Week of January 27th

Last week was a great week for most students! Let's have a even better week this week!!

 

In the 6th grade, students will review the skills of capitalization, punctuation, and sentence formation in conjunction with learning about compound and complex sentences. The aforementioned skills are necessary in order to deepen their learning of compound and complex sentences, and some students are not demonstrating these abilities even though we have studied theses skills. The extra work is needed before we begin to write our research papers at the end of the quarter. Good luck, 6th graders. 

 

In the 7th grade, students will continue to read the novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry. While reading the novel, students will journal with various prompts, study various vocabulary words, review and discuss the novel in literature circles, and demonstrate an understanding of comprehension on assessments, which they will have covering chapters 8- 14 this week. Good luck, students!!

 

In the 8th grade, students will finish their learning of adverbs, prepositions and prepositional phrases, conjunctions, and interjections with an assessment. Students have shown that they have these abilities with exercises from the textbook and the 8th Grade Grammar Workbook. Good luck, students!!

 

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

“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

 

MAP TESTING – This is week two of our second MAP testing session for this school year.

 

CHOIR PARENTS – On Monday, February 3, at 3:15 p.m., there will be a mandatory meeting in the school Library for parents of all Choir students who are planning to travel to New York City in June 2014 to perform at the prestigious Carnegie Hall. Information will be given concerning the trip and payments needed, and Important decisions about the trip will be taken. We need at least one parent for each Choir student to attend this meeting.

 

SCHOLASTIC BOOKS! - This month your child(ren) will have the opportunity to purchase books through the International Scholastic Book Clubs.  This is an optional activity offered by the school, in case you want to motivate your child to read at home and to increase their own library.  With your purchase, our library will accumulate points to redeem for more books for the benefit of your children in our school. Order forms and catalogues were sent home on Friday. The final date to purchase the books online is February 10. 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.

 

FROM THE DPTO – PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDARS – The DPTO has been working very hard to organize the traditional Movie Event for Discovery School families. This year, it will take place at NOVACENTRO on Sunday, February 9 at 11:00 a.m. for the presentation of THE LEGO MOVIE