Primary School, Grades 3-5 at Butler Campus
Grade 3 Curriculum At-a-Glance Third Grade is an exciting year as girls develop the ability to work productively for sustained periods of time independently, as well as in groups, and become better able to recognize and understand experiences and perspectives that differ from their own. Third Grade begins the year exploring the natural wonders of the Butler Campus to better understand the world around them. Through interdisciplinary study, weaving together research, literature, art, and science, girls make connections between ideas and apply their knowledge.
Reading: • Converse daily about reading with teachers and small groups of peers • Read both fiction and non-fiction books • Enjoy uninterrupted time to read • Learn to make choices about appropriate reading material • Use evidence from the text to support thinking • Identify personal connections to texts • Continue the development of higher-order critical-thinking/ comprehension skills: identifying problems and solutions, determining importance from the text and synthesizing information
Writing & Spelling:
The enVision® Mathematics program emphasizes five core mathematical practices: Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them; Reason abstractly and quantitatively; Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others; Model with mathematics; Use appropriate tools strategically; and Attend to precision. The topics covered in Third Grade include: • Explore numbers and place value within 10,000 • Develop computation skills and problem solve using all four operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division • Gain addition, subtraction, multiplication and division fact fluency within 100
• Assess writing through self-evaluation and peer and teacher feedback
• Discover fraction concepts, including unit fractions, relative size, equivalent fractions and the addition and subtraction of like fractions
• Enhance spelling skills through the individualized Words Their Way program
• Continue exploration of money through addition and subtraction of amounts
• Write across all disciplines
• Advance skills in mental math strategies, data analysis, measurement, time, temperature, patterns, properties and functional relationships
Social Studies: • Explore how the local community has changed over time through the usage of maps and timelines • Discover the importance and history of National Parks while emphasizing unique geographical, geological, and historical features of the United States • Investigate how risk-taking and perseverance has an impact on people’s lives by exploring invention and innovation • Demonstrate knowledge of entrepreneurship, financial literacy, and marketing through the creation of a classroom company • Examine play and purposeful design by participating in the Design Thinking process to develop inclusive and creative playground equipment • Consider and appreciate multiple perspectives • Conduct research and examine primary and secondary sources • Foster creativity through an integration of role-playing, music, dance and art
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Mathematics:
• Focus on geometric concepts of sides, angles, perimeter, area and symmetry • Enhance mathematical communication through connections, representation and usage of mathematical vocabulary • Recognize mathematical practices of mathematicians and incorporate practices into own mathematical life • Use Hands-On Equations–concrete, visual, and kinesthetic problem solving and working with algebraic equations–as a supplemental enrichment activity for all students
