Third Grade

List of 11 items.

• Reading & Literature

  • Strengthen effective reading strategies
  • Practice critical thinking and comprehension skills
  • Read and discuss multicultural literature
  • Read literature about Native American and Black American experiences
  • Study literature through independent reading, readers' workshop, literature circles, reading groups, and read alouds

• Writing & Language Arts

  • Utilize Writer’s Workshop
  • Write a formal, well-developed informational paragraph
  • Practice informational and report writing: Bird Study, Black American biography, and the Ohlones
  • Write book reports, personal narratives, letters, responses to literature, and opinion pieces
  • Use dialogue and similes in creative writing
  • Practice grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling rules Learn cursive handwriting
  • Develop presentation skills by presenting work to class, parents, and school

• Social Studies

  • Hands-on study of the Ohlone People, featuring field trips to the Oakland Museum, Arrowhead Marsh, UC Botanical Gardens, and all-day immersion at a regional park
  • Geography of the Bay Area and regions of California
  • Study of cultural groups in the Bay Area through performances and field trips
  • Black American biography project
  • Identity and heritage personal histories
  • Impact of explorers and settlers on the Bay Area
  • California history focusing on multi-cultural perspectives

• Mathematics

  • Place value to 100,000
  • Telling time to the minute and determining elapsed time
  • Multiplication and division to 12, with single- and double-digit problems
  • Problem solving
  • Measurement: length, mass, and volume with standard and metric measurements
  • Fractions: identifying, ordering, and comparing
  • 3-digit and 4-digit addition and subtraction
  • Complex multi-step story problem solving
  • Geometry: 2D and 3D shapes, lines, angles, area, perimeter, and volume

• Science

  • Environmental impact of global climate change
  • Bird anatomy, habitats, and migratory habits
  • Year-long study of the birds of Lake Merritt
  • Forces and motions
  • Narcissus bulbs with 7th grade buddies: measuring the effect of a variable
  • Bird study with 6th grade buddies

• Spanish

  • Participate in class reading of Edi el elefante book and related activities
  • Subject pronouns (yo, tú, él/ella/elle, usted, nosotros, ellos/ellas/elles)
  • Regular and Irregular verb conjugations
  • Spelling and vocabulary
  • Articles (masculine, feminine)
  • Expand understanding of culture through the study of geography and people of Spanish speaking countries
  • Develop listening and speaking skills through guided conversations with peers

• Technology

  • Beginning keyboarding and word processing
  • Introduction to online catalog searches
  • Choosing information sources for research

• Visual Arts

  • Drawing: expressive lines and shapes
  • Painting: color wheel, color mixing
  • Clay
  • Bat study
  • Collage animals: Eric Carle
  • Sumi ink painting
  • Fruit/flower paintings: Georgia O’Keefe
  • Story quilt: Faith Ringgold

• Music

  • Rounds, two-part music, extended vocal range
  • Continued solfege singing
  • Rhythm work with percussion
  • Refining Performing Arts Elements of Movement and Drama
  • Basic music terminology and singing including scales

• Physical Education

  • Using feedback to improve performance
  • Working independently and maintaining focus
  • Using physical activity as a means of self-expression
  • Sharing equipment appropriately with peers

• Community Engaged Learning

  Citizen Science: Study of the birds of Lake Merritt and habitat restoration