Welcome to ​Old Fashioned Education's FREE online curriculum.
Before you begin, please read the introduction and license agreement. 

This page is under construction.

Directions: 

1. Gather materials using the Booklist (below) for what to teach.
2. Print the 40-Week Schedule PDF for when to teach it.
3. Order the Grade 3 Teacher Manual (optional, when available) with lesson plans, worksheets, tests, and answer key for how to teach it or plan your own lessons using the FREE Student Weekly Assignment Booklet PDF.

Key:  *Free online   ❶  Our Pick!   ❷ Christianbook

Third Grade
For Ages 6 to 9
American History
40 Week Schedule, PDF


King James Bible

Bible Study

• Wonder Book of Bible Stories*​

Devotions

• Keys for Kids* or Kids 4 Truth Devotionals* or other devotions of your choice

Arithmetic. Choose 1

• CIMT, MEP, Primary Year 3*
• Ray's Arithmetic* and Ray's free video lessons*
• Math program of your choice, purchase separately ❶ Our Pick!

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Science

• Chamber's Elementary Science Reader* [1]

• ​Among the ... Series*  ❶
• Arthur Scott Bailey Series* ❶
• The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children*

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​Library Skills

• Go to the library once a week, learn how it all works. If you go on Fridays then you can check out the books you'll need for the following week.

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Language Arts

• Word Mastery: A Course in Phonics for the First Three Grades*, pp. 65-105
• McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader* ❷, Do 2 lessons per week
• Handwriting Workbook of your choice^, purchase seperately ❶
• Graded Poetry Readers: First and Second Years*, Copywork 1 to 2 times per week
• McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book*, chapters 7-25

Grammar. Choose 1.

• Harvey's Grammar Series* [2]
• First Language Lessons Level 1  ❶ Our Pick!
• Building Christian English Series, Grade 2 
• Grammar curriculum of your choice

Literature

• Aesop's Fables*
• Just So Stories* ❶
• Uncle Wiggily Stories*
• Grimm's Fairy Tales*

Plus, enjoy reading as desired

• The Bobbsey Twins Series* 
• Dottie Dimple*
• Little Prudy*
• 5 Little Peppers Series*
• Andrew Lang's Fairy Books*, continue as desired

History

• The Beginner's American History by D. H. Montgomery*
• 50 Famous People by James Baldwin*

Biography

• 50 Famous Stories Retold* ❶
• 30 More Famous Stories Retold*

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Geography & Social Studies

• High Roads in Geography*
• The Men Who Found America by Frederich Winthrop Hutchinson*
• Lucy Fitch Perkins Twin Stories*
• Crayon & Character by James Griswold^
• Goop Directory* & More Goops & How Not To Be Them* by Gellet Burgess
• Library Books about Good Manners
  
  

Read Alouds (FREE at library or build your library - 1 picture book per week) 

Term 1 (Weeks 1-12)​

1. Johnny Appleseed by Reeve Lindbergh
2. The Boy Who Drew Birds by Jacqueline Davies *
3. The Monkey and the Crocodile by Paul Galdone
4. Oh, the Places You’ll Go! by Dr. Seuss
5. The Ant and the Elephant by Bill Peet
6. One Morning in Maine by Robert McCloskey
7. Amos and Boris by William Steig
8. Cinderella by Marcia Brown
9. A Picture Book of Amelia Earhart by David A. Adler
10. The Five Chinese Brothers by Claire Hutchit Bishop & Kurt Wiese
11. Wee Gillis by Munro Leaf *
12. The Thanksgiving Story by Alice Dalgliesh

Term 2 (Weeks 13-24)​

1. Lucy’s Christmas by Donald Hall
2. The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey by Susan Wojciechowski *
3. The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams *
4. The Big Snow by Berta and Elmer Hader
5. The Emperor’s New Clothes by Hans Chrstian Andersen, illustrated by Virginia Lee Burton
6. The Gardener by Sarah Stewart
7. Saint Valentine by Robert Sabuda
8. George Washington’s Breakfast by Jean Fritz
9. Farewell to Shady Glade by Bill Peet
10. Cyrus the Unsinkable Sea Serpent by Bill Peet
11. Emily by Michael Bedard
12. Sam, Bangs, & Moonshine by Evaline Ness

Term 3 (Weeks 25-36)

1. Island Boy by Barbara Cooney
2. The Easter Egg by Jan Brett *
3. Paul Revere’s Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, illustrated by Ted Rand
4. Verdi by Janell Cannon *
5. The Gift of the Tree by Alvin Tresselt *
6. Maybelle the Cable Car by Virginia Lee Burton
7. A Visit to William Blake’s Inn by Nancy Willard
8. The Fourth of July Story by Alice Dalgliesh
9. Lucy’s Summer by Donald Hall
10. Little House in the Big Woods By Wilder

Third Grade Syllabus​

coming soon

Have Third Grade questions or comments?  See FAQ's

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Notes
[1] Prefer an updated Christian science reader? We recommend God's World Science Series. 
​[2] Harvey's Elementary Grammar Series is more advanced and should be started in 4th-6th grade, however you could adapt short lessons for the younger student. 
[3] A few details in the geography books are out of date. We recommend that you get a world map and use an ink pen to update the text as needed.
^Consumable books less than 10%