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Bible
Bible memory verses
In Bob Jones curriculum we discuss the following topics:
- Sin and Salvation
- The Mind of the Lord
- Purity
- Thanksgiving Mini-Unit
- Christmas: Jesus’ Birth
- To Seek and to Save
- Exaltation of Christ
- A Christian’s Character
- Easter: God’s Love Complete
- Christian Friends
- When He Comes
Language Arts
Grammar
Houghton Mifflin publisher
- Sentences, Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, Capitalization, Punctuation, Pronouns
- Writing: Stories, Instructional paragraphs, Descriptive paragraphs, Poetry, and Letter writing
- Book reports, Creative writing including an in class “published” book
Handwriting
Teacher Developed – a review of cursive learned in 2nd grade
Reading
Accelerated Reading Program
Bob Jones reader
Reading workbook – focusing on comprehension and
Reading skills
Library experience weekly
Literature units
Pilgrim’s Progress, The Mouse and the Motorcycle, Whipping Boy, and Stone Fox
Spelling (A Reason to Spell curriculum)
Math
Harcourt Brace curriculum
- place value: zero through the hundred thousands
- 3-digit addition and subtraction: regrouping and borrowing
- Estimation
- Time: units of time, telling time, time estimation
- Money: counting, making change
- Problem solving
- Multiplication: facts mastery to 12
- Division
- Geometry: learning geometric shapes, angles
Science
Teacher developed using an expanded ABEKA curriculum
- Nervous System
- Vertebrates: 5 groups (mammal, fish, amphibian, reptile, and birds)
- Invertebrates
- Animal Notebook Project for Vertebrates and Invertebrates
- Habitats: Desert, Ocean, Pond, Forest, Farmer’s Field, Rainforest, Arctic
- Weather
Social Studies
Teacher developed using and expanded ABEKA curriculum
- Biographies of great Americans:
Christopher Columbus, John Smith, Pocahontas, Miles Standish, Squanto, William Penn, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Boone, Noah Webster, John Greenleaf Whittier, Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, Clara Barton, Ulysses S. Grant, Louisa May Alcott, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Billy Sunday
- Geography:
7 continents, 4 oceans. and 50 states (location)
Use a map key, compass rose, grid, and distance scale
Fine Arts (etc)
Students will attend chapel, art, computer, music, and Spanish classes one time per week and PE two times per week
Third Grade Highlights
- Field Trip to the Zoo
- Field Trip to the Blanford Nature Center: study wetland and colonial houses/life
- Science Fair Habitat Project
Bible
Bible memory verses
In Bob Jones curriculum we discuss the following topics:
- Sin and Salvation
- The Mind of the Lord
- Purity
- Thanksgiving Mini-Unit
- Christmas: Jesus’ Birth
- To Seek and to Save
- Exaltation of Christ
- A Christian’s Character
- Easter: God’s Love Complete
- Christian Friends
- When He Comes
Language Arts
Grammar
Houghton Mifflin publisher
- Sentences, Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, Capitalization, Punctuation, Pronouns
- Writing: Stories, Instructional paragraphs, Descriptive paragraphs, Poetry, and Letter writing
- Book reports, Creative writing including an in class “published” book
Handwriting
Teacher Developed – a review of cursive learned in 2nd grade
Reading
Accelerated Reading Program
Bob Jones reader
Reading workbook – focusing on comprehension and
Reading skills
Library experience weekly
Literature units
Pilgrim’s Progress, The Mouse and the Motorcycle, Whipping Boy, and Stone Fox
Spelling (A Reason to Spell curriculum)
Math
Harcourt Brace curriculum
- place value: zero through the hundred thousands
- 3-digit addition and subtraction: regrouping and borrowing
- Estimation
- Time: units of time, telling time, time estimation
- Money: counting, making change
- Problem solving
- Multiplication: facts mastery to 12
- Division
- Geometry: learning geometric shapes, angles
Science
Teacher developed using an expanded ABEKA curriculum
- Nervous System
- Vertebrates: 5 groups (mammal, fish, amphibian, reptile, and birds)
- Invertebrates
- Animal Notebook Project for Vertebrates and Invertebrates
- Habitats: Desert, Ocean, Pond, Forest, Farmer’s Field, Rainforest, Arctic
- Weather
Social Studies
Teacher developed using and expanded ABEKA curriculum
- Biographies of great Americans:
Christopher Columbus, John Smith, Pocahontas, Miles Standish, Squanto, William Penn, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Boone, Noah Webster, John Greenleaf Whittier, Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, Clara Barton, Ulysses S. Grant, Louisa May Alcott, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Billy Sunday
- Geography:
7 continents, 4 oceans. and 50 states (location)
Use a map key, compass rose, grid, and distance scale
Fine Arts (etc)
Students will attend chapel, art, computer, music, and Spanish classes one time per week and PE two times per week
Third Grade Highlights
- Field Trip to the Zoo
- Field Trip to the Blanford Nature Center: study wetland and colonial houses/life
- Science Fair Habitat Project
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