Grade 3, Room 13 - Mrs. Kolleen Triglia

I have been teaching at Saints Simon and Jude School, my alma mater, since 2014.  I graduated from West Chester University with a B.M. in Music Education, as part of the Honors College, Summa Cum Laude.  I went on to obtain my Post-Baccalaureate Teaching Certification from West Chester University in Early Grades Preparation (Pre-Kindergarten through Fourth Grade).  I graduated from West Chester University in 2017 with a Masters of Education and a 4.0-grade point average.  Previously, I worked as a substitute teacher for two years throughout Chester and Delaware counties, in public, charter, and Catholic schools. 

WELCOME TO GRADE 3

Third grade is a great year, where we are the leaders of the primary grades!  We work on building study skills, as well as becoming independent learners.  We will be growing in our love for Jesus as we learn new things and work together as a team every day.  
    
3rd Grade Curriculum Topics 
  
Religion – The Marks of the Church, the Sacraments, the Mass, and the kinds of prayers  
  
Math – Multiplication and division, an understanding of fractions, and an understanding of perimeter and of area  
  
Social Studies – Our communities and geography, the Native Americans, the early settlers, the Pioneers, our government, holidays, and the identification of many important people in history (120 minutes per week). 
  
Science  – Investigating questions, plants and animals, water and weather, the Earth, magnets, and simple and compound machines (150 minutes per week).  

Reading – Using higher level thinking skills, such as inferences, other comprehension skills, vocabulary, and phonics skills within the reading book, while becoming more fluent readers, through oral readings  
  
Writing – Learning to form better sentences, to lead to better paragraphs, and to improve in grammar through reading and writing  
  
Spelling – Spelling becomes more difficult in third grade, including words with different letters that make the same sound (such as e, ea, ee) or the same letters that have different sounds.  
  
Handwriting – Continue to improve cursive