Amesbury Seventh-day Adventist School

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Grade 3

Curriculum:

  • BIBLE

    • Accepting His Plan: for the universe, for peace

    • Lucifer’s disruption

    • Plan of Redemption: Promise of Redeemer

    • Testing of Plan: Job, Tower of Babel

    • Fulfillment of His Promise: through john the Baptist, life and death and resurrection of Christ

    • Plan for His church

    • Revealing His plan: E. G. White, messages to the church

    • Plan for each individual

    • Fulfillment of His plan: second coming

    • Reverence for God and His Word

  • ART

    • Primary and secondary colors

    • Tints and shades, warm and cool

    • 3-D shapes

    • Color mixing

    • Elements and principles of design

    • Positive and negative space

    • Parallel and diagonal

    • Variety of form, color, texture, and shape

    • Cultural influences on art

    • Visual awareness: home, community, advertisement

    • Acquaintance with well-known artists and their works

    • Natural and man-made art

  • COMPUTERS

    • Practice drills

    • How computer works

    • Simulation games

    • Spell checker

    • Viewing and printing

    • Internal computer parts

    • Early computing devices

    • Electronic advances in computers

    • Keyboarding hand positions

    • Entering and editing text

    • Directories

    • Word processing

  • LANGUAGE ARTS

    • Reading and Literature

      • Read at instructional level

      • Read independently

      • Word analysis: root words, prefixes and suffixes, syllabication, context clues

      • Comprehension: details, main idea, cause and effect, making inferences

      • Vocabulary: idioms, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms

    • Speaking

      • Pronunciation and usage

      • Discussion and conversation

      • Telephone courtesy

      • Introduction, directions

      • Variety of presentations

    • Spelling

      • Assigned words

      • Rules

      • Spells correctly in written work

    • Listening

      • Courtesy and appreciation

      • Information

      • Critical thinking: fact versus opinion, persuasive words, nonverbal clues

    • Writing

      • Transition from manuscript to cursive

      • Parts of speech

      • Types of sentences

      • Capitalization and punctuation

      • Composition: paragraphs, reports, letters, poetry, dialogue

      • Writing process: draft, write, edit, and revise

    • Study Skills and Reference

      • Alphabetizing to third letter

      • Test taking

      • Completing forms

      • Glossary, Dictionary, and Encyclopedia

  • MATHEMATICS

    • Reading and writing numbers and place value

    • Expanded notation

    • Rounding numbers

    • Division facts

    • Properties: associative, commutative

    • Addition and subtraction with regrouping

    • Word problems

    • Estimation

    • Beginning Roman numerals

    • Simple fractions and equivalents

    • Perimeter, area, volume

    • Time and money skills

    • Standard and metric measurement: linear, mass, temperature

    • Geometric figures

    • Collect, organize, and interpret data

  • MUSIC

    • Recognize and reproduce rhythms

    • Major and minor melody

    • Two-part rounds

    • Chord changes

    • Cumulative singing Introduction, interludes, codas

    • Eighth notes and rests

    • Symbols ‘p’, ‘mp’, ‘mf’, ‘f’

    • Musical tones

    • Instrument families Operetta

    • Music from other countries

    • Hymns

    • Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal

    • Classroom singing

  • PHYSICAL EDUCATION

    • Motor skills

      • ball, balance, individual activities, relays, lead-up games for team sports

    • Fitness

      • testing, running, jogging, heart rate monitoring

    • Positive attitudes

      • self-worth, self-control, responsibility

    • Concepts

      • safety, rules of health, movement principles, body systems

    • Interpersonal skills

      • cooperation, sportsmanship, leadership

  • SCIENCE & HEALTH+

    • Man: God’s highest creation

    • Handling family crises, divorce, death

    • Heredity and learned behavior

    • Self-esteem

    • Health habits

    • Animals: insects, birds, fish, mammals

    • Digestive system

    • God’s natural laws: magnetism, inertia, friction, electricity, gravity

    • Solar system and space

 

 

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