3rd Grade

An In-depth Exposure to Social Studies and Literature

In Calvert’s 3rd Grade curriculum, your child will explore literature and develop skills for organizational writing, all while delving into new concepts such as mythology and art history. Calvert’s 3rd Grade curriculum also features Smiling Hill Farm, a classic but rare children’s book that is reprinted exclusively for Calvert as your child’s first piece of literature to read on his or her own.

Two different math options are available with our 3rd Grade curriculum: 1) Calvert Math, a traditional math program where students are introduced to multiplication and division up to 9s, read and write numbers with place values through the 100,000s, delve deeper into fractions, tackle word problems, discover pictographs and bar graphs, and are introduced to statistics, probability, and graphing measurement or 2) Math in Focus, a new, modernized math approach where students compare and order numbers up to 10,000, use number bonds to add and subtract up to three-digit numbers, add and subtract dollars and cents, and identify parallel and perpendicular lines and right angles.

Students in the 3rd Grade will also start to broaden their exposure to technology, learning how to manipulate data and create useful tables in spreadsheet graphing and presentation software. In the 3rd Grade sciences, students will study life cycles along with force and motion. Finally, the students’ social studies will center around how communities form and work together.

The Tools You Need Plus Unlimited Support

Our comprehensive 3rd grade homeschool program includes everything you need to successfully educate your child at home: print textbooks, workbooks, reading books, maps, science and math kits, activity pages, tests, and more! Our print and online Lesson Manuals include complete daily lesson plans and step-by-step instructions.

All Calvert programs also include access to the Calvert Teaching Navigator, our innovative online resource that makes homeschooling with Calvert easier and more flexible than ever before. Plus, every enrollment includes free, unlimited Teacher Support from our highly trained and certified Education Counselors.