Third Grade
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
—Eleanor Roosevelt

Discovering Individuality
For the first time, third graders begin to experience their individuality, and the curriculum is shaped to support them during their time of discovery of their separate self. Main Lessons on farming and building, grammar, parts of speech and cursive writing, as well as weights and measures fulfill their desire to know and understand the physical world and their place in it. As with all grades in the Waldorf curriculum, the Subjects scaffold the Main Lesson for an all-encompassing approach to learning.
Main Lesson Block
Old Testament Stories
Native Tales
Nature Studies
Reading
Grammar
Shelters
Gardening
Poetry
Subject Classes
Music
Singing
C-flute
Reading music begins in pictorial form
Stringed Instrument – cello, viola, or violin
Practical and Fine Arts
Form drawing
Beeswax modeling
Watercolor painting
Drama
Embroidery
Weaving
Spinning
Movement/Spacial Dynamics™
Developing hand-eye coordination
Strengthening fine motor skills
Folk Dancing
Eurythmy
FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Spanish: introduction to simple vocabulary
Mandarin
Exposure to Hebrew
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Speech
4 operations
Long division
Time
Measurement
Prime numbers
Carrying and borrowing
Cursive
Classroom



