3rd grade booklist - 2012/2013

3 terms (10 weeks each) :: Examinations (1 week) :: Term Break (1 week) :: TOTAL 36 WEEKS
Books Term 1: _______ Books Term 2: _______ Books Term 3: _______ TOTAL BOOKS YEAR 2: _______
Number of Pages read per term: _______________ Number of Pages read per year: _______________

Page count doesnt match pages read exactly. 1 page = 300 words :: Many of these page counts should reflect lower numbers.

Subject:

Booklist:

Author:

Math

Term 1 - 3

Daily

Term:

Pages:

Term Notes:

count as:

4 pages/day

300*

Living Math

Life of Fred - Butterflies

Dr. Stanley Schmidt

111

19 chapters :: 1 ch/wk

Living Math

Life of Fred - Cats

Dr. Stanley Schmidt

111

19 chapters :: 1 ch/wk

Living Math

Life of Fred - Dogs

Dr. Stanley Schmidt

111

19 chapters :: 1 ch/wk

Living Math

Life of Fred - Edgewood

Dr. Stanley Schmidt

111

19 chapters :: 1 ch/wk

Living Math

Life of Fred - Farming

Dr. Stanley Schmidt

111

19 chapters :: 1 ch/wk

Living Math

Life of Fred - Goldfish

Dr. Stanley Schmidt

111

19 chapters :: 1 ch/wk

History
History

Daily
Little Stories of Well Known
Americans

History

Term 1

Laura A. Large

192
1-3

Daily

192

184*

7 pages/week

4 pages/day

History

PB

The Discovery of the Americas

Betsy Maestro

48*

Pre-history - Columbus

History

PB

Elins Amerika

Marguerite De Angeli

88

1648
Swedish settlement on the
Delaware river

History

PB

Struggle for a Continent: The

French and Indian Wars

Betsy Maestro

48*

1689 - 1763

History

Term 2

Daily

210*

4 pages/day

History

PB

The Matchlock Gun

Walter Edmonds

50*

French & Indian War

1754 - 1763

History

PB

Boston Tea Party

Pamela Edwards

32*

pre-American Rev.

History

PB

Liberty or Death

Betsy Maestro

64*

American Rev.

History

PB

A New Nation

Betsy Maestro

64*

1783 - 1815

History

Term 3

Daily

227*

4 pages/day

History

PB

How We Crossed the West: Lewis

and Clark

Rosalyn Schanzer

48*

Lewis and Clark

History

PB

Daily Life in a Covered Wagon

Paul Erickson

48*

Oregon Trail

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History

PB

Thee Hannah

Marguerite De Angeli

59

Philadelphia before Civil

War, Abolitionists,
Underground Railroad

History

PB

Sweet Clara and the Freedom

Quilt

Deborah Hopkinson

40*

Slavery/Undergr. Rail.
(Reading Rainbow)

History

PB

The Silent Witness: a True Story

of the Civil War

Robin Friedman

32*

Civil War from dolls POV

290

2 lessons/week

Geography

Term 1 - 3

2x/week

Geography

Geographical Nature Studies

Frank Owen Payne

1-3

Geography

Little Stories of a Big Country

Laura A. Large

1-3

Religion

Term 1 - 3

Religion

Baltimore Catechism #1

Religion

Angel Food for Boys and Girls

Religion

Crusade: The Story of the Bible

Retold for Catholic Children

Language Arts

Term 1 - 3

Language Arts
Reading
Lessons

Continue lessons

Language Arts
Readers

These Are Our Friends

These Are Our Neighbors
This Is Our Parish
A Book of Sanctity

Language Arts

Charlotte Mason methods:

Copywork
Narration - oral

Latin
Latin
Natural History
Nature Study

Term 1 - 3
Prima Latina
Term 1 - 3
Nature Study and Related
Literature

3x/week

67 lessons
22 lessons/term
2 - 3 lessons/week
146

5 pages/week

480*
1-3

complete any lessons not

learned last year

Father Gerald
Brennan

1-3

coordinated with Baltimore

Catechism lesson

Maryknoll Sisters

1-3

480*

Volume 1 - 20
(Old Testament)

480 pages
160 pages/term
16 pages/week
Daily
1-3

Faith and Freedom

Readers

1-3

As needed - Reading skills

and ability will determine
reader or book to be read

1-3

2x/week
Memoria Press

1-3

2x/week
Anna McGovern

Lesson 1 - 13
367

1-3

SEASONAL
REFERENCE

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Nature Study

Eyes and No Eyes

Wild Life in Woods and Fields

Arabella Buckley

48

5 pages/week

Nature Study

Eyes and No Eyes

By Pond and River

Arabella Buckley

48

5 pages/week

Nature Study

Eyes and No Eyes

Wild Life in Woods and Fields

Arabella Buckley

80

8 pages/week

Nature Study

After the Sun Goes Down: The

Story of Animals at Night

Glenn Blough

48

PICTURE BOOK

Nature Study

Who Lives in This Meadow

Glenn Blough

48

PICTURE BOOK

Nature Study

Bird Watchers and Bird Feeders

Glenn Blough

47

PICTURE BOOK

Nature Study

The Tree On the Road to

Turntown

Glenn Blough

48

PICTURE BOOK

Fine Arts

Term 1 - 3

Morning Basket

Shakespeare

William Shakespeare & the Globe

Aliki

Shakespeare

Beautiful Stories From

Shakespeare for Children

Poetry

MORNING
BASKET
Fine Arts

193*
1

43*

PICTURE BOOK

Edited by E. Nesbit

1-3

150

5 pages/week

My America: A Poetry Atlas of the

United States

Lee Bennett Hopkins

1- 3

79*

Read 3 poems/week

READ ALOUD

Morning Basket

661*

Virtue/
Character

The Book of Golden Deeds

Charlotte Yonge

1-3

75*

5 pages/week

Virtue/
Character

Morning Exercises for All the

Year

Joseph Sindelar

1-3

38*

1/4 page/day

Virtue/
Character

Conferences to Children on
Practical Virtue

Abbe P. Verdrie

1-2

23*

2 pages/week

Natural History

Stories for the Nature Hour

Ada and Eleanor

Skinner

1-3

127*

1 story/week

Religion

Pere Marquette

Agnes Repplier

1-3

172

6 pages/week

Poetry

Hand In Hand: An American

History Through Poetry

Collected by Lee
Bennett Hopkins

1-3

136*

87 poems
3 poems/week

Fine Arts
Picture Study

Millet (cont. from last year)

Hudson River School (AO)
Mary Cassatt (AO)

Ambleside Online as
resource

1
2
3

French
American
Impressionist

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Fine Arts
Composer
Study

Wagner (cont. from last year)

Vivaldi (AO)
Mozart (AO)

Fine Arts
Poetry

Walt Whitman (cont. from last year)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
John Greenleaf Whittier

Author:

Term:

Pages:

Term Notes:

Ambleside Online as
resource

1
2
3

German
Baroque
Early Classical

1
2
3

Emphasis on American
Poets

* Page count doesnt match exactly with a description of a full page read. 1 page = 300 words :: Many of these page counts should reflect lower numbers.

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