CURRICULUM - 3rd GRADE

LANGUAGE ARTS

Phonics and Reading

  • Review of all phonics rules
  • Oral reading
  • Reading comprehension

Cursive Writing

  • Review of cursive writing formation 3/4 spacing high
  • Creative writing

Spelling and Poetry

  • Weekly phonics-based word list with vocabulary
  • Sentence dictation using spelling words
  • Reinforcement activities

Language

Writing Process:
- Complete sentences
- Punctuation and capitalization rules
- Creative writing, friendly letters

Grammar:
- Recognition of simple nouns, subjects, verbs, adjectives
- Word usage
- Formal plurals and common contractions
- Recognition of antonyms, homonyms, synonyms
- Dictionary skills

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY

  • Continents and oceans of the world
  • Study of world geography
  • States of the United States
  • Study of our American heritage through the lives of great people: Columbus, John Smith,
    Pocahontas, Miles Standish, Squanto, William Penn, Ben Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Boone, Noah Webster, John Greenleaf Whittier, Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Clara Barton, U.S. Grant, Louisa May Alcott, Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Bill Sunday

SCIENCE

Plants

  • Exploring the Plant World

Animals

  • Exploring the World of Vertebrates
  • Exploring the World of Invertebrates

Health and Human Biology

  • Wonderfully Made

Earth And Space

  • Exploring the Ocean
  • Exploring the Weather Conservation
  • Exploring the Desert, the Ocean, the Pond, the Forest, the Farmer’s Field

HEALTH, SAFETY, MANNERS

Health

  • Posture – Exercise – Nutrition, Diet – Cleanliness – Fighting Disease

Safety

  • Fire, Water Safety – Home, Play Safely – Street Safety – First Aid

Manners

  • Hospitality – Proper Introductions – Telephone Manners – Courtesy and Respect

ARITHMETIC

  • Recognition of the place value of numbers
  • Addition facts and checking addition problems with carrying
  • Subtraction facts and checking subtraction problems with borrowing
  • Multiplication tables 0-12 and multiplication problems with carrying
  • How to show a multiplication fact six ways
  • Division tables 1-12 and working and checking a division problem
  • Terminology for four processes
  • English and metric measures
  • Telling time
  • Roman numerals 1-1,000
  • Using a ruler
  • Solving story problems with up to four steps
  • Recognizing and solving number sentences
  • Converting measures and solving measurement equations
  • Recognizing and working with greater than (>) and les than (<)
  • Counting money and solving money problems using the decimal point correctly
  • Solving problems containing parentheses
  • Fraction terminology and basic understanding of fractions
  • Average numbers
  • Reading a thermometer
  • Recognizing geometric shapes
  • Finding the unknown number in an equation

BIBLE

  • Lessons such as Salvation Series, Parables, Samuel, David, Elijah, Elisha, Daniel, Ezra/Nehemiah, Esther
  • Memory verses
  • Hymns/choruses
  • Bible Doctrine

ACTIVITIES

  • Chapel
  • Spanish
  • Art
  • Music
  • Gymnastics
  • Field Trips