Third grade is full of many exciting opportunities! Students begin to make the transition from primary grades to the intermediate level, starting with writing in cursive. Our Third Graders have many new opportunities such as reading novels, rather than just basal readers. They prepare and present a number of projects for reading and social studies. In math, students are challenged to learn multiplication and even long division. Science is very interactive with both classroom activities and opportunities to learn even more in the STEAM Lab. In addition to the academic portion of the third grade, students are involved in a number of social activities with their younger buddies. Third grade is a wonderful year for the students to learn responsibility and independence!
Curriculum Summary
- Key ideas and details
- Fable/Moral
- Folktales
- Myths
- Characters
- Sequence
- Literal and Non-literal
- Chapter/Scene/Stanza
- Point of View
- Mood
- Setting
- Theme
- Plot
- Genre
- Main Ideas
- Cause and Effect
- Compare and Contrast
- Informational Text
- Technical Text
- Maps and Globes
- Prime Meridian
- Equator
- Tropic of Capricorn
- Tropic of Cancer
- International Date Line
- Latitude/Longitude
- Cardinal/Intermediate Directions
- Labels/Symbols/Legend/Scale
- Geospatial Technology
- Thematic Map
- Continents
- Population Dispersion
- Regions and Boundaries
- Hemispheres
- Trading Patterns
- Land Regions
- River Systems
- Interstate Highways
- Environment
- Conservation
- Opposing Views
- Boundary Disputes
- Cultural Differences
- Natural Resources
- Alabama 5 Geographic Regions
- State and National Parks
- Natural Disaster Preparedness
- Federal and State Government
- American Values and Beliefs
- Prehistoric and Historic American Indian Cultures
- Earth, Moon and Sun
- Environmental Sustainability
- Earth’s Layers
- Rocks and Minerals
- Weather Phenomena
- Cloud Types
- Habitat Conditions
- Fossils
- Life Cycle of Plants
- Muscular System
- Skeletal System
- Food Chain
- Simple/Compound Machines
- Force and Motion
- Changes of Matter
- Soluble and Insoluble Substances
- Prefixes
- Derivational/Latin Suffixes
- Multi-syllable Words
- Irregularly Spelled Words
- Read on-level text, prose and poetry
- Report on a Topic
- Audio Recordings
- Complete Sentences, Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs
- Regular/Irregular Plural Nouns
- Abstract Nouns
- Verb Tenses
- Subject-verb Agreement
- Comparative and Superlative Adjectives and Adverbs
- Coordinate and Subordinate Conjunctions
- Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences
- Capitalization, Commas and Quotation Marks
- Dialogue
- Possessives
- High-frequency Words
- Suffixes
- Word Families
- Position-based Spellings
- Ending Rules
- Syllable Patterns
- Meaningful Word Parts
- Reference Materials
- Multiple-meaning Words and Phrases
- Sentence-level Context Clues
- Affix
- Root Word
- Dictionaries/Glossaries (Digital and Print)
- Domain-specific Words and Phrases
- Spatial/Temporal Relationships
- Text Features
- Search Tools
- Geometric Shapes
- Unit Fraction
- Geometric Measure
- Distributive Property
- Area
- Multiplication and Division
- Unit Squares
- Graphing
- Volume and Mass
- Tall Time to Minute
- Measure Intervals
- Compare Fractions
- Equivalent Fractions
- Fractions on a Number Line
- Place Value
- Addition and Subtraction within 1,000
- Arithmetic Patterns
- Properties of Operations
- Two-step Word Problems
- Unknow Quantity Equations
- Multiply and Divide within 100
- Commutative Property
- Associative Property
- Product of Whole Numbers
- Quotient
- Equal Groups
- Array
- Measurement of Quantities
- Opinion Pieces
- Informative or Explanatory Texts
- Narrative Writing
- Research Writing
- Technology in Writing
- Planning, Revising and Editing
- Recall Information
- Gather Information