The Daly Weekly
Week of: October 5, 2015
Contact me at: bdaly@lcps.org
Academic Content for the Week
Reading:
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Whole Class Novel: Double Fudge
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: Estimated sums and differences and related word problems
Writing/Language
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Word Study Groups begin. Students should be sorting their words every night!
Revising and Editing the written piece: Reflections of Summer
Using Proofreading Symbols to edit paragraphs.
Writing an organized final draft
Virginia Studies: Geography
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In class, group projects, region posters completed
Don’t forget to work on the Special Places notes every night. I have extended the due date to October 13. On October 14,
students will save their powerpoint slides and any information they have typed in the lab on Wed. October 14, to their Flash
Drive. From then on , the students should bring their notes and Flash Drive to school each day. Progress will be checked and
charted regularly.
Science:
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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!
Keep Reading on the Next Page!!!!!!
Your Daly Dose continued…..
4. If you read today’s Monday Memo on Monday, please draw a Harvest Moon next to your initials in the planner
tonight.
5. Reflex and Dreambox are added to the planner each week for Math Homework. 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 (Mon-Sun). 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.
Introducing our Star Student for the Week:
Makayla Apperson
Three Truths and a Fib:
1. I have 3 siblings.
2. I don’t like rice.
3. I have 3 frogs.
4. I have a dog named Zander.