{"id":309,"date":"2013-02-10T04:52:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T11:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stpetercatholicschool.com\/newsite\/?page_id=309"},"modified":"2019-08-19T09:53:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T15:53:53","slug":"third-grade-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.stpetercatholicschool.com\/newsite\/curriculum\/third-grade-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"3rd Grade Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ENGLISH\/LANGUAGE ARTS<\/p>\n<p>Reading<b><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read appropriate grade level text aloud with correct pace and expression.<\/li>\n<li>Read or demonstrate progress toward reading appropriate grade level text independently.<\/li>\n<li>Can read between 92-143 correct words per minute by the end of the year.<\/li>\n<li>Learn and use new vocabulary through listening, discussion or reading.<\/li>\n<li>Use knowledge of words to determine meaning (examples: homonyms, idioms, roots).<\/li>\n<li>Use a thesaurus to determine related words and concepts.<\/li>\n<li>Listen to, read and discuss a wide variety of narrative and informational text.<\/li>\n<li>Identify key facts and information on a topic after reading several articles or selections.<\/li>\n<li>Make and confirm predictions about a text.<\/li>\n<li>Distinguish between cause and effect and between fact and opinion in an expository text.<\/li>\n<li>Read, listen and respond to a wide variety of literature from a wide variety of cultures and time periods.<\/li>\n<li>Compare and contrast various forms of literature (examples: fairytales, fables, myths).<\/li>\n<li>Identify the main events in the plot.<\/li>\n<li>Use knowledge of the setting and characters to interpret the character\u2019s actions.<\/li>\n<li>Define figurative language.<\/li>\n<li>Understand author\u2019s purpose.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b>Writing<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Write using the entire writing process (pre-write, rough draft, revise\/edit, publish).<\/li>\n<li>Write essays and stories across the curriculum that are well organized, supported by details and description.<\/li>\n<li>Write a short informational text.<\/li>\n<li>Investigate topics of interest, selecting appropriate resources and showing correct use of resources.<\/li>\n<li>Write texts of different modes (narrative, expository, persuasive) and forms (journals, essays, short stories, poems, etc.) across the curriculum that are appropriate to audience and purpose.<\/li>\n<li>Use correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitalization and penmanship across the curriculum.<\/li>\n<li>Use scoring guide to evaluate and revise writing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b>Listening &amp; Speaking<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Listen critically and respond appropriately to spoken messages and formal presentations.<\/li>\n<li>Orally communicate supported ideas across the curriculum using oral, visual and multi-media forms that are appropriate to audience and purpose.<\/li>\n<li>Deliver an oral message while demonstrating control of eye contact, volume, rate and expression.<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrate the ability to analyze and evaluate information and ideas presented across the curriculum.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ESSENTIAL LITERACIES<\/p>\n<p>Managing Information<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use alphabetical and numerical order.<\/li>\n<li>Use table of contents, index, glossary, dictionary and thesaurus.<\/li>\n<li>Use print encyclopedias.<\/li>\n<li>Use charts, illustrations, graphs and diagrams.<\/li>\n<li>Understand how to search for items using the library catalog and locate library materials using call numbers.<\/li>\n<li>Locate information or research a topic using more than one source.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b>Appreciating Literature<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identify a story\u2019s sequence of events.<\/li>\n<li>Identify cause and effect relationship.<\/li>\n<li>Make predictions based on clues.<\/li>\n<li>Reach logical conclusions.<\/li>\n<li>Distinguish between fact and opinion, fiction and nonfiction.<\/li>\n<li>Read and identify characteristics of a variety of genre.<\/li>\n<li>Identify where a selection may be located in the library.<\/li>\n<li>Read and identify classics and award winning books.<\/li>\n<li>Investigate an author\u2019s background in order to understand an author\u2019s motivation.<\/li>\n<li>Use the library for selecting recreational reading materials.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Understanding Mass Media<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create a media work for a specific purpose.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>RELIGION<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Listen\/respond to Scripture.<\/li>\n<li>Actively participate in Liturgical and Sacramental celebrations.<\/li>\n<li>Participate and lead prayer services.<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrate knowledge of Liturgical Seasons and Celebrations.<\/li>\n<li>Articulate learning of doctrine and lessons learned.<\/li>\n<li>Ask\/respond to questions about the Faith.<\/li>\n<li>Understand the meaning of having a good conscience and of making good moral choices.<\/li>\n<li>Experience and contribute to the building of community at home, in the classroom, in the parish and in the community.<\/li>\n<li>Actively participate in prayer experiences using a variety of formats.<\/li>\n<li>Engage in role-playing, poems, songs, etc. related to Scripture stories.<\/li>\n<li>Articulate a clear understanding of the Church as the Body of Christ.<\/li>\n<li>Understand the leadership roles of the Pope and Bishops of the Church.<\/li>\n<li>Know the Rite of Reconciliation and participate appropriately.<\/li>\n<li>Respond to scenarios of moral dilemmas using guidelines of Faith.<\/li>\n<li>Know the stories of the lives of the saints.<\/li>\n<li>Memorize the Ten Commandments and the Two Greatest Commandments. \u00b7 Examine concept of stewardship in the church.<\/li>\n<li>Write own prayers.<\/li>\n<li>Observe created world to reinforce learning about God and personal relationship to Him.<\/li>\n<li>Frequent the sacraments.<\/li>\n<li>Know and recite prayers appropriate to grade level.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\u00a0 <\/b>MATH<\/p>\n<p><i>Calculations &amp; Estimations<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read, write, order, model and compare whole numbers to one million, common fractions and decimals to hundredths. \u00b7 Locate common fractions and decimals on a number line.<\/li>\n<li>Determine factors of whole numbers to 100.<\/li>\n<li>Multiply a three digit number by a two digit number.<\/li>\n<li>Divide a three digit number by a two digit number with or without remainders.<\/li>\n<li>Add and subtract commonly used fractions with like denominators and decimals to hundredths.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b>Statistics &amp; Probability<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Determine the median for a set of data.<\/li>\n<li>Determine probability of a single event.<\/li>\n<li>Understand that the probability of an event can be represented by a number from 0 (impossible) to 1 (certain).<\/li>\n<li>Conduct experiments and simulations to determine experimental probability of different outcomes.<\/li>\n<li>Represent and interpret data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Algebraic Relationships<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Describe, extend and make generalizations about patterns and sequences.<\/li>\n<li>Represent and solve open sentences or problems involving numeric equations or inequalities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b>Measurement<b><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Select and estimate, using the most appropriate tool and US customary unit to measure length, perimeter, area, weight and volume.<\/li>\n<li>Read temperature measurements of thermometers with Fahrenheit and Celsius units.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b>Geometry<b><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identify, describe, compare and classify quadrilaterals by their sides and angles.<\/li>\n<li>Identify right, acute and obtuse angles in isolation and in geometric figures.<\/li>\n<li>Model, sketch, draw and label points, lines, line segments, angles, rays, quadrilaterals and parallel, perpendicular and intersecting lines.<\/li>\n<li>Build three-dimensional objects and sketch two-dimensional representations of the object.<\/li>\n<li>Locate coordinates of points on graph paper, maps, globes and other charts.<\/li>\n<li>Predict and describe the results of performing reflections, rotations and translations of quadrilaterals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>SCIENCE<\/p>\n<p><i>Physical Science: understand matter and changes that happen in the\u00a0physical world.<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identify objects (solid, liquid, gas, air).<\/li>\n<li>Understand force (speed, direction, magnetism, gravity).<\/li>\n<li>Understand energy (sun, fossil fuels, hot, cold).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b>Life Science: understand organisms<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Diagram and label a life cycle.<\/li>\n<li>Describe the basic needs of living things.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b>Earth &amp; Space Science: identify the structure of the Earth system.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identify the composition of rocks and soil.<\/li>\n<li>Understand recycling and its impact to the environment.<\/li>\n<li>Understand the effect of weather and natural disasters have on the earth\u2019s surface.<\/li>\n<li>Describe Earth\u2019s gravity, moon\u2019s orbit and stars.<\/li>\n<li>Understand different qualities of astronomical features in the solar system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b>Inquiry<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make observations and predictions.<\/li>\n<li>Write some sequential steps.<\/li>\n<li>Write simple observations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>History &amp; Nature of Science<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Understand that accurate descriptions help comparisons.<\/li>\n<li>Know that new observations may change explanations.<\/li>\n<li>Contrast observations and inferences.<\/li>\n<li>Ask questions and attempt answers about the world around you.<\/li>\n<li>Know the fields of science.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>HEALTH<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identify body systems and their functions (examples: digestive, nervous, excretory and immune).<\/li>\n<li>Identify possible safety hazards at home, school and around the community.<\/li>\n<li>List procedures for handling emergencies.<\/li>\n<li>Identify personal safety strategies for prevention of potentially violent situations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>SOCIAL STUDIES<\/p>\n<p><i>Civics &amp; Government<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Know the branches of state government.<\/li>\n<li>Understand how Oregon laws are made.<\/li>\n<li>Know how a treaty works.<\/li>\n<li>Know ways individuals participate in the democratic process (examples: voting, writing officials, signing petitions).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Economics\/ Geography<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Know the function of money (examples: trade, value of items, saving), distinguish between barter and use of money.<\/li>\n<li>Understand that prices rise and fall depending on supply and demand.<\/li>\n<li>Recognize that savings are the part of income not spent on goods, services, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Know state government provides services through taxation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Label continents of the world on a map.<\/li>\n<li>Map physical regions of Oregon.<\/li>\n<li>Locate Oregon land features on a map.<\/li>\n<li>Use latitude and longitude and estimate distances.<\/li>\n<li>Understand ways the environment influences human activities and how humans affect their environment.<\/li>\n<li>Identify how geographic factors have influenced Oregon settlement patterns, traveling routes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>History<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create and interpret timelines of people, events and movements in U.S. history.<\/li>\n<li>Understand the cause and effect of early European exploration and western migration on Native American populations in Oregon.<\/li>\n<li>Identify different types of primary and secondary information sources.<\/li>\n<li>Describe social, political and economic changes in Oregon, past and present.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Social Science Analysis<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Research and compare different points of view on a specific topic or issue from a historical period.<\/li>\n<li>Compare possible consequences of two or more solutions for resolving a problem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>VISUAL ARTS<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identify and use materials tools and techniques to create multistage art and understand the steps and sequences used.<\/li>\n<li>Identify different media forms and begin to select appropriate materials, tools and processes to communicate intended idea, experience or story.<\/li>\n<li>Develop a basic understanding of the elements and principles of design and begin to identify them in their work.<\/li>\n<li>Describe using appropriate technical terms, how different materials, techniques and processes cause different effects and responses.<\/li>\n<li>Continue to use art materials and tools in a safe, responsible manner.<\/li>\n<li>Reflect and communicate the effectiveness of their own art work verbally and in writing.<\/li>\n<li>Identify basic artistic elements and principles (using appropriate technical terms) which can be seen in art works.<\/li>\n<li>Identify and describes a variety of forms of art.<\/li>\n<li>Identify personal preference and their relationship to artistic elements (i.e. describe why they like or dislike a piece: \u201cI like the way the artist shows speed with use of the line\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Explain various purposes for creating works of visual art.<\/li>\n<li>Describe ways an art work reflects the artist\u2019s experiences and\/or culture.<\/li>\n<li>Compare several pieces of art from historical periods and cultures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\u00a0 <\/b>PHYSICAL EDUCATION<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Perform fitness elements and develop improvement goals.<\/li>\n<li>Participate and communicate a positive attitude toward physical activities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Practice consistent behavior of good sportsmanship.<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrate cooperation, respect, responsibility, safety and conflict resolution for self and others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ENGLISH\/LANGUAGE ARTS Reading Read appropriate grade level text aloud with correct pace and expression. 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