The Daly Weekly
Week of: September 28, 2015
Contact me at: bdaly@lcps.org
Academic Content for the Week
Reading:
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Whole Class Novel: Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Reading Response Letter: Responding to reading, using evidence from a story to support personal observations during
reading. character analysis
Weekly Comprehension Assessment: Highlighting details and evidence within a reading passage
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Math: Place Value
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Review rounding whole numbers expressed through millions to the nearest thousand, ten thousand, and hundred thousand
Begin Addition and Subtraction Computation
Place Value Test: Thursday, October 1, 2015
Writing/Language
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Word Study continues. All students will be given the same words for one more week while we establish word study routines
Revising and Editing the written piece: Reflections of Summer
Using Proofreading Symbols to edit paragraphs.
Virginia Studies: Geography
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Virginia Geography Test: Friday, October 2
In class, group projects, region posters
Science:
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Begin Natural Resources: products and industries, water resources
Your Daly Dose
1. Dates to Remember: Fall Picture Day: October 7
Columbus Day (School Holiday): October 12
2. Don’t forget your Reading Logs!!!!! Each student has a Reading Log in the yellow Homework Folder. As students
finish reading different kinds of books, please make sure they fill it out. It should stay in the yellow folder. Books
read at home AND at school can be recorded on the logs. Students have until the end of October to read the ten
highlighted types of books on the Log. Remember to set aside some time for reading on the weekends, too.
3. Thanks to all of the families who have joined the PTO so far this year! Please join- it’s only $10 and they do so much
for our school!
4. If you read today’s Monday Memo on Monday, please draw a Sun next to your initials in the planner tonight.
5. Reflex and Dreambox were added to the homework planner last week. Please remember to have your child complete
at least two sessions of Reflex (to the green light) and two, 20 minute sessions of Dreambox each week! Please let me
know if you have a problem with either of these at home. Students created a special parent initial area in the
planner for these sessions. I will not require what nights these sessions must be completed, only that they are
completed during the week (Sun-Sat). I will monitor student completion from school. Students should not receive
any parental support with these activities, as the programs are designed to pinpoint student needs and provide the
necessary practice until the skill is mastered.