Third Grade

Math:

• Skip count by whole numbers, Compare and order numbers, Identify place value, Identify ordinal position to twentieth, Identify and complete patterns

• Solve routine and nonroutine problems, Master all basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts, Add/subtract multidigit numbers

• Multiply a multidigit number by a single digit number, Divide by single digit divisors, Add positive and negative numbers, Picture, name, and order fractions

• Add and subtract fractions with common denominators, Measure to the nearest quarter inch, millimeter, foot, and yard

• Identify the volume of standard containers, Compare and measure mass, Measure perimeter and area, Tell time to the minute

• Determine elapsed time, Count money, Make change for a dollar, Identify angles, Identify lines of symmetry, Identify function rules

• Graph ordered pairs on a coordinate graph, Tally, Write addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division fact families

• Write story problems for addition/subtraction number sentences

• Create, read, and write observations from real graphs, pictographs, bar graphs, Venn diagrams, and line graphs

Handwriting

• Getting Ready to Write, Writing to Help Me Think, Writing Notes and Letters, Writing Stories and Poems, Writing to Describe

History

• Using Maps and Social Studies Tools, Studying One Community
• Learning about Cities and Smaller Communities
• Farm Products for Our Communities
• Resources for Our Communities
• Connecting Our Communities
• Citizenship
• Our Nation Celebrates Its Past

Science

• Plant Growth, How Animals Grow and Change, Living Things Needs Each Other, How People Affect Plants and Animals
• Properties of Matter, Work and Machines, Forms of Energy, Sounds, Rocks and Soil, Changes in the Earth
• Clouds and Storms, The Sun, Moon, and Planets, The Body's Support, Your Body's Health Needs

Spelling

• Short Vowel Sounds, Double Letters, Verbs, Consonant Clusters, More Letters than Sounds, Plurals
• The Sound j, The Sound k, The Sound s, Verbs that End with e, The Vowel Sound a, The Vowel Sound e
• The Vowel Sound I, The Vowel Sound o, Compound Words, Contractions
• The Sounds o and or, The Sound ur, The Sound ar, Silent Letters, Words that End with y
• The Sounds el and er, Homophones, The Sound oo, The Sounds ou and oi
• Words with ou and ough, Syllable Patterns

 Reading/Language Arts

• Passport stories, Porthole stories, Beauty stories, Milestone stories
• Voyage stories, Landscape stories, Applause stories, Window stories
• Literature for broadening experience and increasing appreciation
• Comprehension for expanding understanding and evaluating ideas
• Thinking for deeper understanding and more dynamic expression
• Writing for effective communication and meaningful responses to literature
• Speaking for active, confident expression of thoughts, understandings, and insights
• Listening for learning to derive meaning from spoken language
• Decoding for early, confident word identification
• Vocabulary for word power to expand comprehension and refine expression
• Language for understanding uses of language and connecting related processes
• Study skills for using reading to learn