3rd Grade

1 year – available as an Honor course

Build a firm communication foundation for 3rd-grade students with this comprehensive language arts course. This course was designed to develop literacy skills by building on the basics of spelling, vocabulary, reading, writing, and sentence construction through the use of colorful lessons, interactive multimedia materials, and hands-on practice.

This course supports digital literacy and critical thinking. Through the use of fables, short stories, and biographies, students will explore a variety of literature forms and try their hand at writing with different purposes. Infused with biblical references and verses (KJV), lessons encourage students to evaluate and communicate from a Christ-centered perspective.

Topics explored:

• Vowels, Main Idea, and Capitalization
• Sentences, Capitalization, and ABC Order
• Dictionary Skills, Word Parts, and Vocabulary
• Parts of Speech, Irregular Vowels, and Comprehension
• Reading to Understand, Commas, and Silent Letters
• Cause and Effect, Homographs, and Haiku Poetry
• Following Directions, Suffixes, Pronouns, and Friendly Letters
• Reading a Play, Comparing with Adjectives, and Root Words

1 year – available as an Honor course

With a focus on building strong math foundations, this Bible-based course is an engaging study of numbers that solves problems for 3rd-grade Christian school students with text-based lessons and multimedia tools. Using a variety of question formats, students begin with simple arithmetic but progress through more complex concepts including fractions, decimals, graphing, and telling time. Learning games, step-by-step instructions, and illustrated solutions simplify complicated problems while engaging learners.

This course not only challenges students, but it also helps them to develop digital literacy and critical thinking skills with self-directed lessons. Because every lesson is infused with biblical content and verses (KJV), students learn to look at the world of numbers from a Christian perspective and consider Christian principles in making critical choices.

This course has no projects.

Topics explored:

• Calculate problems using addition and subtraction
• Identify number patterns and build on addition and subtraction skills
• Use units of measurement and build on addition and subtraction skills
• Demonstrate understanding of place value to the thousands place
• Review place value, measurement, and operations
• Use the operations of multiplication, addition, and subtraction
• Determine probability, and review operations and measurement
• Calculate fractions and decimals, and review operations and place value
• Use strategies for division and multiplication, and use units of measurement for capacity, weight, and length
• Review number patterns, operations, fractions, and shapes

1 year – available as an Honor course

Third graders explore the amazing world God created as they log into this interactive science course designed with flexibility in mind. With a focus on observation and analysis, students learn about the earth through exciting multimedia elements, interesting text-based lessons, and learning games. Lessons include Bible verses (KJV) and inspiration to encourage students to see the physical world from a Christian perspective and see God's hand in the creation of the diversity of life, the human body, and the changing of the seasons.

Exciting experiments help students to understand challenging scientific concepts while fostering keen observational skills and scientific inquiry. Students will study the systems of the human body, the life of plants, the world of animals, matter, energy, and sound as they progress at their own pace through the course. 

Topics explored:

• Demonstrate a basic understanding of the systems in a human body
• Discuss the process a plant goes through in order to grow
• Explain the difference between types of animals
• Determine which eating and care habits are the most healthy for you
• Distinguish between the three phases of matter and describe their properties
• Explain how sound travels
• Describe why time and seasons change
• Discuss how rocks are formed and how they change
• Explain how heat is produced (Honor course only)