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3rd Grade

Deepening Your Child's Understanding Across Subject Areas

3rd Third Grade Virtual School StudentMeteorologist. Map-maker. Storyteller. Citizen. Calvert's accredited 3rd Grade homeschool curriculum invites your child to 'live the lessons' while exploring the world through Science, Social Studies, English Language Arts, and Math.

 

With Calvert's detailed Lesson Manuals as your guide, you will help your child:

  • Explore the elements of narrative through the fables, folktales, and myths of diverse cultures.
  • Understand how geography informs how we live by studying different regions and cultures of the U.S.
  • Study our three branches of government and the meaning of citizenship.
  • Apply basic economic concepts in engaging projects.
  • Develop logical reasoning and engineering design skills while investigating the principles of force and motion and the life cycles of plants.

Continuing to build math skills learned in 2nd Grade, your child will work with fractions, two-step word problems, multiplication, and shapes.

 

Providing Everything You Need to Teach Your 3rd Grader

Our virtual school program includes everything you need to successfully educate your child at home:

  • Best-of-class texts, online resources, and manipulatives from top education publishers.
  • Lesson Manuals with daily lesson plans and step-by-step instructions.
  • An online learning platform, the Calvert Teaching Navigator, that provides 24/7 access to texts, manuals, interactive activities, assessments and progress tracking tools, and more.
  • Free support from state-certified teachers who help with curriculum questions, alternative teaching approaches, and keeping students on-track.

 

Discover What Your Child Will Learn In 3rd Grade

English Language Arts

Students read cross-curricular texts to increase subject knowledge and practice complex phonics concepts. They write daily and compose an advertisement about an extreme place to live.

Math

Lessons employ active digital resources such as a digital place-value chart, used with base-ten blocks to model addition and subtraction, and a digital beam balance to practice mental math and estimation. Students learn about angles and lines, polygons, and area and perimeter by designing a wildlife sanctuary.

Social Studies

Virtual labs provide an opportunity for students to practice gathering evidence and defending their claims. The Grade 3 curriculum weaves S.T.E.M. skills into lessons to spark a child's curiosity about these fields. Students learn about plant and animal reproduction, inheritance, and life cycles by devising a plan to save the bee population.

Social Studies

This year, students develop ideas for helping their communities and starting their own business. Project-based learning helps students grasp the concepts of economics. Students learn about civics by developing and implementing a community service project.

Art & Picture Study

Budding artists learn drawing skills using lines, light sources, and motion while discussing and analyzing famous works of art.

Physical Education

Children learn about warm-up and cool down, water safety, goal setting, nutrition, muscle strength and flexibility and are required to participate in regular physical activity.

 

Learn More About Our Program

  • Contact us for enrollment information.
  • Call us at 573-472-2581.

 

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Stemming from its beginnings more than 100 years ago at the prestigious Calvert School in Maryland, the Calvert curriculum has been used by hundreds of thousands of students schooling at home in all 50 states and in more than 90 countries around the world. Today, Calvert’s curriculum is used worldwide in homes, virtual schools, and blended learning environments. 

Take a look at Calvert and you’ll find an impressive list of families and alumnae. Among so many others, President Barack Obama, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Pearl S. Buck, and political commentator William F. Buckley were at one time or another all Calvert students.

With Calvert, you will receive proven and time-tested curriculum, recognized for excellence by educators and parents alike as the finest curriculum available today for families who make the choice to school at home.

 

Providing an extraordinary foundation of knowledge at your fingertips

Calvert’s fully accredited curriculum provides a fundamental platform for your child to thrive educationally. It combines classroom-tested materials, teacher-approved lesson plans, and proven educational methods. Fun and engaging projects build creative thinking and problem-solving skills. With a focus on fundamental skill development, your student will be encouraged to explore, discover, and excel, while developing a strong foundation of learning concepts that will lead to academic success for years to come.

This engaging and comprehensive curriculum is crafted by specialists, all of whom are former educators. It utilizes the best text offerings available along with online learning tools and resources that make it easy to provide your child with a dynamic, fun, and enriching learning experience.

The Calvert curriculum includes comprehensive lesson plans, which Calvert parents will tell you are the “gold” of the Calvert experience. With complete daily plans for all subjects, these indispensable resources provide detailed, step-by-step instructions, a list of daily online resources and books, as well as countless tips and helpful hints gleaned from decades of experience. Calvert lessons are available in both printed and online versions.

 

Calvert is accredited by the Commission on Elementary Schools (a division of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools) and approved by the Maryland Department of Education, so you can be assured that your child is presented with relevant and exceptional instructional content.