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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 ARTS

Reading

·          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)

SCIENCE

Life:

·          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