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3rd Grade

Religion
Curriculum - Concordia Publishing House One In Christ

- Participate in daily devotions, prayer, and Bible reading
- Memorize Bible verses and parts of Luther’s Small Catechism
- Attend and participate in weekly chapel services
- Learn key concepts of faith such as Law and Gospel, confession, repentance, forgiveness, and grace
- Learn Old and New Testament Bible stories

Language Arts
Curriculum - SRA Open Court Reading, Houghton Mifflin English, Evan-Moor Spelling

- Expand vocabulary and increase comprehension
- Accelerated reading program
- Oral reading
- Compare and contrast ideas
- Identify cause and effect
- Summarizing
- Grammar
- Parts of speech
- Proofreading and editing
- Types of sentences
- Cursive writing
- Sentence dictation

Mathematics
Curriculum - Saxon Math

- Timed review of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts
- Place value
- Graphing
- Geometry
- Measurement
- Estimation
- Multiplication and division
- Fractions (ordering fractions, adding and subtracting fractions)

Social Studies and Geography
Curriculum - Harcourt Horizons

-Map Reading Skills
-Geography of the U.S.
-General Geography of the World with emphasis on Western Hemisphere
- U.S. History (Native Americans, Explorers, Colonial Life, U.S. Constitution, American Expansion, Immigration,
  Early Civil War, Famous Americans)
-Reading and making Timelines, charts, and graphs

Science
Curriculum - Scott Foresman Science

-Scientific Method
- Life science
- Physical science
- Earth science

P.E., Art, General Music and Technology round out the curriculum.