Captain James E. Daly, Jr. Elementary School
February 2016
Mark Your
Calendar!
February 10 – Report Card
Distribution
February 11, 7:00 – Spelling
Bee Finals
February 12, 2:45 – Valentine’s
Day Celebration
February
15Donations!!
– No School,
Supply
Holiday
February
– Early Release
Our
third26graders
have
been working extremely
hard and we have reached
the midpoint of our school
year. This is evident in
many areas, especially in
the depletion of our
supplies. We would really
appreciate any donated
items such as, pencils,
crayons, markers, glue
sticks, erasers, dry erase
markers, hand sanitizer,
and tissues.
Any donations can be sent
in to your child’s teacher.
Project
Thank you so much for
your continued
support. 
News!!
This quarter
students will be
writing and
illustrating a
narrative story!
They will be using
their knowledge of
narrative stories to
create a plot with a
beginning, middle,
Read All
About It!
 Please make sure to
send in a note if your
child is sick or
leaving early from
school.
 Remember to send a
note if your child is
going home a
different way.
 Valentine’s Day: See
the information
included in the
Wednesday folder for
more information.
 Music Class: Please
remember to give
your child $5 for a
recorder.
Math
Third graders are
responsible for
knowing all their
facts 0-10 by the
end of the school
year. In order to
meet this goal,
please make sure
your child is
practicing his or
her multiplication
and division facts
within 100! Games
Social
Studies
Our third
graders will be
discovering
different
cultures and
will use maps
to expand their
knowledge of
the world. We
willScience
explore
different types
of maps and
map elements.
Students will
work with the
physical
sciences to
identify and
describe
burning,
friction, and
electricity as
methods of heat
production.
Students are
identify and
describing how
Reading and
Writing
The students will be
reading historical fiction
and realistic fiction
focusing on the
overarching theme of
change. They will retell the
key details in a story and
explain how events in the
story build on each other.
We will also identify and
compare story elements.
In writing, students will use
problem and solution text
structure to write an
opinion about literature. In
addition, students will
continue to build on their
opinion, informational, and
Ms.
Cassidy:
narrative
writing skills.
Katherine_Cassidy@
Students will continue to
mcpsmd.org
practice
organizing their
Ms.
Deleon:
thoughts before writing and
Breanna_M_Deleon@m
organizing their writing into
cpsmd.org
Ms.
Hawkins:
paragraphs.
Contact us!
Jessica_M_Hawkins1
@mcpsmd.org
Mrs. Croyle:
Alexandra_M_Funsch
@mcpsmd.org