3rd
(This information taken from The Home School Manual by Theodore E. Wade, Jr. and Others)

SOCIAL STUDIES

● Holidays and folk customs
● Native Americans
● Explorers and pioneers
● Appreciation of different cultures, races, and religions
● History and development of local community
● Community helpers
● Consumers and producers
● Sources of our food and clothing
● Shelters of animals and people
● History and development of transportation and communication
● Citizenship and social responsibility
● Basic human needs and wants
● Local region's geography and topography
● US geography and regions
● The continents
● Flat maps and globes

SCIENCE

● Animal helpers
● Dinosaurs
● Life cycle
● Plants and animals of the desert
● Plants and animals of the sea
● Common birds, trees, and flowers
● Forest plants
● Conservation of plants and animals
● Weather and climate
● Earth's changing face
● Magnets and electricity
● Compass
● Gravity
● Light and color
● Energy and its sources
● Force and work
● Machines
● Moon and stars
● Earth satellites

LANGUAGE ARTS

● Silent reading
● Reading prose and poetry aloud
● Oral presentations: reporting experiences orally with accuracy
● Alphabetizing through third letter
● Dictionary skills
● Developing word-attack methods
● Synonyms, antonyms, homonyms
● Spelling
● Beginning cursive writing
● Concepts of paragraph
● Using period, comma, question mark, apostrophe, quotation marks
● Writing short, original stories and poems
● Postwriting skills: editing and proofreading
● Increasing indexing skills

HEALTH AND SAFETY

● Care of eyes and ears
● Dental health
● Proper balance of activities
● Healthful leisure activities
● Prevention and control of diseases
● Parts of the body
● Nutrition
● Health with relation to food, shelter, and clothing
● School and community health services
● Home safety hazards
● Safety in the community
● Simple first aid
MATHEMATICS

● Reading and writing numbers to 5 places
● Beginning Roman numerals
● Rounding numbers
● Positive and negative numbers in daily life
● Simple fractions and equivalents
● Properties of one
● Numeration systems
● Addition and subtraction facts to 25
● Multiplication and division facts to 100
● Perimeter, area, volume
● Geometric constructions
● Similar and congruent figures
● Properties of solid figures
● Customary and metric measurement
● Time to 1- and 5-minute measures
● Estimation of outcomes
● Problem-solving analysis
● Word problems
● Charts and graphs

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