In each level of learning, Holy Family provides a structured learning environment tailored to enhance the skills of each individual student. The areas of focus for our third grade students include;
Religion
- The Trinity
- The Blessed Mother
- How the early Church began
- The four marks of the Church
- Liturgical seasons
- Sacraments
- Community outreach
- The Rosary
Reading
- Develop skills for independent reading
- Review of phonemic awareness
- Graphic organizers for clear understanding of story elements
- Identify main ideas
- Make inferences and generalizations
- Predict outcomes and draw conclusions
- Recognize key story elements
- Read biographies and non-fiction texts
- Increase reading comprehension and fluency skills through leveled readers and Storia Online
Spelling/Vocabulary
- Reinforce correct spelling through daily exercises and spelling strategies
- Review commonly misspelled words and irregular plurals
- Introduce cross-curricular words
- Integrate spelling with phonics, vocabulary studies, reading and writing
- Synonyms, antonyms and homophones
- Mastery of weekly word list
Writing/Composition
- Develop organized writing skills
- Identify parts of a sentence
- Review of possessives
- Graphic organizers to construct paragraphs with clear expression of ideas
- Build skills in basic grammar, punctuation, correction, letter writing and journaling
- Expression of thoughts and ideas
- Create personal narratives and how to articles
- Cross-curricular writing assignments using scientific facts and information
Mathematics
- Read and write numbers with place value through 100,000’s
- Compare and order numbers to 10,000
- Word problems
- Add and subtract up to three-digit numbers
- Add and subtract dollars and cents
- Multiplication (to 11’s) and division
- Multiply two-digit numbers by a single digit, with and without regrouping
- Compare fractions
- Decimals to hundredths
- Pictographs and bar graphs
- Coordinate points on a graph
- Introduction to statistics, probability and graphing measurement
- Units of weight, volume and temperature
- Use customary and metric systems to measure length, mass and capacity
- 2 and 3-dimensional geometric figures
- Fractions
- Identify parallel and perpendicular lines and right angles
Science
- Life cycles
- Rocks and minerals
- Water cycle and erosion
- Force and motion
- States of Matter
- Heat and light
- Solar system
- Animals and habitats
- Weather
- Plants life cycle
Social Studies
- Learn about kinds of communities: rural, suburban and urban
- Develop understanding of place, regions, movement and location
- Analysis of timelines
- Early settlers
- The meaning of good citizenship
- Maps skills and symbols
- Graphs and grids
- Natural resources
Technology
- Smartboard and iPad lessons, activities, and online interactive learning tools are integrated with the curriculum.
Art
- Craft projects
- Painting
- Learning techniques in drawing perspective and color