3rd Grade

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Welcome to 3rd grade!

We offer an integrated curriculum, which motivates students to understand the connection between the classroom lessons and their personal call to faith and service.

Our teachers nurture each and every child building on confidence and self-image through hands on opportunities like special science projects and biography report presentations.  Service field trips and academic rigor give our students the basis they need for success and preparation for the coming years.

Science: Concepts that we will be covering throughout the year will be Investigating and Questioning, The Engineering Process, Plants and Animals, Ecosystems and Interactions, Changes to Earth’s Surface, People and Resources, Water and Weather, Earth and It’s Moon, Matter, and finally we will learn about Simple and Compound Machines.

In the spring we obtain fertile eggs, incubate them, and then watch them hatch and start to grow up. Students learn all about eggs, embryo development, the incubation process and chickens during this fun unit of study and experiments. Keep your fingers crossed that we are able to have the incubation part of this activity. We will be doing MANY of the activities that are involved in hatching chick even if we are not able to have the chicks in our room.

Religion: Our series “WE BELIEVE” has us learning about these FOUR main concepts: Jesus Gives Us the Church, We are Members of the Church, that The Church Leads Us in Worship, and We are Called to Discipleship.

Second Steps: Second Steps is a series that helps students develop empathetically towards other people’s feelings. They will also learn strategies to control their tempers and impulses.

Math: The GoMath series this year begins with the students reviewing how to round up and down. We also used compatible numbers as well as reading and creating graphs. We will move on to learn about multiplication, Division, fractions facts and strategies. Finally we will explore time, length, liquid volume, mass and two dimensional shapes.

Simple Solutions Math: The students will continue with the next level (Grade 3) in Simple Solutions Math. Each week they will be assigned four lessons to complete by Friday of that same week. These lessons will be graded and books will be returned on Monday. Please encourage your child to show their work in the boxes provided in the book. The students will also take weekly quizzes in Simple Solutions that have problems similar to the lessons completed each week.

Language Art: The ReadyGen reading series will have us looking at fiction and nonfiction selections and practicing different writing styles. Along with Ready Gen we use Modern Curriculum Press Phonics Series to help strengthen our knowledge about long and short vowels, initial and ending blend, compounds, syllables, diagraphs, r – controlled vowels, contractions, plurals, suffixes, dipthongs, diagraphs, prefixes, base words, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, homographs and lastly dictionary skills. Rounding out our language arts curriculum is our spelling series called Spelling Connection. Word lists are introduced and sent home on Monday to study at home. The students will take weekly assessments. The spelling words are used in analogies, to solve riddles, sort into syllables and many other activities. We have spelling homework on Tuesday and Thursday nights. Please be sure that your child completes the work NEATLY and returns it on time.

Other special projects that are included in our Language Arts

  • Dress- up biography presentations done in a Wax Museum Setting … parents are invited to attend.
  • President mobiles
  • Changes in time posters
  • Monthly memorized Poetry starting in September
  • Monthly Memorized Poetry starting in September.
  • Monthly book reports Starting in September

With the many changes that have been made throughout the school and due to COVID our specials will be on set days of the week rather than a rotating schedule as they had been in the past.

  • Monday: Spanish and Gym
  • Tuesday: Art
  • Wednesday: Gym
  • Thursday: Spanish
  • Friday: TLC

Our classroom rules are put in place to help everyone have a happy and successful school year.

1. Listen Carefully
2. Raise your hand and wait to be called on before speaking.
3. Follow all directions promptly.
4. Work QUIETLY!!
5. Respect yourself, others and property
6. Keep Social Distance
7. Wear a mask at all times

Homework:
Daily classwork that is not completed will automatically become homework and is due back the next day. Each day please spend at least 15 minutes listening to your child read out loud. Daily homework should take about 30 minutes. PLEASE be sure your child turns in their homework when it is due. Also be sure that their first and last names appear on the pages. These two items are GREAT habits to start in the younger grades and keep practicing throughout their lives.

Study, Homework and Organization
One of the biggest responsibilities your child will have this year is developing good study skills. Filling in the assignment notebook, first thing in the morning is a big part of developing these skills. As the day progresses homework assignments and special messages will be added at the end of the day. I will be checking everyone’s books and sending them home. Please be sure to sign the day’s page so that I know you have seen the entry your child has made.

As your child is doing their homework PLEASE encourage them to use their BEST handwriting and do their work NEATLY!!! PLEASE also be sure to read the directions with your child to be sure they understand what they need to do on the assignment. PLEASE be sure they complete all directions on the page.

Friday’s Folder
Tests, quizzes and many worksheets will be sent home in your child’s Friday folder. If any pages are marked “PLEASE CORRECT, FINISH and RETURN, please see that your child completes and returns them quickly. Be sure to sign the sheet that says you saw the graded work that your child brings home

Books and Learning Activities:
The Third Graders will be very busy leaners this year. Along with the regular curriculum will read numerous books, participate in STREAM (Science, Technology, Religion, Art and Math.) activities. Students will use chrome books to enhance all areas of the Third Grade learning environment.

Fieldtrips
This year the third grade will be doing field trips virtually. These trips have yet to be determined.

Tales of Everything Happening in Third Grade Room 114: March 18th to 22nd

Hello Third Grade Families: Thank you for taking the time to come in for Parent Teacher conferences.   Our classroom is in need of Baby Wipes, Paper Towels and Kleenex.  Any contributions are appreciated. AUCTION ITEM SNOW ANGEL PICTURE:    Thank you to the parents that were able to take a picture of your child making...
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Third Grade – Mrs. Davis – 3/8/24

This week…in Science, we wrapped up our lesson learning about patterns of the earth and the moon. The students learned about the phases of the moon and tides, through reading, watching a video, and modeling – using Oreo cookies. The moon phases were hard to resist eating.  In Math, the students continued to learn about...
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Tales of Everything Happening in Third Grade Room 114: March 4th to 8th

Hello Third Grade Families: Parent / Teacher Conferences are Thursday March 14th.  Please let me know if you would like to meet earlier.    AUCTION ITEM SNOW ANGEL PICTURE:    Thank you to the parents that were able to take a picture of your child making a snow angel and shared it with me.  If...
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Third Grade Mrs. Davis 2/29/2024

This week…in Science we learned about the Earth’s tilt, what causes day and night and the change of seasons. We have also been making predictions and tracking sunrises and sunsets on our spreadsheets.  In Religion we are continuing to learn about the Nicene Creed, and the importance of understanding what we believe as Catholics. In...
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Tales of Everything Happening in Third Grade Room 114: February 19th to the 23rd

Hello Third Grade Families: AUCTION ITEM SNOW ANGEL PICTURE:    Thank you to the parents that were able to take a picture of your child making a snow angel and shared it with me.  If you did not get a chance to take the picture not to worry please take a picture of your child...
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Third Grade – Mrs. Davis 2/16/24

This week…How wonderful is the Lord our God!  This week we continued learning about cultures and traditions – including our own. We learned about Mardi Gras and Valentine’s Day – St. Valentine. Tuesday, the children enjoyed a Valentines party.  On Wednesday, we attended mass as One Catholic Community for Ash Wednesday. In Religion, the children...
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Tales of Everything Happening in Third Grade Room 114: February 12th to the 16th

Hello Third Grade Families: AUCTION ITEM SNOW ANGEL PICTURE:    Thank you to the parents that were able to take a picture of your child making a snow angel and shared it with me.  If you did not get a chance to take the picture not to worry please take a picture of your child...
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Third Grade – Mrs. Davis 2/9/24

This week….in Social Studies,  the children are learning about different communities, cultures, and traditions. As part of this lesson, the children were excited to learn about Lunar New Year. The children had fun reading their fortunes from their cookies and happily ate chocolate from their red gift envelopes.  Happy Lunar New Year! In Religion, the...
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Tales of Everything Happening in Third Grade Room 114: February 5th to the 9th

Hello Third Grade Families: We had an exciting Catholic School Week!!  Thanks to all of you who helped with the events that were scheduled during the week.  Thank you to those families that came to open house it was fun to see you all. The students did an AMAZING job on their Changes in Technology...
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