Welcome to Third Grade!
Third grade is the most crucial year in a child’s school career! Third Graders are ready to become more self-directed so they can take ownership of their own learning at school and at home.
CURRICULUM HIGHLIGHTS
In addition to the classroom curriculum, students attend Music and Physical Education are held twice a week, and students enjoy visiting the Library once a week.
STUDENT GOALS:
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To become an independent learner/self manager
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Not to know all the answers, but to know how to find them
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To become an avid reader and enjoy reading
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To advocate for themselves
Reading to learn - to make sense of their reading across the curriculum, to summarize main ideas, and pick out supporting details.
Writing in order to communicate - to produce written pieces for a variety of purposes with clearer sequencing, stronger supporting details, and more expressive ideas. Increased responsibility - to become more self-directed, to take ownership of their own learning at school and at home.
STUDENT HOSPITALITY
Students participate in the third grade ministry on weekend masses. They greet parishioners and hand out worship aides prior to Mass, help with collections during Mass, and hand out bulletins following Mass.
MATH
Learn 0-12 times tables, how to calculate area and perimeter (and know the difference), working with fractions - on number lines, parts of a whole and parts of a set, and introduction to division and how it’s related to multiplication.
ELA
Growing in reading both fiction and nonfiction in class and independently (through AR), growing in ability to write and respond across the curriculum.
SOCIAL STUDIES
Mapping to get to know our nation’s borders, landforms, and landmarks. Conduct research on the various Native American cultural groups in our nation - who they are and their way of life.
SCIENCE
Learn geology including layers of the earth, fossils, plate tectonics and volcanology. Learn about the weather, weather patterns and uniqueness of water, the forces of motion, and life science including genetics. STEM and short research projects are included in many lessons.
