| Description of Third Grade
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| Art |
- uses crayons and chalk to draw pictures derived from
experiences, fantasy, and book
- designs paper masks and discusses uses of masks in
various cultures
- designs sock puppets and writes dialogue for the puppets
in different languages
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| Communication
Arts and Reading |
- summarizes orally presented information
- interprets poetry with choral speaking
- begins to appreciate literature that reflects our
multicultural society
- distinguishes between fact and opinion
- expands vocabulary in all content areas
- keeps personal journals and learning logs
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| Health
and Physical Education |
- participates in climbing, supporting, and balancing
activities on gym equipment
- continues to take part in physical fitness activities
for flexibility, muscular strength, a healthy heart, and
good circulation
- understands that germs are found in air, in drinking
water, in food, on animals' bodies, and on the human body
- understands that everyone at some time wins and at some
time loses
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| Mathematics |
- uses graphs and charts to organize information and find
patterns
- adds and subtracts, including the use of decimals
(tenths, hundredths)
- multiplies and divides by any counting number from 1
through 10
- explains the meaning of fractions and mixed numerals
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| Science |
- classifies plants by their physical characteristics and
observes the life cycle of plants
solves scientific problems by observing, classifying,
measuring, predicting, recording, and interpreting data
- understands variations within the following vertebrae
groups: mammals, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and fish
- gathers information on a variety of invertebrate groups
(shells and insects)
- observes, recite, and explains the changes of weather
from season to season and in different parts of the world
- recognizes and understands the properties of light
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| Social
Studies |
- explores a variety of urban, suburban, and rural
communities around the world: (e.g. in Sub-Saharan Africa,
the Middle East, East Asia, South Africa, Canada, the
Caribbean, and Western Europe)
- investigates social, political, economic, geographic,
and historic elements in urban, suburban, and rural
communities around the world
- understands the celebration of our nation's heritage and
celebrations in other communities around the world
- uses maps and globes for learning about world
communities
- understands people in all communities as producers and
consumers of goods and services
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| Computer
Education |
- uses appropriate software to reinforce leanings in
subject areas, and develop basic, problem-exploration, and
critical-thinking skills
- uses a simple word processing program to develop
language and writing skills
- uses a simple desktop publishing program to develop
language and writing skills
uses appropriate interactive technologies (e.g. CD-ROM) to
learn basic research skills
- names, saves, and prints documents using word
processing, desktop publishing and graphic software
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| Library
Skills |
- understands publication date and/or copyright date
- uses guide words to pinpoint subtopics of entries in
encyclopedias and dictionaries
- uses the card catalog (automated, where available) and
understands the differences among the three types of
catalog entries
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