Third Grade
We will be covering the following topics during the year:
Math:
Language Arts:
Reading:
Comprehension:
Writing:
Science:
Plants and Animals:
Earth's Land:
Cycles on Earth and Space:
Investigating Matter:
Exploring Energy and Forces:
Social Studies:
Islamic Studies:
Math:
- Numbers and comparing up to 5-digit numbers.
- Roman numerals
- Place values up to 5 digits.
- Addition and subtraction up to 4 digits
- Understanding multiplication
- Understanding division
- Multiplication fact fluency up to 12
- Multiply one digit by 3-digit numbers
- Division fluency up to 12
- Multiplication and division word problems
- Two-step mixed operation word problems
- Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division terms.
- Equations and variables
- Estimating and rounding up to thousands
- Logical Reasoning
- Patterns
- Money: counting, identifying, comparing, adding, subtracting, and word problems
- Time: Elapsed time, A.M. OR P.M., Telling time to the nearest minute.
- Data, graphs, and probability: line plot, bar graph, tally chart, picture graph, and Venn diagrams
- Understanding fractions, comparing and ordering fractions, equivalent fractions, fractions word problems, operations with fractions
- US units of measurement
- The metric system units of measurement
- Time, length, liquid volume, and mass
- Geometry: two dimensional shapes, three dimensional shapes, open and closed shapes, polygons and no polygons, symmetry, angles, lines, line segments, rays, parallel lines, perpendicular lines, intersecting lines, triangles, quadrilaterals, perimeter, area, and plain shapes.
Language Arts:
Reading:
- Daily 5 (read aloud, read to self, partner read, writing, word work)
- Reading chapter books as a whole group with discussions
- Understand new vocabulary words and use them correctly while reading and writing.
Comprehension:
- Find the main idea and details
- Summarize
- Infer/predict
- Text and graphic features
- Author’s purpose (PIE)
Writing:
- Grammar (parts of speech, types of sentences, punctuation)
- 4 types of writing (expository, descriptive, persuasive, and narrative)
Science:
Plants and Animals:
- How plants grow and make food?
- Types of animals: mammals, birds, amphibians, fish, reptiles
- Vertebrates and invertebrates
- Where living things are found
- Traits
- Adaptions
- Forest ecosystems, desert ecosystems, water ecosystems
- How do animals get food?
- What are food chains and food webs?
Earth's Land:
- Rocks, Minerals, and Fossils
- Landforms: slow and rapid changes
- Soils
- Different kinds of resources
- Conserving earth’s resources
- Earth’s features
- Earth’s events
Cycles on Earth and Space:
- Water cycle
- Weather and climate
- Where is water found on earth?
- Measuring weather conditions
- Weather maps
- Solar system
- What causes earth’s seasons?
- How do the moon and earth interact?
- What is beyond the solar system?
Investigating Matter:
- States of matter
- Properties of matter
- Phase change
- Physical properties of matter
- Solids, liquids, and gases
- Measuring matter
- Physical change and chemical change
- Mixtures
Exploring Energy and Forces:
- Heat, light, forces, and motion
- Electricity
- Magnets
- Heat
- Thermal energy
- Measuring temperature
- Light behaviors
- Relation between light and color
- Motion by force
- Simple machines
- Bean’s life cycle
- Meal worm’s life cycle
- Environments
- Food Chains and food webs
Social Studies:
- Our Communities
- Map skills: latitude and longitude
- The 7 continents of the world
- The 4 oceans
- Our environment
- Land and water
- Weather and climate
- Using earth’s resources
- Interacting with the environment
- Communities build a nation
- America’s first peoples
- Early explorers: early Spanish communities, early French communities, early English communities
- Creating new nation
- U.S. Government
- Understanding The Bill of Rights
- Our Democracy
- Introduction to the branches of the Government
- Introduction to the levels of Government
- Citizenship
- Taking action for our rights and for a cause
- Growing nation
- Producers and consumers
- Exchanging goods and services
- Spending and saving
- Needs and wants
- Many different jobs
- People and cultures
- Culture through the Arts
- Cultural celebrations
- Our nations’ diversity
- Renewable and non-renewable energy
- Historical figures
- USA symbols
- National Holidays
- Basic economic principles
- Geography
Islamic Studies: