What Your 3rd Grader Needs to Know
Item #: | BM-020313 |
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ISBN: | 9780553394665 |
Grades: | 3 |
Product Description:
The 3rd Grade edition is divided into the sections of Language and Literature, History and Geography, Visual Arts, Music, Mathematics, and Science. ‘Language and Literature’ covers poetry, stories, mythology, myths from Ancient Greece and Rome, and familiar phrases. In the margins of the stories, new words are listed along with questions to ask your child about the story content. Grammar includes writing a letter, reports, five parts of speech, and punctuation. ‘History and Geography’ covers Ancient Roman history, the Vikings, and American history though the colonies. ‘Art’ explores popular pieces, lines, shapes, and colors move. Music covers the elements of music and instruments, composers (Tchaikovsky, John Sousa, Aaron Copland), and folk songs. ‘Mathematics’ covers multiplication, division, numbers through 100,000, working with numbers, time, money, graphs, geometry, measurement, roman numerals, and fractions. ‘Science’ concepts include classifying animals, the human body, light and vision, sound and hearing, astronomy, and ecology. 489 pgs., pb ~Amber
Publisher Description:
Give your child a smart start with the revised and updated What Your Third Grader Needs to Know
What should your child learn in the third grade? How can you help him or her at home? This book answers these important questions and more, offering the specific shared knowledge that thousands of parents and teachers across the nation have agreed upon for American third graders. Featuring sixteen pages of full-color illustrations, a bolder, easier-to-follow format, and a thoroughly updated curriculum, What Your Third Grader Needs to Know is designed for parents and teachers to enjoy with children. Hundreds of thousands of children have benefited from the Core Knowledge Series. This edition, featuring a new Introduction, gives today’s generation of third graders the advantage they need to make progress in school and to establish an approach to learning that will last a lifetime. In this book you’ll discover