3rd Grade
Language Arts
Third graders will read one story a week with a phonics, grammar, and literacy skill intertwined with the unit. Readings include a variety of classic and contemporary works, including realistic fiction, folktales, informational nonfiction, biography and autobiography, plays, and poems. Students will work on their oral language development, word identification skills, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing through our literacy program. Students present a biography book report during the year. Students love participating in the unit built around Ramona Quimby, Age 8.
To develop writing skills, students write daily in a journal. Grammar skills are practiced every morning with a Daily Oral Language (DOL) review and students use workbooks to practice grammar usage. Students use cursive in third grade. One spelling list is given a week. We will take two class field trips to the Children's Theater to watch various plays.
Math
Students learn addition and subtraction, using money and time, develop number sense, multiplication and division facts, data, graphing and probability, geometry, fractions and decimals, measurement: customary and metric, and multiplying and dividing by one digit. During the year, students will memorize their multiplication facts.
Science
Third graders will learn about birds, weather, rocks and minerals, landforms and volcanoes, simple machines, digestion, and nutrition during the year. We will take a field trip to Mammoth Cave during our geology unit.
Social Studies/History
Third graders will learn map and globe skills and basic economics. We will do a special unit on colonial America and Nashville history. Students will take a walking tour of Nashville which includes a visit to Fort Nashboro. Students will memorize the states and capitals during our year.
Service Projects
Students will participate in a class service project. Next year, our service project will work along side with the Women's Job Corp.