Third Grade
May News
May includes AIMSWeb benchmark testing the week of 4-30; the third graders’ first Student Council Election voting experience and Spotlight on SJC/Ice Cream Social Tu/5-1; an out-of-uniform day F/5-11; First Communions Sat/5-5 and Sat/5-12; Godspell play F/5-11, Sat/5-12, Sun/5-13; May Crowning/Ribbon Ceremony M/5-14; Memorial Games F/5-18; Western Springs Walking Tour F/5-25; NO School/Memorial Day M/5-28; Eighth Grade Graduation Tu/5-29; Celebrate SJC Day Th/5-31; Last Day of School/Closing Liturgy F/6-1.
Please check the school website/calendar and individual classroom newsletters for further information regarding these dates and more.
RELIGION
Easter Season
Family Life
New Roman Missal
LANGUAGE ARTS
May Book Report - free choice
Treasures
Unit 5 – Those Amazing Animals
Unique Animals of the Southwest
Theme: Survival and Adaptation
Skill: Compare and Contrast
Unit 6 – Storytellers
Stone Soup
Theme: Folktales
Skill: Make Inferences
The Strongest One
Theme: Plays
Skill: Summarize
Tales of the Trickster
Theme: Trickster Tales
Skill: Compare and Contrast
Cook-A-Doodle-Doo!
Theme: Telling Tales
Skill: Compare and Contrast
One Riddle, One Answer
Theme: Fairy Tales
Skill: Character, Setting, Plot
MATH
Everyday Mathematics
Unit 9 – Multiplication and Division
Multiply and Divide with Multiples of 10, 100, and 1000
Using Mental Math to Multiply
A Multiplication Algorithm – partial-procducts
Buying at the Stock-Up Sale
Factors of a Whole Number
Sharing Money
Broken-Calculator Divsion
Lattice Multiplication
Products of 2-Digit Numbers – partial products and lattice
SCIENCE
Science: A Closer Look
Life Science
Classifying Animals – invertebrates and vertebrates
Animal Life Cycles
From Parents to Young
Strange Animal Report
SOCIAL STUDIES
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