The Daly Weekly
Week of: November 16, 2015
Contact me at: bdaly@lcps.org
Academic Content for the Week
Reading:



Whole Class Novel: Double Fudge: small group discussions
Scholastic News: responding in writing to nonfiction texts, providing examples from the text and making inferences.
Weekly Comprehension Assessment: Highlighting details and evidence within a nonfiction reading passage
Math: Addition and Subtraction Computation completed




Translating words to expressions, analyzing number expressions, evaluating expressions using variables
Graded computation papers and study suggestions for Computation Test sent home on Wednesday
Addition/Subtraction Computation Test on November 24, 2015
Multiplication concepts introduced: repeated addition, arrays, groups, properties of multiplication.
Writing/Language


Word Study Groups. Students should be sorting their words every night!
Native American Language Groups for Virginia: Dear Jamestown Settler letter including descriptive details about daily life
Virginia Studies: Virginia’s First Peoples


Virginia’s Native Americans: review for test
Native Americans Test: Friday November 20, 2015
Your Daly Dose
Science: (Our Space Unit will be next after we finish Native Americans and Jamestown)
1. The Book Fair is Tuesday, November 17. Parents are invited to come meet our class in the library at 8:15 a.m.
to purchase books. Or you can just send in money with your child that day. It will also be open right before
our show that night from 5:30-7.
2. Parents are also invited to our musical Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 and then at 7:00 that evening. All students
are expected to be present for both shows.
3. Please make sure you are checking your child’s planner and corrected work in the Monday Folder. The
math is getting harder, so please review the corrected work and have your child fix any problems that are
wrong.
4. Please let me know in advance if your child will be absent from school around the Thanksgiving or winter
holidays this year. I cannot send home work in advance, but we can make sure all tests and quizzes are
taken before he or she leaves.
5. If you read today’s Monday Memo on Tuesday, please draw a turkey next to your initials in the planner tonight.
Please be advised that if I am absent from school, Monday memos, email correspondence,
and Monday folders will be updated upon my return. I apologize for any inconvenience this
may cause. Thank you.
6.
Introducing our Star Student for the Week:
Francis Hodsoll
Three Truths and a Fib:
1. I have been to Utah
2. I held a gigantic yellow snake
3. I rode a dolphin before.
4. I went to one of Ed Sheeren’s concerts
Rubric for Virginia Special Place Speeches
Name ____________________________
Special Place:
_________________________________________________
1. Speaker has eye contact with audience _____
2. Speaker’s voice is loud enough for all to hear ____
3. Speech is within the required time frame of 2-3 minutes
(not too fast or slow) ____(actual time is ________)
4. Student researched carefully and shared specific facts and
details about the place ____
5. Power Point presentation shows appropriate facts and
pictures about the special place ____
Students can earn up to 4 points for each category.
Total score is _____/20
Your final grade is _______.
Comments: