St. Paul Lutheran School

Putting Faith in Education

· A Christ centered environment.

· High academic expectations.

· The Accelerated Reader program.

· Field trips and classroom activities that enhance the curriculum.

· Acceptance of others and from others.

· Learn and practice the Joy of Christian faith in our lives.

What your child can expect in 3rd Grade at St. Paul

Third Grade Topics

 

Religion

· Understand that God is the creator of all things

· Describe God’s early family members and their relationships with God

· Know that God created them and redeemed them through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, His own Son

· Nurture Christ-like relationships with all of God’s family

· Recognize that God always hears our prayers and answers in ways and time that He knows best

· Identify Biblical people who showed great courage and faith

· Jesus’ parables

· Believe that Jesus rose from the dead

· Believe that they will go to heaven someday to live with Jesus

· Memorize and recite Bible verses

 

Language Arts

· Use word analysis skills and vocabulary skills to understand a selection

· Use a variety of reading strategies to improve comprehension

· Understand and represent the content of a variety of reading selections

· Identify various literary elements (i.e. character, plot, setting) and their purpose in a given reading selection

· Read, recite and write poetry  and other forms of writing from a variety of styles of literature

· Strong work in grammar

 

Social Studies

· Purpose and use different kinds of maps

· Identify and describe physical characteristics of places (e.g. continents, oceans, forests)

· Locate places (e.g. land or water formations, countries, cities) using a globe or map

· Locate and label states using names and abbreviations on a United States map

·  Communities and how they are maintained

·  Contributions, resources and characteristics of different types of communities

·  The lifestyle of various early Native American tribes

·  The community that the Pilgrims began

·  The history and the characteristics of our nation’s capital

 

Science

· Identify the characteristics of different habitats

· Characteristics that allow living things to survive in their unique habitats

· Process of how seeds grow into plants

· Animal food chains

· Plant life

· Nutrients that the human body needs

· Natural resources that living things use to protect themselves from weather conditions

· Simple machines

· Sound

· The scientific process

 

Math

· Add and subtract whole numbers through 20 using various properties

· The relationship between addition and subtraction

· Place value through the ten thousands place

· Compare and order numbers through the thousands place

· Round and estimate numbers to the nearest hundred

· Collect and record data using tally marks

· Compare and use data in a variety of graphs

· Construct and interpret different graphs

· Count and compare groups of coins up to $0.99 using all types of coins

· Money and making change

· Add two and three-digit numbers with and without regrouping

· Add 2 three-digit numbers with and without regrouping

· Subtract two and three-digit numbers with and without regrouping

· Plane shapes and solid shapes

· Congruency and lines of symmetry

· Fractions for part of a region or group

· Multiplication as repeated addition

· Basic multiplication facts 0-12

· Division as equal groups

· Perimeter of a figure

· Estimate the mass or weight of objects using both the customary and metric systems

· Units of measurement and the measuring tools

· Use a calendar to identify and compare days, weeks and months

3rd Grade Teacher Miss Leann Baker

 

This is Miss Baker’s 1st year teaching 3rd grade at St. Paul.  She taught Kindergarten for one year at Trinity Lutheran School in Atchison, KS.  Miss Baker graduated from Concordia University-Chicago in May 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education.

To Contact Us:

Phone: 815-562-6323

Fax: 815-561-8074

E-mail: stpaul@rochelle.net