Third Grade Curriculum

Language Arts

Students will develop their ability to think and to express their thoughts correctly in both spoken and written English. Capitalization; punctuation; correct sentences; proper word usage; using synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms; and recognizing nouns and verbs are emphasized. Dictionary skills, journal entries, and creative writing skills including spelling are also developed.

Reading

Students will increase their oral and silent reading skills and build vocabulary and comprehension skills while enjoying stories of courage, patriotism, and humor; Bible and missionary stories; and classic stories like Paddington Bear and Winnie the Pooh.

Math

Students continue to develop the concept of identifying place values in numbers, use dollars and cents notations, work with decimals, positive and negative numbers,  and fractions.  We emphasize learning basic addition, subtraction and multiplication facts while developing an understanding of the connections between these and solving number stories.  Students will explore patterns, shapes, symmetry, and lines among other areas of geometry.   Various avenues of measurement including time, temperature, volume and weight, among others, are reviewed and expanded.

Social Studies

Students will learn American History through a biographical format chronologically arranged to make it easier for children to remember important dates and events and gives them the right kind of heroes and valuable models of good character.

Science

Beginning with the most special part of God’s creation, man, third graders learn about the human body, with an emphasis on the sense organs and how they work. Students will also explore the world of plants and animals with a “visit” to the ocean, desert, pond, forest, and field, observing plants, vertebrates, and invertebrates in these environments from a Christian perspective.

Bible

During the first half of the year, third grade Bible lessons take students from Exodus to Ruth while studying choices and their consequences made by different Bible characters.  Second semester, students will engage in a study of the books of Acts and the early Christian church.