Third Grade
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Third graders love to cheer on their friends and encourage them to reach a little higher on the climbing wall.
Third graders love to cheer on their friends and encourage them to reach a little higher on the climbing wall.
Language Arts
- Read grade-appropriate passages independently with fluency and expression
- Deepen understanding of texts by applying self-monitoring and comprehension strategies while reading independently in Reader’s Workshop
- Begin to identify the author’s purpose in a reading selection
- Understand and apply new vocabulary
- Use the writing process to compose grade-appropriate narrative, informational, and opinion writing samples during Writer’s Workshop
- Use grade-appropriate paragraph structure, spelling, punctuation, grammar, and word usage to effectively complete a variety of writing tasks
- Apply understanding of types of sentences in student-generated writing samples
- Identify parts of speech (noun, pronoun, adjective, and verb) and apply understanding in student-generated writing samples
Social Studies
- Understand that geography helps us to understand the world through place and location
- Understand and explain how the world and the United States both operate as systems
- Identify and locate continents, oceans, and all 50 states by regions
- Identify and use cardinal directions
- Apply map skills to understand the world in which we live
Math
- Understand, memorize, and apply multiplication and division facts to 12
- Identify and understand place value to the millions
- Read, write, compare, and order numbers to the millions
- Process and solve word problems
- Understand, read, and write decimals to the hundredths place
- Identify and write fractional parts of shaded regions of objects
- Identify and draw line segments, rays, and angles
- Identify and create parallel, non-parallel, and intersecting lines
- Determine area and perimeter
- Understand and explain how numbers operate as a system
- Extend, describe, and create numeric patterns
- Read, write, and explain number sentences using a variety of mathematical concepts
- Use charts, tables, bar graphs, pie graphs, and line plots to ask questions and draw conclusions
Science
- Understand and explain how the solar system and its components operate as a system
- Compare and contrast characteristics of planets
- Understand how the human body operates as a system
- Identify the major body systems, organs, and functions
- Understand and use the scientific method to conduct experiments, make observations, and draw conclusions
Curriculum Overview by Grade
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Curriculum Overview: Special Areas
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We intentionally educate and nurture the heart, soul, mind, and body of each boy.
Guiding Principles
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We know, nurture, and love each boy as a unique child of God.
Guiding Principles
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We teach the Bible and model the Christian faith to our boys.
Guiding Principles
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We aren't just teachers; we are life-long learners and students.
Guiding Principles
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We push students to engage as thinkers.
Guiding Principles
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In an increasingly connected world, our curriculum has a global perspective.
Guiding Principles
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Flexible teaching strategies seek to maximize learning for each boy.
Guiding Principles
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Our assessments aren't just a way to measure learning — we want our boys to demonstrate understanding.
Guiding Principles
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We seek to enroll boys from diverse backgrounds.
Guiding Principles
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We seek balance and excellence in all we do.
Guiding Principles
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We aren't just boy-friendly; we're boy-specific.
Guiding Principles
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Our program sets a foundation of learning that will help boys thrive beyond PDS.
Guiding Principles
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We take time to make sure our faculty and staff are growing spiritually.
Guiding Principles
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We hold high standards for ourselves, pushing ourselves to reflect, renew, and grow.