Third grade is a time where students consider their connections to their community as they become more independent and responsible. In grade three, the students explore their own creativity and begin to respond to their world through word games, creative activities and the reading of many different types of books, poems, and plays, and daily USSR (Uninterrupted, Sustained, Silent Reading). They use the “writing process” and the “Six Traits program” to create and revise stories, and practice cursive writing. In grade three, the students are encouraged to develop a conceptual, procedural, and experiential understanding of numbers and operation. In the “Communities Near and Far” program, they investigate how cultures from all over the world need the same basics to survive. Through this program they will study habitats such as deserts and forests, gardening, shelter, moving, sounds and protecting the earth.
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