Third Grade Course of Study

We will continue with our schedule of 7 sets of 6 weeks. It continues to work really well for us. Here's how it works:

• The first week of each set is called the "Planning Week". During it I plan the following five weeks of school work in detail (what we will do in each subject each day), we play a review game each day, we read a book together, and finish up any projects that did not get finished during the previous set.
• Then we have our five weeks of regular learning. On days we have Fine Arts, our schooling takes about four hours. We do this in one hour or half-hour segments. Sometimes we have one-and-a-half hour segments, but never longer than that.

BIBLE

We are using various things that I have downloaded (for free) over the past few years. Below are some resources that will will use throughout the year, but a lot will just be listed in the blog posts.

Resources:

• Window on the World
• The Princess and the Kiss

Bible Memorization:

• Romans 12:9-21
• Psalm 91
• The Romans Road
• Romans 3:23
• Romans 6:23
• Romans 5:8
• Romans 10:9-10
• Romans 5:1

MATH
Resources:

• Professor Pig
• Right in Your Own Backyard
• Family Math
• Magical Math series by Lynette Long
• Bedtime Math

Goals for Sets 1 - 7:

• Every day
• Number Theory
• Counting
• Two Weeks
• Addition
• Subtraction
• Calculators
• Fractions
• Decimals
• Two Weeks
• Multiplication
• Division
• Algebra Readiness
• Estimation
• Geometry
• Measurement
• One Week
• Problem Solving
• Statistics and Graphs

READING
Resources:

• Various books published by Harr Wagner Publishing Company in the 1950s
• Tell and Draw Stories
• Read for the Fun of It
• Games with Books
• Nature Friend Magazine

Goals for Sets 1 - 7:

• Two days a week K. reads to me from a book, working on comprehension.
• Three days a week we work on Story Telling
• Each week she reads two articles from Nature Friend aloud, and one silently.

GRAMMAR
Resources:

• Grammarland by M. L. Nesbitt
• Painless Junior Grammar by Marciann McClarnon

SPELLING

Resource:

• BJU's Spelling for Christian Schools 3

Goals for Sets 1 - 6:

• We will complete one spelling unit each week, omitting the review lessons (6, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36).

Goal for Set 7:

• We will work only on Climbers (words K. has problems spelling, or wants to learn to spell).

FINE ARTS

Goals:

• Make and mail birthday and anniversary cards to family members (over 60 people)
• Complete one sewing/craft project during each Set
• Complete one art project from Nature Friend during each Set
• Attend two ballets
• One page from the set of piano books each week
• Read Fairy Tales -- ones from other countries that we have never read before

WRITING
Resources:

• Cursive Writing Made Easy and Fun
• Young Novelist Workbook

Goals for Sets 1 - 7:

• Learn to write in cursive
• Two writing projects each Set
• Novel during Sets 6 and 7

SCIENCE

Resource:

• Nature Friend magazine

Goals for Sets 1 - 7:

• We will work through one Nature Friend magazine each week, reading the articles and completing activities, such as crossword puzzles.
• Each week K. will pick one topic from the magazine to learn more about.
• We will pick up a book from the library about the topic. We may also use the Internet.
• During the planning week, following a set of weeks, K. will pick one of the topics she has read more about and do a project on the subject.
• During Set 7, we will only read a magazine the first three weeks, so K. can complete a project before the end of the set.

HISTORY
Resources:

• A Child's History of the World by Hillyer
• George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster
• Abraham Lincoln's World by Genevieve Foster
• California Weekly Explorer

Goals:

• Time Period: 1781 through 1865 (end of American Revolution through Lincoln's assassination)
• World History
• American History
• California History part 1, Weekly Explorers 1 - 17