Curriculum 2012-13

2012 - 2013 School Year - 3rd Grade

Daily:

           Reading, Grammar, Spelling: (30, 30, 10)

           Writing - cursive writing: (20)

           Mathematics: (50)

           Foreign Language -  Spanish (30)
           1/2 days @ Chandler for PE, Music, Art?

Weekly:

           History- Monday/Wednesday - corresponding necessary information to a time line or map (50)

           Physical Strength - Dancing begin Fall 2012 (60)

           Nature Study/Life Science- Chemisty Fall 2012 Tuesday/Thursday (50)
           Matin Latin - Level 2 (30)

          

We will be doing an artist focus in the fall and a composer over the winter and famous person in history focus in the spring:

• Michelangelo or Leonardo da Vinci
• Mozart
• Harriet Tubman or William Llyod Garrison

Booklist for Mara next year:
**Items in bold are to be borrowed from our public library in the spring term.

Seabird, Holling C. Holling

Marie Curie's Search for Radium
Marco Polo

(Handbook of Nature Study) online
Bauer's, Story of the World: Late Ren-Early Modern & Usborne Book of World History
This Country of Ours online edition
Nature with Children
Garden Gates
World Myths and Folk Tales
Detective Science
Abeka Math 3
Mathemagic by Childcraft
Writing with Ease 2, Susan W. Bauer
The Story of Mathematics by Anne Rooney
           

Look at poetry from these poets:

           

            Edgar Allen Poe: “The Raven”

            Alfred Lord Tennyson: “The Lady of Shalott” and “The Charge of the Light Brigade”
            Christina Rosetti: “Goblin Market,” “A Birthday,” “Sister Maude”, “No, Thank You, John”

            William Wordsworth: Collected Poems
               Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

Literature:

Don Quixote, retold by Michael Harrison. - portions of the text
“A Voyage to Lilliput” and “A Voyage to Brobdingnag” from Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift.
Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan, or Pilgrim’s Progress : A Retelling by Gary D. Schmidt
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle, Washington Irving.
Robert Browning: “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”
Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
“The Way to Wealth,” Benjamin Franklin.  In Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography and Other Writings
Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
East O’ the Sun and West O’ the Moon : Fifty-Nine Norwegian Folk Tales, by Peter Christen Asbjrnsen
Narrative of the  Life of Frederick Douglass, an American  Slave: Written by Himself, Frederick Douglass

Children of the New Forest

The Jungle Book

At the Back of the North Wind

The Bears of Blue River

The Saturdays

Gone Away Lake

King of the Wind

Mother Carey's Chickens

The Enchanted Castle

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates

The Bestiary: A book of Beasts

Dido and Pa

The Three Royal Monkeys

Oliver Twist

The House of Sixty Fathers

The Book of British Fairy Tales

Voyage Round the Horn

Are all the Giants Dead?

The Diamond in the Window

The Queens Brooch

The Trumpeter of Krakow

The Children of Green Knowe

The Stranger at Green Knowe

The Thirteen Clocks

The Last Guru