THIRD GRADE

Our Third-Grade curriculum includes the following elements:

Cursive Handwriting
HMH Into Reading Curriulum
Sadlier-Oxford Mathematics
Scott Foresman Science curriculum
myWorld Social Studies: Building Our Communities
Physical Education and Health Awareness
Art
Spanish

THIRD GRADE CURRICULUM

READING

Using HMH Into Reading, Third Grade students strengthen their skills as readers, writers, and communicators. Students build fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension while learning to analyze texts, identify key ideas, and support their thinking with evidence.

Writing instruction develops grammar, sentence structure, organization, and written expression as students work across narrative, informational, and opinion writing. Reading and writing are connected throughout the curriculum, helping students communicate their ideas with increasing clarity, confidence, and independence.

HAND WRITING

Third Grade students are introduced to cursive handwriting using Zaner-Bloser Handwriting. Students learn proper letter formation, connections, spacing, and technique as they begin developing clear, fluent, and legible cursive writing.

MATHEMATICS

Using Sadlier Math Connects, Third Grade students build a strong foundation in mathematical thinking as they move from basic computation to more complex concepts. A major focus is developing fluency with multiplication and division, while strengthening number sense, addition and subtraction, fractions, measurement, geometry, and data.

Students learn to solve problems, explain their reasoning, and apply mathematical concepts in meaningful ways, building the skills and confidence needed for Fourth Grade and beyond.

SOCIAL STUDIES

Using myWorld Social Studies: Building Our Communities, Third Grade students explore communities, geography, government, economics, and citizenship. Students learn how communities grow and change while discovering the roles people play within them.

Through maps, reading, discussion, and engaging activities, students develop a broader understanding of their community, their country, and the world around them while building important critical-thinking and social studies skills.

SCIENCE

Using the Scott Foresman Science curriculum, Third Grade students explore the world through observation, investigation, and hands-on learning. Students study concepts such as living organisms and their habitats, sound, Earth’s changing surface, and natural systems.

Throughout the year, students learn to ask questions, gather evidence, use models and measurements, and communicate their findings, building curiosity and the foundational scientific-thinking skills they will use in the upper grades.