Third Grade Syllabus:
| READING | What
Joy Awaits You, Open
Court Indian Captive, Lenski The Indian in the Cupboard, Banks Patty Reed’s Doll, Lauregaard Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nihm, O’Brien The Cricket in Times Square, Seldon Old Yeller, Gipson The Magician’s Nephew, Lewis The Phantom Tollbooth, Juster Tom’s Midnight Garden, Pearce |
| PENMANSHIP | Baker Academy Method Manuscript Palmer Method Handwriting (4), MacMillan |
| SPELLING | Selected
vocabulary from assigned reading. |
| ENGLISH | Language
for Daily Use (5), Harcourt Brace An English program featuring elementary grammar, sentence structure, critical reading skills, literature, and composition skills including pre-writing, writing, proofreading and editing. |
| LOGIC | Building
Thinking Skills, Book 2, Critical Thinking Books Continuing exercises in basic thinking skills, including figural and verbal exercises in similarities and differences, sequences, classifications and analogies. |
| GEOGRAPHY | States
and Regions, Harcourt Brace This broad overview of the United States locates our nation in the world and shows our people coming from many lands. Major geographical and cultural regions are explored to see how Americans live, working together economically and politically to build a good life. Finally, these ideas are briefly applied worldwide. |
| ARITHMETIC | Math
65, Saxon Review of previous arithmetic skills, reading scales, rounding numbers, comparing numbers, metric units and U.S. units of length, geometry concepts (angles, lines, segments, perimeter, polygons), word problems, multiplying and dividing by 2-digit or 3-digit numbers, line, bar and circle graphs, areas, addition and subtraction of decimal numbers, addition and subtraction of fractions with like or unlike denominators. |
| SCIENCE | HBJ
Science (5), Harcourt Brace Plant and animal growth and structures; basic human physiology; classification of matter; motion, force, work and energy; basic geology, weather and astronomy. |
| MUSIC | Choral
singing |
| ART | Baker
Academy's Mastery of Arts |
| PHYSICAL EDUCATION |
Various
ball handling skills, games, and exercises. President's Challenge Physical Fitness Program |
| REFERENCE | World
Book Encyclopedia Merriam Webster's Intermediate Dictionary |
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