By the end of third grade you can expect your child to:

 

1.       Work cooperatively and productively with other children in small groups to complete projects.

2.       Understand how choices affect consequences.

3.       Become more organized and logical in their thinking processes.

4.       Build stronger friendships.

5.       Speak and understand some basic Spanish (numbers 1 – 10, colors, body parts, etc).

6.       Be helpful, cheerful and pleasant.

7.       Be more influenced by peer pressure because friends are very important at this stage.

8.       Like immediate rewards for behavior.

9.       Be able to copy from chalk board.

10.   Be able to write neatly in cursive, because the small muscles of the hand have developed.

11.   Read longer stories and chapter books with expression and comprehension.

12.   Use prefixes, suffixes and root words, and other strategies to identify unfamiliar words.

13.   Multiply single and multi digit numbers (3 x 4,652)

14.   Divide multi digit numbers by one digit numbers (165/5)

15.   Tell time to the half-hour, quarter-hour, five minutes and one minute.

16.   Learn to pray the rosary.

17.   Explore the meaning of the Apostles’ Creed and the sacraments of matrimony and holy orders.