3rd Grade Curriculum

Religion

• Learn about the Ten Commandments, Sacraments, morality and prayer

• Sunday Gospel is read and discussed weekly

• Parts of the Mass, the Creed, the Rosary and new prayers are introduced

• Learn about saints and the Liturgical Calendar

• Participate in Reconciliation at school during Advent and Lent
  

1. Multiply and divide within 100 along with representing and solving problems involving multiplication and division.

2. Understand properties of multiplication and the relationship between multiplication and division.

3. Solve problems involving the four operations, and identify and explain patterns in arithmetic.

4. Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic.

5. Develop understanding of fractions asnumbers.

6. Understand concepts of area and relate area to multiplication and to addition.

7. Recognize perimeter as an attribute of plane figures and distinguish between linear and area measures.

Language Arts Common Core

Reading

1. Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

2. Describe characters in a story and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.

3. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.

4. Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories.

5. Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.

6. Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in text.

7. Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented.

8. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

9. Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

Writing

1. Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.

2. Write informative/explanatory tests to examine and convey ideas as well as narratives to develop real or imagined experiences.

3. Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.

4. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.

1. Physical Sciences – Understand that energy and matter have multiple forms and can be changed from one form to another and that light has a source and travels in a direction.

2. Life Sciences – Understand that adaptations in physical structure or behavior may improve an organism’s chance for survival.

3. Earth Sciences – Understand that objects in the sky move in regular and predictable patterns.

4. Develop the concept that the scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and conducting careful investigations.

Social Studies

1. Describe the physical and human geography by using maps, tables, graphs, photographs, and charts to organize information about people, places, and environments.

2. Compare and contrast the American Indian nations in their local regions long ago and in the recent past.

3. Organize the sequence of local historical events and describe how each period of settlement left their mark on the land.

4. Understand the role of rules and laws in their daily lives and the basic structure of the US government.

5. Demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills and an understanding of the economy of local regions.

1. Respond to works of art, objects in nature, events, and the environment.

2. Apply artistic processes and skills, using a variety of media to communicate meaning and intent

3. Understand the use of mixing primary colors to create secondary colors.

4. Development of the use of a variety of artistic mediums.

Specialty Classes

• PE class 30 minutes twice a week

• Music class 30 minutes twice a week

• Spanish class 30 minutes twice a week

• Computer class 30 minutes once a week

• Library 30 minutes once a week