Welcome to Third  Grade!

 

The last first Friday mass will be this Friday at 8:45

 

Final Exams will be the week of June 7-11th. Written homework is completed so students should spend time studying and reviewing for tests.  The schedule is as follows:

 

Monday - Reading End of the Year Skills Test

Tuesday - Social Studies and Vocabulary

Wednesday - Religion and Science

Thursday - Math

Friday – Grammar

 

Study guides for each subject will be sent home, but students should be reviewing the following:

 

Math:

Basic one, two, and three digit addition and subtraction (with borrowing)

Basic math facts multiplication and divisions

One, two, and three digit multiplication

Rounding to the nearest ones, tens, and dollar place

Place value, comparing and ordering numbers

Place and solid shapes

Terms for operations: difference, dividend, divisor, factor, product, addend, quotient

Patterns

Expanded and standard form

Choosing operations for word problems

Adding and subtracting money

Elapsed time

Multiplication arrays

 

Grammar

Types of: sentences and punctuation

Subjects, predicates, and subject and predicate mainwords

Pronouns

Nouns, verbs, and helping verbs

Capitalization rules

Singular and plural nouns

Adverbs and adjectives and what they describe

Similes

Fiction vs. nonfiction

 

Relgion:

Holy Trinity

Saints, including Thomas, Nicholas, Joseph, Francis, Lucy, Mark, Katherine Drexel

Gospel Writers (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John)

Immaculate Conception, Annunciation, Assumption, and Visitation

Our Lady of Lourdes, Our Lady of Guadalupe

Ash Wednesday, Lent, Easter, Pentecost

Advent, Christmas

Ordinary Time

Sacraments, Sacraments of initiation

Symbols for Sacraments

Titles for Mary

Social Justice

Ten Commandments

Rosary

4 Marks of the Church

Types of prayer

 

Vocabulary:

Students will be tested on 20 out of the following words. They will have to write sentences correctly using 5 of the words.

Resource

Sensitive

Exclaim

Insist

Brilliant

Precious

Convince

Certain

Journey

Observe

Triumph

Imitate

Ancient

Perform

Ability

Fortunate

Actual

Magnificent

Tradition

Prevent

Representative

Authentic

Clarify

Separation

Exhaust

Privilege

Inquire

Defiant

Advantage

Elegant

Absorb

 

Science:

(Concepts from experiments)

Properties of matter

Electricity

Solar System

The human body

 

Social Studies:

Branches of government

Levels of government

Taxes

Washington, D.C.

Urban, Suburban, and rural communities

Types of landforms

Pilgrims, Mayflower