This Week at Discovery

Hello everybody!  Can you believe that there are only 3 weeks of school left?  Where has the time gone?   Thanks as always for checking.  Here's to yet another fun filled week at Discovery!

IMPORTANT REMINDERS:

CLASS PARTY PLANNING:  To any parent interested in helping plan our final class get together, there will be a meeting with Elizabeth Touchstone and some other parents this Wednesday morning at 9 am.  

• GENERAL ASSEMBLY will be held on Thursday, May 16, beginning at 6:00 p.m. According to our by-laws, we need a quorum of at least 57 families represented--please join us at this year’s meeting. Three of our Board members will complete their 2-year terms (Wendy Willemsen, Wendolyn Sanchez, and Arnaldo Palma). These members are all running for re-election. If you would also like to nominate someone for one of these three positions, please use the nomination form that is available at this link.http://www.discoveryschool.edu.hn/forms/2012-2013/BoardNominationForm.pdf

• THE CHRONICLES OF DISCOVERY GALA  --  The Chronicles Gala is this Friday,  May 17, 2013.  This formal, black tie event is modeled after the Oscars in that there will be pomp and extravagance, live entertainment and hors d’oeuvres, photographers and a quartet.  It is a celebration of literature and art, specifically for the Chronicles of Discovery Literary and Art magazine. 

The Gala begins at 7:00 p.m. May 17, 2013. Purchase your tickets for L. 100 from any AP English Composition student, Mr. Fenn, or Carolina. (EL Heraldo and TN5 will be covering the event.)

• DPTO GARAGE SALE – The DPTO will have an Open Garage Sale on Saturday, May 25. The price per stand is L.500.00 please contact the DPTO officers for further information or email discoverypto@gmail.com .

• DISCOVERY ZONE 4 – Our Summer Camp is back, beginning June 10. If you are interested in enrolling your child(ren) please stop by the office to pick up the registration form or access the form on our website (www.discoveryschool.edu.hn)  Great discounts are available!

THIS WEEK'S CLASS ACTIVITIES:

Reading and Writing:  We will be working on our reading skill of using 'context clues' to identify new and tricky words, and working out their meaning.  We will apply this skill during our guided reading periods with our class novel, "Because of Winn-Dixie".  We will also be working on creating our very own biographies of one of our fellow classmates.  Our students have created a list of interesting questions and will now conduct interviews and gather information to put into these biographies.  

Math:  We are finishing up our unit on graphs and time this week.  Monday we will look at misleading graphs, Tuesday we will work on using graphs for problem solving, and Wednesday will be a review period before: TEST ON THURSDAY!

Social Studies:  We will be continuing our Economics unit by looking at what it means to be an entrepreneur, and why it is never too young to have an entrepreneurial spirit.  We will also look at times in history when supply and demand have had a large affect on outcomes in the past.

Grammar:  Our grammar focus this week will be on everybody's favorite part of speech: the preposition.

Thanks again!  Here's to a great week!

Jordan and Karen