Grade
3
Each Trent grade consists of twenty-eight sets of lessons and seven
examinations. A report card is issued following each test and upon completion
of each grade. Each set of lessons contains the equivalent of five chapters
from five separate text books on five different subjects. At Trent, you will
have no additional books, CDs, or tapes to purchase. Permanent grade
records are maintained, and grade transcripts are provided. Trent lessons
adhere to the Federally Suggested Guidelines for Education.
Your child will learn. . .
Language Arts: Developing and extending basic
writing skills; spelling rules, word derivations, word roots, parts of a
sentence and parts of speech. Reading biographies of famous people,
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Pollyanna, sayings and phrases, myths
and legends from all lands.
Math: Studying math skill review of telling time, numbers and money to
100,000's; focusing on multiplying and dividing numbers from six to nine;
including introduction to geometry, algebra and adding and subtracting number in
the thousands. Practicing mental addition, word problems, fractions
and estimation.
Science: Studying seeds and plants, the balance of nature,
pollution, the brain, matter, and earth's rocks; discussion of
forces, atoms, machines, metals and electricity in the physical sciences; introducing
chemistry and astronomy including gravity, the solar system, and the comparison of
earth and the moon. Reading biographies of scientists:
John Muir, Jane Goodall, Edward Jenner, and Elijah McCoy,
Social Science: Reading and using maps, globes and graphs; introducing
the
history of world civilizations including Ancient Rome, the Byzantine Empire,
Islam, and American history from American Indian
civilizations through early English settlements, from the high civilizations of
Africa to slavery, and from the growth of the colonies to The Declaration of
Independence.
Fine Arts:
Beginning study of music with instruments, percussion, tempo and rhythm;
developing imagination in basic art techniques and art elements including
design, mosaic, murals, patterns, lines, colors, quilt making,
architecture and puppetry. Meeting artists including Grandma Moses,
George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, Duke Ellington, Diana Ross, Joan Baez, and
Georgia O’Keeffe.
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