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