Welcome to Third Grade! The best grade, and the last of the primary grades! My name is Samantha Rentz and this is my first year at Ss. Simon and Jude. It is my third year as an educator, and I am very excited to teach my favorite grade! I graduated from Penn State with a Bachelors of Science in Early Childhood and Adolescent Education. I am certified in grades Prek-4th. I attended Catholic school and I love incorporating my faith into my teaching.
My email is :
srentz@simonandjude.org -- notes are always welcome!
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 Pilgrims, the Native Americans, the Pioneers, our local and national government, holidays, and the identification of many important people in history (120 minutes per week).
Science –Investigating Questions, The Engineering Process,Plants and Animals, Ecosystems and Interactions, Changes to Earth’s Surface, People and Resources, Water and Weather, Earth and Its Moon, Matter (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
