RELIGION:
The message of Jesus Christ’s teachings are integrated throughout all the subject areas. Students focus on the Sacraments, traditions of the Catholic Church, and the values of Faith, Hope, and Love. Students also participate in community service programs sponsored by the school.
READING:
Students learn skills in a structured, sequential way and learn to read from controlled readers that contain phonetically controlled decodable texts. Emphasis is on decoding, accuracy and fluency, comprehension, and summarization of written text.
WRITING:
Through the use of our Writing Skills Program, students develop expository-writing skills. Children are given direct, explicit, systematic instruction in sentence and paragraph writing. Students are taught how to organize their thoughts in order to become effective writers.
MATH:
Topics studied include: Number Sense, Place Value, Addition, Subtraction, Problem Solving, Money, Time, Fractions, and an introduction to multiplication and division.
SCIENCE:
Units of study include: The Sun and Earth (daytime and nighttime and the seasons), Matter, Energy, and Animal and Plant lifecycles and adaptation.
SOCIAL STUDIES:
Students are exposed to the following topics: Geography and Map Skills, Communities—including rural, urban, and suburban, Economics—needs, wants, goods, services, consumers, and producers, and Our Government and national symbols. In addition, students in the third grade learn about various counties of the world.