Third Grade Summer Review: Montessori Full Curriculum | ELA, Math, Science

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Shooting Star Academy’s full curriculum Third Grade class gives learners a complete classroom experience with writing, STEM science, reading time, beginning linguistics in Spanish, advanced English Language Arts, and Montessori math. Our teachers work hard to ensure each student’s needs are met, and these courses are designed so that a learner can come and go each week as needed. We do not build upon previous content, so it isn’t necessary to attend every week consecutively.

Each lesson begins with calendar time, charting the weather, and sharing time. 

English days consist of Montessori Grammar symbols, beginning Spanish concepts (like “what day of the week is it?”, or “what is the most common weather type in class?”), punctuation, intro to writing paragraphs, and/or story time. 

Science days incorporate STEM projects or experimental worksheets that will be based on our monthly themes. Projects will be completed several times per month (we supply monthly schedules upon enrolling), and we will work on matching, identifying, and classifying. 

Math days use a variety of techniques between Montessori and Reggio Emilia. This age group will have topics that range from money proficiency, to addition, subtraction, multiplication and division fact families and use them in equations and two-step word problems. We will use several manipulatives which will be posted as necessary over the course of the year. 

All manipulatives will be provided weekly to the student and parents in the classroom tab by the assigned teacher the Sunday before scheduled classes to give families time to prepare.

The monthly themes are:

January - Birthdays/Human Body
February - Friendship/States of Matter
March - Farm/All About Plants
April - Weather/Types of Weather
May - Rainforest Exploration/Insects
June - Beach Vacation/In the Ocean
July - Travel the World/Climate Types
August - Dinosaurs/Geology (Ms. Natalie will be teaching about inventors)
September - Camping/Forest 
October - Professions/The Five Senses
November - Space/Outer Space
December - Winter!/Arctic and Polar Animals

One scheduled week is taught as follows:

Monday: Storytime and geography
Tuesday: Math Concepts
Wednesday: Science 
Thursday: Challenge Sentences, intermediate grammar, and literature worksheets


Here are samples of the curriculum for the first four weeks:

Week of June 3rd
Monday: Underwater Explorations and Eastern USA Map
Tuesday: Math - Long Multiplication
Wednesday: Underwater Creatures
Thursday: Story worksheet with questions and challenge sentences

Week of June 10th
Monday: Underwater Explorations and Southern USA Map
Tuesday: Math - Long Multiplication
Wednesday: Layers of the Ocean
Thursday: Story worksheet with questions and challenge sentences

Week of June 17th
Monday: Underwater Explorations and Midwestern USA Map
Tuesday: Math - Long Multiplication
Wednesday: Layers of the Earth
Thursday: Story worksheet with questions and challenge sentences

Week of June 24th
Monday: Underwater Explorations and Southwestern USA Map
Tuesday: Math - Long Multiplication
Wednesday: Extreme Weather in the ocean
Thursday: Story worksheet with questions and challenge sentences

*A full book schedule is included in the Supply list section.
**TEACHERS WILL BE READING THESE BOOKS IN CLASS, YOU DO NOT NEED TO PURCHASE THEM.