Curriculum Summary
Language Arts
Reading
- Develop oral language skills
- Decoding phonics
- Develop understanding of word features, meanings, and usage: vocabulary
- Creative thinking strategies: recall, inference analysis, synthesis, evaluation, visualization, self-questioning, summarization, and prediction
- Experience a wealth of literature through reading and listening
English
- Understand language growth: affixes, prefixes, compound words, phonics
- Use the dictionary
- Learn about sentences
- Recognize, explain and apply the use of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs
- Develop creative writing skills: writing process, types of writing, effective writing
- Correct use of punctuation marks
Spelling
- Correctly use core spelling words in daily writing and on formal tests
- Identify the correct spelling of words
- Use spelling resources
Handwriting
- Refine manuscript skills
- Reintroduce cursive skills
- Write legibly
Mathematics
- Use objects to develop understanding
- Compare, order, round and estimate 2-, 3- and 4-digit numbers
- Solve problems of time and money
- Integrate mental math
- Add, subtract 2-, 3- and 4-digit numbers with and without trading
- Make and read graphs
- Data analysis, statistics, and probability
- Solve problems using a calculator
- Explore algebra
- Estimate, measure and compare standard and metric measurements
- Acquire basic multiplication and division facts for problem solving and application
- Classify geometric figures
- Introduce concept of fractions and decimals
Science
- Examine how living things interact with their environment and with each other to change and adapt to different ecosystems
- Classify organisms into groups based on similar structures
- Compare and contrast the different states of matter
- Demonstrate energy forms of sound and light
- Distinguish between physical and chemical changes
- Describe physical and chemical weathering processes and relate these to soil formation
- Compare and contrast characteristics of major and minor land forms
- Distinguish the sun and moon by comparing their physical features, sizes, and locations relative to Earth
- Describe the revolution and rotation within the Sun-Earth-Moon system
Religion
- Theme: The Church is a loving community of believing friends of the Risen Jesus
- Understand that baptized people are called Church
- Understand that Jesus was a human begin like us in every way except sin
- Deepen sense of identity with humility and divinity of Jesus
- Introduce the meaning of Christian morality
- Understand how Jesus continues to live in the Church by His Spirit
- Introduce two main parts of the Bible and how to find Scripture passages
- Participate more fully in Liturgy of the Word and Eucharist
- Become aware of the gift of forgiveness
- Saint Thomas Chastity Curriculum for Third Grade
Social Studies
- Acquire map and globe skills
- Identify similarities and differences in communities and throughout the world
- Recognize and understand natural resources and their importance
- Compare the past and present of specific communities
- Understand how to be a part of a community
- Explain how transportation, communication, technology, etc. connect a community
- Identify and compare forms of transportation
- Understand responsibilities of citizens
- Introduce functions of local, state, and federal government
- Use graphs and multiple resources to obtain information