Kolby's Third Grade Curriculum

It's that time again. Almost July and time to start thinking about the new school year. So, here is our written 3rd Grade Curriculum:

	1st nine weeks	2nd nine weeks	3rd nine weeks	4th nine weeks
Reading	Review of Phonics rules, vowels, consonants, blends, and clue words, silent and oral reading	Phonics review, accuracy and rate, compare and contrast, drawing conclusions	Reading different genres, prediction of outcomes, fiction book reports	Sequencing, finding main ideas, non-fiction book reports
Language Arts	Sentences, nine capitalization rules, periods, commas, writing leads, characters	Writing good sentences, forming plurals, contractions, letters and addresses, order	Dictionary skills, book reports, verbs, nouns, subjects, quotation marks, voice	Book reports, diagramming subjects and verbs, proofreading skills, adjectives
Writing	Review all cursive letters of the alphabet	Dictated sentences	Paragraphs	Bible verses
Spelling	Word books, one-two-and three syllable words, consonant blends	Consonant and vowel digraphs, diphthongs	Silent letter combinations, words with r-controlled vowels, homonyms	Context clues, compound words
Math	Multiplication/division, measuring length, time, addition and subtraction facts, addition with carrying	Multiplication tables, story problems, greater than-less than-and equal to, 3 digit dividends	Fractions, temperature, add and subtract measures, multiplication/division tables, geometric shapes	Multiplication and division, reducing fractions, multiplying 3 digit numbers, division with 2 digit divisors
Social Studies	Current events, time lines, local and state government	Family trees, currents events, three branches of government	Geography, maps, economics, American heritage notebooks, Christopher Columbus to Jefferson	Biography book reports, bio presentation and project, Revolutionary and Civil wars, economics/Mall day
Science	Learn about safety during scientific investigations, scientific method	Construct maps, graphs, and tables, science history, use a microscope, balance scale	Study of plants and animals, forces, liquids, solids, gases	Solar system and sun, eco systems, renewable/non-renewable resources
Bible	Peter and the Early Church	Abraham, Isaac and Jacob	Abraham, Isaac and Jacob The Resurrection Story	Abraham, Isaac and Jacob