Grade 3

Reading Wonders:

• Students will build knowledge while exploring our world through literacy.
• Students will use Literacy as a key to understanding—across time, borders, and cultures.
• Students will recognize and embrace the role they play in the world they are creating.
• Students will take an active role in learning and exploration.
• Students will enjoy unparalleled opportunities to express and assess themselves through reading, writing and speaking.
• Students will expand their knowledge and use of academic and concept vocabulary.

Writing Genres:

• Fiction Narrative
• Informative Writing
• Friendly Letter
• Opinion Writing
• Descriptive Writing
• Compare & Contrast
• Brochure
• Summary

Novels:

• Alice in Wonderland
• The Railway Children

Grammar:

• Sentences/Fragments
• Types of sentences
• Subjects/Predicates
• Nouns
• Types of Nouns
• Singular and Plural Nouns
• Irregular Plural Nouns
• Possessive Nouns
• Combining sentences
• Verbs
• Present Simple Tense Verbs
• Subject/Verb Agreement
• Regular Past Tense Verbs
• Irregular Past Tense Verbs
• Future Tense
• Verb to be
• Linking Verbs
• Pronouns
• Adjectives
• Adverbs

Vocabulary:

• Use context clues to tackle the meanings of unfamiliar words.
• Utilize knowledge of prefixes, suffixes and root words to tackle meanings of unknown words.

Numbers to 10,000

• Place Value
• Comparing and Ordering Numbers

Mental Math and Estimation

Addition and Subtraction up to 10,000

Multiplication 

• Times Tables
• Mental Multiplication
• Multiplication with Regrouping

Division

• Mental Division
• Division with or Without Remainder

Money

Fractions

• Equivalent Fractions
• Comparing Fractions

Metric and Customary Units of Length and Volume

Bar Graphs

• Making and Interpreting Bar Graphs and Line Plots

Measuring Time

Two-Dimensional Shapes

• Classifying Polygons

Area and Perimeter

Plants & Animals 

• What are some plant life cycles?
• What are some animal life cycles?
• How do living things change?
• What are structural adaptations?
• How can we model a physical adaptation?
• What are behavioral adaptation?

Ecosystems & Interactions 

• What are ecosystems?
• What’s in the ecosystem?
• What is a food chain?
• What are some food chains?
• How do environmental changes affect living things?

Changes to Earth’s surface

• What are some landforms?
• What does Earth’s surface change slowly ?
• How can we model erosion?
• How does Earth’s surface change quickly?

Water and weather

• What is the water cycle?
• What is weather?
• How can we measure weather?

Earth and its moons

• How do Earth and the moon move? 
• How can we model the moon phases ?

Matter

• What are some physical properties?
• What are the states of matter?
• What physical properties can we observe?
• What are some changes to matter?
• What changes can we observe?

Simple and compound machines.

• What are simple machines?
• What are other simple machines?
• How do simple machines affect work?

The places we live:

• What is a community
• Kinds of communities

Our land and resources:

• Earth’s land and water
• Our country’s geography
• Communities and resources
• Mexico City

Old and new communities:

• The Navajo
• The Yurok
• The Cherokee
• The Haudenosaunee

Communities in history:

• Explorers arrive
• Colonies in America
• Becoming a country

Newcomers settle:

• Settlers in St. Louis
• Moving West

People from many places:

• Coming to America
• Brazil

Being an active citizen:

• Citizens make a difference
• Rights and responsibilities

• How to present and describe family members
• Home, furniture, and the purpose of every room
• Describe a school’s daily routine.
• Talk about meals and what food is served for each meal.
• The weather in Egypt and France

Verbs: waren /sein

• The Verb « to be » in the present and past tense

Personal pronouns: er, sie

• The personal pronouns « he, she ».

The four seasons

• The names of the four seasons.

The weather in each season.

• The weather in each season
• How to ask about the weather and how to describe it.

Body parts

• Learn the names of body parts

The articles (Der – Das – Die)

• Learn the articles (der, das, die)

This is – These are

• Learn how to say:” This is – These are “

The doctor and how to express that something hurts you.

Personal pronouns “mein, dein”

Learn the names of different objects

• Understand and respond to questions about different objects

Learn and count the numbers from (10-100)

Learn and identify the accusative case

تتبع المدرسة مناهج وزارة التربية والتعليم كاملة دون تغيير وهي كالتالي

المحور الأول (من أكون) ويتحدث عن تنمية المهارات الشخصية والحفاظ على صحة الجسم

المحور الثاني (العالم من حولي) ويتحدث عن البيئة وطرق الحفاظ عليها وحمايتها

المحور الثالث (كيف يعمل العالم) ويتحدث عن تاريخ الأرض وتنوع الثقافات

المحور الرابع (التواصل) ويتحدث عن التكامل في العلاقات وفي الأدوار وفي المجتمع

ويحتوي المنهج على مجموعة من الأساليب والتراكيب التي تدرس كاملة وهي

الضمائر – أقسام الكلمة – أسماء الإشارة – الأسماء الموصولة – النفي – التنوين – النداء – أنواع الأساليب – أدوات الاستفهام  – علامات الترقيم – الظرف

Networks

• Define a Network
• Explain how the computer lab connected together using a network.
• Define the internet and the browser.

Email

• Understand why is the whole world nowadays using the internet.
• Ways people communicate with each other
• Define Email and state the main Email components.
• Search the internet.
• Rubrics that should be followed to narrow the search.

Introduction to database: Microsoft Excel

• A tour through the Microsoft Excel interface.
• Excel program terms.
• Fill the table with data and compare data to get a conclusion. 
• Perform mathematical operations.
• Represent data in a form of charts and compare results.
• Format the cell according to the type that the student needs.

Calico Animals 

• Animals
• Shape
• Texture

Why not a blue cat?

• Animals
• Fantasy
• Color

Colors and feelings

• Shape
• Color

Textured Pinch Pots

• Crafts
• Form

Echo Masks

• Texture
• Crafts

Faces show Feelings

• Line
• Color

Letter Design

• Line
• Space
• Repetition

A country Landscape

• Landscape
• Contrast

A forest and its trees

• Space
• Color
• Shape

City Blocks

• Building and machine
• Form

Ship Shapes

• Texture
• Building and machine

The Super Kite

• Craft
• Shape

Magic Squares

• Non objective
• Color

• The Beat Tree
• Playing Do major scale
• Beat vs rhythm
• Winter show performance
• The whole note
• The half note
• The quarter note
• The eighth note
• Create a tempo line
• Play a Tempo line
• Exploring Xylophone
• Playing DO- major forward and backwards
• Playing the two songs with Keyboard tempo

President Physical Fitness Challenge Assessment every term to calculate the performance of each student

• Cardiorespiratory function – beep test  
• Flexibility – Sit and Reach 
• Push-ups – 1 minute
• Sit-ups – 1 minute 
• Agility- Shuttle Run 
• High jump
• Long jump 
• ABS: sit-ups, bicycle crunchers.
• QUADS: lunges, high knees, squats.
• BACK: plank and star planks.
• CHEST: push-ups, shoulders taps 
• Cool-Down

Dodgeball

• Students will learn the skills of dodging, catching, and throwing the ball.
• Students will understand teamwork can drastically improve your chance of winning in dodgeball. 

Soccer

• Students will learn the skills of passing, receiving, shooting, decision-making, dribbling, heading, running off the ball, skills, tricks, touch, and ball control.

Ultimate Frisbee

• Students will learn the skills of general throwing, power throwing, break throwing, speed, defence, and catching.

Basketball

• Students will learn the skills of dribbling, passing, and shooting in the basketball unit. Students will participate in modified passing and dribbling games.

Gymnastics       

• Students will learn to move their bodies safely and gracefully during the gymnastics unit.
• Students will learn the combination of movement concepts with tumbling, agility, and balancing skills.

Volleyball

• Students will learn the basic skills of volleyball. Students will be introduced to serving overhead, rules, and offensive and defensive play. Students will play in a modified game scrimmage.

Badminton

• Students will gain knowledge and practice serving short and long, drop shots, and driving which can be used in a badminton match. Students will participate in a double badminton tournament at the conclusion of the unit.

Handball

• Students will be instructed in the game of Handball. Students will develop the skills of hand-eye coordination, visual tracking, footwork, dexterity, and ability, as they hit a ball.

Softball/baseball

• Students will learn to throw and catch focusing on distance and accuracy.
• Students will throw and catch with one another.