Elementary Curriculum Departments, K-5 – Summer 2015

Third Grade Progress Monitoring and Instructional Calendar 2015-2016

DATE LANGUAGE ARTS MATHEMATICS SCIENCE SOCIAL STUDIES NOTES

1 Aug 24-28

Module 1 Unit 1

Introduction to Science Civics and Government: Civic

Responsibilities, Purpose of

Government, and State

Constitution

2 Aug 31-Sept 4

3 Sept 8-11

Introduction to Science Process

9/7-Labor Day

4 Sept 14-18

5 Sept 22-25

Geography: Identifying Map

Elements and Labeling

Geographic Places, and

Exploring Different Types of

Maps

9/26-PD Day

6 Sept 28-Oct 2

Module 2

Introduction to Data

7 Oct 5-9 Unit 2 Stars

8 Oct 12-16

9 Oct 19-22 continued Gravity 10/23-TD Day

End of 1st Grading Period

10 Oct 26-30

Module 3

RARE Week

Civics and Government:

Constitution and Levels of

Government

11 Nov 2-6 Properties of Matter

12 Nov 9-13 11/11-Veteran’s Day

13 Nov 16-20

Changes in Matter

14 Nov 23-24

Module 4

11/25-27

Thanksgiving

15 Nov 30-Dec 4 Forms of Energy

16 Dec 7-11 Motion

17 Dec 14-18 continued

Winter Holiday

18 Jan 4-8 Module 4 continued

Light

Civics-Levels of Local

Government

19 Jan 11-14 continued 1/15-TD Day

End of 2nd

Grading Period

Elementary Curriculum Departments, K-5 – Summer 2015

DATE LANGUAGE ARTS MATHEMATICS SCIENCE SOCIAL STUDIES NOTES

20 Jan 19-22

Module 5

Unit 3

Heat

American History-

Primary/Secondary Resources 1/18-MLK Day

21 Jan 25-29

Economics-Scarcity, Trade, and

Money

22 Feb 1-5 RARE Week

23 Feb 8-12 Plant Structures and Functions

24 Feb 16-19

Module 6

2/15-President’s Day

25 Feb 22-26 Plant Responses

Geography- Exploring United

States, Canada, Mexico, and the

Caribbean

26 Feb 29-Mar 4

27 Mar 7-11 Unit 4 Plant Classification

28 Mar 14-17 continued 3/18-TD Day

End of the 3rd

Grading Period

Spring Holiday

29 Mar 28-Apr 1

Module 7

Animal Classification

Geography- Exploring United

States, Canada, Mexico, and the

Caribbean

30 Apr 4-8

31 Apr 11-15

32 Apr 18-22 Adaptations

33 Apr 25-29

Module 8

34 May 2-6 RARE Week

35 May 9-13 Science

Economics-Comparing U.S,

Canada, Mexico, and Caribbean

Currencies

36 May 16-20 Science Process Geography- Exploring Places or

Regions through interviews,

poems, legends, or songs

37 May 23-27 Data

38 May 31-June 3 RARE Week Review of All Standards

5/30-Memorial Day

39 June 6-7 continued