Academics

As we enter this New Year of 2010 the third graders hope everyone will be blessed with good health and happiness.  We are happy to be back and learn more before we head off to fourth grade in a few months.

In English we studied linking, helping, and main verbs and are ready to learn about irregular verbs.  We wrote snowman stories for the month of January.

The role of things living and how they help us is our topic in Science.

We have studied multiplication facts to nine in math and will be learning to multiply three numbers. In a few weeks we will begin division facts.  We also did one of our diocesan assessments and will be completing another this month.  Please study times tables for speed so they can help us when working problems.

In Religion we will be memorizing the laws of the Church and the Apostles’ Creed.  We learned about Advent and Christmas these past few weeks as well as about the Liturgy.

We will be learning about how communities grow and change in Social Studies.  Recently we read about how the capital of Brazil was changed from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia.

Some of us are ready to begin Level 18 in Reading.  We learned about towers, Jane Goodall, airports, using rivers, and read non-fiction stories about Mantu, the Elephant, Big Blue, Little Blue, The Picky Prince, and The Singing Princess.

January 13 we will have an in-school education program from the Will County Forest Preserve on “Wild Critters” around the school area.  We are looking forward to it.