The third grade Language Art class will be taught by
Ms. Joan Noble in English and Mrs. Nieves in Spanish .
In Language Arts encompasses Reading, Phonics, English, Spelling, and Handwriting.
In Language Arts classes the students will be able to do the following:
- Apply their knowledge of letter/sound relationships and word structure to decode unfamiliar words in English and Spanish..
- Read orally in English and Spanish with accuracy and expression at a rate that sounds like speech.
- Use a variety of strategies and opportunities to understand word meaning and to increase vocabulary in English and Spanish.
- Use a variety of strategies to understand what they read in English and Spanish..
- Read, comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate informational text in English and Spanish.
- Read, comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate literary text in English and Spanish.
- Compose a variety of modes by developing content, employing specific forms, and selecting language. appropriate for a particular audience and purpose.
- Apply the conventions of standard English and Spanish in speaking and writing.
- Demonstrate effective listening to learn, process, and analyze information in English and Spanish..
- Communicate effectively in a variety of situations with different audiences, purposes, and formats.
Mathematics will be taught by Ms. Noble in English and by Mrs. Nieves in Spanish. The students will be able to do the following:
- Apply knowledge of whole numbers and place value.
- Apply knowledge of fractions and money.
- Analyze number relations and compute.
- Determine the reasonableness of sums and differences.
- algebraically represent, model , analyze, or solve mathematical or real-world problems involving patterns or functional relationships.
- Identify, describe, extend, and create non-numeric growing or repeating patterns
- Write and identify expressions.
- Identify, write, solve, and apply equations and inequalities.
- Locate points on a number line.
- Analyze the properties of plane geometric figures, geometric relationships, properties of solid geometric figures and congruent figures.
Science class will be taught by Mrs. Nieves in Spanish.
The students will be able to do the following:
- Use scientific skills and processes to explain the dynamic nature of living things, their interactions, and the results from the interactions that occur over time.
- Use scientific skills and processes to explain the composition, structure, and interactions of matter in order to support the predictability of structure and energy transformations.
- Use scientific skills and processes to explain the composition, structure, and interactions of matter in order to support the predictability of structure and energy transformations.
- Use scientific skills and processes to explain the interactions of environmental factors (living and non-living) and analyze their impact from a local to a global perspective.
- Use scientific skills and processes to explain the chemical and physical interactions (natural forces and cycles, transfer of energy) of the environment, Earth, and the universe that occur over time.
Social Studies will be taught by Ms. Noble in English. Communities is the focus of the 3rd grade curriculum.
The students in Social Studies class will be able to do the following:
- Understand how people in Maryland, the United States and around the world are alike and different.
- Use geographic concepts and processes to understand location and its relationship to human activities.
- Understand the historical development and current status of the democratic principles and the development of skills and attitudes necessary to become responsible citizens.
- Use historical thinking skills to understand how individuals and events have changed society over time.
The third grade Religion class will be taught by Mrs. Carmen Beltran in Spanish. In grade 3 the students will continue their faith formation through the study of the seven sacraments, our church community, and its leaders. Through the lens of the Golden Rule, students will examine how we interact in our classroom, our school, with our families, and in our communities. The students will participate in an interdisciplinary Family Life unit. In this unit, students will learn about family relationships, with an emphasis on Catholic values and virtues and the consequences of our choices. In addition, the students will observe and celebrate all holy days with school-wide masses, prayer services and classroom projects.