Horizons Grade 3

This full Horizons curriculum set contains everything you need to launch your student's 3rd grade school year! Make planning and obtaining curriculum easy with this conveniently packaged kit.

Horizons is known for its bright illustrations, captivating content, hands-on activities, and solid results. Your student will love the colorful workbooks with removable pages; parents will love the easy-to-use teacher's guides that include daily planners, lesson schedules, and clear objectives. This popular Christian homeschool curriculum is based on the Bible and integrates scripture and Christian living into all subjects. Horizons uses a spiral learning methodology to help your student master concepts through the process of introduction, review, and reinforcement.

Horizons Grade 3 Math features 160 lessons that equations, rounding, graphing, the metric system, map reading, and decimal equivalents. Play money, flashcards, games, and other suggested manipulatives reinforce your child's retention as new concepts are introduced and reviewed.

Horizons Grade 3 Phonics & Reading will help improve your child's reading and writing abilities with memorization techniques, fun-filled workbook activities, and practical writing assignments. This in-depth course reinforces knowledge of consonant and vowel blends, silent letters, and syllabication, while introducing new concepts like regular and irregular comparisons, compound words, inflected endings, and foreign words.

Horizons Grade 3 Health explains body systems to your third grader. Written from a Christian viewpoint, this health course covers topics like first aid, proper eating habits and food choices, manners, etiquette, and more. Designed to be taught 2-3 days per week; 55 lessons.

Horizons Grade 3 Spelling & Vocabulary will sharpen your child's spelling skills through brightly illustrated lessons and hands-on learning activities. This comprehensive course covers frequently-used words, sight words, and other word lists with crossword puzzles, word searches, and creative writing projects. Plus, a spelling dictionary reinforces alphabetizing and vocabulary skills.

Horizons Grade 3 Penmanship uses a unique approach to reinforce manuscript and Zaner-Bloser. cursive writing. Each week your child will practice writing words, sentences, and quotes about Noah, Joseph, The Tower of Babel, or about Abraham and Isaac on 3/8" lines in a colorful student workbook.

This full Horizons Grade 3 curriculum set includes:

• The Horizons Grade 3 Phonics & Reading Set, which includes two student workbooks, two illustrated student readers, and a teacher's guide.
• The Horizons Math Grade 3 Set, which includes: two student workbooks and a two-part teacher's guide.
• The Horizons Grade 3 Health Set which includes a teacher's guide and student workbook.
• Horizons Grade 3 Spelling & Vocabulary Set which includes a student book, teacher's guide, and dictionary with pronunciation guide.
• Horizons Grade 3 Penmanship, which includes one student workbook and a teacher's guide.

Horizon's multidimensional Physical Education Curriculum looks to goals beyond that of pure physical fitness. Physical Education helps children to learn how to use the body as an instrument for God, a goal which acts as the end for other objectives such as psychomotor skills, motor proficiency, expressive movement, knowledge, understanding the human body and decisions. The first lesson includes notes for using the curriculum, including physical education, goals, curriculum model, plans, administration notes and other teaching helps, all of which are given from a Christian perspective.

An entire chapter for Christian schools is included with reproducible forms and information on working with children with disabilities. Each grade's chapter includes information on developing, creating, and producing control skills, motor abilities and specialized sport skills, and contains notes on helping students to build strength and flexibility. Exercises, games, songs, and various other activities are described and some illustrated; many include ideas for which two or multiple children will be necessary. Integrating actual physical activities with teaching that accompanies it-on the body, various related skills (balance and miming), Scripture-related lessons, communication skills, defined new sports terms, and other non-active content, make for a complete, integrated curriculum. 573 pages, softcover. Grades 3-5.