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Summit Pledge
Each day in my words and in my deeds I will do my best to live these seven virtues...
- Honesty
- Respect
- Responsibility
- Self Discipline
- Compassion
- Perseverance
- and Giving
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Welcome to Third Grade
The overall theme for the Third grade at Summit is ‘Making a Difference’. This is taught and lived throughout the year as the students learn skills of communication, practice ways of sharing and showing kindness, grow to be more responsible for their behavior, and strive to make high academic progress.
The group expresses their views in class meetings and enjoys assembling and presenting class projects. Third grade is transitional year, where students go from honing their basic skills to applying these skills to higher learning.
The Readers’ Workshop model is used for reading instruction. Within this model students are taught in whole and small groups such skills as comprehension, decoding, and explore elements of literature. Each day, students are read aloud to and are given time to read independently from self-selected literature. Students learn to respond to what they read orally and in writing.
As students approach literature this way, they learn about writing, also. Using the five steps of the writing process, students write and publish numerous stories, non-fiction reports, and poetry. This reading/writing connection helps establish a life long ability to use these skills.
The basic concepts of mathematics at the third grade level are taught through relevant hands-on activities and manipulatives are often used. Science units are investigations and inquiries into subjects such as the solar system, plants, soils, muscular and skeletal systems of the human body, and inventions. Social Studies’ goals include learning about citizenship and responsibility. World geography includes the locations of continents, oceans, countries, and landforms. These along with cultures and traditions of some countries are compared and contrasted with Western North Carolina.
Throughout the third grade year students explore the world around them and beyond. They learn to work cooperatively while respecting classmates’ thoughts and ideas. The character virtues of honesty, respect, responsibility, self-discipline, perseverance, Compassion, and giving are practiced while the students begin to internalize them.
