Children increase their skill and confidence in singing and maintaining a harmonic vocal line. Throughout the year they learn songs from a variety of cultures and styles for lower school and all-school assemblies. Vocal development activities focus on pitch matching, blending head and chest voice, singing with correct breath support and developing their “inner ear”. They listen to a wide variety of music and are encouraged to find their singing voice. Students are expected to be consistent participants in all activities.
Third graders review the rhythmic and melodic skills they learned the previous year, and develop new skills in the areas of singing, listening, playing instruments, movement and sight-reading music. Manipulative materials include Cuisenaire rods, place value chips, geoboards, tangrams, tiles, and pattern blocks. Manipulative materials and games are used to further mathematical understanding, to develop visual discrimination with respect to shape, size, and other attributes, and to further develop pattern recognition and problem-solving skills. All five content strands of mathematics are taught number sense and operations, data analysis and probability, measurement, geometry, and algebra. The third-grade mathematics program emphasizes both practical and theoretical aspects. Students solve problems, develop sound reasoning, communicate their mathematical thinking in written and oral forms, make connections to mathematical ideas and real-life experiences, and construct different representations of mathematical concepts. The mathematics program in third grade and across grade levels in the Lower School encourages children to construct their own mathematical knowledge through meaningful learning experiences.
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