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RJA Third Grade Curriculum

Language Arts


Conceptual Skills
  • Reading comprehension
  • Listening comprehension
  • Inferential thinking
  • Identification of story dements
  • Asking and answering questions to demonstrate understanding of fiction and non-fiction texts
  • Retelling stories and determining their main idea
  • Using text features to locate information
  • Using strategies to determine the meaning of new vocabulary
  • Making personal connections
  • Study of different genres and their features
  • Writing: creative, research, descriptive, narrative, expository, persuasive
  • Responding to literature
    Mechanical Skills 
  • Reading with fluency, accuracy, and expression to support comprehension
  • Self correct reading mistakes
  • Grammar
  • Writing multiple paragraphs within both fictional and non- fictional themes
    Using the writing process

Judaic Studies


Tefilah (Prayer)
  • Expanded morning service including conversations and learning activities.
Chumash (Bible)
  • Introduction to the Chumash structure and language; study of parashat Lech Lecha
Jewish Holidays
  • The Jewish holidays, Laws, customs and traditions using expanded Hebrew vocabulary, stories and songs.
Resources
  • Beresheet (Genesis)
  • Tal Am Library
Events
  • Chumash Ceremony

Math


 Skills
  • Understanding of place value to 10,000s
  • Estimate - benchmark numbers and rounding
  • Understanding regrouping
  • Use fact families
  • Calculate products and quotients
  • Use arrays to understand multiplication
  • 2 and 3 digit multiplication
  • 2 and 3 digit division with and without remainders
  • Understand fractions
  • Understand equivalent fractions
  • Learn to compare fractions using symbols
  • Add and subtract fractions with like denominators
  • Use tally charts, line plots and graphs to organize data
  • Understand median, mean, mode, and range
  • Understand perimeter, area, and volume
  • Length, capacity, weight; customary and metric


Hebrew

Reading
  • Development of fluency, accuracy, and comprehension;
  • Teacher modeled reading activities, shared, guided, and independent reading activities
Writing
  • Writing longer Hebrew paragraphs
  Speaking
  • Apply Hebrew vocabulary learned by initiating conversations, emphasis on the topics of being a good friend and a successful student
Listening
  • Strengthen Hebrew comprehension skills by hearing conversation on a wider range of topics connected to lessons and students’ lives
Resources
Haverim B’Ivrit
Tal Am Library



Science

Content
  • Introduction to physical science (pushes and pulls, simple machines, magnetism and electricity)
Skills
  • Observing
  • Predicting
  • Concluding
  • Record keeping
  • Labeling
  • Investigating
  • Measuring
  • Hypothesizing
  • Recording Data
  • Interpreting Data

Social Studies

 Content
  • Communities are born, communities grow and change, communities thrive
Skills
  • Non-fiction listening comprehension
  • Non-fiction reading comprehension
  • Guided research
  • Use Grid maps to find a location
  • Use map scale to calculate approximate distance

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