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