• The students study the saints, the Ten Commandments, the sacraments, and the Nicene Creed.
• The students will continue to develop their relationship with God through daily prayer, weekly, attendance at mass, monthly Eucharistic visits, reception of the sacrament of reconciliation, and seasonal retreats.

Mathematics:

• By the end of third grade, students deepen their understanding and skill with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers.
• Students estimate, measure and describe objects in space.
• Students use patterns to help solve patterns.
• Students represent number relationships and conduct simple probability experiments.

Reading:

• Students further develop their comprehension skills.
• When reading aloud, students will show evidence of an awareness of punctuation by use of appropriate pauses and inflection.
• Students will show further evidence of enjoyment of reading.

Writing:

• Students will continue to work on writing clear and coherent sentences and paragraphs that develop a central idea.
• Students will progress through the stages of the writing process (prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing).

Social Studies:

• Students study family, local, and United States history.
• Students learn about our connection to the past and the ways in which local government and traditions have developed and left their marks on current history.

Science:

• Students will study topics relevant to Life, Physical, and Earth Science.
• Students will make monthly visits to the Science lab.

Spelling:

• Students follow the VoWac curriculum.