P.E. Class this week, October 20 to October 24, 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.

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

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

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.

P.E. CLASS THIS WEEK

PRE-KINDER

We continue to work learning to follow instructions and lining and making circles.

KINDERGARTEN

In this week we will continue working on lateralities, by playing games using freebees, and the color race.

FIRST GRADE

This week we will continue 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 baseball bat to strengthen these skills.

SECOND GRADE

This week we will continue developing pre-sport skills for baseball, we will include the use of globes and baseball bat for this skill.

THIRD GRADE   

We continue to strengthen the baseball pre-sport activities. This week we will use baseball gloves and baseballs to develop skills for the game. We also carried out activities to develop speed and endurance.

FOURTH GRADE

This week we will learn techniques for using a baseball bat and at the end of the week will have a baseball game to implement the techniques learned the previous weeks. We are also going to develop speed and endurance activities.

FIFTH GRADE

We will engage in various exercises to improve and develop the coordinative ability eye-hand, required in the execution of baseball games and strengthen the knowledge of the rules of baseball through playing games with the appropriate rules of baseball.