Important News

Welcome to Howard County Public School System (HCPSS) Kindergarten! The office of Early Childhood Programs would like your feedback on how you obtained the information needed to register and prepare your child to attend kindergarten. Please complete the survey in the report card envelope and return it to your child's teacher at parent/teacher conferences in November. To complete the survey…

Parent teacher conferences will be held on November 23-25 th, and parents can sign up for conferences using the online Synergy Conference Management through 4:00 today. Families will be provided 15 minutes to conference with their child’s teacher. We would like all parents to attend their child's conference; the teachers have much information to share regarding their child's progress. Please…

Thank you for your generous donation to the Kids Helping Kids Food Drive. Thanks to your generosity, we donated many boxes of food for the Howard County Food Bank.

Reading is so much fun, you'll get Goosebumps! Come and shop the Book Fair with us! We'll be open every day from 4--6:30pm, with extended hours on Thursday 11/19 (until 8pm). We'll be open during lunch times, and during the Parent/Teacher Conferences. A final schedule will come attached to the book fair brochure next week. We need many volunteers to…

The cafeteria is serving the annual Thanksgiving Lunch on November 12 th. Families are invited to join their children for this special lunch. Flyers are in Friday Folders. Please note the adjusted lunch times. Order forms and payment for parents and younger siblings are due by November 5 th.

Parent teacher conferences will be offered on November 23-25. Many teachers will offer evening conferences. Conferences are 15 minutes and we are scheduling them in a manner to allow for a few minutes of transition time. Beginning this November, HCPSS will be using Synergy Conference Management to schedule parent–teacher conferences. Synergy Conference Management provides a simple user interface and easy…

Federal Impact Aid Surveys are in Friday Folders today. Forms are pre-printed with student names. Please complete the form and return it to school ASAP. Thank you!

The Turkey Trot will be held on November 12 th during the students’ related arts time. Please look in Friday Folders today for the information flyer and a volunteer sign-up sheet. Each class will wear a specific color to get points for their color team. The color teams are: Blue Team K Martin 1st Danielson 2nd vanHemert 3rd Pauley 4th…

Fifth grade will be making terrariums very soon and we are in need of empty 2-liter bottles or 1.75 liter square juice containers. If you have any please send them to school and we will make sure they get to 5 th grade. Thank you!

We will continue the Atholton tradition of having a Halloween Parade outside of the school followed by class parties for the students on October 29 st at 2:45. The community is invited to the parade. The PTA is providing the food for the party except for a couple of items the room parents are taking care of. Please do not…