Curriculum: Third Grade Print

Self Contained Classroom


Religion:
Our religion content will deepen your children's understanding of the Church and help your children experience the Church as a Christian Community. We will also be learning the Apostle's Creed and the prayers during the year.

Math:
Our math program will be a discovery of methods and strategies used to solve mathematical problems. We will also work for mastery of basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts, while striving to understand the methods of problem-solving.

Social Studies:
The focus of the social studies program will be to understand different types of communities and the people who live and work in them. Maps and map reading skills will also be emphasized.

Science:
Our science program will help your young scientist learn to understand how living things grow and change, the relationships among living things, the properties of matter and energy, Earth and space, and the human body. In addition, to these concepts, we will focus on the science process skills that will aid in learning science and problem-solving (observing, measuring, classifying, interpreting, prediction, and many more).

(***Grading for social studies and science will be credit/non-credit for the first semester of the school year. During the second semester, we will be using the normal letter grading scale.)


Language Arts:
Our reading series is from McGraw-Hill. What makes this series different is the integration of reading, writing, listening, speaking, grammar, phonics, spelling, and vocabulary skills all taught from the same book. The emphasis in this series is on the literature. Students will be exposed to "real world" quality literature (not just stories written specifically for a textbook) that will build on their interests and experiences. Our goal is to create life-long readers. Because of the switch in emphasis, we ask that each child have a book of his/her choice with them at school. These books may be from home, the library, or their individual classrooms.

Spelling words each week will come from various sources: language arts, science, social studies, religion, math or other current topics. We will follow the same basic schedule each week for spelling.

Monday: Students will write each word three times and participate in activities to develop mastery of their spelling and vocabulary.

Tuesday: Students will practice Spelling words with games at school.

Wednesday: Students will take a practice test. (Those scoring 100% will not take the final test on Friday.)

Thursday: Students will have a variety of experiences to practice new words.

Friday: Students will take the final test.

 

 
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