Grade 3: weeks 1-6
Renaissance History:
Text:
An Island Story
(not used during these
first six weeks, except to review Q. Elizabeth 1 &
Shakespeare)
Week 1:
(Review Queen Elizabeth 1's
life, either
using Chps 66-73 in AIS or another book, such
as Diane Stanley's Good Queen Bess.
*Supplemental: Joan of Arc (1412-31)
Week 2: Chps 1-6: The Shakespeare Stealer
vocab-
I suggest writing these words on
a paper
or cards and then going over the simple
definitions with the student before the
chapter reading. (The first week has a lot
of words, due to the unfamiliar era, but
subsequent weeks do not have many.)
Chp 1: rector, parish, apprentice
apothecary
Chp 2: concealed, rapier, signature
tunic
Chp 3: pallet, parson
Chp 4: garret, pewter
Chp 5: genial, cordial, surreptitious
Chp 6: cathedral, curfew, plague
street vendor
Week 3:
The Shakespeare Stealer
(chapters 7-12)
vocab-
Chp 7: snare
Chp 9: duel
Week 4: The
Shakespeare Stealer
(chapters 13-18)
Week 5: The
Shakespeare Stealer
(chapters 19-24)
Week 6: The
Shakespeare Stealer
(chapters 25-27 (end)
Shakespeare Stories
(Hamlet: pp. 169-204)
Week 1: Justin
Morgan Had a Horse
(chapters 1-5)
Week 2:
Justin Morgan Had a Horse
(chapters 6-10)
Week 3:
Justin Morgan Had a Horse
(chapters 11-15)
Week 4:
Justin Morgan Had a Horse
(chapters 16-18)
The Railway Children
(chapters 1-2)
Week 5: The
Railway Children
(chapters 3-7)
Week 6: The
Railway Children
(chapters 8-12)
Poetry:
Read one or two poems aloud from
Favorite Poems Old & New
daily.
Reading: Assign a
chapter (or so) of reading each day. Have
your student find one word he's not familiar with and
then you give the definition, talk about its context,
and have him tell you a sentence with the word in it.
Then have him give a verbal or short written narration
of the chapter.
(Your 3rd grader shouldn't take more than 1/2 hr to
read the assignment. If it is taking longer, read the
remaining portion aloud to your student.)
Phonics Skilltext D/4: approx. 1pp a day
(Language Practice 3: I suggest starting it in January-- good practice for standardized tests)
Spelling:
week 1: Use this week to determine where to start your
student in Spelling Power, following the Quick
Steps found at the beginning of the book.
weeks 2-6: follow Spelling Power's guidelines
Primary Language Lessons:
Lessons 1-15
*This book
is intended for use in both 3rd & 4th grades. In order to finish it in
two school years (36weeks each), strive to complete 2.5 lessons per week:
2 lessons one week, 3 the next. I suggest that on the weeks when only
2 lessons are done, that a previous lesson be redone or reviewed.
The Burgess Bird Book:
Read one chapter per week
(Coming next year: Jack's Insects by Edmond
Selous!)
Nature Walk/outing:
Try to do two outings per week.
On at least one of the outings, have your student
focus on one particular group of living things (i.e. mammals, insects,
birds, flowers, etc) Briefly read to yourself one or two lessons about
that group in the Handbook of
Nature Study and share an interesting fact concerning it with
your student at some point during the outing.
Have your student record observations in the nature notebook, perhaps including one of the appropriate verses found in the Handbook.
Geology & Crafts
Week 1- read: How to
Dig a Hole to the Other Side of the World
read: Geology Crafts (pp. 14-15) Molten to the Core
*some evolutionary content
do:
craft in Geology Crafts: Earth balls (pp.16-17)
Week 2-
read: Rocks & Minerals
(pp. 10-11) Third Rock from the Sun
do: craft in Geology Crafts: Planet mobile (pp. 11-13)
Week 3- read: Rocks &
Minerals (pp. 6-11) Third Rock from the Sun
do: craft in Geology Crafts: Planet mobile (pp. 11-13)
Week 4- read: Rocks &
Minerals (pp.12-13) Restless Earth
read: Geology Crafts (pp. 18-19) Our Ever-Moving Ever-Changing
world
do: craft in Geology Crafts: a model convection cell (pp.
20-21)
Week 5-
read: Geology Crafts:
(pp. 22-23) Plate tectonics
do: craft in Geology Crafts: jigsaw puzzle (pp. 24-25
Week 6-
read: Geology Crafts:
(pp. 26-28) Earthquakes
do: craft in Geology Crafts: seismograph (pp. 28-29)