3rd Grade

Spiritual/Bible:  Students will study the Life of Christ, Book of Acts, Missions, famous Christians and scriptural applications.

Reading:  Students will develop fluency and expression while reading textbook stories and children’s classics.  Students will also be introduced to vocabulary words.

Writing/Language:  Students will learn proper capital letter and punctuation usage, grammar, parts of speech and creative writing.

Math:  Students will know addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts and be able to use them in longer problems.  Students will also learn algebraic equations, adding and subtracting fractions, converting and solving measurement equations, 4-step story problems averaging numbers and counting money, correct usage of the decimal point.

History/Social Studies:  Students will study people in U.S. History and Geography and will learn map skills and identification of the 50 states.

Science:  Students will study our bodies including the nervous system and sense organs.  They will also study plants, animals (classifications), environments, and weather.

Computer: Typing skills begin with third grade.  From this grade on every class period involves some amount of typing practice.  They continue to review and expand on hardware found in and outside of computers.  They also practice with educational programs, such as our geography program Seterra, in order to master the skill of being taught by a computer.  They learn how to define and identify technology.  And through learning the parts of a window, they become familiarized with the structure of most computer programs.  These grades are also introduced to word processing and some formatting skills.