Kindergarten News
April 2016
Mark Your Calendar
March 25, 28, 29, 30,
31, April 1
Spring Break: No school
for students and
teachers
Thursday, April 21st
Ms. Helms and Mrs.
Kelley’s class trip to
the Kingsley Outdoor
Education Center
Friday, April 22nd
Mrs. Wu and Mrs. Mitko’s
class trip to the
Kingsley Outdoor
Education Center
Monday, April 25th
Miss Danciu and Miss
Cowell’s class trip to
the Kingsley Outdoor
Education Center
Tuesday, April 26th
No School, Election Day
Thursday, April 28th
Miss Danciu, Mrs. Wu,
Mrs. Kelley, Mrs. Mitko’s
class trip to the
American Art Museum in
DC.
Thursday,
April
28th
Kindergarten
Orientation
for incoming
Miss Cowell and Ms.
Kindergarten
studentstrip
will beto
heldthe
on
Helms’ class
th
Monday,
May 4 Art
and Tuesday,
American
Museum May
in
th
5 . On those days
there
is
no
school
DC.
for our
current Kindergarten
Tuesday,
May 3rd students.
and
If you Wednesday,
know anyone whose
child
May 4thwill
be No
five by
September
1, 2016
please
School
for
current
have them
call 301.353.0939 to make
Kindergarteners
Orientation
for the
anKindergarten
appointment
for Kindergarten
Science
2016 – 2017 School Year
Orientation.
During the month of April we will . . .
 identify features that make
humans different from animals.
 identify the similarities and
differences among animals that
look similar (frogs/toads,
mouse/rat, etc.).
Reading
In reading we
will concentrate
on the short e
sound found in
words such as
pen, jet, and
egg. We will
also concentrate
on the short u
sound found in
words such as
hut, bug, and up.
We will continue
to learn to read
and write new
words by
combining initial
sounds with
ending patterns
also known as
chunk. By adding
beginning letters
to chunks the
word changes. In
April we will
learn to make new
words using –eg,
-et, -est, -ell,
-up, -ug, -un.
Writing
Social
writing
we
Studies
In
will
chose
a
We
will
learn
topic
and
give
how people meet
our opinion
their
wants and
about for
the tools,
needs
Math
topic.
We will
toys,
also
write
transportation
In math
we
narratives
and
will solve
where we tell
communication.
addition
and
about a single
subtraction
event in the
word
order problems
in which
by
acting them
it happened
and
out
and
using
then provide a
manipulatives
reaction to the
event.
will
such as We
teddy
also add
bear
counters
details
our
to help to
solve
writing
in
the problems.
order
to
Students will
strengthen our