Pulaski Elementary Third Grade Curriculum
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Language Arts
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Social Studies |
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Reading
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Writing
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| Wk 1 | Getting to know you | Semantic Mapping | Capitalization Punctuation What is a sentence? | Digits, Identify, Read&Write #'s | Rules, res- ponsibilities, family, community | Classifications Observations Sorting I can't believe my eyes! |
| Wk 2 | Compare & Contrast Fact & Opinion | Journal Writing | Types of sentences St Questions | Even/Odd, Place value | Rules, res- ponsibilities, family, community | How living things are alike Needs of plants |
| Wk 3 | Characters & setting | The writing process | Parts of a sentence commands/ ! | Rounding | Maps | Life cycle of plants |
| Wk 4 | Authors purpose | Creating sntences | Nouns subjects predicate verb | Expanded Notation | Landforms In science book | Animals: Growing & Needs |
| Wk 5 | Setting | Intro Paragraph Open response | Common nouns Thesaurus | Greater than/less than, = ,unit review | Landforms In science book |
Animals: Kinds & parts
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| Wk 6 | Cause & effect | Reflective writing personal narratives | Proper nouns writing process Test Unit I | Addition strategies, Functions | Continents & Oceans | Ecosystems |
| Wk 7 | Review | Intro to Personal narratives | Singular & plural nouns Directions Paragraphs | Addition strategies, Column + | Continents & Oceans | Food chains & Food webs |
| Wk 8 | Plot | Personal Narrative | Plurals Main Idea Letters Unit 2 | Regrouping, Calculation skills, solving to check | Countries of N. America | Roles for plants & animals |
| Wk 9 | Problems & Solutions | Personal Narrative | Possessives Common/ Proper names / titles/ places | Estimating sums | resources renewable/ nonrenew | Competition amoung living things |
| Wk 10 | Context clues Steps in a process | research for info | Contractions Common/ Proper names / titles/ places | Subtraction Strategies, Fuctions | Govt/ civics early America | Adaptation for survival |
| Wk 11 | Main Idea | Infor. paragraphs | Verbs/ predica pronouns | Regrouping with subtraction, solving to check | Govt/ civics early America | Changing ecosystems |
| Wk 12 | Summarize | Transactive Feature article | Verbs - present I/Me | Subtraction w/ regrouping, Estimate Differences | Govt/ civics early America | Minerals & rocks |
| Wk 13 | Review | Intro to Feature article | Verbs past Homophones | Value of money, Counting coins & bills | Govt/ civics early America | Kinds of soils |
| Wk 14 | Sequence Following directions | Feature Article | Subject Verb agreement Fact/ Opinion Commas | Equivalent amounts, Making change, Add&Subtract money | Govt/ civics early America | fossils & fuels |
| Wk 15 | Visualizing support w/ evidence (lists charts tables graphs parts of a book) | Feature article | Verbs - what form is it? | Telling time (Hour, half hour, 5 min) | Govt/ civics early America | Water in sea, land, sky |
| Wk 16 | Vocabulery | Feature article | Verbs Present | Elapsed time | Govt/ Civics Early America | Resources: Natural, Renewable, & Nonrenewable |
| Wk 17 | Cause Effect | Feature Article | Main & Helping Verbs Past | Calendar & Schedules | Govt/ Civics Early America | Landforms |
| Wk 18 | Character's actions | Feature Article | Prefixes Unit 5 | Rhymes & Times | Govt/ Civics Early America | Weathering & erosion |
| Wk 19 | Predicting Christmas? | Feature Article | Helping Verb 'Be' | Rhymes & Times | Govt/ Civics Early America | Natural Disasters- Hurricanes, Earthquakes, Tornados, Flood, Volcanoes |
| Wk 20 | Review | Intro to Letter writing | Irregular | Rhymes & Times | Presidents Black Hist, Cultural diversity | Weather |
| Wk 21 | Drawing conclusions Setting | Friendly Letter writing | Contractions suffixes | Graphing, Creating graphs, Ordered pairs, Multiplication , Surveys, Tally | Presidents Black Hist, Cultural diversity | Water Cycles |
| Wk 22 | Sequence | Business letter writing | Prefixes, Choosing topics, Library | Graphing, Creating Graphs, Ordered pairs, Multiplication | Presidents Black Hist, Cultural diversity | Describing weather |
| Wk 23 | Fantasy | Friendly Persuasive letter writing | Summarizing notes Unit 6 | Probability Outcomes Multiplication | Presidents Black Hist, Cultural diversity | Earths movements Day, Night, Seasons |
| Wk 24 | Making Inferences | Persuasive Business letter writing | What are adjectives | Probability, Multiplication, Line plots | Presidents Black Hist, Cultural diversity | Places on the moon |
| Wk 25 | Review | Poetry: If I were... | Adjectives: How many, what kind | Fractions | Presidents Black Hist, Cultural diversity | Sun & Planets |
| Wk 26 | Characteristics of fiction/ non fiction | Poetry | Comparing Adjectives | Fractions, Division | Physical Science Light Heat Electricity Magnets | Motion & speed |
| Wk 27 | Drawing conclusions Multiple meanings | Poetry Portfolios | Articles a,an, the | Measurement | Physical Science Light Heat Electricity Magnets | Forces |
| Wk 28 | Categorizing Info | Short story Literary writ. Portfolios | Synonyms | Measurement | Economics | Changes in Motion |
| Wk 29 | Literary Elem | Short story Portfolios | Onoma- topoeia | Solid Figures, Patterns, Perimeter | Economics | Work & machines |
| Wk 30 | Mood | Short Story Portfolios | Simple subjects predicates | Symmetry Congruence | Economics | Simple machines |
| Wk 31 | Summarizing | Practice Open Responses Portfolios | Adverbs | Review, CTBS Prep | Economics | Properties of matter, comparing solids, liquids, gases |
| Wk 32 | Setting | Practice Open Response Portfolios | Antonyms Combing sentences | Review, CTBS Prep | Economics | Physical & Chem Changes |
| Wk 33 | Theme review | Testing Portfolios | Unit 8 PAR | Review, CTBS Prep | Economics | Energy: How heat travels |
| Wk 34 | Making Inferences | Letter to reviewer Portfolios | Review | Review, CTBS Prep | Kentucky | Energy: How light travels |
| Wk 35 | Making Judgments | Portfolios | Review End of book study skills | Geometry, angles, rays | ||