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3rd
Religion
Major book topics include:
- Creed
- Scripture
- Morality
- Sacraments
- Prayer
- Liturgical Year
- Numerous service projects allowing us to put our faith in action
- Various school-wide service projects
- Collaboration with the Guardian Angel Home
Family Life
- Strengthen and reinforce values taught in the home and in the school
Language Arts
- Phonemic Awareness/English/Spelling
- Students build upon phonemic knowledge from earlier grades
- Utilize work attack skills, pronunciation, and memorization
- Recognize the six different syllable patterns in words
- Learn to spell words that are frequently used in the English language
- Improving skills in listening, reading, writing, speaking, and language study through a variety of activities throughout the school year
Writing
- Five-step writing process introduced: prewriting, drafting, revising, proofreading, and publishing used on a variety of projects throughout the school year
- Identify sentences and fragments
- Edit punctuation, capitalization, and parts of speech
Reading Comprehension
- Building upon reading skills from earlier grades, students will work to reach their full reading potential by increasing fluency and understanding
- Predicting outcomes in literature
- Evaluating and problem solving
Mathematics
- Continuation of the mastery of basic Math facts including addition, subtraction,
- multiplication, and division
- Adding and Subtracting with regrouping
- Place value
- Telling time on both digital and analog clocks
- Measurement skills
Science
Topics will be covered in:
- Life Science
- Earth Science
- Physical Science
- Human Body
- Experiments and other hands-on experiences will be conducted through the school year
Social Studies
- Communities
- Economy
- Recreation
- Religion
- Government
- Community Resources
- Neighbors
- Good and Services
- Working together to make great communities
- Our impact on the world
Handwriting
- Reinforcement of correct letter formation for cursive writing
- Students will use cursive for the majority of classroom writing by the end of the school year
