| Third grade at MAK provides a rich opportunity for students to transition from their primary to intermediate elementary school years through effective work in large groups, small groups, and individual settings.
We study the following subjects in third grade:
-Reading: We read high-quality stories for group instruction from our reading anthology, work in a Reader's Workshop format to match students with appropriate books and to build independent reading skills, and we work in literatures to help students discuss and engage in their reading, moving towards a deeper understanding.
-Writing: We study the Writing Process and help students to build their skills in pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing their work. In addition, our school uses the 6-traits model of writing to encourage students to enrich their writing by focusing on their ideas and content, word choice, organization, sentence fluency, conventions, and voice. Spelling and word knowledge is an additional emphasis of our day as students work to gain a firm understanding of English words. Finally, third grade students learn cursive handwriting and begin keyboarding as a means of communicating their words in written form.
-Speaking/Listening: Students work on communicating effectively through group meetings, class speeches, singing, and other activities
-Technology: Our class learns to communicate via e-mail and we regularly use educational links to enhance student learning.
-Math: Third graders engage in problem solving activities and traditional math practice to gain a rich understanding of place value and money, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, geometry, measurement, fractions, and probability/graphs.
-Science: Third grade students study Earth science by focusing on the stars and night sky, the environmental and biological diversity in life science, and energy, matter, and light in physical science.
-Social studies: Our social studies curriculum is themed around communities as we discover how governments work, learn about communities and geography, culture, economics, and people who have made significant accomplishments in science and technology (history).
-Bible: Biblical principles are foundational to our classroom climate. Academically, we focus on the life of Jesus and work on key memory verses to enhance our understanding of the Bible.
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Mrs. Smucker 
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