This year, our third grade class will be studying the following Abeka & Bob Jones curriculum:
Language Arts: 
Phonics and Reading
Review of all phonics rules
Oral reading
Reading comprehension
Cursive Writing
Review of cursive writing formation 3/4-space high
Creative writing
Spelling and Poetry
Weekly phonics-based word list with vocabulary
Sentence dictation using spelling words
Reinforcement activities
Nine poems committed to memory
Language: Writing Process
Complete sentences
Punctuation and capitalization rules
Creative writing, friendly letters
Language: Grammar
Recognition of simple nouns, subjects, verbs, adjectives
Word usage
Forming plurals and common contractions
Recognition of antonyms, homonyms, synonyms
Dictionary skills
History and Geography
Continents and oceans of the world
Study of world geography
States of the United States
Study of our American heritage through the lives of great people:
Columbus, George Washington, Clara Barton, John Smith, Thomas Jefferson, U. S. Grant, Pocahontas, Daniel Boone, Louisa May Alcott, Miles Standish, Noah Webster, Booker T. Washington,
Squanto, John Greenleaf Whittier, George Washington Carver, William Penn, Robert E. Lee, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Ben Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Billy Sunday.
Science
Exploring the Plant World
Exploring the World of Vertebrates
Exploring the World of Invertebrates
Wonderfully Made
Exploring the Ocean
Exploring the Weather
Exploring the Desert, the Ocean, the Pond, the Forest, the Farmer’s Field
Health, Safety, Manners
Health
Posture, Exercise, Nutrition, Diet, Cleanliness, Fighting disease
Safety
Fire, Water safety, Home, Play safety, Street safety, First Aid
Manners
Hospitality
Proper introductions
Telephone manners
Courtesy and respect
Arithmetic
Recognition of the place value of numbers
Addition facts and checking addition problems with carrying
Subtraction facts and checking subtraction problems with borrowing
Multiplication tables 0-12 and multiplication problems with carrying
How to show a multiplication fact six ways
Division tables 1-12 and working and checking a division problem
Terminology for four processes
English and metric measures
Telling time
Roman numerals 1-1,000
Using a ruler
Solving story problems with up to four steps
Recognizing and solving number sentences
Converting measures and solving measurement equations
Recognizing and working with greater than (>) and less than (<)
Counting money and solving money problems using the decimal point correctly
Solving problems containing parentheses
Fraction terminology and basic understanding of fractions
Averaging numbers
Reading a thermometer
Recognizing geometric shapes
Finding the unknown number in an equation
Bible
Salvation & Christ’s crucifixion/resurrection
Parables of Jesus
Samuel
David
The First Thanksgiving
The First Christmas
Elijah
Elisha
Daniel
Ezra
Nehemiah
Esther