Hello. Please read to experience a day in the life a St. Pius X 3rd grade student.

7:30 a.m. Welcome and unpack for the day

7:50 a.m. Communion Service on Mondays and Daily Mass Tuesday-Friday

8:30 a.m. Morning Work-Daily Math Warm-Up

8:50 a.m. Morning Meeting-There are 4 components-Greeting, Sharing, Group Activity, and Morning Message. The daily practice of morning meeting brings a class together: socially, academically, emotionally, and spiritually.

9:20 a.m. Word Study-Words their Way-word sorts for within word pattern spellers. The children work through an 8 day rotation of deferentiate spelling activities based on their spelling abilities.

9:35 a.m. Reading/Language Arts-during this block of time the students work with the class as a whole on a book study. So far this year we have read 3 books off of the Memoria Press Classical Curriculum: "A Bear Callled Paddington," "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," and "The best Christmas Pageant Ever." The children also rotate through centers which include: guided reading with the teacher, vocabulary activity, review of 3rd grade Language Arts skills-"Mountain Language," and a Grammar lesson. The centers change content weekly.

11:10 a.m. Lunch/Recess

12:00 p.m. Math-the students gain mathematical concepts by working through a spiral designed math program "Everyday Mathematics," centers which include dice multiplication, time bingo, dollar dice, etc., and supplemental material "Mountain Math."

12:45 p.m. Classical History, Social Studies, and Geography-the students rotate weekly through these subjects. Classical History is choral read from the "Story of the World-History for the Classical Child Volume 3: Early Modern Times." The students here stories of how Christianity came to be between the years of 1600-1850. Currently the children are reading and summarizing the New Colonies in the New World. They read about how William Bradford brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth to escape religious freedom from King James.
Social Studies is also taught through Scott Foresman Communities. Lastly Geography is taught through the Nystrom Map curriculum.

1:30 p.m. Science- The students gain knowledge through MacMillian McGraw-Hill curriculum. They also take interest in scientfic experiements, and nature that surrounds them here on our school grounds. The children just planted dandelion bulbs in our school's garden.

2:25 p.m. Religion-The students attend Communion Service on Mondays and Mass Tuesday-Friday. Third grade students are responsible in leading Mass 3 times a month. The students have several jobs: serve, lecture, sing the Gospel acclamation, and/or offetory procession. They also recieve knowledge through the Faith and Life Series. On Tuesday Sr. Ignatius, a Dominican Sister of the St. Cecilia Congregation comes to the school and teaches them curriculum from Catechesis of the Good Shepherd.

Other special activities offered are:
Physical Education-twice a week
Art
Library Sciences
Music
Health

Here is our class timeline. The students add something they have learned weekly on an index card.