Nursery News December 16-18

Dear Parents.
 During this week we will evaluate your child's progress in school.
Please remember to review with your child the concepts and vocabulary learned. 
We encourage you to refer to last week's post when reviewing with your child at home also take advantage of using the links that have been provided in the course of this quarter. 
To celebrate the holidays we have prepared some working stations in our classroom. You are welcome to come on Wednesday from 8:00 to 9:00 am to work with your child or read a story related to this festivity. Please bring a small snack to share. 

Please read this important information;

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! – We wish to express our gratitude to all our parents and students for opening their heart this holiday season to share with those around you. The donations of the disinfectant were delivered to FUNDACION ABRIGO last week in the name of our student body. The shoes and socks that were given for the children at NUESTROS PEQUENOS HERMANOS are ready to be handed out at a Christmas event at the orphanage.  Your contributions for the SUPPORT PERSONNEL HOLIDAY BASKETS are being organized and will be given to them this Wednesday.  Since all these donations were voluntary, we deeply appreciate our community’s willingness to reach out and share with others.

 

DPTO NEWS- The DPTO wishes to remind the parents who have not yet done so, to please pay the L.200.00 fee to support the DPTO. This contribution fee was agreed upon on the last Assembly, and is a vital contribution in order to keep on planning fun events for all of our school community to enjoy!  You can leave the payment with Ms. Carolina at the reception.

 

We also want to let you know that our DPTO blog has been updated, so please check it out!

 

SCHOOL FACEBOOK PAGE – Please check out our school Facebook page for news, pictures and tips that are helpful for both teachers and students. Look for Discovery School, Tegucigalpa, Honduras or follow this link: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Discovery-School-Tegucigalpa-Honduras/265341306871650

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Nursery News December 9-13

Dear parents.
Thank you very much for lending us the scooters, the nursery students had a lot of fun riding them.
During this week the children will learn:
Theme: Christmas and the words: Santa, tree, gift, reindeer, and star.
Shape: Triangle and the words: Pine tree, sailboat, party hat, pizza slice.
Please start practicing the vocabulary learned during the second quarter. You may refer to older posts to review the words.We suggest you to access the following links with your child. 
Jingle Bells
Game to practice the shapes
Toy shop game
Little Snowflake  (This is the song that the Nursery students will sing at the Songfest. Please practice it at home.)

SONGFEST – The School’s annual Songfest will be held on Friday, December 13 at 1:30 p.m. Parents are welcome to come and have lunch with our students before the performances. There will be a sale of food, baked goods and drinks.

Students have been asked to wear clothes in Christmas colors.  If they have Christmas accessories, they can wear them, too.    

 

SUPPORT PERSONNEL HOLIDAY BASKETS – Christmas is the season to open our hearts and share with those around us that need it most. It has been a tradition at Discovery School for students to come together and contribute in assembling baskets of goods for our support personnel.  We are asking for your cooperation in sending the following:

 

Nursery/PKinder and 6^th grade students 1 5-lb bag of beans

Kinder and 7^th grade students                   1 5 lb bag of rice

1^st grade and 8^th grade students               1 5-lb bag of sugar

2^nd grade and 9^th grade students              1 bottle or 2 bags of oil, 2 boxes of margarine, OR 3 lbs of lard

3^rd grade and 10^th grade students             1 4lb-bag of MASECA

4^th grade and 11^th grade students             3 lbs of spaghetti (six packages) OR 1 bag of coffee

5^th grade and 12^th grade students             4 packages of tomato paste

 

Please feel free to send any additional goodies that you want to share with our devoted staff, such as canned goods, instant soups, cookies and crackers, or anything else that does not require refrigeration.  Please send these items no later than Monday, December 16th. Donations from our students are voluntary, and we deeply appreciate our community’s willingness to share with our dedicated workers

 

CHRISTMAS GIVING TREE:  Thank you for selecting your tags from the NPH Giving Tree.  Please remember to bring your item with the tag attached to Mrs. Agurcia's Room (Secondary Building; Room 7) by Tuesday, December 10th.

 

CAFETERIA HOLIDAY LUNCHEON - The Cafeteria is hosting a Holiday Luncheon for parents and children this Friday right before Songfest.  For Menus and prices go to http://discoverycafeteria.blogspot.com

Nursery News December 2=6

Dear Parents. We hope you had a great long weekend! December is here and our little students keep working hard and getting ready for the Songfest.
 During this week we will learn about;
Shape: Square, and the words: Window, box, board game, cracker,
Theme: Toys, and the words: teddy bear, doll, scooter, ball, puzzle,and toy car.
Please let us know if you can lend us a scooter to use this week in school.
For Show and Tell on Wednesday, your child needs to bring one of his/ her favorite toys. They need to know the name of the toy to present to their classmates.
Please practice the nursery rhyme for this week.
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear.

 Important Information.

MINI CHRISTAMS BAZAAR – Our school DPTO is organizing an early shopping opportunity for our families on December 5 and 6. The event will last all school day long! Come and support our DPTO and take advantage of the great items that will be on sale at terrific prices!!!!

SONGFEST – The School’s annual Songfest will be held on Friday, December 13 at 1:30 p.m. Parents are welcome to come and have lunch with our students before the performances. There will be a sale of food, baked goods and drinks. 

PREPARATION FOR SONG FEST - In preparation for our song fest, we are asking parents who have spare Christmas decorations which they would like to share with us for the stage presentation taking place on December.13,to please send them to your child's homeroom teacher next week.We will take good care of them and return them by Monday, December, 16. Anticipated thanks for your unconditional support in all our school activities.

CHRISTMAS GIVING TREE:  Nuestro Pequeños Hermanos (NPH) is an international organization that takes in abandoned and orphaned children, providing a home and education.  Here in Honduras, the NPH organization provides for over 500 children in at large ranch near La Venta and home in Tegucigalpa for severely handicapped children.   While many children at the ranch have aunts, uncles, or grandparents that come to visit them and can provide some Christmas gifts, some children at a ranch have no family to visit.  It is these children, whom we would like to provide for this Christmas.   On the second floor of the secondary building, a NPH Giving Tree will be set up.   Choose a paper tree that has a child’s information about his/her size for shoes or socks.  Purchase the new item and return it to Mrs. Agurcia’s Room (Rm. 7) by Tuesday, December 10th, with the tree tag taped to it.  As well, there are tree tags for basic food items that will be donated to the orphanage.  Cash donations will also be accepted to provide shoes and socks for children whose tags were not selected.  Thank you for giving this Christmas!  If more information about NPH’s work in Honduras, please visit http://www.nph-honduras.org/. 

FUNDACION ABRIGO - Discovery Schoo, l in solidarity with FUNDACION ABRIGO ( A foundation that provides lodging for families from outside Tegucigalpa who bring patients to Hospital Escuela), is asking our school community’s collaboration in sending us a donation of 1 gallon of disinfectant per family by this Friday, December 6. Your contribution will be greatly appreciated!