Experience a day in the life of your child!

Dear Parents,

School is in session, for YOU! Have you ever wondered what school is like for your child? What is the procedure to turn in homework? What happens if you show up to class without your materials? Are you curious to learn more about field trips or volunteering?

We cordially invite you to attend our “1 Day Parent School” Open House and find out for yourself!

For detailed information please click here.

It is hard to believe but it's that time of the year again - the beginning of a new school year. Welcome back! There's a lot of excitement ahead of us, including new teachers to meet, new books to read, new friends to meet and new skills to master...and we look forward to you sharing in those exciting times.

Texas Education Agency announced that SST Discovery got EXEMPLARY rating for 2010.
Congratulations!

Dear Parents:
Immunizations are an important part of public health, and Texas law requires students in Texas schools to be immunized against certain vaccine-preventable diseases. Parents of students who will enter kindergarten and 7th grade should pay special attention to the additional vaccine requirements. Please be aware that students without the required immunizations or a valid exemption will not be allowed to attend school. See the list of the required vaccines for students who will attend a Texas school in the 2010- 2011 school year.

For 7th grade: 1 dose of Tdap is required if at least 5 years have passed since the last dose of tetanus-diphtheria-containing vaccine.

For 8th-12th grade: 1 dose of Tdap is required when 10 years have passed since the last dose of tetanus-diphtheria-containing vaccine. Td is acceptable in place of Tdap if a medical contraindication to pertussis exists

Varicella Vaccine: The first dose of varicella must be received on or after the first birthday. 2 doses are required for K, 1st, 7th, and 8th grade. 1 dose is required for all other grade levels. For any student who receives the first dose on or after
13 years of age, 2 doses are required.

Meningococcal Vaccine: 1 dose for 7 th grade and 1 dose for 8 th grade

For more information, click here.

The AS curriculum, designed to meet the goals of our program, provides a variety of activities including arts and crafts, sports and games, music, dramatic play, building and transportation, science and discovery, math and literature, fitness and wellness activities, special interest areas and special events. Activities are planned to meet the needs and interests of the children. A calendar of planned events is available each month.

It starts at 3 pm and ends at 6 pm. After school care will be provided on the first day of school for those who enrolled before Monday! No one will be allowed to join the after school program unless all needed forms provided by Monday!

All classes at SST Discovery will follow this standard scale for assigning letter grades for six-week periods, finals and semester work.
Individual teachers will establish the grading policies and procedures for their classes, and their grades will correspond to this scale.

A 90 –100
B 80 – 89
C 70 – 79
F 0 – 69

Conduct Grades:

E Excellent
S Satisfactory
N Needs Improvement
P Poor
I Incomplete

For more information, please click here.

To see the Supply List, please click here.

To see the updated 2010-2011 School Calendar, please click here.

We've discovered a new way to raise funds for our school. It's super-easy, and all you have to do is use your Target Visa or Target Card. We will receive a percentage of the amount of each purchase in the form of a cash donation from Target through the Take Charge of Education® program.

It's easy. Just visit target.com/tcoe, or call 1-800-316-6142 to designate our school. To designate our school, choose SST Discovery or look for school ID 150762. So if you're going to Target anyway, please consider using your Target Card.

Big thanks to those who are already doing their part to make a great school even better.

Want to earn 5% in credit for SST Discovery to use towards FREE supplies? We can take care of that:
Shop at Office Depot for all of your school supplies

Be sure to provide your school's 5% Back to Schools ID number (702 14 582) each time you make a purchase

Office Depot will total the purchases made during each program period

Office Depot will award SST Discovery 5% of the qualifying purchases in merchandise credit which can be used towards FREE supplies!

Do not Forget Please, our ID number for Office Depot purchases is 702 14 582

Dear Parents and Students,

If you would like to help our school, just email the My Coke Rewards Code to ( info.discovery@ssttx.org ). You can return them to school front office also.

When you are having fun by drinking Coca Cola, Sprite or Fanta, we will redeem My Coke Rewards for a variety of school rewards including playground equipment, supplies, classroom materials and more.

Thank you for your help

For more detailed information, please visit my coke rewards web site

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We are happy to inform you that SST Discovery has participated in G.E.A.R robotics competition in San Antonio with two teams; Discovery First and Discovery Robotics.

G.E.A.R robotics competition is held in UTSA. It is sponsored by the AT&T Foundation and hosted by UTSA. The competition featured nearly 600 third through eighth graders divided into 128 teams, making GEAR the largest all-American robotics competition for children in the nation.

Our teams did tremendous job and has received first and second places in pre-elimination steps. Our Team, Discovery First has received third place among 128 teams from all around Texas.

We would like to congratulate our robotics teams. Our teams will keep representing Leon Valley in all academic competitions in the state wide levels and nationwide levels.

Thank you so much for encouraging us to do more.


Discovery Robotics (Team 1) First Place in division and Pinnacle Award
Peter Mauldin 8B
Madeline Carrola 7B
Armin Nasri 7B
Gaji Mahamud 6B

Discovery First (Team 2)Second Place in division and Third Place among 128 teams
Esat Bayar 5B
James Garlow 6A
Celeste Torres 8B
Randall Scharmen 7B
Xavier Menjares 6B

Please visit SSTD ROBOTICS web page

Please visit UTSA's web page for more details

Congratulations to Aishwarya Durgam! On March 6, 2010, she competed in the city wide spelling bee hosted by the San Antonio Express News. This year’s bee had the most contestants enrolled in recent years! The first round was a written spelling test to decide which contestants made it into the top 42 which would then go on to the oral competition. Out of over 150 students, Aishwarya made it into this group! Aishwarya was an amazing competitor and spelled her way into the top 20! We are so proud of what our student has been able to accomplish!

Congratulations to all of our SST Discovery Science Fair Participants.
Recently, a number of our students have represented their school in the Junior Academy of Science and the Alamo Regional Science and Engineering Fair. Many have placed and some will be continuing on to the Exxon Mobile State Science Fair and/or I-Sweep Science Competition.

Click here to see more about our young scientists who are:

>> JUNIOR ACADEMY OF SCIENCE WINNERS
>> Alamo Regional Science and Engineering Fair Winners
and will compete in
>> Exxon Mobile Texas State Science Fair
>> ISWEEP International Science Competition

SST Discovery is opening D'Smart Store in library.
There are more than 50 different items in this store; pens, pencils, sharpeners, yoyos, key chains, water guns, cowboy hats, sun glasses, and many toys.

No cash! No credit Cards! Only D'Smart Store Certicate works in this store.

How can you get D'Smart Store Certicifate:

Students who reach their AR Goal, will take the certificate from their English Teachers. If you double your AR goal, you will get second certificate. If you triple your goal, you will get third certificate. (Please ask your AR goal to your English teacher.)

4 through 9 grade straight A students will get certificate.

K through 3 grade teachers will give one certificate to one of the students in their classes. Please try to win this certificate. It can be given to one of the following student; the most improved, the most well behaving, the most on time, the most hardworking, etc…