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Reading and Social Studies — Third grade focuses on an integrated curriculum using various novels, McMillan English and Sitton Spelling, and Nystrom maps and globes. This exciting study allows us to travel through time and space with units on Me as a Third Grader, Ancient Egypt, Coming to America, The Depression: an Economic Study, Country Research 101, History of Space Exploration, and Early Wichita.
Mathematics — The Mathematics program is the revised edition of Everyday Mathematics from the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project. In this program children “do mathematics.” We expect that children will want to share their enthusiasm for the mathematics activities they do in school with members of their families.
Special Activities — Third graders enjoy exciting field trips to the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, Envision, Wichita Aviation Museum, Wichita Sedgwick County Historical Museum, and Exploration Place, . International Day wraps up our “trip around the world” with a costumed play including songs, games, and dances. Our unit on the Depression is anything but depressing! We celebrate with a birthday party enjoying depression punch (water) and war cake (no eggs); games such as bingo, Scrabble and yo-yos; and we shine shoes as a service. The Drainage Ditch Festival is a student-oriented festival about Wichita that mirrors the Wichita River Festival. A highlight of the spring semester is a two-day trip to the Kirkpatrick Science Museum in Oklahoma City. To raise funds for trips and community service projects, we set up a G-rated Haunted House.. One important service project is to record books on tape for the visually impaired in the “Eyes for Others” program.