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We're Homeschooling - Year 3! Our Curriculum 3rd Grade

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Two years of homeschooling under my belt, and I feel like I’ve really found my groove. It wasn’t hard to pick curriculum for this coming year. I knew that we wanted to be literature heavy so Build Your Library and Blossom and Root were obviously choices for us overall. Once I started looking into things, I went on a shopping spree and got my ducks in order. The hard part this coming year will be to balance each child’s individual needs and levels. Arthur will be in 3rd grade and Quentin will be in Kindergarten. I am working on creating a schedule that works for everyone while allowing for flexibility.

As a reminder, we are a pretty eclectic household with a strong literature base. My criteria when looking for curriculum:

  • secular
  • rigorous
  • wide world perspective
  • not necessarily all-in-one
  • at least some physical items, not all online
  • cheap (not necessarily the cheapest, but not expensive)

Let’s take a look at what I have for curriculum for next year!

Arthur - 3rd Grade

Math

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We will be continuing with Singapore Math Common Core Edition as our base curriculum. Arthur will be starting with 4A and push through 4B. Beyond the basic text, we will be supplementing with Khan Academy, lots of math games, and random workbooks and packets. We will also be continuing with our logic puzzles.

Language Arts

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This is Arthur’s grammar workbook selections for this year. We don’t do every page and question, but bounce around between some of them.

  • Evan Moor Daily Summer Activities 3rd to 4th Grade
  • Brainquest Summer 3&4
  • Brainiest 3rd Grade
  • Grade 3 Complete Curriculum
  • Evan Moor Daily Language Review 3rd Grade
  • Scholastic Grammar 3rd Grade
  • Scholastic Writing 3rd Grade
  • Scholastic Reading Comprehension 3rd Grade
  • Scholastic Grammar 4th Grade
  • Scholastic Writing 4th Grade
  • Scholastic Reading Comprehension 4th Grade
  • Five Below Workbooks
  • Grade 3 Readiness

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Arthur’s readers will be a mix of Blossom and Root’s Grade 3 Language Arts, Build Your Library 5, and our home library selections.

  • Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia
  • The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
  • The Beast of Buckingham Palace by David Walliams (coop book club selection)
  • The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill (coop book club selection)
  • Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert O’Brien
  • Tristan Strong Destroys the World by Kwame Mbalia
  • Wildwood by Colin Meloy
  • Winterhouse by Ben Guterson
  • The Secrets of Winterhouse by Ben Guterson
  • The Winterhouse Mysteries by Ben Guterson
  • Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate
  • The Secret Garden by France Hodgson Burnett
  • Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
  • Insignificant Events int he Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling
  • Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

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Readers continued…

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Our language arts selections also include a mini unit on Native America stories and one on Shakespeare. I found some interesting resources for those.

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And of course we have a stack of poetry selections.

Social Studies

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Arthur’s social studies will focus on the United States to coincide with our history selection.

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As our history base, Arthur is using Build Your Library Level 5 (U.S. History) combined with History Quest’s new U.S. History release.

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Our history curriculum has a ton of extra readers. I’m very excited to get to all of these.

Science

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Our science is going to be a combination of Build Your Library Level 8 (history of science), Level 4 (Physics), and RSO Physics. Lots of interesting combinations.

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In addition to our formal science curriculum, we will be doing a variety of nature science lessons. We still have a ton of leftover lessons and resources from last year.

Art

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This is actually all the art books for Quentin and Arthur. I took just one picture. Each one of their Build Your Library levels has a related art book to dip in and out of. Arthur’s selection is Great American Artists for Kids book to go along with U.S. History. Beyond that book, I imagine that we will occasionally do a art lesson on other people and styles. Plus, coop is supposed to be starting an art class. Very excited about this possibility.

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