Third Grade is going to be a great year.  They are continuing to learn the importance of organization and responsibility as they become more independent learners.  Academically they are being challenged to recall past information as well as learning new material.

 Year long plan

 Math:

• Place value
• Counting bills and coins
• Adding whole numbers
• Subtracting whole numbers
• Multiplication
• Division facts
• Multiply and divide by one digit
• Measurement
• Geometry
• Fractions and decimals

 Religion

• The church is one
• The church is holy
• The church is Catholic
• The church is Apostolic
• The church has a mission to the world
• Feasts and Seasons
• Catholic heritage

 English

• Sentence parts
• Nouns
• Verbs
• Adjectives and adverbs
• Capitalization and punctuation
• Pronouns
• Writing – instructions, stories, descriptions, letters, and research report

 Social Studies

• Our community
• People in communities
• Where are communities
• History of communities
• Communities at work
• Governments

 Reading

Through reading several stories the following skills will be covered:

• Sequence
• Drawing conclusions
• Authors purpose
• Cause and effect
• Realism and fantasy
• Fact and opinion
• Summarizing
• Predicting
• Compare and contrast
• Plot

 Spelling

• Short and long vowels
• Unexpected consonant patterns
• Homophones
• Compound words
• Prefixes and suffixes
• Double consonants
• Contractions

 Handwriting

• Manuscript review
• Cursive readiness
• Writing lowercase letters
• Writing uppercase letters
• Using cursive writing