Grade 3 Curriculum
The third grade program builds on the skills and knowledge children have learned in preceding years and encourages critical thinking, creativity, and respect for self and others. Students continue to gain skills and confidence working independently and taking on more in-depth concepts and projects. Third graders explore and organize information, research topics, and present information in a variety of forms. They perform the first class play of the year, march in the parade of states, engage in community service, and participate in Friendship Group lunches.
Program Highlight
- Class play
- Buddies with seventh grade
- Person of the Week
- Sharing days
- Character Can
- China study
- State project and fair
- Snowshoeing
Specialist Time
- French twice a week for 45 minutes
- Art studio once a week for 45 minutes
- Music once a week for 45 minutes
- Theater arts once a week for 45 minutes
- Woodworking once a week for 45 minutes
- Physical education three times a week for 45 minutes
- Library once a week for 45 minutes

Math
The third grade curriculum develops students’ facility with place value, multiple digit addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, compatible numbers and estimation. Third graders also identify a variety of problem-solving methods and learn to communicate how they understand, plan for, solve, and check number stories.

Science
Third graders learn to value the role of science as they gain confidence in their ability to conduct experiments and communicate and reason scientifically. Students explore such topics as sound vibrations, food chains, and animal life cycles and adaptations. They study positive and negative human impact on ecosystems and explore their own impact on the environment.