With Valentine’s Day tomorrow, below are a few reminders:
- Parents/guardians who are volunteering for tomorrow’s Valentine’s Day classroom parties, if your student normally rides the school bus or goes to daycare after school - and he/she will be going home with you - please let us know. This is very helpful at dismissal! Please email Jennifer.Hogan@k12.sd.us or Jasmine.Iddings@k12.sd.us – or feel free to call the office.
- Please do not send balloons, flowers, or other delivery items for students at school. These items are not allowed in the classroom and will stay in the office to be picked up at dismissal.
- All treats must be store bought. Home-baked goods are not allowed.
Kindergarten student, Tate, and his 5th grade buddy, Topher, are having fun playing a math board game called Sun Swamp. Players race through the swamp while facing math challenges and meeting funny swamp creatures along the way. #learningcanbefun
A recent Facebook post regarding Washington High School falsely claimed a routine request for a birth certificate was related to immigration status.
State Law (SDCL 13-27-3.1-3.3) requires all public school students to have a birth certificate on file within 30 days of enrollment. When required records are missing from student files, school staff regularly attempt to contact families before sending the required information to the State’s Attorney.
These requests are made solely to ensure compliance with State Law and to maintain complete student records. They are in no way related to immigration enforcement. We are committed to protecting the privacy of our students and their families.
Please reach out to your child’s school or the district office with any questions rather than relying on social media for accurate information. We appreciate your cooperation in keeping student records up to date.
The grand prize of our DreamBox Challenge is a pizza party for the two classrooms that completed the most lessons by January 31: one classroom from KG - 2nd and one classroom from 3rd - 5th.
"DRUMROLL". . . and the winners are. . .
Here are the classroom and student winners from our final week (January 27 - 31) of our DreamBox Challenge. Excellent work, students!
Do you have an incoming kindergartner? Register today for 2025-26 Kindergarten at https://www.sf.k12.sd.us/page/school-registration.
In science, classroom 206 learned about jelly beans and what a jelly bean engineer does. They learned about the ingredients, how they are made, and how they get their flavors. At the end of the lesson, students got to try some different flavored jelly beans!
Classroom K03 is learning about 3D shapes and made a crown of the 3D “shape of the day”!
Do you or someone you know have a child who will be 5-years-old on or before September 1st? If so, Online Registration for the 25-26 school year is now open on the Sioux Falls School District website or through the Parent Portal. Start your child off on the right foot this upcoming school year and get them registered now! https://www.sf.k12.sd.us/page/school-registration
Yesterday was the 100th day of school, and Discovery turned into a Retirement Village! Check out these grandmas and grandpas that are 100 days smarter and brighter: https://youtu.be/ibGL6U1vF20.
Let’s make the rest of the year as good as the first 100 days!
Classroom 505 celebrated the 100th day of school by using an app to make themselves look 100 years old! They also wrote about an invention that they think will be needed in 1000 years. What a great looking group of "grandparents"!
Happy “National School Counseling Week” to our AMAZING school counselors, Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Marchand! We are so lucky to have you! Thank you for all that you do in supporting our students and the Discovery community. You are appreciated!
The SFSD’s official online registration for Kindergarten for the 2025-26 school year is open! Current families, please log in to your parent portal. On the left side, select "More" and then select “KG and New Student Registration."
Families who are new to the SFSD - who do not have any students enrolled - please go to https://www.sf.k12.sd.us/page/school-registration. Please make sure you select the correct school year (25-26) or you will have to start over.
For the upcoming 100th day of school (February 4), students in classroom K04 made portraits of what they will look like when they are 100 years old. What a good-looking group of grandmas and grandpas!
With Valentines Day coming up, love and kindness is in the air! So, Discovery is having Kindness Week February 10 - 14 with dress up days and activities. Kindness is free - so let’s sprinkle that stuff everywhere!
After classroom K05 read “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus" by Mo Willems, students made their own pigeons! A bus driver begins the story by expressing to readers the importance of not letting the pigeon drive the bus while he is gone. The story teaches the reader about promises and persuasion.
Here are the classroom and student winners from the third week (January 20 - 24) of our DreamBox Challenge. Keep up the excellent work, Discovery! Week 4 starts today!
Classroom 301 is learning about genetic traits and inheritance. Students read “the code” from parent 1 and parent 2 to create offspring with similar traits.
Students in classrooms 203, 204, and 301 shared their word of the year: https://youtu.be/uVWHjxWdemU. What’s your word of the year?
Here are the classroom and student winners from the second week (January 13 - 17) of our DreamBox Challenge. Keep up the excellent work, Discovery! Week 3 starts today!
