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third grade curriculum
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Linda Kosiba has been at TGS since 1993.
Constructive collaboration and respectful interactions are key attributes of a child’s experiences in the third grade. In both social studies and science, third graders investigate how people use the form and structure of the natural world and the interaction with others to generate solutions. Students gain flexibility in manipulating mathematical concepts and processes in a range of problem-solving situations. They continue to develop critical skills as readers and writers.
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Third graders take their writing journals to a campus hillside to document detailed observations and impressions in preparation for writing and painting when they return to their classroom.
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Science for a third grader includes taking a magnifying glass to investigate the interdependence of organisms under and around decomposing logs.
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Third graders may be found in lively clusters of three or four arranging and rearranging and, finally, taping together four paper triangles to generate as many different polygons as possible.
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Social Studies with the fourth grade includes the Egyptians and the Chinese, but third graders also work on early American farm life and take several field trips to cut ice and explore a working farm.