Science experiment.
Science Skills:
- Understand and applying the scientific method
- Interpret and communicate through inferences, predictions, and conclusions.
- Compare, contrast, and question objects, organisms, and events in our environment.
Judaic Studies:
- Extend an understanding of Jewish practices from home to synagogue and community
- Learn and recite important prayers and understand their significance
- Lead the T’fillah service with peers and participate twice weekly before the school day
- Learn the meaning behind the holidays and celebrations
- Study and participate in learning what is in the Torah
- Participate in a weekly Kabbalat Shabbat
- Study about the state of Israel and its important cities, institutions and landmarks
Hebrew Studies:
- Learn to speak simple words and build a wide spoken vocabulary
- Write sentences and compose meaningful text
- Become a fluent Hebrew reader
Complete curriculum available in the Mizel school office
Gimel (Third Grade) Curriculum Overview
Reading and Language Arts
- Apply higher level thinking to distinguish cause and effect
- Make inferences and evaluate outcomes
- Use the dictionary and thesaurus
- Alphabetize to the third letter
- Expand vocabulary through literature
- Respond to a wide variety of literary forms
- Using nouns, verbs, and adjectives correctly
- Use brainstorming, clustering, and webbing strategies
- Use a variety of written forms, such as narrative, descriptive, and persuasive
- Revise and edit using Standard English conventions
- Use appropriate cursive handwriting
Math Goals:
- Use addition, multiplication, and division facts with automatic recall
- Identify simple fractions
- Add and subtract with regrouping to three digits
- Recognize place value to 999,999
- Multiply and divide one digit by one digit
- Use bar graphs, charts, pictographs, patterns and lists
- Count money and make change
- Use a variety of problem solving approaches
- Estimate sums and differences
Social Studies Goals:
- Understand interrelationships of one’s community and other communities using a global perspective
- Understand the purpose of government
- Know rights and purposes of government
- Know how basic climates affect people
- Distinguish varying landforms
