Elementary School
Third Grade
Language Arts
- Variety of literary excerpts for reading discussion
- Higher level thinking skills of predicting, summarizing, comparing and evaluating
- Spelling
- Decoding
- Book reports with oral/written presentations
- Composition/creative writing with proofreading
- Cursive penmanship
- Poetry
- Grammar/usage
- Listening and oral communication skills
Math
- Number sense and numeration
- Whole number operations
- Whole number computation (addition, subtraction, multiplication)
- Fractions
- Decimals
- Money
- Geometry and spatial relationships
- Measurement
- Estimation
- Data analysis and statistics
- Probability
- Algebra and functions
Social Studies
- Building classroom community
- Identifying map elements and understanding geographic terms
- Community exploration
- Branches of government
- Survey of the Presidents of the United States
- Celebrations around the world
Science
- Scientific method
- Mammals, bats & owls
- Fish, sharks & sea mammals
- Oobleck
- Graphing
- Geology
- Mystery Festival
- Astronomy
Spanish
- Continue vocabulary expansion and conversation
- Introduction to sentence structure and simple grammar concepts
- Emphasis on listening, speaking and writing
- Cultural activities and customs
Elementary Enrichment Curriculum
