Grade: Third
Duration: 36 weeks
Children study and recreate a variety of painting genres including landscape, cityscape, seascape, still life, history, portrait, space art, genre, and wildlife. Children study one genre for four weeks with one new work introduced weekly. This course provides lesson guides with descriptions, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities for all 36 works.
Grade: Third
Duration: 36 weeks
Geography may be divided into the geography of the home and the geography of the world at large. A knowledge of the home must be obtained by direct observation; of the rest of the world, through the imagination assisted by information. Ideas acquired by direct observation form a basis for imagining those things which are distant and unknown. Students delve into topics such as the water cycle, landforms, and the earth's place in the solar system. In addition, children study the geography, people, and culture of the Far East as they visit historical Japan and China of yesteryear with 'The Boy Travelers.'
Grade: Third
Duration: 32 weeks
Third grade American history provides a study of major figures in American History from Christopher Columbus through the Civil War. This course provides lesson guides with descriptions, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities for all 32 lessons.
Grade: Third
Duration: 36 weeks
In third grade world history, students study global history from the start of humankind through the Crusades. This course provides lesson guides with descriptions, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities for all 36 lessons.
Grade: Third
Duration: 36 weeks
Third grade music features eight woodwind and brass instruments. Selected musical compositions, sound clips, and artwork highlight the featured instruments. Instruments include the flute, the clarinet, the oboe, the bassoon, the trumpet, the trombone, the French horn, and the tuba. Lesson guides with directions, synopses, enrichment activities, and review questions accompany all 36 musical selections. All of the music is included on the website. Just click a button and enjoy!
Grade: Third
Duration: 36 weeks
Visit mermaids by the sea with Emily Dickinson, pick apples on a crisp autumn day with Robert Frost, fight to follow your dreams with Paul Laurence Dunbar, puzzle over the mystery of the Queen of Hearts with Christina Rossetti, and venture into the wild American West with Walt Whitman. This course interweaves poetry, vocabulary, mapwork, discussion, copywork, narration, dictation, and artwork. Lessons also introduce literary devices including metaphors, similes, and personification.
Grade: Third
Duration: 36 weeks
Second year drawing expands upon the prior year's drawing lessons. Students continue to master capturing the relative positions of objects, sketching objects in perspective, portraying actions such as running and walking, drawing in a two-handed rhythm, and producing even color washes. Materials required to complete the lessons include pencils, crayons, drawing paper or a notebook, and a ruler.
Grade: Third
Duration: 36 weeks
Plant Nature Study I integrates classic fiction and non-fiction works by Anna Botsford Comstock and Thornton W. Burgess. Children study the appearance, needs, and habitats of plants, including how plants grow, where plants grow, and types of plants with a special emphasis on flowers. Children venture outdoors on nature walks and create a field journal.
Grade: Third
Duration: 36 weeks
Third grade prose whisks children away to the jungles of India, the lagoons of Neverland, the roads of Spain, a Hoosier schoolhouse from yesteryear, and the magical realms of fairy tales. This course provides lesson guides with synopses, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities.
Grade: Third
Duration: 36 weeks
Third grade introduces the immortal bard using child-friendly retellings of twelve of Shakespeare's works including A Midsummer's Night Dream, The Tempest, The Winter's Tale, Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice, and All's Well That Ends Well. Children create character maps, set the scene, construct simple costumes, order major plot events, and recite lines. This course begins preparation for the study of Shakespeare's plays in their original form. The website integrates story text, pictures, and audio readings. This course provides lesson guides with descriptions, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities for all stories.
Grade: Third
Duration: Child-dependent
This course integrates text and audio recordings of McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader to provide a time-tested reading curriculum with no additional textbook costs. McGuffey Readers were used in American schools for over a century. This course provides lesson guides along with a printable pdf containing vocabulary, copywork, narration, and dictation.
Grade: Third
Duration: Child-dependent
As taught by teachers of bygone eras and recommended by 'The Eclectic Manual of Methods,' this course interweaves related theory and problem sets from 'Ray's New Intellectual Arithmetic,' 'Ray's Practical Arithmetic,' and 'Ray's New Test Exam.' This course expands upon the study of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division and introduces notation, reduction, and compound numbers. This course also provides a workbook of text exercises and an answer key. Using a 10x10 abacus to demonstrate mathematical operations may be helpful, although it is not required.
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