Child's illustrated diagram entitled How a House is Built

Second/Third Grade Main Lesson Blocks

  • Fables and Nature Tales
  • Dreamers and Doers
  • Creation Stories from Around the World
  • Farming
  • Shelters around the World
  • Stories of the Ancient Hebrew People
  • Language Arts: Grammar
  • Math: Place Value, Measurement, Money
  • Class Play

Third Grade Language Arts

  • Mastery of cursive writing
  • Copying and taking dictation of narrative and descriptive compositions
  • Writing of individual compositions, journal entries, and simple book reports
  • Spelling patterns and rules
  • Capitalization, proper nouns
  • Punctuation, Commas and end punctuations
  • Four types of sentences
  • Parts of speech, cont.
  • Homonyms, synonyms, antonyms
  • Narrative sequence, reviewing, discussing, and dramatizing stories from Mian Lesson
  • Group and individual reading of main lesson material and class room readers
  • Sharing news and personal experiences
  • Tongue twisters, speech exercises
  • Poetry & prose recitation

Third Grade Math

  • Review and extension of all previous work — addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
  • Vertical multiplication
  • Introduction to long division
  • Practical math
  • Memorization of basic facts; addition and multiplication
  • Problem solving, cont.
  • Long multiplication
  • Introduction to long division
  • Various forms of measurement
  • Problem solving with measurement
  • Geometry (Form Drawing):
    • Review and extension of previous content
    • Progressions, moving forms
    • Symmetry, cont.; horizontal & radial symmetry
    • Introduction to cursive writing