THANKS for your generosity!

December 10-14, 2012

THANKS FOR YOUR GENEROSITY -  On behalf of the teachers who are involved with NPH, we want to thank you so much for donating shoes, socks, and food items for the NPH Giving Tree!  All 38 children were able to receive a new pair of shoes and 6 pairs of socks!  About 20 extra pairs of shoes and numerous socks were also donated to the orphanage, as well as over 10 boxes of food items.  Thanks for your generosity!

SECONDARY SEMESTER EXAMS - Students from grade 9 – 12 will be having semester exams (Language Arts, Social Studies, Math, Science, and Spanish only) beginning December 12 – December 14. Students will begin their exams at 8:00 am and will finish at 12:30. They can leave after they are done with their exams. The schedule is as follows:

	Wednesday, December 12	Thursday, December 13	Friday, December 14
8:00 – 10:00	Math	Science	Social Studies
	BREAK	BREAK	BREAK
10:30 – 12:30		Español	Language Arts

SONG FEST PREPARATION - The Music teachers will be asking some teachers to help with whole grade rehearsals. Thanks in advance for your help in supporting Ms. Norma and Ms. Pamela in whatever way is needed. They’ve been working very hard to make this year’s event the best ever! We want our students to SHINE on this event. The schedule for the rehearsal days is as follows:

Thursday December. 13 AND Monday, December 17

8:30 – 8:50 ……………            Nursery / Pk

9:00 – 9:20 …………..            1^st A,B

9:20 – 9:40 ……………            2^nd. A,B

10: 10 – 10:30  ……….          3^rd. A,B

10: 30 – 10: 50 ……………       4^th. A,B

10: 50 – 11:10 ……………        5^th A,B

11:10 – 11:30 …………….        6^th

12:30 – 12: 50 ……………        7^th

12:50 – 1:10 ……………..         8^th

1:10 -  1:30 ……………….        9^th A,B

1:30 – 1:50 ……………….         Kinder

The Discovery School Song Fest (to be held on Tuesday, December     18 at 6:00 p.m.) is around the corner!  This year, the Music Department is making a very special celebration as an extension of their Music classes.

The children will sing and dance beautiful Disney or famous movie 

themes. The Music teachers need your cooperation by providing dresses for your child: NURSERY AND PK - Song to perform: “It’s A Small World After All”. The children need to dress up as:  The Princess, Mickey, Minnie, Pluto or any other Disney character.KINDER- Song to perform: “Somewhere Out There” from “Fievel An merican Tale”The children need to dress up as a Mouse with pajamas, tale, and big mouse ears. A small pillow will be also needed (bring it the day of the performance)FIRST GRADE - Song to perform: “Heigh Ho” from “Snow White”.  The boys need to dress up as a dwarf with beard and big dwarf hat and a hammer or shovel. The girls need to wear a dress with a diamond or other gem tia­ra to simulate a jewel.SECOND GRADE - Song to perform: “You’ll Bring Honor to us all” from “Mulan”. The children need to dress up as a Chinese girl with a fan or Chinese boy.THIRD GRADE - Song to perform: “So Long, Farewell” from “The Sound of Music”.The girls need to  wear a formal dress and the boys formal pants, and shirt with a tie.FOURTH GRADE  - Song to perform: “Chim Chimney” from “Mary  Poppins”.The children need to wear blue jeans, black shirt and black cap. They also need a broomstick.FIFTH GRADE - Will present “We are off to Visit the Wizard of Oz” from the movie“The Wizard of Oz”. The children need to dress up as one of the movie characters (as it has already been assigned in class).SIXTH GRADE  - Will sing “Hakuna Matata” from the movie “The Lion King”. Students need to dress up as one of the movie characters (as it has already been assigned in class).SEVENTH GRADE - Will play on the guitar the main theme of the movie “Star Wars”.  Students need to dress up as one of the movie characters (as it has already been assigned in class).EIGHTH GRADE -  will sing and dance the song “We Go Together” from the movie “Grease”. Girls need to use a long skirt, a blouse and black shoes with white socks; Boys need to wear blue jeans, white T-Shirt and a leather black jacket (if possible), resembling the 70’s fashion.NINETH GRADE - Will perform with a “Stomp Choreography”. Students will wear jeans and a yellow, red or blue T-Shirt.   

Dates to remember     

December 12-14                                             Grades 9-12 Semester Exams

Thursday, December 13                                   Songfest General Rehearsal

Monday,  December 17                                    Songfest General Rehearsal

Tuesday, December 18                                    SONG FEST 6:00 p.m.

                   End of the Second Quarter

December 19 – January 7                                Winter Holiday

CONTENT TO BE STUDIED 

Grade	Subject	Content to be studied this week	Homework & due Date	Quiz & due Date	Project & due Date
6th M-T-W	Estudios Soc. y Sem.del H.N.H.	Oceanìa & Honduras national anthem	Research which is in the textbook pgs 68-69, to turn in  the notebook,  due Wednesday 12th	N/A	N/A
7th M-W-F	Estudios Soc. y Ed. Cívica	Important aspects of civism.	HW Fill in worksheets  Friday 14th	N/A	N/A
8th T-Th	Estudios Soc. y Ed. Cívica	Civism Valores	HW about values  along the week	N/A	N/A
9th A&B -M&T- (Semester exams  W-F)	Estudios Soc. y Ed. Cívica	Values/civics	N/A	N/A	N/A
10th  -M- (Semester exams  W-F)	Hist. de Honduras	Temas de Desarrollo de Honduras	N/A	N/A	N/A
11th -T- (Semester exams  W-F)	Desarrollo Socioeconómico	Strategies of Development	Power point Presentation due on Tuesday 11th	N/A	N/A
12th -M- (Semester exams  W-F)	Historia de la Cultura y Sem. del H.N.H.	Las civilizaciones Griega y Romana	N/A	Quiz Monday 10th	N/A

CHRISTMAS BASKETS FOR OUR SUPPORT PERSONNEL 
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:

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, 

boxes of margarine, or 3lbs 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 Friday, December 14^th. Your participation will be deeply appreciated.