Pre-K 4

Pre-K 4 Announcements

• May 20, 2013

  Posted May 20, 2013

  The children have diligently worked with our SMART Board calendar since the beginning of the school year. Now the children are using a hands-on calendar in the classroom to do what we call “Calendar Math.” They are using several important number skills to be able to organize this blank calendar, including sequencing, number recognition, accurate counting, and ordinal number knowledge. Click to read letter.

• May 13, 2013

  Posted May 13, 2013

  It was wonderful to see so many of you at our Key School Art Show on Friday! That event makes a great connection with our on-going art discussions, the children’s art experiences in the classroom, and our trip to the National Gallery. We are very proud of all our artists and we hope you enjoyed the original creations on display. Click to read letter.

• May 6, 2013

  Posted May 6, 2013

  In Math, we continue to work with “four square, more square.” The children are enthusiastically creating designs on the squares using the fewest number of shapes. We count every day and name numbers on the calendar. We also practice writing the numbers zero through nine. Click to read letter.

• April 29, 2013

  Posted April 29, 2013

  This week we learned about the water cycle with the help of Drippy the Raindrop. We will continue to talk about the water cycle while doing an experiment and learning a song to help us remember the different parts to the cycle: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection. Click to read letter.

• April 22, 2013

  Posted April 22, 2013

  We start off another busy week in celebrating Earth Day! On Monday, we will spend the whole morning with our friends from the Senior Class doing Earth Day activities and projects. These activities will include participating in a recycling relay with Mr. Dan, a campus-wide nature scavenger hunt, bird watching, and creating “floating butterflies” with coffee filters and paint. On Wednesday, we will have a visit from "Scales and Tales," an environmental education program of the Maryland Park Service that brings live wildlife, mostly native to Maryland, to schools. Click to read letter.

• April 15, 2013

  Posted April 15, 2013

  The children are doing a wonderful job creating Matisse “cut-outs.” We will learn about one more artist before our field trip, Vincent van Gogh. We will also prepare for Earth Day, which will be Monday, April 22 with a rain date on Wednesday, April 24. The twelfth graders will spend the morning with the Pre-School classes. We will start learning about the water cycle. Click to read letter.

• April 9, 2013

  Posted April 9, 2013

  In Math, the children will be exercising their spatial awareness while exploring with 4 Squares, More Squares. We will use these pieces to fit together like puzzle pieces (think Tetris). Then, the children will record their results using paper on clipboards. The recording piece requires using keen observation skills and being able to transfer those observations to paper. Click to read letter.

• March 25, 2013

  Posted March 26, 2013

  On Tuesday morning, Diane Macklin, master storyteller from Class Acts 8 will perform “Succotash Tales” for the Pre-School. Diane Macklin introduces children to African American culture, traditions and folklore with this savory blend of American stories with African roots. Click to read letter.

• March 18, 2013

  Posted March 18, 2013

  This week we will start using cubes and inchworms to measure various items. We will compare sizes of many different things inside and outside the classroom. Click to read letter.

• March 11, 2013

  Posted March 11, 2013

  As the weather begins to change and we anticipate spring, our classes will begin discussing the wind. Over the next weeks, we will be scientists and ask some questions that we will try to answer through exploration and hands-on activities. Can you catch the wind? Can you weigh air? What is air made of? And more. We will use Vicki Cobb’s nonfiction book, I Face the Wind, to carry out wind experiments that will help us answer our questions. We will make a classroom wind banner after reading The Wind Blew by Pat Hutchins. Click to read letter.