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Holy Family Catholic School

A Catholic school in Decatur, IL

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Third Grade Curriculum

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

The Holy Family Facts

Education for students PreK 3 – 8th Grade

School Begins: 8:00 am
School Dismissal: 3:00 pm

3-year old & 4-year old Preschool

Monday – Friday
8 am – 11:15 am
Half Day Option; 8 am – 11:15 am
Full Day Option; 8 am – 3:00 pm

Extended Care:
Begins 7:00 am
Final Pick Up 5:00 pm

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Holy Family Catholic School

2400 S. Franklin St. Road
Decatur, IL 62521
(217) 423-7049
hfcssecretary@hfcschool.org
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Why Holy Family?

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  • Mission
  • Pastor Message
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  • Principal’s Message

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  • Technology
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  • Basketball
  • Soccer
  • Decatur Catholic Sports
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  • Fast Direct

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