The religion book, Blest Are We, presents a spiral approach to learning about the Catholic Church.  Each unit is broken down with examples of what the church teaches, scripture, and prayer.  In addition to the text, the Sunday gospel is read and discussed each Friday. 

The reading series meets the reading needs of all students.  It includes a comprehensive, systematic plan of instruction using a variety of skills such as phonics/decoding, predicting/inferring and monitoring/clarifying, questioning, summarizing and evaluating what students have read.  Third graders are required to learn and use fourteen Spelling words each week. 

Cursive writing is taught from the beginning of the year and by mid-second quarter all students are completing their written work in cursive. 

English includes an introduction of  subjects and predicates, and expands on nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and pronouns, that were introduced in previous grades.  Students continue writing sentences, paragraphs and short essays. 

The math series focuses on understanding of place value, addition and subtraction with regrouping, multiplication, division, estimating, and rounding numbers.  In addition to those skills students also learn geometry and algebraic functions.  Students also learn several strategies for solving word problems. 

The theme for social studies is "Communities".  This includes units on Native Americans, as well as the first settlers in the United States. 

The science text develops the scientific process by asking meaningful questions and conducting hands on investigations.  The three strands addressed in the third grade are life, earth, and physical science. 

All text and materials used in third grade are based on the California State Standards.

In addition to the academics mentioned above third grade also has art, P.E., Spanish and computer class each week.