3rd Grade Curriculum

Religion

• Read, interpret, and apply Scripture to life.
• Possess a basic understanding of the history of the Church.
• Know key mysteries of the Church.
• Understand the importance of Sacraments in the life of the Church today- past and present.
• Demonstrate personal and communal prayer forms.
• Make moral decisions consistent with Scripture and Church beliefs.
• Participate in service to the community.
• Prepare and lead school liturgies.
• Demonstrate awareness of the Church's social teachings and our responsibility to them.

Language Arts

• Understand, use, pronounce, and spell given vocabulary.
• Read for meaning- main idea, sequences, details, summarization, cause and effect, drawing conclusions.
• Write a sequence of several proper and legible sentences organized around a theme.
• Organize thoughts before speaking or discussing, using visual supports and complete sentences.
• Gain information from different types of literature and informational presentations.

Math

• Read, write, and compare whole numbers through seven digits and decimals to hundredths.
• Recall addition and subtraction facts through 18 and multiplication and division 0 to 9.
• Regroup numbers up to four digits in addition and subtraction.
• Read, write, illustrate, and compare fractions with like denominator.
• Perform basic operations using calculators
• Use tools for measuring.
• Conduct experiments that demonstrate probability.
• Explore geometric concepts.
• Apply problem solving strategies.
• Recall and expand time and money concepts.

Science

• Recognize the differences and similarities between animals.
• Know the various ways animals produce and care for their young.
• Analyze animal habitats.
• Observe, classify and explain the properties, states, and changes of matter.
• Examine simple machines to make a complex machine.
• Understand the relationship between the sun, moon, and the planets in the solar system.
• Explain geological structure of the earth and its changing elements.
• Differentiate between types of weather and identify weather instruments and their uses.
• Describe sense organs and their functions.        

Social Studies

• Acquire a general knowledge of maps/globes.
• Understand the culture of a specific Native American group.
• Identify Jamestown as the first permanent English settlement in North America.
• Explain the origin of San Antonio as a Spanish mission.
• Know how the United States became a country.        
• Understand the uses of resources and care of the environment.
• Understand the role of immigrants in shaping America.
• Recognize contributions of famous Americans.
• Appreciate culture contributions of African Americans to American society.

Technology

• Understand and be able to properly use the keyboard.
• Understand basic computer operations.
• Be able to use hardware and software safely and properly.
• Be able to use a computer as an educational tool.

Physical Education

• Demonstrate the knowledge and skills in individual sports and recreational activities.
• Increase muscular strength, endurance, flexibility, body awareness, and agility through fitness and recreational activities
• Shows skills in dance and rhythmic movements.

Art

• Use the elements of art, especially texture and value, to create art and objects.
• Understand the principles of art, especially balance and unity, to make art and objects.
• Demonstrate many kinds of art materials, especially clay-like materials and painting materials
• Appreciate and know about art made by other cultures.

Music

• Understand the purpose of dynamics in music.
• Hear timbre in instruments and voices.
• Understand the treble clef and improve your ability to sing solfege.
• Understand values of notes in basic patterns and meters in 2's and 3's
• Recognize musical phrase form and repeated patterns.
• Understand how sounds are combined or layered.
• Be able to participate in folk music, ethnic music, and historically important music.
• Be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills, which will make you, better in individual and dual sports and recreational activities.