Reading-Language Arts

• Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development
• Reading Comprehension
• Literary Response and Analysis
• Writing Strategies
• Writing Applications
• Written and Oral English Language Conventions
• Listening and Speaking Strategies
• Speaking Applications
  
  

Mathematics

By the end of grade three, students deepen their understanding of place value and their understanding of and skill with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers. Students estimate, measure, and describe objects in space. They use patterns to help solve problems. They represent number relationships and conduct simple probability experiments.

History-Social Science

Continuity and Change:

Students in grade three learn more about our connections to the past and the ways in which particularly local, but also regional and national, government and traditions have developed and left their marks on current society, providing common memories. Emphasis is on the physical and cultural landscape of California, including the study of American Indians, the subsequent arrival of immigrants, and the impact they have had in forming the character of our contemporary society.

Science

1. Energy and matter have multiple forms and can be changed from one form to another.
2. Light has a source and travels in a direction.
3. Adaptations in physical structure or behavior may improve an organism�s chance for survival.
4. Objects in the sky move in regular and predictable patterns.