Discovery Update for Families
Hello,
We hope to see you all for our third Discovery Fall Festival! We are still looking for 3 or 4 families to volunteer for Trunk-Or-Treat.
Discovery Fall Carnival
Thursday October 29
5:00 -7:00pm
Treat Place behind the school
You are all invited with friends and families to enjoy the activities and the food. Please consider volunteering for Trunk-or-Treat or at any of the stations.
8th Graders - do not forget to go to high school open houses
Link to NPS calendar, and EssexTech. Next meeting on Monday 11/2 to work on applications.
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This week, on Tuesday, students will conduct an experiment in the gym, measuring their heartbeat, temperatures and some other data as part of our Unit, "Beyond the Game: Sports, Identity, and Human Performance.”
Some students will also meet with an athletic trainer at NJIT, while others will meet with two former college athletes who are now physical therapists for athletes.
The children will use what they have learned so far in Science, Social Studies, and ELA to answer these two questions:
- Does the performance of an athlete depend more on physical and mental training, or on genetics?
- Will athletes in the future continue to break records and increase the limits of what athletes can achieve?
Students will also answer some science questions such as, “How does physical activity affect heart rate, body temperature and how a person feels?” We will also use the opportunity to learn some basic statistics in math classes to interpret the data we collect.
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Help us recruit our next Fourth Graders Invite families you know to apply at NewarkCommonApp.org. Pick-up flyers at the school or refer people to our website. |
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Reminders:
- School starts at 8:15 am and students are marked late starting at 8:20 am. We open our doors at 7:30 am for students who need to come to school earlier. We dismiss our students between 3:45 and 4:00 pm.
- Students need to wear tops with the school logo. You can purchase these at FlynnO'Hara. You can find more details about the dress code on our school uniform page. Starting on November 1, students will have to wear a gym uniform on Tuesday and Thursday.
- Remember that you can access the 26-27 school calendar, and that you can access the Parent Portal on Realtime, or download the Realtime Parent Link app (Apple store or Google Play)
