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School Curriculum
These pages feature the curriculum for each grade level. This curriculum is followed by our teaching staff to provide the highest possible level of achievement with each student. While our teachers have the freedom to add to the curriculum on an as need basis, each parent can expect the basic curriculum to be the guide for each class.
Additional information will be added to these class pages by our teaching staff. Please visit often to review the curriculum and see additional material that is added.
To view the curriculum for a grade, click that grade on the links below.
3rd Grade Curriculum Guide
Bible
1. Units of study include:
- How I Know the Bible is the Word of God
- Archaeology and the Bible
- God Gave Us the Need for Friends
- God Wants Man to Help Man
- The Word of God
- Students memorize a weekly Bible verse
- Students participate in daily devotions, praise, and prayer time
- Weekly chapel services
Bible is incorporated in all aspects of the day and is integrated in all subjects.
Text: ACSI, Grade 3 Series, the Bible
Length: all year
Language Arts
Grammar & Mechanics… Students will learn to:
- Define and write four kinds of sentences (declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory).
- Create complete, simple, and compound sentences.
- Identify simple, complete, and compound subjects and predicates.
- Identify and use singular, plural, common, proper, and possessive nouns.
- Identify and use verbs in the present, past, and future tenses (action, regular, irregular, and helping).
- Identify and use personal, subject, object, and possessive pronouns.
- Identify and use comparative/superlative, and article adjectives.
- Define adverbs.
- Use punctuation marks correctly (period, question mark, exclamation mark, comma, apostrophe, quotation marks, and colon).
Text: Language Arts Today (ABeka)
Length: all year
Spelling
Students will be able to spell list words correctly by completing weekly activities leading up to a final test each week. The lists contain 20 words and focus on long/short vowel sounds, vowel digraphs, consonant blends, silent letters, hard/soft letter sounds and other phonemic blends.
Text: Spelling, Grade 4 Edition (ACSI)
Length: all year
Literature
- Students will be exposed to and able to identify various forms of literature: fable, myth, fairy tale, folk tale, short story, biography, autobiography, letter, play, tall tale, article, and novel.
- Students will be exposed to and able to identify various forms of poetry: narrative, descriptive, Haiku, concrete, lyric, limerick, and song lyrics.
- Students will be able to identify the following characteristics of poetry: rhyme, rhythm, repetition, onomatopoeia, imagery, and alliteration.
- Students will be able to identify and create the following literary elements: plot, setting, and character.
Texts: Silver Burdette; Clues for Better Reading (Curriculum Associates); Spelling, Grade 4 (ACSI)
Length: all year
Writing
Students will be exposed to writing through class assignments, reports, and journals. Students will learn to:
- Identify and write a paragraph including a topic sentence, main idea, indentation, detail sentences, and concluding sentence.
- Use the five steps of the writing process in their writing: Plan, write, revise, proofread, and publish.
- Write a personal narrative.
- Write a descriptive paragraph.
- Write an expository paragraph.
- Write a persuasive paragraph.
- Write a friendly/”Thank you” letter.
Text: ABeka Cursive
Length: all year
Reading
Comprehension… Students will learn to:
- Identify and write the main idea of what they read.
- Identify and write supporting details of what they read.
- Predict outcomes of what they read.
- Draw conclusions from what they read.
- Identify cause and effect from what they read.
- Make inferences from what they read.
- Distinguish fantasy from reality.
- Sequence ideas and stories.
- Read and understand maps, charts, graphs, and schedules.
Vocabulary… Students will learn:
- Word meaning through selected vocabulary.
- Classification
- Synonyms/Antonyms
- Homophones
- Parts of speech
Skills
- Students will be involved in shared reading experiences with teacher and peers.
- Students will continue to develop oral language skills.
Study Skills
Students will learn dictionary skills, following directions, sorting/classifying, alphabetizing, parts of a book, resource books, and library use.
Texts: Clues for Better Reading (Curriculum Associates)
Length: all year
Math
…. Students will learn to:
- Recognize place value.
- Add with regrouping.
- Subtract with regrouping.
- Memorize multiplication tables through 12.
- Solve multiplication problems using regrouping.
- Solve division problems with up to 4 digits in the dividend and 2 in the divisor.
- Use English and metric measurements.
- Tell time.
- Solve story problems up to 4 steps.
- Recognize and solve simple algebraic equations.
- Recognize greater than and less than.
- Count money and make change.
- Understand basic fractions, mixed numbers, add and subtract fractions, and reduce fractions.
- Average numbers.
- Recognize geometric shapes and angles.
Text: Mathematics (Houghton Mifflin)
Length: all year
Science
…Studies include:
- Plants: parts, growth factors, and changes.
- Your Body: Nutrition, dental health, care of the eyes, body, and thoughts and emotions.
- Properties of matter, changes in matter, physical changes, and chemical changes.
- Sounds: Identifying sound, how sound travels, and how we hear.
- Times and Seasons: The earth’s rotation and revolution, time changes with day and night, months and years, and time zones, and the seasons change.
- Rocks: Rocks are formed by heat and pressure, changed by wind, water, temperature, and plants, and used for buildings and enjoyment.
- Heat Energy: Comes from friction, fire, electricity, our bodies, and the sun. The effects and movement of heat energy, and how it affects our lives.
Text: Purposeful Design Science (ACSI)
Length: all year
Social Studies
- Students will be able to identify our fifty states, resources, and manufacturing of areas.
- Students will be introduced to government bodies on the local, state, and national levels.
- Students will be able to read a map key, directions/compass rose, grid, and distance scale on a map.
- Students will gain a greater knowledge of famous Americans including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin.
Text: Our American Heritage (ACSI)
Length: all year
Computer
- Students are exposed to computers daily in their classroom.
- Students will receive weekly instruction in the lab on keyboarding skills, research skills, and web page set up.
Computer Programs Include:
Type to Learn (Sunburst) SimCity (Maxis)
SimFarm (Maxis) SimSafari (Maxis)
Outnumbered (The Learning Co.) Treasure Mathstorm (The Learning Co.)
Word Processing (Microsoft Works) Mighty Math Calculating Crew (Edmark)
Reference (Comptons & Encarta)` Oregon Trail (MECC)
Art
The focus of the art program will be to use a broad range of art media and subject matter. At this age the children are more skillful in their use of the different art mediums and will begin depicting realistic subjects. They will be encouraged to incorporate the elements of art and the principles of design in their artwork. Students will develop knowledge of art history and will be able to recognize art created by different cultures. The students will learn facts about artists from the past and present. They will learn to talk about their art, classmate’s art, and famous art by using art vocabulary.
Music
- Students are exposed to music as it is integrated throughout the curriculum.
- Students learn to appreciate different types of music.
- Students learn to play various musical instruments using the Orff process.
- Students learn to recognize pitch and rhythm.
- Students learn to read music including phrases, accelerando, accent, fermata, whole note, whole rest, and dotted half note.
Physical Education
- Students will gain movement competency while exploring gross and fine motor skills.
- Students will demonstrate responsible behavior while learning cooperative teamwork.
- Healthy life style choices will be stressed.
Spanish
- Students will demonstrate a progressive ability in communicating both orally and written in Spanish.
- Students will begin to understand the spoken language in familiar phrases, animals, foods, colors, numbers, months, familiar objects, and weather phrases.
- Students will explore customs from Spanish-speaking countries.
Text: Espanol para ti
Length: all year |
