Student Council elections will be held on the afternoon of Friday, September 10th.  During the election ceremony that day, students will have the opportunity to give a one to two minute speech about their leadership qualities and goals for Student Council.  We are excited that over 100 students are running for an office this year. 

 

Pop Tabs 
It is that time of year again to start collecting pull tabs!!  From now until Friday Nov. 12th students can bring in their pull tabs (off aluminum cans) and place them in the class baggie.  When the bag is full they will turn it in to Mrs. Filtness and start collecting again.  The class that fills the most baggies will win a popcorn party with Mrs. Filtness. Good luck!
 
This exciting project will help us raise money for the programs run by Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) of Nashville while bringing attention to our mission to "keep families close" during the critical illness of a child.  The RMHC of Nashville program, including the 32-bedroom Ronald McDonald House and the Ronald McDonald Family Room inside the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, raises funds by collecting and recycling the pull tabs from aluminum cans.  Many schools have participated in this activity for the benefit of the House over the years. 
 
Last year, over 46,000 students from 103 schools from across middle Tennessee, southern Kentucky and northern Alabama took on the challenge of collecting the most aluminum tabs from cans that can be recycled with all proceeds benefiting RMHC of Nashville. 
 
Highlights from last year:
·  183,561 ounces or 11,470 lbs. of pull tabs were collected
·  13,764,944 can tabs were recycled @ $ .40 lb. equaled $ 4,588

 

As your new counselor this year I am excited to be a part of the Discovery School Team. I am here for you and your students!  My website is up and running so if you would like to know more about what a counselor does please visit: http://www.cityschools.net/discovery/filtness

We have amazing volunteer support from our parents and can't thank you enough for that!  We still have one unfilled position which won't take much time, but is very much needed!  We need someone who arrives early to the pick-up line at the gym to be willing to set out the curb sign (sandwich board) on days that an after-school announcement needs to be made.  Obviously, this would not happen everyday.  Lisa Wells is our coordinator and is more than willing to prepare the sign, but her schedule does not allow her to arrive to school for pick-up early enough to set the sign out.  We have had someone step up to take care of the front office side (thank you, Danielle Moore!) and would really appreciate it if the same would happen for the gym side!  If you can help, please contact Lisa at 907-8849 or wells1004@bellsouth.net.  Thank you, Amy Massengill.

Mr. Nuell's class is working with integers!  His students have noticed some very interesting things with numbers, including the fact that every number on a number line has a negative counterpart on the other side of the number zero.  They discovered that zero is like a mirror on the number line.  They have come up with some very interesting patterns with math problems using our new-found number skills such as 0+1=1, -1+2=1, -2+3=1, etc.  A few students even pointed out that we could write 2+(-1)=1.  This is leading us toward seeing how addition and subtraction are essentially the same thing -- essentially, with subtraction, we are adding negative numbers!

MTSU's Astronomy Department hosts First Friday Star Parties on the first Friday of every month.  For more information about attending one of these family-friendly events, please visit   
http://www.mtsu.edu/physics/images/Star_Parties_Fall10.pdf. 

I would like to extend a special thank you to Sarah Woods, Shannon Bush and the rest of the Smart Cards team for all of the hard work and
endless hours they put into Smart Cards. They went above and beyond this year.  To "top the cake," we met our goal. Way to go!  Candace Feltz, PTA President

Click on this link to find information about recycling your ink cartridges to benefit the Discovery School.