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