• Demonstrate healthy and safe habits (sexual abuse, personal safety, bicycle, environmental, etc.)
• Make appropriate choices when faced with peer pressure
• Explain the dangers of touching others body fluids (blood, saliva, etc)
• Explain HIV (AIDS) and ways it is and is not transmitted
• Explain the Food Pyramid as it relates to servings and how each food group helps the body
• Identify and explain the function of the six body systems (stressing the skeletal and muscular systems)
• Explain the difference between the proper use of drugs and drug abuse
• Explain the influence of drugs on the human body
• Demonstrate appropriate problem solving and decision - making skills

• Demonstrate balance in a sculpture
• Identify warm and cool colors
• Draw an object after observing the lines and shapes within that object
• Use foreground, middle ground, and background in their art
• Identify light, medium, and dark value
• Use art as an expression
• Understand that foreground textures are more detailed than background textures
• Appreciate fine art and multicultural influences as they enhance learning

• Sing alone &/or with other students
• Be exposed to a variety of music from different cultures, time periods, and styles
• Use age appropriate instruments to accompany music
• Learn, read, and demonstrate basic musical notation
• Listening to and describing a variety of musical styles
• Use movement to express many different concepts in music

• Demonstrates competency in motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical activities
• Participate regularly in physical activity
• Achieves and maintains a health-enhancing level of physical fitness
• Demonstrates understanding of movement concepts, principles, strategies and tactics as they apply to the learning and performance of physical activities
• Exhibits responsible personal social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings
• Values physical activity for health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expression and/or social interaction

Reading

• Fluently decode an appropriate selection incorporating phonic skills
• Fluently decode an appropriate selection incorporating structural analysis skills
• Read to compare and contrast two fiction selections utilizing appropriate reading strategies resulting in the identification of the character traits, setting, problem, and solution
• Read to determine cause and effect relationships and main idea in expository or narrative text utilizing appropriate reading strategies for decoding, vocabulary, and comprehension.

Speaking

• Orally present a sample of their work using appropriate verbal and non-verbal language to a group

Writing

• Write a narrative and expository paragraph incorporating simple sentences to include a topic sentence, supporting details, and a conclusion using process-writing strategies focusing on prewriting and drafting
• Write for specific purposes (to inform, to create, to communicate and to inquire) across the curriculum
• Legibly write upper and lower case cursive and manuscript letters to form words

Listening

• Listen to a series of oral instructions and respond appropriately and correctly
• Recall the main idea, key points, and supporting details of information presented orally

Spelling

• Correctly spell a selected list of high frequency use and frequently misspelled words appropriate for third grade
• Correctly spell phonetic lists of words

Research

• Locate and report in writing information on a selected topic using multiple resources that may include dictionary, encyclopedia, trade books, and available technology
• Use a table of contents, index and glossary to locate information

• Can tell time before & after the hour (5,10,15,20, 25 min)
• Counts by 10’s and 100’s
• Counts combinations of coins and bills and writes amount in dollar and cent notation
• Finds equivalent names for numbers
• Has quick recall of addition facts through 9 + 9 = 18
• Has quick recall of subtraction facts through 18 – 9 = 9
• Uses basic facts to solve fact extensions
• Completes “What’s My Rule?” tables
• Solves and writes addition and subtraction number stories
• Adds multi-digit numbers correctly
• Subtracts multi-digit numbers correctly
• Completes fact and number families
• Uses rulers correctly for inches (to the nearest ¼ inch) and centimeters
• Solves multiplication number stories using concrete materials or pictures
• Solves division number stories as equal sharing and/or equal groups using concrete materials or pictures

• Completes multiplication/civision fact families
• Uses arrays, diagrams and number models to represent multiplication facts
• Uses arrays, diagrams and number models
• Reads, writes, orders and determines place value in 5-digit numbers
• Identifies/names 3-D shapes
• Identifies right angles
• Identifies properties of polygons
• Identifies symmetrical figures and draws lines of symmetry
• Knows multiplication facts through 5’s
• Recognizes and know square products
• Identifies fractional parts of regions and sets of objects
• Selects the appropriate unit of measure in a given situation (i.e., km for distance to moon, gallon for gasoline)
• Identifies equivalencies for linear U.S. customary units
• Knows basic multiplication facts through 10’s
• Displays data in a bar graph

• Sequence chronologically the expansion of the United States from the East Coast to the West Coast by regions
• Describe, compare, and explain the locations and characteristics of places, cultures, and settlements by region of the United States
• Use mapping skills to locate information
• Describe the basic function of the three branches of the national government
• Demonstrate knowledge of the individual role as a consume and producer within the economic system
• Compare and contrast how natural resources affected the economic development of the regions of the United States
• Acquire information from books, maps, newspapers, data sets and other sources
• Compose a short essay expressing a position on a public issue. And justify their position with at least two Core Democratic Values (CDV)
• Consider the effects of an individual's actions on other people