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School: (253) 584-3850
Development: (253) 584-5748
FAX: (253) 584-3852
Address:
 5621 108th Street SW
Lakewood WA 98499
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Third Grade Curriculum
 Faith Formation
- Learn the Apostles’ Creed
- Learn about the church’s mission, structure, and marks
- Understand the different creeds used by the church
- Understand the Bible is the story of God’s people (consisting of Hebrew and Christian scriptures)
- Learn the sacraments are signs of God’s love for us
- Live out our faith by actively participating:
- in liturgical and sacramental celebration
- community outreach projects
Reading
- Understand the different strategies to become more independent readers (predict/infer, monitor, self-question, summarize, and evaluate)
- Understand and use higher order thinking skills in comprehension: character mapping, cause and effect, inferences, and point of view
- Understand and use text organization
Writing
- Understand and use the steps in the writing process
- Write in a variety of forms for different audiences and purposes
- Write clearly and effectively
- Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of written work
- Develop reflective thought and positive religious and moral values through writing
- Identify and use parts of speech: noun, verb, adjectives and pronouns
Handwriting
- Learn and master cursive writing
Science
All concepts include use of the scientific method and hands-on investigations.
- Identify the parts of a seed
- Learn the functions of roots, stems and green leaves
- Understand the life cycle of a flowering plant and conifer
- Learn that most animal life cycles start as a specialized egg
- Describe the different life cycles of insects (3-stage and 4-stage)
- Describe the life cycles of fishes, amphibians, and mammals
- Understand that habitats provide for the needs of the organisms living within it
- Understand how adaptations help plants and animals survive
- Investigate the role of producers and consumers in a food chain
- Understand how natural environmental changes affect living things
- Learn how people affect habitats
- Learn that all objects are made of matter
- Define properties of matter
- Learn the three states of matter
- Understand how a push or a pull can change the movement of an object
- Understand the gravity and magnetism are forces
- Understand that the body parts of some animals function as simple machines
- Identify electricity, light, motion, and sound as forms of energy
- Learn how heat moves through matter
- Understand how light travels in a straight line
- Understand how sound is produced and moves thorough matter
- Understand how living things make and use sound
- Learn how volcanoes and earthquakes change the earth’s surface
- Learn to use safety measures during an earthquake
- Learn that wind and water change the earth’s surface
- Learn about various landforms
- Learn how animals, plants, and humans affect the earth’s surface
- Understand that rocks are made from minerals
- Learn how fossils are formed
- Understand and describe the different types of soil
- Learn about the sun and planets and identify their position in the solar system
- Learn what causes seasonal changes
- Learn about clouds and what clues they provide about the weather
- Understand how rain and snow form
- Discover how thunderstorms, hurricanes, tornadoes, and winter storms form
Social Studies
- Learn that communities are a place where people live, work, play and have special times
- Communities help people meet their basic needs
- Understand how to read a map using cardinal and intermediate directions
- Identify landforms and bodies of water
- Understand how climate, geography, and natural resources affected life in Native American communities long ago.
- Learn why the Spanish started St. Augustine.
- Learn what natural resources aided the Pilgrims in starting Plymouth Colony
- Learn that communities vary in size and structure
- Learn the differences between rural, suburban, urban communities
- Understand communities have histories and what affects growth
- Learn that laws made and enforced by officials of community government enable community members to live safely and peacefully.
- Understand citizens can serve their communities in many ways
- Learn that Washington D.C., is the center of government for our country
Math
All areas include activities in problem solving and estimation
- Understand and apply concepts of Addition and Subtraction using a variety of methods
- Understand and apply concepts of Multiplication and Division using a variety of methods
- Learn Place Value and Counting Numbers to 100,000
- Learn to tell time to the nearest 5 minute interval
- Learn how to count money and make change
- Understand how to use data, graphs and probability
- Understand and use customary measurement
- Identify and describe figures and objects in the surrounding environment as containing geometric shapes
- Classify objects based on attributes or relevant properties (# of corners, edges, the shape of faces, etc.)
- Understand how to use grids to locate objects
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