Grammar School: Third Grade Lesson plan

Language

- spelling 15 minutes per day

- reading 30 minutes

- formal grammar 20-30 minutes per day

- memory work 10 minutes per day

- read fun books 30-60 minutes per day

- continue penmanship

Writing

- working on longer letters to friends and family, once a week

- beginning creative writing

- book reports

Math

learning a concept or doing a drill 40 - 60 minutes a day

- multiplication tables 7-12

- roman numerals

- adding/carrying with large numbers

- subtracting/borrowing with large numbers

- rounding

History - Late Renaissance - early modern times (1600-1850) - 3 hours a week

-reading history books to the child

-assigning easy biographies

-making a history notebook

-List of historical topics to cover:

the Mayflower

early American settlements

Russia under Peter the Great and his successors

Prussia in the eighteenth century

the Enlightenment

the agricultural revolution

Native American cultures

the British in India

the French Revolution

British-French conflict in Canada

the American Revolution

the Napoleonic Wars

the industrial revolution

Simon Bolivar's fight for independence in South America

the siege of the Alamo

the California gold rush

Australia's beginnings as a penal colony

-List of great men and women to cover:

Mary Stuart Queen of Scots

Tokugawa Ieyasu

James I of England

Queen Nzinga of Angola

Shah Jahan

Oliver Cromwell

Charles I

Rembrandt

John Milton

Robert Boyle

Louis XIV of France

Isaac Newton

William Penn

Peter I (Peter the Great)

Yoshimune

Johann Sebastian Bach

Frederick William I (Frederick the Great)

Benjamin Franklin

Qianlong

Maria Theresa

Catherine the Great

George Washington

Franz Joseph Haydn

Thomas Jefferson

Betsy Ross

Phyllis Wheatley

Louis XVI

Marie Antoinette

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

George III of England

Eli Whitney

Captain James Cook

Tecumseh

Napoleon

Ldwig van Beethoven

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

Simon Bolivar

Shaka Zulu

Sacagawea

Nat Turner

Science: basic chemistry twice a week 60-90 minutes each session

Latin: memorize vocabulary; study daily

Religion: learning about world religions through the study of history and our family's faith during family time - at least 15-20 minutes daily.

Art: at least 1 hour per week doing picture study and art projects

Music: spending 1 hour per week listening to classical music and studying a composer

Piano lessons

U.S. History: Studying the Presidents and the beginning of our country