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English Language Arts

Standards

• (Revised 2020)

Resources

Third Grade Units

Parent Resources for ELA

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• Act 20 Resources & Family Activities

Math

Standards

• (revised 2020)

Resources

Third Grade Units

Parent Resources

• – collection of activities, organized by mathematical content, uses familiar routines that can be used by students and families.
• – free apps that are based on the visual models student use in Bridges in Mathematics

Social Studies

Standards

Third Grade Units

Science

Standards

Third Grade Units

Social Emotional Learning

Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) helps children develop the skills they need to succeed in school and in life. These include:

• Understanding and managing emotions
• Making responsible decisions
• Showing empathy and kindness
• Building positive friendships
• Solving problems in peaceful ways

SEL supports the whole child—academically, socially, and emotionally—helping students feel safe, confident, and ready to learn.

Elementary school is a time when children are learning how to navigate the world around them. As they grow, they begin to understand themselves, others, and how to work together. SEL helps students:

• Develop self-confidence and independence
• Learn how to handle big emotions
• Build friendships and resolve conflicts
• Follow directions and stay focused in class
• Create a strong sense of belonging at school

When students feel supported socially and emotionally, they are more engaged in learning and better prepared for future academic success.

91ÖÆƬ³§ uses the Second Step Elementary program, a trusted, research-based curriculum that teaches SEL skills in a developmentally appropriate and engaging way.  Second Step lessons are taught in the elementary classroom and focus on:

• Skills for Learning – Listening, focusing attention, and being assertive
• Empathy – Understanding and caring about others’ feelings
• Emotion Management – Recognizing strong emotions and calming down
• Problem-Solving – Using step-by-step strategies to make good choices

Lessons include stories, songs, discussions, games, and role-playing to help students practice their skills in fun and meaningful ways.

Physical Education

All K-5 students in the 91ÖÆƬ³§ participate in physical education for 75 minutes per week.

Music

All K-5 students in the 91ÖÆƬ³§ participate in general music for 45 minutes per week.

Third Grade Learning Objectives for Music

Students will demonstrate and understand:

• Rhythm Patterns
  • Half note, Half Rest
• Pitch (High and low sounds)
  • Treble clef musical staff
  • Notes on a line or space
  • Read and notate notes on the lines and spaces of the treble clef staff

Demonstrated Vocal Skills

• Sing accurately in head voice, with or without accompaniment
• Sing a variety of songs including rounds and partner songs

Demonstrated Instrumental Skills

• Perform pulse and rhythm on classroom percussion instruments
• Perform simple melodies using pitched instruments
• Proper playing technique on classroom percussion instruments

Demonstrated Performance Skills

• Follow the cues of a conductor with regard to nuance
• Perform various dynamics and tempi

Demonstrated Interaction with Music

• Dynamics
  • Crescendo and decrescendo
  • Mezzo forte and Mezzo piano
• Form
  • Identify AB, ABA and rondo form and introduction
  • Explore musical phrase
• Music Reading
  • Measure, bar line, repeat sign
• Pulse/Meter
  • Time signatures of 2/4, 3/4, 4/4 
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  • Accelerando and ritardando
  • Andante and allegro
• Identify the expressive intent of music
• Identify characteristics of various styles/genres of music
• Creatively move to music with or without form

Art

All K-5 students in the 91ÖÆƬ³§ participate in art for 45 minutes per week. 

Third Grade Learning Objectives for Visual Art

Elements and Principles of Art

• Shape/Form
  • Creates and uses basic 3D shapes (which give illusion to 3D form).
  • Cone, sphere, cylinder, pyramid and cube.
• Space
  • Identifies and creates depth using foreground, middleground and background.
• Color
  • Understands the following fundamentals of warm, cool, and neutral colors:
  • Warm colors advance: Red, Yellow, Orange
  • Cool colors recede: Blue, Purple, Green
  • Basic neutral colors make colors darker, lighter, brighter, or duller: brown, black, gray, and white
• Proportion
  •  When all sizes make sense and all parts relate well to each other.

Artistic Process

• Creates personally satisfying artwork using a variety of artistic processes and materials. (Including 2D and 3D artwork)

Craftsmanship

• Prepares works of art, including artists’ statements, for presentation. 

Responding

• Evaluates art works ability to communicate a message.
• Speculates about processes an artist uses to create a work of art.

Connecting

• Explores and explains how different cultures record history through art and that art opinions change depending on the knowledge of the time and place in which it was created.
• Develops a work of art based on observations of surroundings.

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