St. Fabian Catholic School 
St. Fabian Catholic School is a Christ-centered family, deeply rooted in Catholic traditions. We are dedicated to the enrichment of the whole child through academic excellence, spiritual development, and service to our community, while preparing our students to become architects of their futures.

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Phone: 248-553-2750
Email:  csutherland@stfabian.org

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Mrs. Jennifer Sadowski
Grade 3
​​Email / 248-553-2750

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About Mrs. Sadowski
Education:
Bachelor's degree in English and elementary education from Madonna University. I am currently adding a math endorsement to my certificate. I also have a paralegal degree.
Experience:
I have taught in the Archdiocese of Detroit since 2000. Many of these years have been teaching English at the middle school level. However, I have also taught math and religion. Lastly, at the elementary grade level, I have worked as a homeroom self-contained teacher to grades 4 & 5.
Family:
Husband Don, two children who will start St. Fabian's this fall: John and Susanna. 
​Free Time: 
I enjoy visiting Belle Isle and playing at the beach with my family, exporing museums, reading, and shopping!​
​Likes: 
The color green, warm cups of tea, flowers and gardening, playing in the pool and the smell of the ocean.
​Dislikes:
When I am lied to, flies--especially if one gets in my house!, and traffic congestion.

Welcome to Grade 3

Third grade is a fun and busy year. In third grade students will be growing academically, socially, and spiritually. In my classroom I focus on teaching the whole child in a warm and loving environment where students are encouraged to strive to do their very best every day!

In third grade here are some of the topics your student will be learning in each of the subjects.

Religion
Third grade is an important year for the Catholic faith. We continue to grow in our love and respect of the Eucharist. We will build our relationship with God through prayer. With the Blessed Are We curriculum we will learn about the Our Father, The sacraments of healing and initiation, as well as, using our talents and gifts to serve God and his people.

Math
We use the enVision Math 2.0 curriculum. Over the course of third grade, we strengthen our foundation of addition and subtraction, learn about place value, understand and use data/graphing, and multiplication.

Science
We use the Mystery Science curriculum. Over the course of third grade, we cover three science units: Water and climate, Motion and matter, and Structures of Life. We engage in hands-on experiments weekly.

Social Studies
While we will use the Studies Weekly curriculum, our main curriculum comes from the Meet Michigan textbook by Hillsdale Publishes. Over the course of third grade, we learn more about Michigan including its history, government, and regional characteristics.

Language Arts
We use the Wonders curriculum for reading and writing.. Over the course of third grade, we are working to improve our writing and speaking skills, working to gain a deeper knowledge of literacy conventions to improve overall reading and comprehension, and lastly, making connections with what we read to ourselves, the world, and to other texts. For spelling we use the Sadlier Vocabulary Workshop text. For grammar, I use Easy Grammar from Wanda C. PHillips.
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Handwriting
We use the Zaner-Bloser Handwriting Book. This book continues to work on improving manuscript writing. Then we will begin to learn cursive. It has easy step-by-step directions. Each lesson has a practice skill, application skill, and then a review of what they have learned. The program teaches students to write fluently and legibly with very few strokes.