the obstacle courses and some activities to develop speed and endurance. This week we are going to use baseball gloves so students can become familiar with its use and be ready for a baseball game.

 FOURTH GRADE

We are working on baseball pre-sporting, playing with tennis ball, baseball and plastic balls, for them to learn to handle different sizes and textures, so they can be ready when we play a game.

FIFTH GRADE

This week to warm up we are going to do hurdle race, we are also working on baseball pre-sporting, working in activities such as throwing, catching using globes and batting.