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Saint John of the Cross Parish School

Rooted in Faith Growing in Knowledge

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

Illinois

Western Springs

 

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