3rd Grade - Typical Course of Study


Social Studies

·        Holidays and folk customs

·        Native Americans

·        Explorers and pioneers

·        Appreciation of different cultures, races, religions

·        History and development of local community

·        Community helpers

·        Consumers and producers

·        Sources of food and clothing

·        Shelters of animals and people

·        History and development of transportation

·        History and development of communication

·        Citizenship and social responsibility

·        Basic human needs and wants

·        Local geography and topography

·        U. S. geography and regions

·        The continents

·        Flat maps and globes


Science

·        Animal helpers

·        Dinosaurs

·        Life cycle

·        Plants and animals of the desert

·        Plants and animals of the sea

·        Common birds, trees, flowers

·        Forest plants

·        Conservation of plants and animals

·        Weather and climate

·        Earth's changing surface

·        Magnets and electricity

·        Compass

·        Gravity

·        Light and color

·        Energy and its sources

·        Force and work

·        Machines

·        Moon and stars

·        Earth satellites

·        Scientific method and scientific inquiry



Language Arts

·        Silent reading

·        Reading prose and poetry aloud

·        Oral presentations: reporting experiences orally with accuracy

·        Alphabetizing through the third letter of a word

·        Dictionary skills

·        Developing word-attack methods

·        Synonyms, antonyms, homonyms

·        Spelling

·        Beginning cursive writing

·        Concept of paragraph

·        Using period, comma, question mark, apostrophe, quotation marks

·        Writing short, original stories and poems

·        Postwriting skills: editing and proofreading

·        Increasing indexing skills



Health and Safety

·        Care of eyes and ears

·        Dental health

·        Proper balance of activities

·        Healthful leisure activities

·        Prevention and control of diseases

·        Parts of the body

·        Nutrition

·        Health with relation to food, shelter, clothing

·        School and community health services

·        Home safety hazards

·        Safety in the community

·        Simple first aid


Mathematics

·        Reading and writing numbers to 5 places

·        Beginning Roman numerals

·        Rounding numbers

·        Positive and negative numbers in daily life

·        Simple fractions and equivalents

·        Properties of one

·        Numeration systems

·        Addition and subtraction facts to 25

·        Multiplication and division facts to 100

·        Perimeter, area, volume

·        Geometric constructions

·        Similar and congruent figures

·        Properties of solid figures

·        Customary and metric measurement

·        Time to 1- and 5-minute measures

·        Estimation of outcomes

·        Problems-solving analysis

·        Word problems

·        Charts and graphs