3rd Grade Curriculum — Old-Fashioned Education

For Ages 7 to 10
Ancient History from Creation to 500 AD
40 Week Schedule, PDF

King James Bible

• The King James Version of the Bible

Bible Study

• The Wonder Book of Bible Stories
• Children & Courtesy, 14 lessons

Devotions

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

Arithmetic

Choose 1.

• CIMT, MEP, Primary Year 4
• Ray’s Arithmetic, purchased separately
• Math program of your choice, purchased separately

Science

• Ways of Wood Folk
• Secret of the Woods
• Wilderness Ways
• Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers

Library Skills

• Learn to use smaller Dictionaries, Card Catalog (computerized or the old fashioned kind, whichever your library uses), & Children’s Magazines
• Begin Keyboarding

Language Arts

• McGuffey’s Third Eclectic Reader
• Poems Every Child Should Know

Penmanship & Copywork

• Choose according to the child’s ability, interests, and your own family’s values

Spelling

• McGuffey’s Eclectic Spelling Book, Lessons 26-62

Latin & other Languages

• Latin for Beginners, or another Latin text of your choice

Literature

• Greek Gods, Heroes, and Men
• A Story of the Golden Age
• The Odyssey for Boys & Girls
• The Iliad for Boys & Girls
• The Aeneid for Boys & Girls
• Beowulf (Gutenberg Text) OR Beowulf (Baldwin Text)

For Pleasure, as desired

• Voyages of Dr. Dolittle
• The Story of Doctor Dolittle
• Peter Pan
• Black Beauty, Young Folks’ Edition Or, Black Beauty, original edition
• The Bobbsey Twins

Don’t worry, you don’t have to read all of these. If you have fast readers, then these will help fill in the gaps. Mostly, these are included for pleasure, although they are interesting and written with a solid moral foundation.

• The Bobbsey Twins
• Bobbsey Twins at Home
• Bobbsey Twins at Meadow Brook
• The Bobbsey Twins at School
• Bobbsey Twins at Snow Lodge
• The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore
• The Bobbsey Twins at the County Fair
• The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City
• Bobbsey Twins in the Country
• The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West
• Bobbsey Twins in Washington
• The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat

Feminine Alternatives

• Heidi
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
• Through the Looking-Glass

History

• On The Shores of the Great Sea
• Stories of the East From Herodotus
• Last Days of Jerusalem From Josephus
• Our Island Saints
• The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone
• Stories from Ancient Rome

Biographies

• Tales of the Greeks: The Children’s Plutarch
• Tales of the Romans: The Children’s Plutarch
• Our Young Folks’ Plutarch
• Famous Men of Rome
• Famous Men of Greece
• The Spartan Twins
• Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children

Geography

• Home Geography for Primary Grades
• Unit Studies on specific countries of your choice including the Cousins’ stories below plus Encyclopedias Library Books, Foreign Cook Books, Maps, Library Video’s & DVD’s
• The Little Cousin Series
• Our Little Korean Cousin
• Kalitan, Our Little Alaskan Cousin
• Our Little Mexican Cousin
• Hamid, Our Little Arabian Cousin
• Gerard, Our Little Belgian Cousin
• Our Little Dutch Cousin
• Our Little Egyptian Cousin
• Our Little English Cousin
• Our Little French Cousin
• Our Little Scotch Cousin
• Our Little African Cousin
• Our Little Russian Cousin
• Our Little Indian Cousin
• Our Little Servian Cousin