Sacred Heart Academy
Third Grade Curriculum Update
by Mrs.Miller
Date: April 15, 2013
Virtue of the Month: Graciousness and Courtesy *
These are the subjects and content area the students will be studying this
week. Please make sure that your child goes over these areas of study with
you.
Saxon Math: Lessons 112-115 and Assessment 22 on identifying right, obtuse,
and acute angles, naming triangles by angle size, measuring line segments using
millimeters, and multiplication facts: multiplying by 6. *
Science: Start unit on Ecology – the natural world, food chains. *
History: Start unit on the exploration of North America - the early Spanish
explorers, De Sotoʼs long march, and the search for El Dorado. *
Religion: Session 22 on making good choices. How to make a moral choice, the
ten commandments, and ways of being like Jesus.
Literature: Read and discuss the story, Teammates. Sayings: “the show must
go on” and “touch and go”. *
English: Journal writing. Cursive handwriting. Phonics- Lesson 26 on vccvccv
syllable division pattern. *
Vocab./ Spelling: Vocab.- Unit 11 on definitions, synonyms and antonyms of
words, completing the sentence and word associations. Spelling- Lesson 26 on
spelling words with vccvccv syllable division pattern. Spelling Test and Vocab.
Test on Friday. *
Art: Pastel and watercolor paint flowers. “
Check folder for: Reminders, information for April and corrected work to be filed
in their 3 ring binders.
Reminders: The Scholastic Book Fair will be held on April 18 and 19th and then
the 21st after morning masses in the Parish Hall.
* indicates Core Knowledge
Sacred Heart Academy: California’s First Core Knowledge School
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