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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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