Welcome to Mrs. Nunes' classroom site.
I am looking forward to an exciting year. Below is a curriculum list of district adopted material.
Third Grade Curriculum
Houghton Mifflin: Reading Series
Theme 1 : Off to Adventure
Theme 2 : Celebrating Traditions
Theme 3 : Incredible Stories
Theme 4 : Animal Habitats
Theme 5 : Voyagers
Theme 6 : Smart Solutions
Harcourt: Social Studies
Unit1: Our Geography
Unit 2: American Indians
Unit 3: Community History
Unit 4: Government and Citizenship
Unit 5: Standing United
Unit 6: Understanding Economics
Houghton Mifflin: Math
Chapter 1: Place Value
Chapter 2: Money and Time
Chapter 3: Addition and Subtraction
Chapter 4: Measurement
Chapter 5: Multiplication Concepts
Chapter 6: Multiplication Facts
Chapter 7: Geometry and Measurement
Chapter 8: Division Concepts
Chapter 9: Division Facts
Chapter 10: Data and Probability
Chapter 11: Fractions and Decimals
Chapter 12: Multiplying and Dividing
Harcourt: Science
Unit A: Life Science- Survival of Living Things
Unit B: Earth Science- The Solar System
Unit C: Physical Science- Investigating Matter
Zaner-Bloser: Spelling
Unit 1: Short a, Short i
Unit 2: Short o, Short e
Unit 3: Short u
Unit 4: ou, oi
Unit 5: ew, oo
Unit 6: Review
Unit 7: Vowel Constant e
Unit 8: Long a: ai, ay
Unit 9: Long e: ee, ea
Unit 10: Long i: i, igh
Unit 11: Long o: ow, oa,o
Unit 12: Review
Unit 13: sh, ch, tch, th, wr, ck
Unit 14: Constants: /ĵ/, /ŝ/
Unit 15: Digraphs, Clusters
Unit 16: The Schwa Sound
Unit 17: Words Writers Use
Unit 18: Review
Unit 19: Vowel /o/
Unit 20: r-Controlled Vowel: /or/
Unit 21: r-Controlled Vowel: /ür/
Unit 22: r-Controlled Vowel: /är/
Unit 23: Homophones
Unit 24: Review
Unit 25: Double Consonants
Unit 26: Double Consonants + y
Unit 27: Adding – ing
Unit 28: Adding –ed and –ing
Unit 29: Contractions
Unit 30: Review
Unit 31: Plurals: -s, -es
Unit 32: Irregular Plurals
Unit 33: Suffixes: -er, -est
Unit 34: Suffix: -ly
Unit 35: Compound Words
Unit 36: Review
Houghton Mifflin: Grammar
Unit 1: The Sentence
Unit 2 : Nouns
Unit 3: Verbs
Unit 4: Adjectives and Adverbs
Unit 5: Capitalization and Punctuation
Unit 6: Pronouns
Writing: Step Up to Writing
Writing Process
Expository
Narratives
Book Summaries
Note Taking
Homework
Assigned: Monday – Thursday
Read 20 minutes nightly and record in Reading Log
A.R. Goals % for each Trimester (found on front of Reading Log)
Trimester 2
December 5 - 25%
January 16 - 50%
February 6 - 75%
March 6 - 100%
Trimester 3
March 28- 25%
April 24 - 50%
May 8 - 75%
May 29- 100%
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