3rd Grade 2011-12 Curriculum Maps / John Stanford International School

3rd Grade
EVENTS
Standards

SEPT OCT NOV

Curriculum Night
Monster Mash Dia de los Muertos, Parent/Teacher Conferences
2.1-2.4, 3.4 1.4, 2.1-2.4 2.1-2.4, 4.1-4.2

DEC
MAP Testing MAP >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Oral Reading RubricStudent read aloud

JAN FEB
MAP Testing Martin Luther King Assembly
1.1-1.4, 2.1-2.4, 3.1,3.2, 4.1,4.2

MAR APR MAY JUN

International Performances Earth Day MSP Test Young Authors Day MAP Testing Field Day, Awards Assembly, Volunteer Appreciation Year end wrap-up for Literature Circles Focus on Reading Test Skills-skimming, rereading, looking for the main ideas, key words, and checking answers Readers Workshop Mythology Readers Workshop

Lunar New Year

Reading
Standards

Begin Readers Workshop Building a Reading Life (skills-fluency, stamina, and comprehension) Review inference and prediction
1.1-1.6, 2.1-2.3, 3.1-3.3, 4.2

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Nonfiction -Reading and research Analyze and summarize Continue nonfiction reading and research Main Idea and supporting details

Continuation of Readers Workshop Fiction GenreHistorical fiction Nonfiction-History Literature Circles Literature CirclesPrompt writing responses

Mythology

1.1-1.6, 2.1-2.3, 3.1-3.3

3.3

3.3

2.3, 3.1, 3.3

3.3

1.1-1.6, 2.1-2.3, 3.1-3.3

3.3

3.3

3.3

prompt

Grammar and word use review

Research and note taking techniques Expository Writing Continuation of second grade poetry unit is year long

Expository WritingSpider Booklet

Writing
Standards

Introduction to persuasive writing

Six Writing Traits Conventions Organization Sentence Fluency Word Choice Ideas Voice

Begin cursive-year long Science writing for unit Five Paragraph Essay
1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.5, 2.1, 2.2, 3.2, 4.2, 5.3

Continuation of Five Paragraph Essay and science writing Writers Workshop Raising the Quality of Narrative Writing
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.2, 4.2, 5.1, 5.3

Project completion

Young Authors Day Project Poetry

Young Authors Day Project Poetry wrap-up and book publish

Year-end wrap-up for literature

Writers Workshop

1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.5, 2.2, 3.2, 4.2, 5.1

1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.5, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.2, 5.1, 5.3

1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.5, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.2, 5.3

1.1, 1.2, 1.5, 2,2, 3.2, 5.3

1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.5, 2.1, 2.2, 3.2, 3.3, 4.2, 5.1, 5.3

1.3, 3.2, 3.3, 5.3

1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 5.3

1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 3.1

CBAs after each unit

Math Social Studies Science Arts

Unit 1: Routines, Review, and Assessment -Finding Differences -Analyzing and Displaying Data -Money -Patterns -Tools for Mathematics

Unit 2: Adding and Subtracting Whole Numbers -Fact Families -Number Stories: Parts-and-Total, Change, and Comparison -Algorithms: Partial Sums and Subtraction Roots of Empathy, class meetings

Unit 3: Linear Measures and Area -Standard Linear Measures -Perimeter and Area -Diameter and Circumference Unit 4: Multiplication and Division >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Africa-year long

-Multiplication Arrays -Equal Shares and Groups -Multiplication and Division Fact Families Unit 5: Place Value in Whole Numbers and Decimals

-Place Value to Millions -Place Value in Decimals Unit 6: Geometry -Parallel and Intersecting Line Segments, Rays, and Lines -Angles, Symmetry >>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Unit 7: Multiplication and Division -Patterns in Products -Fact power -Products of Tens

Unit 8: Fractions -Naming Parts with Fractions -Equivalent Fraction Comparing Fractions -Fractions Greater than One Unit 9: Multiplication and Division

-Using Mental Math to Multiply -Multiplication Algorithms -Factors

Class meetings begin (communication 1.1-1.2, 2.1-2.3)

Soils.

Soils

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Integrated language arts unit with a focus on history, trade, and geography Complete Soils Science Unit >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sustainability

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Unit 10: Measurement and Data -Review: Length -Volume, Weight, and Capacity -The Mean and the Median -Frequency Distributions -Coordinate Grid >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Unit 11: Probability -Spinner Experiments -Using Data to predict outcome

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Balancing and Weighing >>>>>>>>>>>>> Focus on the Art of different African Countries

Balancing and Weighing >>>>>>>>>>>> Ceramics

Completion of Balancing and Weighing >>>>>>>>>>>>>

Liquids

Liquids

Completion of Liquids >>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Self portraits

The arts will be integrated into classroom units of study (ex. Japanese seasonal rituals, math, Africa, parent art docent program)

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