Welcome to Ms. Maria’s 3RD GRADE
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This is a year of enormous growth. This is the year the students enter a larger world and take our first overnight field trip the end of the year.
UNITS OF STUDY
FALL– HISTORY/LITERATURE-/SOCIAL STUDIES
- Creation Stories of the Maidu
- Maidu People of Nevada County
- Our County Before the Gold Rush
- Wampanoags, Pilgrims and the First Thanksgiving
- Winter Revels, a Multicultural Celebration of the Season
SCIENCE
- Geology
- Equinox- and Seasons
- Bones of the Body
- Bulbs, Parts of a Plant
- Solstice and Seasons
MATH
- Place Value
- Expanded Numbers
- Rounding
- Addition & Subtraction of Multidigit Numbers.
- Polygons
- Multiplication
SPELLING- Steck-Vaugn and Houghton Mifflin
SPECIAL EVENTS AND FIELD STUDY
- Equinox Celebration
- Crocker Art Museum Trip
- Maidu Field Day at Effie Yeaw Nature Center
- The Winter Revels Performance at The Center for the Arts
- The Heifer Project- “Read to Feed” Community Service
UNITS OF STUDY
WINTER– HISTORY/LITERATURE-/SOCIAL STUDIES
- Norse Gods/Days of the Week
- Chinese New Year
- Pirates from Grammar Island
- Intro to Gold Rush and Pioneer Movement
- WRITING-
- Book Projects
- Grammar Study
- Writing Workshop
MATH-
- Multiplication as Repeated Addition,
- Arrays, Memorization, in depth study.
- Continual Review of Earlier Concepts
SPECIAL EVENTS AND FIELD STUDY
- Valentine’s Day Old-fashioned Box Lunch
- Crocker Art Museum Tour and Workshop
ONGOING CURRICULUM
- Movement, Math, Merriment, and Morning Meetings
- Leveled Reading Groups
- Verses and Songs
- Drama
- Social Curriculum
- Art
UNITS OF STUDY
SPRING- HISTORY/LITERATURE-/SOCIAL STUDIES
- Continuing in-depth study of the Pioneer Movement
- Impact of Gold Rush on the Indigenous People and Land
SCIENCE-
- Environmental Studies
- Bees
ONGOING
- Math, Art, Spelling, Writing, Music, & Social Curriculum
SPECIAL EVENTS & FIELD STUDY
- Malakoff Environmental Living Program- a two night field study
- To Malakoff State Park to re-enact a gold rush town in 1850.
- State Testing
- “Gold Dust or Bust” play performed at Malakoff Diggins
THROUGHOUT THE YEAR- Recorder, art classes, music, choir, movement, and drama.