Elementary School Grade 3 Curriculum
Personal and Social Education
T.H.I.S students develop an awareness of their self-identity, strengths and weaknesses. They learn to recognize, communicate and manage their own feelings, reflect on their abilities and behavior and set achievable personal goals. Grade 3 students explore different values and beliefs and examine their own opinion and how they are similar to or different from those of others.
Language Arts
Students decode multisyllabic words and read aloud fluently with proper pacing, intonation, and expression while building vocabulary through antonyms, synonyms, homophones, homographs, prefixes, suffixes, and dictionary use. In comprehension, they recall main ideas, extract information, answer questions, and distinguish between fiction, drama, poetry, and nonfiction, including folk and fairy tales from around the world. In writing, students develop clear sentences and paragraphs through prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing, and learn to write letters, invitations, and descriptive pieces. They also give brief oral presentations. Grade 3 standards include understanding common prefixes and suffixes, reading grade-level text with accuracy and expression, writing opinion and informative texts, using technology to support writing, and conducting short research projects.
Our comprehensive standards-based LA curriculum follows The Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts (ELA) and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects.
Mathematics
Students gain fluency, facts and strategies in multiplication and division, learn to identify, make connections, and solve problems dealing with patterns, relate area to multiplication, round and estimate numbers, add and subtract multi-digit numbers, learn and solve problems with multiples, understand fractions, fraction equivalence and comparison, understand time, liquid volume, and mass, classify two-dimensional shapes, represent and interpret data, as well as study and solve problems with perimeter and area.
Our comprehensive standards-based math curriculum is aligned with the Common core Math Standards
Social Studies
Grade 3 students learn physical and human geography. The students learn about maps, tables, graphs, photographs, charts to organize information about people, places and environment. The students draw from information of various resources to recognize sequence of historical events. They explore topics of economics and governments.
Science
Art
Know elements of design, complementary colors, emphasis, value, proportion in face /figure. How art reflects life ( photo, quilts, architecture) I.D. art of past and how cultures affect it, value it, use it. Research 20th century artists who use symmetry, read biographies and stories about artists and do reports.
Music
Grade 3 students learn to enjoy music through singing, dancing and playing both games and instruments. They begin to read, create and experience music and are exposed to simple rhythms and melodies. Students also perform for others. Grade 3 students continue with string lessons (cello or violin). Reading music and following the conductor become essential skills.
Physical Education
Working in groups, being leaders and followers, rights of others, fairness, rule compliance, speed accuracy, skill development, baseball, volleyball, soccer, track, swimming, tennis, and surfing
Additional Languages ( i.e.French/Spanish/German/Hebrew )
Every student whose academic standards allow an additional language, have the choice of French, Spanish, German or Hebrew. (Minimum amount of children needed.)
The lower school additional language program aims to develop and improve comprehension, expression and grammar. Vocabulary, grammar and research are integrated into the program according to the student’s level. Students learn about customs through cultural activities.
Technology
