Week of May 5th

After a short week and a nice week-end, let's have a great week of rigorous learning.

6th grade students will continue to read their new novel, Pacific Crossing, by Gary Soto. As students read this book, they will deepen their vocabulary, journal, grow comprehension, and increase high order thinking skills by discussing the chapters of the novel in literature circles and as a class with the themes of it.

HOMEWORK:
Read and discuss the chapters of the novel

The 7th grade class will continue to read their novel, The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton. Students will receive a new set of vocabulary words, journal, grow comprehension, and increase high order thinking skills by discussing the chapters of the novel in literature circles and as a class with the themes of it. Students will have a test covering chapters (1-5) on WEDNESDAY of the novel in order to measure their comprehension skills.

The 8th grade class will begin to learn what debate is and practice debating their fellow students covering different topics. Students will gather information from Internet sources to help with their stances and use teams to debate against each other.

Let's have a great week! Believing is Achieving!

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Bob Marley

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Discovery Happenings

SPRING GENERAL ASSEMBLY - The General Assembly of parents will be held on Saturday, May 17, beginning at 9:00 a.m. in the Cafeteria. We are required to have a quorum of one-third of our parents present in order for the meeting to be considered legal and for any decisions made at the General Assembly to be binding. We have 325 parents listed as members of the school association, so we need to have at least 108 parents in attendance (although only one parent per family can vote, both parents can be counted for quorum). We need for YOU to attend! Your ideas and your votes are important for the school. The school will provide supervision and activities for children during the General Assembly (from 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.) Dr. Jay Ketterer, Discovery School’s new Head of School will be present at the Assembly.

 

DISCOVERY GOES GREEN- Thank you for all of you who have participated in green activities during April. 

 

-Congratulations to the 2nd grade classes for bringing the most material for the Recycling Drive.  They will celebrate with the Environmental Science students by having a "earthly" snack on Tuesday. 

-Also, a large thank you goes out to all the families that sponsored plants for the Greening Our Campus activity.  The students had lots of fun getting dirty, using their "green thumbs" to plant.  We planted 65 bushes and more are to come in the next few weeks.  Our campus is definitely looking greener!

DPTO FUN RUN AND CARNIVAL – The DPTO will be hosting their traditional events this Saturday, May 10. The FUN RUN begins at 7:30 a.m. followed by the traditionalpancake breakfast, and the CARNIVAL will take place from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. We hope all our school community will mark their calendars and support the DPTO by attending and having a great family time.

DISCOVERY ZONE – Our Summer camp is back! Join us and allow your children to have a fun-filled three weeks at the beginning of their summer. Spread the word among family and friends and get special discounts!