3rd-Grade

3rd-GradeOverview

Teacher Demographics
Schedule/Hours
100% Degreed in Elementary Education
Monday through Friday
8:00 a.m. – 2:50 p.m.
22 years total tenure, 1 year with The Sloan School
Before and After School Care available

Curriculum
Other
Phonics-based, highly regarded A Beka curriculum
Lunch: Nutritious lunch provided each day

Snacks: Snack at 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Student Teacher Ratio
1:20 or 2:26


3rd-Grade Curriculum

 Language Arts  Science  History Geography  Health  Arithmetic  Bible  Activities

Language Arts


Phonics and Reading Writing Process
  • Review of all phonics rules
  • Oral reading
  • Reading comprehension
  • Complete sentences
  • Punctuation and capitalization rules
  • Creative writing, friendly letters
Cursive Writing Grammar
  • Review of cursive writing formation 3/4 spacing high
  • Creative writing
  • Recognition of simple nouns, subjects, verbs, adjectives
  • Word usage
  • Recognition of antonyms, homonyms, synonyms
  • Dictionary skills
Spelling and Poetry
  • Weekly phonics-based word list with vocabulary
  • Sentence dictation using spelling words
  • Reinforcement activities

Science


Plants Health and Human Biology
  • Enjoying the plant world
  • Wonderfully Made
Animals Earth and Space
  • Exploring the world of vertebrates
  • Exploring the world of invertebrates
  • Exploring the ocean
  • Exploring the weather

History Geography


America, Our Home:
  • 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

Health, Saftey, and Manners


Health Manners
  • Posture
  • Nutrition and Diet
  • Cleanliness
  • Fighting Disease
  • Hospitality
  • Proper introductions
  • Telephone manners
  • Courtesy and respect
Safety
  • Fire, water safety
  • Home, play safely
  • Street safety
  • First aid

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 proecesses
  • 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 less than (<)
  • Counting money and solving money problems using the decimal point correctly
  • Solving problems containing parentheses
  • Fraction terminology and basic understanding of fractions
  • Averaging 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
  • Bible Doctrine
  • Hymns/choruses

Activities


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