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3rd Grade Curriculum Guide

Reading

Literary Elements:

  • Plot

  • Setting

  • Characterization

  • Author’s Style

  • Point of View


Fluency:

  • Oral expression

  • Speed


Comprehension Skills:

  • Making Inferences

  • Table of contents

  • Cause and Effect

  • Main idea/Details

  • Predictions

  • Logical conclusions


Reading Genres:

  • Nonfiction

  • Poetry

  • Biography

  • Mythology

  • Poetry


Novel Studies:

  • Little House on the Prairie

  • The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe

  • Hellen Keller

  • Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes

  • Open Court Reading

  • Junior Great Books


Language Arts

Write a variety of genres:

  • Autobiographical

  • Report of Information

  • Narrative

  • Persuasive

  • Poetry


Grammar:

Parts of speech:

  • Subjects

  • Predicates

  • Nouns

  • Verbs

  • Adjectives

  • Adverbs

  • Articles

  • Pronouns


Editing Process:

  • Correct punctuation and capitalization

  • Variety of sentence structure

  • Dictionary skills

  • Thesaurus skills

  • Paragraph structure


Cursive Writing


Word Study

  • Latin

Math

Place Value:

  • Estimating

  • Mental math

  • Place value to 100,000’s

  • Round to the nearest 100 and 1,000

  • Order and compare numbers


Integers:

  • Positive and negative numbers on a number line


Operations:

  • Mastery of addition and subtraction facts

  • Five digit addition and subtraction with regrouping

  • Multiplication facts through 12’s

  • Division with one digit divisors

  • Two step word problems


Fractions:

  • Numerators

  • Denominators

  • Equivalent fractions

  • Mixed numbers


Unit of Measure:

  • Measure length, volume, and weight.

  • Standard units

  • Metric units

  • Standard unit conversions

  • Time/elapsed time


Geometry:

  • Polygons

  • Angles

  • Vertices

  • Compute area

  • Interpret graphs, tables, and charts

  • Identify three dimensional figures

History

Map Skills:

  • Map key

  • Measure distances using a bar scale

  • Understanding scale drawings

  • Cartesian coordinates

  • Compass rose


Geography:

  • World Rivers

  • Canada

  • Landforms


Ancient Civilizations and Culture:

  • Culture

  • Regions

  • Ancient Rome

  • Vikings


New World:

  • Explorers

  • Native Americans

  • The thirteen colonies

  • Early American Culture

Science

Earth’s Water:

  • Sources of water

  • Water Cycle

  • Water pressure

  • Water molecules

  • Water pollution


Ecology:

  • Food chain

  • Habitats: prairie and forest


Geology:

  • Earth and it’s changes

  • Layers of the Earth

  • Rocks and minerals

  • Atoms

  • Elements

  • Periodic table


Astronomy:

  • Planetary Motion

  • Gravity

  • Asteroids

  • Eclipse

  • Stars and constellations

  • Space exploration

Theology

Old Testament:

  • Creation

  • Abraham

  • Moses

  • King David

  • Ten Commandments


New Testament:

  • The Holy Mass

  • Communion of Saints

  • Mary, our Mother and Queen

  • Feast Days

  • Saint Fair


Prayers:

  • Mysteries of the rosary

  • Regina Coeli

  • Memorare

  • Stations of the Cross

  • Prayer of Saint Francis

  • Serenity Prayer

Enrichment

Spanish:

  • Seasons

  • Numbers 1 to 50

  • Writing sentences

  • Grammar

  • Prayers in Spanish

Visual Arts:

  • Studied across the curriculum with classroom teacher

Music:

Elements of music:

  • Treble clef melody

  • Rhythm patterns

  • Melodic patterns

Pitch:

  • Ostinato accompaniments

  • Single chord accompaniments

  • Learn to play recorder

Physical Education:

  • Fitness

  • Sportsmanship

  • Rules and skill practice for team sports

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