Captain James E. Daly, Jr. Elementary School
December 2015
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Thursday, December 10th:
make up picture day
Monday, December 14th –
Thursday, 17th: classroom
spelling bees
Wednesday, December 24thFriday, January 1st: Winter
Break-No School
Spelling lists have been
sent home with students.
Please have them study
those words at home. We
will have an in class
spelling bee. Students will
be chosen from each class
and those students will be
a part of the school
spelling bee.
Project
News!!
How
have
people
improved
technologies
to meet their wants and
needs?
How has technology
changed over time?
What will technology
look like in the future?
Students will be
researching a
 The weather is
beginning to change.
Please be sure to
dress your child
accordingly.
 Make sure to send in
a note if your child is
sick or leaving early
from school.
 Please remember to
send a note if your
child is going home a
different way.
 Instruction starts
promptly at 9:25. By
this time students
should have already
packed their things
away and eaten
breakfast. Please be
sure you are dropping
them off in time to do
this. continue
We will
to study
multiplication
fact patterns
and discover how
multiplication
relates to
division.
Students will
explore solving
word problems
Math
Social
Studies
Our third
graders are
learning about
geography by
comparing
places and
regions around
the world. This
Science
includes
identifying
physical and
man-made
geographic
Students
will
features.
continue to
explore the
physical sciences
including
separating, mixing,
dissolving, cooling,
and heating in
relation to the
conservation of
matter. They will
use the elementary
engineering design
process to
determine how
tools, materials,
and processes are
used to carry out
Reading and
Writing
We will be reading and
studying literature text.
Within the text, we will
be analyzing things
such as how a
characters actions
affects the sequence of
events and theme of the
story.
The students will be
going back to
informational texts to
ask and answer
questions, identify text
features, and identify
Contact us!
main idea and details.
Ms. Cassidy:
Katherine_Cassidy
Students
will continue
@mcpsmd.org
to research and create
Ms. Deleon:
anBreanna_M_Deleon@
informative writing
mcpsmd.org
piece
about their
Ms. Hawkins
technology
project.
Jessica_M_Hawkins
1@mcpsmd.org
Miss Funsch:
Alexandra_M_Funsc
h@mcpsmd.org