Captain James E. Daly, Jr. Elementary School
January 2016
Mark Your
Calendar
Monday 11h – Spelling Bee Semi
Finals
Monday 18th – No School:
Holiday
Monday 25th – No School:
Professional Day
Project
News!!
How
have
people
improved telephones to
meet their wants and
needs?
How has the telephone
changed over time?
The culmination will be a
project comparing the
telephone from the past
to the present, and
describing how humans
wants and needs have
influenced change in the
technology.
Read All
About It!
 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.
Please make sure you
are dropping your
child off by 9:05 so
that they have time to
get unpacked, eat
breakfast if they
We will
continue
choose
to, and be
to study
prepared for the day.
multiplication
Please make sure
your child is
practicing his
or her
multiplication
and division
facts within 10!
Games and
Math
Social
Studies
Our third
graders will
continue
learning about
geography by
comparing
places and
regions around
the world. This
Science
includes
identifying
physical and
man-made
Students
will
geographic
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 plays. More
specifically, we will be
focusing on identifying
theme, point of view,
and sequencing events.
The students will be
going back to
informational texts to
ask and answer
questions, identify text
features, and identify
main idea and details.
Contact us!
Students will begin
writing
narrative stories.
Ms. Cassidy:
Katherine_Cassidy
We
will focus on story
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elements such as
Ms. Deleon:
characters,
setting,
Breanna_M_Deleon@
mcpsmd.org
events,
problem, and
Ms. Hawkins
solution.
Jessica_M_Hawkins
1@mcpsmd.org
Mrs. Croyle:
Alexandra_M_Funsc
h@mcpsmd.org