Third Grade

Students will receive letter grades.
Students can earn honor roll or principal honor roll based on their grades.
Parents will be able to go on Renweb and track their child's grades.

A Typical Day in Third Grade at St. Mary

A Typical Day in 3rd Grade: Our morning consists of math, science or social studies and religion. We alternate between science and social studies units throughout the year. In the afternoon the third graders have their language arts block. Our language arts block includes reading, writing, English, spelling and handwriting. The students are actively engaged in several different types of activities throughout their day. We work extremely hard to give students hands on learning, technology, creative projects and assignments. Students work individually, in small groups, and as a class.

Shannon Smith

Third Grade Teacher

Third Grade Highlights

Religion

Attend mass weekly
Learn about Jesus
Sacraments of Christian Initiation and Healing
Talk about what it means to be Catholic and Apostolic
Strengthen students' prayer lives
Learn how to use our Catholic teachings in our everyday lives

Math

Addition and subtraction of four digit numbers with regrouping
Basic multiplication and division
Problem solving strategies with all operations
Write, solve and evaluate expressions and equations
Fractions: unit fractions, part of a whole, part of a set, equivalent fractions and comparing fractions
Telling time to the minute and time intervals
Perimeter and area
Basic geometry skills

Science

Investigation
Plants and Animals: Life Cycles, adaptation, traits
Ecosystems
Weather: Pattern, Climates, Natural Disaster
Force and Motion
Energy Transfer
STEM

Language Arts

Start the year with guided reading groups (reading stories on students' reading level)
Several comprehension skills worked on throughout the year
Read Charlotte's Web together as a class
Learn to read and use all the comprehensive skills that go into nonfiction reading
Close reading skills developed
Work on fluency and decoding skills
Draft, revise, edit and write a complete piece of writing in the writing areas of personal narratives, expository writing, descriptive and persuasive writing
Cursive handwriting

Social Studies

We study our wonderful state of Michigan. We talk about how Michigan was formed, the land and its native people, our struggles early on and how we became a state, how Michigan grew, our basic government and what Michigan is like today.
Throughout the year we use a variety of instructional methods that balance creative, hands on, paper pencil and technology activities to bring about excitement when learning about Michigan.
Field trips to St. Ann’s Basilica and Lansing