Discovery Elementary School -

Congratulations to the 12 current and former Discovery Elementary students who represented our school at SD Elementary Honor Choir last Saturday. We are so proud of you!

Classroom 301 did “Pumpkin Math” with the help of parent volunteers! The class split into groups and each group was given a pumpkin. The groups:
- estimated how many seeds were inside the pumpkin.
- weighed it.
- measured its circumference.
- counted by 10s and 100s to find the total number of seeds.

Afterwards, the groups carved their pumpkins and weighed them again to find the weight difference.

📣🏫 Discovery’s online spirit wear store is now open! To order, go to https://stores.inksoft.com/discovery_explorers/shop/home. The store will close at noon on Friday, November 21

Discovery staff had a pumpkin decorating contest! Staff voted for their favorites and the winners are (insert drumroll):
- 1st Place: Ms. Wornson with the “The Great Pumpkin.”
- 2nd Place: Ms. Stevenson with the cauldron.
- 3rd Place: Ms. Massman with the teacher's spa day.

A big shout out and THANK YOU to the Hy-Vee Grocery Store at 26th and Marion Rd. for donating the pumpkins!

Just a reminder that if you are volunteering for tomorrow’s Fall Classroom party and your student(s) will have a different plan after school, please let us know. This is especially important if your student normally rides the school bus or goes to daycare after school. Please email Jennifer.Hogan@k12.sd.us or Jasmine.Iddings@k12.sd.us – or feel free to call the office.

Register now for Jefferson High School's Girls Basketball "Shooting Camp" on Saturday!

Students had a SPOOKtacular time at the Fall Dance last Friday! Thank you again to everyone that helped make the dance a success – we couldn’t have done it without you!

Brr! With the change in seasons, please make sure your student is dressed appropriately for the weather. There is no coverage from the wind on the playground. Also, it is important to monitor the wind chill – the “feels like” temperature. Below are the guidelines that we follow.

Thursday night, Jefferson High School and Roosevelt High School are having a "Trunk or Treat" from 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm. All kids are welcome!

Kindergarten students had a “Fire Safety” assembly this week presented by Sioux Falls Fire Rescue (SFFR) and Avera Family Life Educators. SFFR uses puppets and fun songs to teach students about important fire safety topics. Students learn everything from what to do if they find matches to how to crawl low under smoke. Students especially enjoyed puppets, Blaze and Firefighter Frank!

Discovery’s online spirit wear store is now open! To order, go to https://stores.inksoft.com/discovery_explorers/shop/home. The store will close at noon on Friday, November 21.

Last Friday, classroom 303 took the "classroom" outside - students soaked up the sunshine and a good book!

Prairie West Library is closing at noon on Friday, October 24. If your student normally goes there after school, you will need to make other arrangements. As a reminder, all students must be picked up by 3:00 pm.

Classrooms K03, K05, and K06 had an unbeLEAFable time on their autumn field trip to Our Farm! Students did everything from picking pumpkins to navigating the corn maze to jumping in the corn pit.

In PE today, classrooms 404 and 405 worked hard playing scooter football and ultimate football - we might have some future NFL players!

During science class, classroom 404 students designed their own wind turbines! To help a blackout problem, students learned how to bring more energy to an electrical system. Students gathered the necessary materials and then they planned, created, and tested their wind turbine designs. The purpose of the lesson was to provide students with the opportunity to design, make, and test a solution to a problem.

School pictures are here and are going home with students today! If you did not order pictures and would like to, please see the flyer below for more information. Picture retakes are on Tuesday, October 21, starting at 8:05 am. Students that are having their picture retaken must bring the original pictures that they ordered and return them to the photographer.

We have several items in our "Lost & Found". Please check for lost items during Parent-Teacher Conferences, otherwise you will have to check-in at the office to look for lost items during the school day. Items not claimed by Friday, October 17, at 4:00 pm will be donated.

Students who attend Discovery’s before and after school program, CLC, are participating in Sioux Falls “Paint the Plow” and are representing Discovery! CLC is having a competition between SFSD’s participating schools. Voting has started and ends Thursday, October 9. Please go vote for the Discovery CLC plow at https://www.facebook.com/share/1aKxTmdg4r/?mibextid=wwXIfr. To vote, just “like” the photo of the Discovery CLC plow. The photo with the most “likes” wins funds to use for supplies and games at the afterschool program.

The Sioux Falls “Paint the Plow” event for participants and the public is on Saturday, October 11, from 9:00 am – 3:00 pm in the Great Plains Zoo parking lot. Voting will be available in-person and online. The winning designs will participate in the Downtown Sioux Falls Inc. Parade of Lights. For more information, visit https://www.siouxfalls.gov/resident-services/parking-street-services/snow/paint-the-plow.

Great job, students! The plow looks GREAT!