Grade 3 – Trimester 2, 2019-2020

Grade 3 Trimester 2
Religion

  Creed

• We are God’s people
• The Church respects all people
• Men and women are created to live in union with God in this life and in Heaven forever
• We are disciples

The Mass

• Roles of the participants of the Mass
• Mass responses

The Church

• The Church has four marks
• Role of the Parish and the Church

  The Church Seasons

• Advent
• Christmas
• Ordinary Time
• Holy days of obligation

Sacraments

• Penance
• Eucharist
• Understanding of all sacraments

Science

  Energy

• Projects based learning: Solar Energy

Driving questions: How can we use solar energy in our everyday lives?

How does solar energy help our environment?

• Energy exists in a variety of forms
• Energy transformations
• Describe forms of energy
• Light energy, solar energy, heat energy

                                            Simple Machines

• Observe and describe the ease and difficulty of the movement of objects in the world. 
• Manipulation of simple machines
• Relationship between force and motion
• The effects of common forces (pushes and pulls) of objects

Social Studies

Study of the following communities:

                                              China
                                           Paraguay
                                            Jamaica

• Geography
• Culture
• History
• Economics
• Politics
• Similarities/Differences

Math

Place value and problem solving with units (continued)

• Rounding to the nearest ten and hundred
• Two and three-digit measurement, addition and subtraction using the standard algorithm

Multiplication and division with units of 0, 1, 6-9

• The properties of multiplication and division
• Analysis of patterns and problem solving

Multiplication and Area

• Foundations for understanding area

Fractions as numbers on the number line

• Understanding fractions
• Equivalent fractions
• Comparing fractions

 English Language Arts

Grammar

• prefixes, suffixes
• Plural nouns , pronouns
• Action and being verbs
• Adverbs 
• Adjectives
• Quotation marks

Comprehension

• inference/prediction
• Main idea
• Supporting details
• cause/effect

Genres

• Biography
• Poetry
• Informational text
• Folktales
• Realistic fiction
• legends

Phonics

• 3-letter clusters
• Silent letters
• Vowel dipthongs

Writing

• Narrative
• Opinion paragraph
• Descriptive writing
• Research
• Descriptive writing
• How to