Items in bold exceed 2nd Grade State Common Core Standards
Mathematics (3rd Grade)
- Identify place value to the millions
- Master all addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts
- Add and subtract multi-digit numbers
- Multiply a multi-digit number by a single digit number by using mental math; divide by single digit divisors
- Identify and solve addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division word problems
- Picture, name, and order fractions
- Add and subtract fractions with common denominators
- Measure to nearest quarter inch, foot, yard, centimeter, and millimeter
- Tell time to the minute and solve elapsed time problems
Religion
- Study the sacraments of Baptism, Reconciliation, and First Communion
- Memorize the Ten Commandments and Apostles’ Creed
- Learn about Mary, the Apostles, and The Holy Spirit
- Study the parts of the Mass, and the importance of each part
- Examine parables and the miracles of Jesus, and their meaning
- Sacramental preparation for First Reconciliation and First Communion
Character Education
- Experience the example of good character in adults
- Practice range of virtues called forth by academic behavioral expectations
- Experience the beauty of virtues through literature
Reading
- Identify all vowels, consonants, diphthongs, and diagraphs
- Understand the relationship between spoken and printed language
- Know the different types of genres
- Understand the author’s purpose and point of view, and be able to state main idea and supporting details
- Be able to compare and contrast, classify and categorize, and sequence events
- Learn all the high frequency words for level 2, and be able to identify antonyms, synonyms, homophones, contractions, and root words
- Use multiple decoding strategies while reading unfamiliar words
Writing
- Master the five processes of writing
- Identify thoughts and feelings, and setting and plot
- Learn to have clear topic sentences, and effective beginnings and endings
- Be able to write several forms of personal, narrative, expository, descriptive, persuasive writings, as well as poetry
Language Arts
- Identify nouns, promouns, adjectives, adverbs, verbs and conjunctions, and prepositions
- Be able to label the different types of sentences
- Understand proper use of capital letters and punctuations
Spelling/Vocabulary
- Be able to spell words with short and long vowel patterns, as well as r-controlled vowel spellings
- Learn to spell contractions, phonograms, and special spelling patterns such as -ough, -augh, -all, -al, -alk, -sion, -tion
- Identify sound/letter relationship
- Introducing Wordly Wise for vocabulary skills
Penmanship
- Be able to properly write printed letters and numbers in correct form
- Learn to write letters in cursive writing using the correct form
Science
Scientific Inquiry
- Know the seven steps of the Scientific Method and apply them to an experiment
Life Science
- Understand basic needs of all living things and be able to distinguish between living and non-living things
- Learn that living things change as they grow and mature
- Describe how plants and animals are dependent upon each other for survival
Space & Technology
- Identify and name the planets in our solar system
- Understand what happens as a result of the earth’s rotation and orbit around the sun
Physical Science
- Understand concepts of matter, light, and heat and how they apply to different objects
History and Geography
- Locate Japan, China, and Greece on a map
- Understand the early civilizations of these countries
- Describe the War of 1812 and the Civil War
- Identify important battles in these two wars
- Understand the importance of the writing of the Constitution
- Understand why Americans moved west
- Describe the positive and negative effects of the westward movement
- Understand why people immigrated to the U.S.
- Describe the process by which someone becomes a citizen
- Identify the United States, and all fifty states
- Locate the seven continents, and the five oceans
- Locate countries in South America and identify the importance of the Panama Canal
Spanish
- The neighborhood, clothing & food
- Singular and plural verb forms
- Feeling and emotions
- Demonstrative adjectives
- Likes and dislikes
- Things in my home
- Taking a telephone message
- Writing in Spanish
- Hispanic holidays
- Learn key aspects of the culture of Mexico and Central America
Visual Arts
- Students will be using style and techniques of famous artists to practice line, shape, color, texture, and form
- Their work will be both 2D and 3D
Choir/Music Appreciation
- Develop vocal skills and techniques
- Develop melodic and rhythmic skills
- Describe music by reading, listening, and demonstrating comprehension of music
- Perform a repertoire of Judeo-Christian and traditional songs
Music Appreciation
- Listen, analyze and discuss great works of music literature
- Identify and analyze the instruments of the orchestra by sight and sound
- Understand music theory, music symbols and music vocabulary
Physical Education
- Develop gross motor skills, fitness, flexibility, and good sportsmanship