Suggested Curriculum for

3rd Grade

SOCIAL STUDIES

    - Holidays and folk customs
    - Native Americans
    - Explorers and pioneers 
    - Appreciation of different cultures, races, and religions
    - History and development of local community
    - Community helpers
    - Consumers and producers
    - Sources of our food and clothing
    - Shelters of animals and people
    - History and development of transportation and communication
    - Citizenship and social responsibility
    - Basic human needs and wants
    - Local region=s geography and topography
    - U.S. geography and regions
    - The continents
    - Flat maps and globes

    - Animal helpers
    - Dinosaurs
    - Life cycle
    - Plants and animals of the desert
    - Plants and animals of the sea
    - Common birds, trees, and flowers
    - Forest plants
    - Conservation of plants and animals
    - Weather and climate
    - Earth=s changing face
    - Magnets and electricity
    - Compass
    - Gravity
    - Light and color
    - Energy and its sources
    - Force and work
    - Machines
    - Moon and stars
    - Earth satellites

    - Silent reading
    - Reading prose and poetry aloud
    - Oral presentations; reporting experiences orally with accuracy
    - Alphabetizing through third letter
    - Dictionary skills
    - Developing word-attack methods
    - Synonyms, antonyms, homonyms
    - Spelling
    - Beginning cursive writing
    - Concepts of paragraph
    - Using period, comma, question mark, apostrophe, quotation marks
    - Writing short, original stories and poems
    - Post writing skills: editing and proofreading
    - Increasing indexing skills

    - 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, and clothing
    - School and community health services
    - Home safety hazards
    - Safety in the community
    - Simple first aid

    - 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
    - Problem-solving analysis
    - Word problems
    - Charts and graphs