Free printable · 3rd grade
3rd grade homeschool, on one page
What to teach this year, how often, and for how long. About two hours a day, four days a week, with Friday kept light.
Arbor turns this page into your child’s whole year, every lesson written out for you to teach, at their level. Free for 14 days.
The subjects
| Subject | Days a week | Minutes | What 3rd grade covers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Math | 4 | 20 | Multiplication and division, facts within 100, place value to 1,000, fractions, area and perimeter, time and measurement |
| Reading | 4 | 20 | Story elements, main idea, fables and folktales, word parts, poetry, point of view, how nonfiction works, a chapter story |
| Writing | 4 | 20 | Strong sentences, paragraphs, opinion and how-to writing, true stories, letters, revising and editing, a short report |
| Science | 2 | 30 | Forces and motion, magnets, life cycles, traits, fossils, weather and climate |
| History | 2 | 20 | Map skills, being a citizen, first nations of North America, Greece, Rome, the Middle Ages, the age of exploration |
| Handwriting | 2 | 20 | Neat letters on smaller lines, spacing, copying from books, notes, lists, and a best-copy page |
| Read aloud | Every day | 15–20 | A chapter book you both love, a little every day |
History can be Geography instead: map skills, your state, the regions of the U.S., and Canada and Mexico.
A sample week
Mon
- Math
- Reading
- Writing
- Science
- Read aloud
About 110 minutes
Tue
- Math
- Reading
- Writing
- History
- Handwriting
- Read aloud
About 120 minutes
Wed
- Math
- Reading
- Writing
- Science
- Read aloud
About 110 minutes
Thu
- Math
- Reading
- Writing
- History
- Handwriting
- Read aloud
About 120 minutes
Fri
- Read aloud
- Catch up, a field trip, or co-op
About 20 minutes
Move any of it to suit your family. The days and minutes are the pace of Arbor’s own 3rd grade curriculum.
Want every day of this planned for you?
Arbor turns this into your child’s whole year: each lesson written out for you to teach, at their level, with the records kept as you go. Free for 14 days.