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Third Grade Curriculum
The Curriculum, as outlined below, represents the goals we have established for our students. It is our expectation that all students will work towards achieving these goals to the best of his/her ability. We offer a student centered learning environment designed to meet individual needs while developing a cooperative community spirit. To enhance their creative frontiers... this is our goal!
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Language Arts/Reading
- Use phonics skills to decode words with irregular short and long vowels such as: ui, oo, ou, eigh, ey, i, ie
- Recognize and decode vowel sounds including: ou, ui, eer, ere, ier, ur, ear
- Decode and use beginning and ending consonant sounds with unusual spelling, including: mn, gn, ch, gh, ph, z,s
- Decode consonant clusters including: shr, squ, dw, tw, sch
- Recognize and use words with: tion, sion, ion
- Recognize and use contractions
- Recognize and use nouns with irregular plurals.
- Recognize and use prefixes and suffixes.
- Recognize and use plural possessive words.
- Comprehension
- Make judgments between fact and opinion.
- Recognize time order
- Identify mood, characterization, and effect of setting on passages.
- Contribute summary statements to group discussion and book reports.
- Identifies improbabilities in happenings in stories.
- Rephrases information in other words for reports.
- Recognizes meanings of quotation marks
- Study skills
- Utilizes dictionary to expand upon understanding or spelling of words.
- Alphabetizing up to at least the third letter in a word.
- Identifies word in the glossary for increased comprehension.
- Uses bar graphs, charts, maps, dictionary, table of contents, etc. in readings to assist in comprehension of information.
- Stories and Speeches
- Two tales from the Arabian Nights
- Alice's Adventure in Wonderland
- The People Could Fly
- Pollyanna
- The Quillwork Girl and her Seven Brothers
- William Tell
- Give me Liberty, or Give me Death
- Norse Mythology
- Learning about Language
- Adjectives
- Pronouns
- Names are proper nouns
- Conjunctions
- Articles
- The 2 parts of a sentence
- Helping verbs
- Getting words to agree
- The 3 main kinds of sentences.
- Learning about Literature - Biography, Autobiography, Fiction, and Non-Fiction
- The Meanings of Sayings and Phrases
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Social Studies
- Emphasis on the larger community
- Read a map, and locate cities and towns in California
- Identify examples of how people can change their environment.
- Recognize history of community, understand changes brought about by modernization.
- Recognize the importance of voting in our community life.
- Identify structure of community government, ie. mayors, judges, etc.
- Understand how communities meet their needs for goods.
- Identify differences within communities by it's different members.
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Geography
- World Geography: Our watery world, the Mediterranean, The Roman Empire
- Geography of the Americas
- The Vikings
- Finding and taking a "New World"
- Spanish explorers of North America
- Spanish settlements in the New World
- In Search of the Northwest passage
- Henry Hudson
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History
- World Civilization
- Ancient Rome
- Writing down dates
- Roman Gods and Goddesses
- Constantine and Christianity
- Islam - A new civilization
- American Civilization
- The first Americans
- The Jamestown colony
- The Pilgrims
- The Colonies grow up
- The Boston Tea Party
- The Declaration of Independence
- A New Flag
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Music
- Rhythm
- Meter
- Tempo
- African and Latin rhythms
- Drums
- Notation: How music is written down
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Visual Art
- Elements of Art
- Lines make shapes, shapes are formed from lines
- Lines can show emotion
- Quilts
- Using shapes to show emotion
- Shapes in architecture
- All kinds of horses
- Pictures like puzzles
- Murals
- Pattern and texture
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Mathematics
- Numbers
- Recognize and use place value through millions
- Counts by 3's and 4's without prompting
- Sequences numbers in correct order through thousands
- Skip counting with thousands
- Equations and inequalities
- Ordinal numbers through 100th
- Addition and Subtraction
- Adds sequence of 3 or more numbers correctly
- Demonstrates skill in mental computation of numbers in addition and subtraction
- Demonstrates use of number line in subtraction
- Checks subtraction with addition to confirm answer
- Column addition
- Estimating sums and differences
- Adding with 1000's
- Subtraction: regrouping more than once
- Subtraction across zeros
- Adding and subtracting amounts of money
- 4 digit subtraction
- Multiplication
- Multiplying vertically
- Showing multiplication
- The multiplication table
- Parentheses, multiplying three numbers
- Understand meaning of equivalent sets
- Demonstrates understanding of multiplication on number line
- Recognizes and uses combinations through 81
- Understands 0 concept in multiplication
- Completes missing factor in multiplication set
- Recognizes and uses multiples of 10 and 100 as factors
- Multiplying 3 and 4 digit numbers
- Checking multiplication
- Division
- Demonstrates understanding of division on a number line
- Recognizes and uses dividends through 81
- Understands concept of 0 in division
- Division word problems
- Remainders
- Dividing 10's, 100's, and 1000's
- 2 digit quotients
- Checking division
- Dividing 3 digit numbers
- Time, Money, and Graphs
- Time to the minute
- Elapsed time in minutes
- Calendar
- Money
- Reading Graphs
- Measurement
- US Customary system and the Metric system
- Measurement word problems
- Understands and demonstrates measurement of a perimeter
- Demonstrates comprehension of concept of area by counting square units.
- Demonstrates comprehension volume by counting cubic units.
- Demonstrates skills in estimating
- Alternatives to measurement with a tool (yardstick, et. al.)
- Geometry
- Polygons
- Angles
- Congruent and Symmetric Figures
- Perimeters
- Area
- Solids
- Fractions
- Writes and uses fraction on sets, number line, rulers, etc.
- Combines fractions to equal a whole number
- Compares fractions using pictures and illustrations
- Numerator and denominator
- Equivalent fractions
- Applications
- Can count money to a dollar, and recognize correct change from one dollar
Uses clock for estimation of time for task and can tell what time it will be in ten minutes, forty minutes, etc.
- Reads dollars and cents from written number and counts money with dollars and cents.
- Records information from word problem and sets up problem using any of the basic operations
- Understands symbols for greater then, equal to, and less than, and can write or complete a statement using whole numbers and fractions with a common denominator.
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Science
- The Balance of Nature
- Water Pollution
- Conserving and recycling
- Animals that work together
- The Human Body and Health
- The nervous system
- Reflexes
- Sight
- Hearing
- Physical Science
- Static Electricity
- Electric Circuits
- Kinds of Matter: Metals and Nonmetals
- Gravity
- The Solar System
- Out beyond Pluto
- Stories of Scientists
- Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace
- John Muir
- Jane Goodall
- Edward Jenne
- Elijah McCoy
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Physical Education
- Following game rules
- Team Effort
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Computers and Library
- To use both as resources for research reports
- To use the computer to illustrate and completely construct research reports
- To utilize the internet for research
- To begin keyboarding skills
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