Dear Parents,
We hope you all have had a wonderful Semana Santa /
Easter break! We hope this break has helped us all re-charged our batteries and
enthusiastically begin the last portion of this school year.
This week we are going to be working with the letter Yy.
The vocabulary that we are going to be focusing on is the following: yo-yo, yarn, yellow, yak, yogurt, yawn,
yard, and yolk.
If you have any items at home that
begin with this letter, send them over with your child and we will be
discussing them in class, we will display them on a table and we will return
them back on Friday. The kids get excited to bring things from home.
Some of the stories that we will be reading this week
are:
A young yak thinks new foods are yucky until she
learns a yummy lesson. Kids will shout "Yippee" when we share this
engaging tale that teaches the letter Y. 
Little blue and little yellow share wonderful
adventures. One day, they can't find one another. When they finally meet, they
are overjoyed. They hug until they become green. But where did little blue and
little yellow go? Are they lost?
One day, in her dark and dreary world, Annabelle finds
a box of colorful yarn. She knits a sweater for herself and her dog. At first the townspeople criticize her for
her colorful appearance – but it turns out they want sweaters too. Eventually Annabelle has created sweaters for
everyone and everything in town.
The five new sight words for this week are: jump, eat, cool, because, please.
Please practice these words at home with your child every day.
In our Phonemic Awareness we will be organizing words
in ABC order. Alphabetizing is an essential skill that will help students in
many day-to-day tasks both at home and at school.
In Math we are going to continue working with the
concepts of “greater than” and “less than.” We will add the concept of “equal
to.” We are also going to be working on
writing numbers 1-100
Chiminike has extended an invitation to our
Kindergarten, Grade 1 and Grade 2 students. A puppet show will be presented by
the “Center for Puppetry Arts” from Atlanta, Georgia on Wednesday April 23. Our
little ones will be leaving school at 8:30 a.m. and be back around 10:30 a.m. The
fee that you will be paying is to pay transportation from and to school. The
entrance to Chiminike is completely free for this event.
Here are some School Announcements:
Midterm Reports will go home THIS FRIDAY.
DISCOVERY GOES GREEN
- APRIL / EARTH MONTH- CELEBRATION
Month-Long Activities:
-
Recycling Drive- Teachers should highly promote paper, glass, aluminum,
and plastic recycling. Students should bring materials from home, as well. The class with the greatest amount of
pounds/student will win a prize at the end of the month. Environmental Science students will collect
the materials from the homeroom classrooms twice a week.
- Green
Day- Each Friday wear green to celebrate and help us remember to take “green
actions.”
-
Increasing our green space- In line with Discovery’s month long effort
to “go green,” on Friday, April 25, Discovery students will have an opportunity
to “green” our campus by planting bushes around the school. Discovery families
can sponsor a bush for only L400. This
will include the plant, soil ,fertilizer, and other materials need for the
planting. Students can have the joy and experience of watching their bush grow
over the years that they are here at Discovery. If you wish to sponsor a bush,
please send L400 cash to your child’s homeroom teacher by Thursday, April 24th
SPANISH WEEK – The Spanish department has the honor to
announce that the students and teachers
will be involved in a series of
activities during the week of April 23 to April 28 such as: making sawdust
carpets, drama, characterizations, language contests (“Bombas”, proverbs and
tongue twisters, quick search and acrostics), living statues, Latin American
writers wax museum and tri-folds, door
decorations, guests writers Rolando
Kattán and Eduardo Sandoval. All these activities will be carried out to
celebrate the Spanish week and to help our students improve their Spanish
language skills.
Some of the activities will take place during class
time and others will be presented to students, teachers and parents who are our
special guests.
This is the program to be developed:
1. Inauguration assembly --- Wednesday 23rd
at 8:00 AM all school to the gym.
2. Recital of poems and acrostics breakfast……Friday 25th
at 8:00 AM Kindergarten and first grade.
3. Wax Museum Exhibition….Monday 28th at 1:20-2:30 (Follow the Schedule below)
2 A & B (1:20)
3 A & B (1:30) 4 A &B
(1:40) 6 A & B(1:50)
7 & 8 (2:00)
9 & 11 (2:10) 10 A & B - 12 (2:20)
4. Closure..……………….Monday 28th at 2:30-3:00
all school to the gym
DISCOVERY IDOL - The time is here! Auditions will be
held on Wednesday, April 23 in the music room. The secondary will audition
during lunch at 11:45 a.m. The elementary will audition during recess at 12:45
p.m. Please come ready to sing or dance your heart out for the judges. The
winners will be announced on Thursday, April 24 and the performance will take
place on Thursday, May 1, at 10:15 a.m.
DPTO NEWS – The DPTO wishes to share the following
dates for the activities that will take place before the end of the school
year. Please mark your calendars, and support our DPTO by attending these
events! More information will be provided as we get closer to the dates.
April 27 - Movie at the Cinema! (Rio 2)
May 10 - Carnival and Fun Run
May 17 - Garage Sale
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