Grade 3

2025-2026

September/October 2025

Religion:  Catholics are "Open to All" students to learn that Jesus offers living water.  Explore the meaning of Catholic.  Describe ways
to be accepting of all people.  Gathering for Mass and exploring the celebration of the liturgy.  Understanding that the Eucharist nourishes
us so that we can serve others. Order of the liturgy. To learn to serve others.  Explore the meaning of grace and to identify qualities of a role model.

ELA:  Students will determine central ideas or themes of a text and to analyze their development,  Summarizing the key supporting details
and their development.  Describing characters in a story - their traits, motivations or feelings.  Be able to explain how their actions contribute
to the sequence of events.  Causes and Effects. Determine the main idea of the text.  Subjects and predicates and sentence structure. 

Math: Describing whole number products in terms of factors, state/list the factors of a given product.  Draw a model to represent a given product.  
Represent and solve problems involving multiplication and division.

Social Studies:  Identifying continents and oceans.  Identifying the differences between a globe and a map.  Be able to identify the title of a
map - it's legend or key, the grid and scale of a map.  The location of world communities on a globe or a map.

Science:  Fossils - Different types of fossils.  Where can fossils be found.  What can we learn from fossils.  How do we now what
dinosaurs looked like.  Students will analyze and interpret  data from fossil records to determine what type of an organism eats/at.

2025-2026

 3rd Grade School Supplies

• 6 Folders (yellow, green, red, blue, orange, purple)
• 4 Marble type Composition Notebooks  
• 20 Pencils 
• 2 Glue Sticks
• 1 pair of scissors 
• 3 erasers
• 1 pack of 24 count crayons
• 1 pack of colored pencils
• Pencil Pouch/ Box
• Ruler
• Pack of wide-ruled paper
• 3 boxes of tissue
• 1 roll of paper towels
• Reusable water bottle
• Headphones

You may access your child's parent portal https://parentportal.eschooldata.com/buffalodiocese

Ms. Mary Beth Musial    mmusial@cawb.org  

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In 3rd Grade, students will learn to:

ELA:  Ask and answer questions, recount stories (fiction, nonfiction, fables - folk tales), explain key details,
Recognize & Make Connections in various types of literature, Compare & Contrast Themes, Use text features to answer questions
Using information from illustrations, Word Recognition & Phonics, Decoding skills, Writing a Narrative & Opinion Pieces, Informational
Writing, Conventions of Standard English:  Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Regular.

MATH;
Multiplication & Division, Place Value, Fractions, Measurement & Data, Geometric Measurement, Geometry, Area & Perimeter

RELIGION:
Lent , St. Patrick, The Annunciation of the Lord, Palm Sunday, Holy Week - Holy Thursday, Good Friday,
Holy Saturday, Easter

SOCIAL STUDIES:
Geographic Regions, Location of World Communities, Geographic Factors, Legends, Folktales, 
Compare/Contrast Cultures, Government, Natural Resources

SCIENCE:  
Water Cycle and states of matter, Local weather patterns and weather prediction

 You  may access your child's parent portal https://parentportal.eschooldata.com/buffalodiocese

 Ms. Mary Beth Musial    mmusial@cawb.org