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Third Grade Curriculum

September & October
  • Salmon Research and Water Cycle

  • Salmon Dissection with Kate Poaster

  • Salmon/Watershed field trip

  • Reading – My Father's Dragon, Stone Fox,  non-fiction text about salmon & water, and Unit 1 McGraw Hill

  • Fall Poetry

  • Everyday Math:  Routines, Review & Assessment and Adding & Subtraction

 

November & December

 

  • Eye & Light Science Kit

  • Reading: Ramona Quimby, Age 8, and Unit 2 McGraw Hill

  • Winter Poetry

  •  November: Persuasive Turkey Writing/Art Project

  • Everyday Math:  Linear Measures & Area and Multiplication & Division

  • Geography and Mapping Skills

January & February
  • Reading: Helen Keller or Harriet Tubman, Unit 3 McGraw Hill

  • Northwest Native Americans: Satchel with writing reports and art

  • January: Book Report-Biography Newspaper Project

  • Color of Snow Writing Project

  • January: Changes Science Kit

  • February: Electricity Science Kit

  • Everyday Math:  Place Value in Whole Numbers & Decimals and Geometry
March
  • Pioneers & Apple Valley School

  • Reading: Sarah, Plain & Tall, Going West, Trouble For Lucy, If You Traveled West in a Covered Wagon

  • Journal Entries (Connected to Pioneer Unit)

  • Pioneer Art

  • Everyday Math:  Multiplication & Division and Fractions

April
  • Rocks and Minerals Science Kit (Read Magic School Bus Inside the Earth)

  • Reading: Non-fiction text about rocks and minerals, Book 2 Unit McGraw Hill

  • Creative Writing/Poetry (Read Love That Dog)

  • April: Book Report: Historical Story Quilt Interview

  • Everyday Math:  Multiplication & Division
  • Civics: Democracy Basics
May & June
  • Marine Life of Puget Sound

  • Alki Beach field trip with Kate Poaster

  • Tide Pool Unit- Stretch Book

  • Reading: James and the Giant Peach, Book 2 Unit 2 McGraw Hill

  • Everyday Math:  Measurement & Data and Probability 

*November, March, and May- We will include health  concepts during these months.