3rd Grade

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3rd Grade Curriculum
 

• Carry God in your heart every minute of every day
• Enter my classroom with a positive attitude about learning
• Keep your area, books, and other materials in order 
• Treat your teachers, classmates, classroom, and all of Visitation Academy with the utmost respect
• If you have a bad day, tomorrow is another day that can be great
• Expect to be challenged and set your goals high for yourself

We use Google Classroom for many assignments!

Religion

• Sacraments, The Liturgical Year, God’s Love, Prayer, The Rosary, Reconciliation, Mass, Jesus and The Catholic Church, Our Blessed Mother, The Apostles, Kingdom of God, Beginning Scripture Stories, and Saints

Language Arts

• Reading

  • Comprehension, Summarizing Text, Contextual Evidence, and Sequence of Events
  • Othe Areas Explored: Author's Purpose, Cause/Effect, Character Analysis, Theme, Plot, Setting, Realism/ Fantasy, Context Clues, Fact/Opinion, Visualizing, Generalizing, Compare/Contrast; Predicting; Making Inferences, Introducing Various Genres (Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Fable, Tall Tale, Biography, and more)

• Grammar/Composition/Handwriting
  • Sentence Structure (Subject/Predicate), Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adverbs, Adjectives, Conjunctions, Contractions, Prepositions, and Punctuation
  • Concise Paragraph Writing-Improving basic paragraph structure
  • Standard Printing, Beginning Cursive, and Google Docs-beginning typing coordinated with Technology Teacher

• Spelling/Vocabulary
  • Multisyllabic, irregularly spelled words, homophones, and high-frequency words
  • Vocabulary for 3rd Grade with synonyms and antonyms  

• Estimating, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Order of Operations, Word Problems, Time, Fractions, Beginning Expressions and Equations, Graphing Data, Geometry, and Measurement

Science 

• Life Science: Plants, Animals, People, and Ecosystem
• Science Lab: Safe Experiments with Questioning, Hypothesis, Research, Experimentation, Observations, Results, and Sharing Information
• Earth Science: Water, Weather, Rocks, Soil, & Minerals, Weathering & Erosion, Natural Resources 
• Space & Technology: Planets, Solar System

Social Studies

• Communities, Customs, Regions, Map Skills, Climates, Explorers, Transportation, Inventions/Inventors, Economics, US Government, Citizenship, Black History Month, Women’s History Month, and more

Special Weekly Classes 

• Physical Education, Music, Art, Computers, Spanish and Makerspace/STEM