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In Grade Three, students will. . . RELIGION:THE CATHOLIC FAITH· Learn that God calls us to faith and eternal life · Believe and trust in the one all-knowing and all-loving God · Learn the mysteries of faith we profess in the Creed · Learn the truths Catholics believe · Bible stories portraying God’s love for His people · Sacraments of Baptism, Eucharist, Reconciliation · Liturgical Year: Advent, Christmas, Lent Easter · Daily Prayer Text: Christ Our Life: We Believe (Loyola Press)
LANGUAGE ARTSReading· Decoding skills · Comprehension · Topic/ main idea/ details · Time sequence · Cause and effect · Predict outcome · Fact and opinion · Character/ setting/ plot · Reference Skills · Strong emphasis on Phonics · Listening to stories read aloud · Read for pleasure Text: An American Tradition(Scott Foresman)
Writing: · Pre-writing, brain storming · Revising, proofreading · Final draft · Narrative/ descriptive/ persuasive paragraphs · Parts of a letter · Book reports · Types of sentences · Use of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs · Punctuation/capitalization Text: (Houghton Mifflin)
HANDWRITING/SPELLING· Review manuscript spacing · Learn cursive letter formation · Connection of letters and slant · Daily work in cursive writing · Phonetically based word lists · Activities to reinforce skills in Language Arts areas Text: (Zaner-Bloser)
MATH· Understand patterns, relations, functions · Review facts through 18 · Addition/Subtraction with regrouping through thousands · Add and subtract money · Identify place value through thousands · Problem solving strategies – drawings, manipulatives, and equations · Mental math · Estimating, rounding · Basic multiplication facts · Basic division facts · Identify fractions · Basic solid and plane geometry, congruency/symmetry · Standard units of measure Text: (Silver Burdett Ginn)
SCIENCELife: · Plants: parts and life cycles · Animals: with and without backbones · How organisms live together · Five groups of organisms Physical: · States of matter · Simple and compound machines · Forms of energy: electricity, magnetism, temperature, light, sound Earth· Types of rocks and soil and how they form · Layers of the earth, weathering and erosion · Earthquakes and volcanoes · Solar system: sun, planets, moon Health· Body, cells, tissues, organs, bones, joints, muscles · Nutrition, · Exercise · Drugs, alcohol, tobacco Text: (Scott, Foresman)
SOCIAL STUDIES· Map skills – parts of a map · Know and locate the 7 continents/4 oceans · Locate 50 states · Reading graphs and charts · Types of communities · Developmental changes in rural, urban, suburban communities · Native Americans, Pilgrims and Pioneers · People and Citizenship Text: (Silver Burdett Ginn)
ART· Identify warm and cool colors · Relationship of art elements · Overlap printed images · Lettering · Understand concept of balance in a design MUSIC· Emphasize basic reading skills while learning songs · Songs of increasing difficulty by rote and note · Develop listening skills · Creativity in a variety of expressions · Explore various rhythms · Use movement and dance to express music · Appreciate various styles of music
PHYSICAL EDUCATION· Emphasis on motor skills · Movement, rhythmic activities, · Simple games, relays, stunts · Singing games, tumbling · Conditioning activities · Introduced to team sports · Individual and dual sports
TECHNOLOGY BENCHMARKS· Introduce keyboarding techniques · Know and use proper alphabet keys · Use thumb on space bar · Use, Return, Shift keys · Left/right hand position · Use File Menu · Speed building exercises using content from reading and English · 15 words per minute at 85% accuracy · Use a variety of technology tools for writing, communication, and publishing · Spelling and Thesaurus · Application of knowledge examples
St. Anthony School Curriculum Guide Developed, 2003
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