P.E. Class this week, October 26 to October 30, 2015

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.

GENERAL INFORMATION

TODO TRANQUILO – “Todo Tranquilo” is a new child friendly conflict resolution program that will be implemented at Discovery School. The program focuses on enabling our students to effectively and assertively deal with difficult situations. Students interested in becoming “Calmadores” will begin their trainings during lunch this week. Trainings will take place from 12:20-12:45 in Ms. Cristiana’s room, beginning Tuesday, October 20. More information about this program can be found in the Elementary blog on our school website. If you have any questions please see Ms. Cristiana.

BOOK CHARACTER DAY - In keeping with Discovery School tradition, students are invited to dress up as his/her favorite book character. Your child should pick a book that he/she has read or that has been read to him/her. It should also be a book that was written before it became a movie or TV show. Please remember: NO SCARY COSTUMES! The 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders will set up a live interactive museum on Thursday, October 29 which will last from 8:50-9:40 a.m. This will allow the younger students to come and learn about new book characters. Parents are welcome to come and meet all of the exciting characters and learn about some new books.

DPTO UN Day Celebrations- our school UN DAY celebration will be on Friday, October 30, from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. All school families are invited to participate and represent their country of origin. If you have a typical outfit from your country, and would like to participate in the annual showcase, please contact Carolina Villareal carovilla252@hotmail.com or Miriam Salgado miriamasalgado@yahoo.es

CHRISTIMAS BAZAAR- LOOKING FOR VENDORS- Discovery’s Helping Hands Club, a community service club that benefits the children of the Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos orphanage will be having a Christmas Bazaar.  Interested vendors should email, Discovery_bazaar@outlook.com.

P.E. CLASS THIS WEEK

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.