Third Grade

This is a big year of change for the nine year-old, as they begin to realize they are leaving behind young childhood and must start to learn to make their way in the world. In this exciting year, the children immerse themselves in all things practical and grounded, and learn a variety of new skills through hands-on activities and projects.

The children will learn and experience many “practical activities” in third grade including farming and gardening, cooking, shelter building, food preservation, clothing and fibers, and environmental geography. In math, they will work on learning their multiplication tables, double-digit multiplication, and explore much larger concepts like measurement, time, and money. In language arts they will hear ancient Hebrew creation stories and Native American legends and work on basic composition skills, cursive handwriting, parts of speech, and grammar and punctuation. In the arts they will learn recorder, clay modeling, more detailed watercolor painting, and crochet.