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Key Learnings

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Third Grade

BIBLE

Accepting His Plan: The Plan of Redemption, God's plan for the church and for the individual

• Understand the importance of studying scripture in daily life
• Know the roles "three-in-one" members of the God-family
• Understand that God and the angels He created lived in heaven in perfect harmony before sin
• Understand that sin and its effects are the result of the universal conflict between God and Satan
• Know that death is a consequence of sin, but God has the power to raise the dead from their graves
• Explain Jesus' role as Messiah, Savior and Redeemer
• Know that Christians are part of God's family and have a responsibility to witness and serve others
• Understand that all people are equal in God's sight and are accepted into the Family of God
• Know how God has worked in history to preserve the Christian church
• Understand that each person has spiritual gifts, talents
• Know, power to make right choices is provided by grace
• Understand that Jesus is coming back for all who have chosen to follow Him and will live with Him
  

FINE ARTS

Art

• Use different media, techniques and processes to communicate ideas, experiences and stories
• Know the differences among visual characteristics and purposes of art in order to convey ideas
• Select and use subject matter, symbols and ideas
• Know that the visual arts have both history and specific relationships to various cultures
• Identify specific works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times and places
• Describe how people's experiences influence the development of specific artworks
• Identify connections between the visual arts and other disciplines in the curriculum
  

Music

• Recognize and write eighth notes and rests
• Recognize major and minor tonality (sounds)
• Use introduction, interludes, codas
• Recognize AABB and AABA patterns
• Know meaning of signs p, mp, mf and f
• Identify different solo voices
• Identify music styles form different countries
• Learn to use the hymnal index
  

LANGUAGE ARTS

Viewing

• Analyze information learned from media
• Summarize and sequence events and ideas
• Identify the main format of visual media
  

Listening

• Listen without interrupting
• Identify how literature uses the sounds of language

Reading

• Apply phonics elements in reading and writing
• Use dictionary and glossary to learn word meanings
• Read both narrative and expositive text
• Read fiction and nonfiction
• Read aloud, speaking clearly and with expression
  

Speaking

• Speak clearly, using correct grammar and words
• Express ideas in a logical manner
• Use facial expressions and gestures
  

Visually Representing

• Develop visual media to organize and group information
• Create visual media to show main idea, supporting details
  

Writing

• Transition to cursive writing
• Practice the writing process
• Begin using characteristics of good writing
• Introduce and use parts-of-speech
• Write friendly letters
• Indent the beginning of a paragraph
• Expand the use of correct punctuation
• Proofread
  

MATH

Numbers and Operations

• Understand, describe place value to ten-thousands place
• Design and label number lines appropriate to the situation
• Compare and order numbers through 10,000
• Skip count by threes, e.g. 1, 18, 21, 24…
• Understand the commutative property of + and x
• Understand the zero property of multiplication
• Understand the meaning of the decimal point
• Understand the concept of tenths written as a decimal
• Understand the meaning of multiplication and division
• Know the multiplication and division fact families
• Know multiplication and corresponding division facts
• Add and subtract numbers up to 4-digits
• Multiply mentally by 10 and 100
• Multiply and divide 2-digit number by a 1-digit number
• Divide a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number with remainder
• Understand meaning, structure of fractions (zero to one)
• Understand and write simple mixed numbers
• Compare fractions with like denominators
• Add and subtract fractions with like denominators
• Add and subtract money
• Use strategies to estimate whole number computations

Algebra

• Analyze mathematical sequences with/without a calculator
• Use patterns - predictions, solve problems, relationships
• Understand, explain relationships in equations, inequalities
• Solve equations and inequalities
• Identify and use commutative and associative properties
• Understand and use grouping symbols
  

Geometry

• Explore congruence and similarity
• Add to find perimeter
• Count to find area and volume
• Create models of 2-dimensional objects
• Investigate simple nets
• Analyze and describe 2- and 3-dimensional objects
• Find and name locations on labeled grid/coordinate system
• Identify shapes that when put together = a given shape

Measurement

• Use correct measurement vocabulary
• Explain, measure temperature using Celsius, Fahrenheit
• Read and understand a simple time line
• Measure length, weight, volume using metric and US customary units to nearest ½ unit as appropriate
• Using appropriate tools, draw a line or shape with specified measurements
• Count money up to $10.00
• Understand attributes of second, minute, hour
• Tell time to the minute, before or after the hour
• Measure elapsed time using a calendar or clock
• Read/understand a calendar using day, week, month, year
• Count weeks before/after certain dates on the calendar

Data Analysis/ Probability

• Organize and interpret data using line graphs
• Construct graphs using data from a table
• Discover patterns in tables and graphs by creating, organizing, recording and analyzing data
• Formulate questions and categories for data collection and actively collect first-hand information
• Describe the shape and important features of a set of data and compare related data sets

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Spiritual Emphasis

• Recognize that God's ideal for quality living includes a healthy lifestyle
• Incorporate into one's lifestyle the principles that promote health: nutrition, exercise, water, sunlight, temperance, air, rest, trust in God
• Avoid at-risk behaviors
• Apply Christian principles in recreation and sports
• Achieve a balance in work and leisure; balancing physical, mental, social and spiritual activities
• Recognize the interaction of physical, mental and spiritual health with emotional and social well-being

Movement and Motor Skills

• Demonstrate mature form in all locomotor patterns and selected manipulative and non-locomotor skills
• Adapt a skill to the demands of a dynamic, environment
• Acquire beginning skills of specialized movement forms
• Combine movement skills in applied settings
• Apply critical elements to improve personal performance
• Use critical elements to provide feedback to others
• Recognize and apply concepts that impact the quality of increasingly complex movement performance

Lifestyle and Fitness

• Select and participate regularly in physical activities
• Identify the benefits derived from regular physical activity
• Identify physical activities that provide personal pleasure
• Identify several activities related to physical fitness
• Associate results of fitness testing to personal health status and ability to perform various activities
• Meet the health-related fitness standards as defined by a fitness testing program
• Experience enjoyment participating in physical activity
• Enjoy practicing activities to increase skill competence
• Interact with friends while participating in group activities
• Use physical activity as a means of self-expression

Sportsmanship and Appropriate Behaviors

• Follow activity-specific rules, procedures and etiquette
• Utilize safety principles in activity situations
• Work cooperatively/productively with a partner, small group
• Work independently/on-task for a specified period of time
• Explore cultural/ethnic self-awareness through participation
• Recognize the attributes that individuals with difference can bring to group activities
• Experience differences and similarities among people by participating in activities of national, cultural, ethnic origins

SCIENCE

Physical: Electricity/Magnetism, Force/Motion: Friction, Gravity, Inertia

• Identify the basic nature of current and static electricity
• Define force, friction and explain how they affect movement
• Define gravity and describe how it affects matter
• Compare gravitational attraction of objects of varying mass
• Define inertia and describe the its effects
• Describe how forces affect the motion of objects

Life: Birds, Mammals, Classification

• Describe the basic needs of living things
• Describe how animals gather and store food, defend themselves, find shelter and adapt to their environments
• Describe how related animals have similar characteristics
• Explain food chains and food webs and identify producers and consumers in an ecosystem
• Classify organisms by characteristics - similar and different

Earth: Meteorology: Atmosphere, Water Cycle, Seasons, Weather Elements; Space Exploration

• Describe the composition of the atmosphere
• Describe the water cycle
• Explain change of seasons, why Earth is unequally heated
• Identify the elements of weather
• Identify and trace the movement of objects in the sky
• Describe the earth's place in the solar system and the patterns of movement of objects within the solar system
• Recognize contributions of space exploration, past/present

Health: Nutrition, Family Health Habits, Consumer Health

• Describe healthy dietary guidelines
• Categorize foods in the food pyramid
• Explain how the body utilizes basic nutrients
• Understand that God has provided natural health laws
• Understand how the family influences personal health
• Identify proper consumer health care habits

Scientific Inquiry

• Make observations
• Ask questions, form hypotheses based on observations
• Plan a simple investigation
• Collect data from the investigation
• Use data collected to explain the results
• Safely use and store tools and equipment
  

Service/Career Options

• Explore ways to use Physical, Life, Health, and/or Earth Science to serve the community
• Identify careers in areas of Science
  

SOCIAL STUDIES

History: Communities (Time, Communities: Past/Present)

• Understand time: years, decades, centuries
• Understand time lines and history of one's community
• Understand how God works through people to help make the community a better place
• Know how the Adventist church helps communities
• Understand community through traditions, local holidays
• Understand the contributions and significance of historical figures in one's community
• Understand the development of communities e.g., pioneers/explorers, Native People, ethnic group

Civics: Ideas about Civic Life, Politics and Government

• Follow the rules (laws and expectations) of the community
• Respect the rights and property of others
• Understand the role of diversity and the importance of shared values in the United States
• Understand the components of rural, urban government
• Know the importance of Christian citizenship
• Develop responsibility through good decision making
• Understand the roles of volunteerism and organized groups in American social and political life

Geography: Geographic Features and Patterns of the Environment

• Know the basic elements of maps and globes and construct maps of one's community
• Identify how the characteristics of places are shaped by physical and human processes
• Understand how climate and weather help to shape features on the earth's surface

Economics: Interaction of Supply and Demand

• Understand responsibilities of Christian stewardship
• Understand the needs of your community
• Know about the finances of a community
• Learn about goods, services, government in a community
• Know importance of business and services in a community
• Identify transportation and communication in community

TECHNOLOGY

• Demonstrate proper use and care of computers and other audio-visual equipment
• Practice using the keyboard
• Become familiar with proper computer terms
• Use computers to express ideas with drawing, multi-media and word processing software
• Learn file management
• Learn about technology related occupations
• Use appropriate input/output devices
• Begin troubleshooting for basic malfunctions
• Become aware of copyright issues
• Practice courtesy and respecting of computer time

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Our key learnings are aligned with the North American Division curriculum guides, national standards, McRel Database (Mid-Continental Regional Educational Laboratory) and Ten Sigma (a compilation of standards for 38 states).

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