Third Grade Academics

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What will my child learn?

English Language Arts

Standards

• Wisconsin English Language Arts Standards (Revised 2020)

Resources

• Curriculum Map
• Scope and Sequence

Third Grade Units

Parent Resources for ELA

• RAZ Information for Families
  Your child has access to an award winning literacy resource. Click on this link to learn more about Raz Plus from Learning A-Z!
• Act 20 Resources & Family Activities

Math

Standards

• Wisconsin Math Standards (revised 2020)

Resources

• Scope and Sequence

Third Grade Units

Parent Resources

• Math at Home – collection of activities, organized by mathematical content, uses familiar routines that can be used by students and families.
• Math Apps – free apps that are based on the visual models student use in Bridges in Mathematics

Social Studies

Standards

Wisconsin Social Studies Standards

Third Grade Units

Science

Standards

• Wisconsin Science Standards

Third Grade Units

Social Emotional Learning

Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) helps children develop the skills they need to succeed in school and in life. These include:

• Understanding and managing emotions
• Making responsible decisions
• Showing empathy and kindness
• Building positive friendships
• Solving problems in peaceful ways

SEL supports the whole child—academically, socially, and emotionally—helping students feel safe, confident, and ready to learn.

Elementary school is a time when children are learning how to navigate the world around them. As they grow, they begin to understand themselves, others, and how to work together. SEL helps students:

• Develop self-confidence and independence
• Learn how to handle big emotions
• Build friendships and resolve conflicts
• Follow directions and stay focused in class
• Create a strong sense of belonging at school

When students feel supported socially and emotionally, they are more engaged in learning and better prepared for future academic success.

KUSD uses the Second Step Elementary program, a trusted, research-based curriculum that teaches SEL skills in a developmentally appropriate and engaging way.  Second Step lessons are taught in the elementary classroom and focus on:

• Skills for Learning – Listening, focusing attention, and being assertive
• Empathy – Understanding and caring about others’ feelings
• Emotion Management – Recognizing strong emotions and calming down
• Problem-Solving – Using step-by-step strategies to make good choices

Lessons include stories, songs, discussions, games, and role-playing to help students practice their skills in fun and meaningful ways.

• Second Step
• CASEL
• WI DPI Social Emotional Learning

Physical Education

All K-5 students in the Kenosha Unified School District participate in physical education for 75 minutes per week.

Wisconsin Physical Education Standards

Music

All K-5 students in the Kenosha Unified School District participate in general music for 45 minutes per week.

• National Core Arts Standards

Third Grade Learning Objectives for Music

Students will demonstrate and understand:

• Rhythm Patterns
  • Half note, Half Rest
• Pitch (High and low sounds)
  • Treble clef musical staff
  • Notes on a line or space
  • Read and notate notes on the lines and spaces of the treble clef staff

Demonstrated Vocal Skills

• Sing accurately in head voice, with or without accompaniment
• Sing a variety of songs including rounds and partner songs

Demonstrated Instrumental Skills

• Perform pulse and rhythm on classroom percussion instruments
• Perform simple melodies using pitched instruments
• Proper playing technique on classroom percussion instruments

Demonstrated Performance Skills

• Follow the cues of a conductor with regard to nuance
• Perform various dynamics and tempi

Demonstrated Interaction with Music

• Dynamics
  • Crescendo and decrescendo
  • Mezzo forte and Mezzo piano
• Form
  • Identify AB, ABA and rondo form and introduction
  • Explore musical phrase
• Music Reading
  • Measure, bar line, repeat sign
• Pulse/Meter
  • Time signatures of 2/4, 3/4, 4/4 
• Tempo 
  • Accelerando and ritardando
  • Andante and allegro
• Identify the expressive intent of music
• Identify characteristics of various styles/genres of music
• Creatively move to music with or without form

Art

All K-5 students in the Kenosha Unified School District participate in art for 45 minutes per week. 

• National Core Arts Standards

Third Grade Learning Objectives for Visual Art

Elements and Principles of Art

• Shape/Form
  • Creates and uses basic 3D shapes (which give illusion to 3D form).
  • Cone, sphere, cylinder, pyramid and cube.
• Space
  • Identifies and creates depth using foreground, middleground and background.
• Color
  • Understands the following fundamentals of warm, cool, and neutral colors:
  • Warm colors advance: Red, Yellow, Orange
  • Cool colors recede: Blue, Purple, Green
  • Basic neutral colors make colors darker, lighter, brighter, or duller: brown, black, gray, and white
• Proportion
  •  When all sizes make sense and all parts relate well to each other.

Artistic Process

• Creates personally satisfying artwork using a variety of artistic processes and materials. (Including 2D and 3D artwork)

Craftsmanship

• Prepares works of art, including artists’ statements, for presentation. 

Responding

• Evaluates art works ability to communicate a message.
• Speculates about processes an artist uses to create a work of art.

Connecting

• Explores and explains how different cultures record history through art and that art opinions change depending on the knowledge of the time and place in which it was created.
• Develops a work of art based on observations of surroundings.

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