Captain James E. Daly, Jr. Elementary School
May 2016
Mark Your
Calendar!
May 6: Field Trip to
Catoctin Zoo
May 17: Imagination
Stage Field Trip
May:
23/24: Field Trip
We will be going to
to Kingsley
Kingsley Environmental
May
30: Memorial
Center
on May 23 Day
and
– No
School
24. Ms. Deleon’s and
Mrs. Croyle’s class will
go on the 23rd of May
and Ms. Hawkin’s and
Ms. Cassidy’s class
will go on the 24th.
The field trip will be
from 9:30am to
approximately 1:30pm.
A bag lunch will be
needed for this field
trip. We will each
lunch there. Each
class will be permitted
2 parent chaperones.
They will be randomly
Students
selected
and will
research
informed. an animal
Project
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and their habitat to
write an
informational essay.
Then we will visit
Catoctin Zoo to
evaluate whether or
not their habitats
meet the needs of
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 Third graders should
bring their recorders
to school on their
assigned music day.
 Third graders are
given optional math
homework Bingo.
They can be
submitted at the end
of the month.
Additionally, a
reading log is due at
the end of each
month with
parent/guardian
initials.
 Please make sure to
send in a note if your
child is sick or
leaving early from
school.
 Please remember to
Thissend
month,
a note if your
students
willhome
be a
child is going
solving
2-step
different
way.
word
problems
 Please check the
involving
all
weather and
make
foursure
operations.
your child is
Theydressed
will
represent
appropriately.
problems using
equations with a
letter standing
for the unknown
quantity, and
assess the
Math
Social
Studies
Our third graders
have been
examining money
management
strategies in order
to make
responsible
financial
decisions. The will
be experimenting
with creating
budgets. In
addition, they will
also be exploring
the production of
different types of
goods.
Science
Students will be
identifying how
natural resources
are used to meet
human wants and
needs. In addition,
we will be
discovering how
those natural
resources impact
the environment.
Students will also
be researching and
designing a habitat
that will meet the
needs of a specific
Reading
In reading, we will
complete our traditional
literature unit, which
included folktales and
myths. We will be
concentrating our
instruction on nonfiction text which will
include journals, blogs,
and interviews.
Writing
In writing, students will
be focusing on
articulating their
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viewpoints while writing
informative
and opinion
Ms. Cassidy:
Katherine_Cassidy
pieces.
@mcpsmd.org
Ms. Deleon:
Breanna_M_Deleon@
mcpsmd.org
Ms. Hawkins
Jessica_M_Hawkins
1@mcpsmd.org
Mrs.Croyle
Alexandra_M_Funsc
h@mcpsmd.org