3rd Grade
Welcome to 3rd grade at Green Woods Charter School!
Third grade is a year of tremendous growth. Your child will be in a supportive environment where their independence, creativity, and problem solving skills are nurtured. Our teachers connect academia to the world around them while interweaving hands on activities and group projects to foster an excitement for learning.
Literacy
Green Woods uses American Reading Company (ARC) Core as our ELA curriculum resource. ARC Core is a framework that provides teachers with a structure to promote inquiry through
apprenticeship. The resource provides a scope and sequence aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), high interest text for teacher modeling, and varying levels of text for student independent work. Along with the framework, ARC provides an Independent Reading Level Assessment that guides teachers through setting individual reading goals for students. field

The ARC resources support students as developing readers by providing them with strategies they need to be able to read complex text on their own. Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking, and Language skills are embedded throughout each unit as students study themes connected to Science, Social Studies, and Literature.
There are 4 units of study throughout the school year. In Third Grade these units consist of Literacy Lab, Weather and Climate, Traditional Tales and World Cultures, and Marine Life.
In conjunction with ARC, Green Woods also uses the Collins Writing Program. Collins Writing program is a 5 step approach to writing. Students will focus on different skills through each stage of writing, from your typical “rough draft” (Stage 1) all the way through editing and publishing (Stage 5). The framework used in Collins Writing gives clear expectations for students throughout the entire writing process. It incorporates specific focus areas that are mastered before moving forward. Since the method is used in all grades at GWCS, it allows for common language and skills to be developed from kindergarten through eighth grade.
Math
Green Woods uses the Into Math curriculum built for instruction on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). This curriculum is an intentional and comprehensive mathematics program that centers on student growth. Growth is maximized when instruction, assessment, and mindset are coordinated and aligned. Throughout the year, students build their conceptual understandings, improve their procedural fluency, and apply their knowledge in meaningful contexts and real-world applications. With more focused learning, every student can achieve at their highest levels.
In Third Grade the Into Math Program focuses on understanding multiplication and area, addition and subtraction strategies and applications, fractions, measurement and data, and geometry.
Science
Students in the third grade will use Bring Science Alive! Exploring Science Practices to examine the environments of organisms and fossils to show how life is supported and changes over time, observe how objects move and interact with forces, travel the globe to experience weather and climate and solve weather-related problems and explore life cycles of diverse organisms and relate how traits of species are affected by inheritance and the environment. They will use science and engineering practices and crosscutting concepts to figure out the science content through active investigations.
Year at a Glance