Below is the Core Curriculum for the 3rd Grade.

Language Arts

Listening and Speaking

• Listening and understanding directions
• Listening and speaking in group situations iwth appropriate volume 

Reading and Literature

• Continuing to learn word skills
• Using strategies to improve reading comprehension
• Building vocabulary through literature
• Developing study skills
• Appreciating grade appropriate literature
• Increasing independent reading and reading for a purpose

Written Expression

• Introducing cursive writing (upper and lower case letters)
• Spelling frequently used words correctly
• Learning and using the "writing process" (prewriting, drafting, revising, proofreading)
• Using correct punctuation
• Writing a personal narrative, fictional story, instructions, descriptive essay, persuasive essay, friendly letter 

Social Studies

• Understanding map skills including identifying oceans, continents, compass rose, symbols, and recognizing geography terms
• Learning about communities (rural, urban, and suburban) and the geography of rivers, deserts, and mountains
• Understanding rules in a community
• Developing an understanding of the government process in communities and nations
• Learning about current events

Science

• Learning process skills of hypothesizing, collecting data, analyzing results, and drawing conclusions
• Studying Life Science: life cycles of animals and plants and the roles of living things
• Studying Physical Science: water cycle and forms of energy

Math

• Identifying coins and value (penny, nickel, dime, quarter, half-dollar) and counting money and making change to $1.00
• Telling time to the minute and calculating elapsed time
• Organizing and analyzing data using picture, line, and bar graphs, and using probability to predict outcomes
• Determining weight, length, capacity, and temperature using metric and customary systems
• Learing multiplication and division facts 0-9
• Identifying fractions and decimals, plane and solid geometric figures

Physical Education

• Understanding and achieving health and physical fitness
• Building on foundations of movement including spatial and body awareness
• Building on foundations of manipulation skills and applying these skills to age appropriate sport activities
• Learning about sport in our society including rules, skill acquisition, and competition
• Developing social skills through play and competition

Library

• Listening to foster literary understanding and appreciation and motivating children to read to themselves
• Using library organization to distinguish between fiction and non-fiction in library terms
• Recognizing the basic elements of information contained on a catalog card or in a computer database for any given book
• Beginning practice in finding library materials independently

Health Education

• Identifying emergencies and learning responsible strategies for handling them
• Exploring how germs are spread and how our body defends itself
• Understanding nutrients, responsible food choices, and food labels
• Examining the workings of the eye, eye problems, and proper protection
• Describing a positve attitude and its influence on personal values and goals
• Exploring the skeletal system, joints, and the benefits of regular exercise

Music

• Singing of three-part rounds, partner songs
• Recognizing musical symbols and directions
• Studying music of specific composers (Mozart, Saint-Saens)
• Learning about various musical forms ("theme and variations", "suite" , and "sonata")
• Identifying four-line staff, repeat sign, line and space, notes, scale
• Learning about families of instruments
• Learning about the concept of "meter"

Art

• Continuing to use geometric and free shapes, the visual elements, pattern, and observation to create 2-D and 3-D art work that is imaginary, realistic, or functional
• Continuing to obtain exposure to art work from other cultures, historical times, the relationship art has to other subject matters as well as classroom themes
• Exploring another form of puppet making, clay work, weaving and book binding
• Indentifying major works of art and artists