Third Grade Curriculum Choices | 2020-2021 School Year

[@samf5651]

We are just using our library mostly! We will see what the kids gravitate towards and maybe find some unit studies for that as we go.

[@EvelynCoto]

My daughter is a third grader this year. We are going to use different workbooks for math and language (mostly Evan Moor) we do a lot of reading and documentaries also unit studies that I am creating for her and her little brother. You are such an inspiration!!! We have been doing the night basket and they love it thank you for your ideas😃can’t wait to see traveling around the world.

[@peachy_reina]

I also plan on using Evan Moor curriculum. How do you put together unit studies?

[@amberkvassay3943]

My kiddo is starting 2nd grade this year. We are sticking with our morning basket hymn, bible reading, artis, and classic book. We are moving on from My Father's World to Gather Round and Five in a Row, which should be less time and more all around learning or subjects, as we will also be doing more student directed learning. I am trying to simplify with children that a 7,4, and 8 months, not keep getting more, but its so hard when there are so many amazing curriculums out there. I saw an adorable one on The Hundred Acre Woods yesterday!

[@denmarkstudios543]

We are using TG&TB for our spine and adding lots of other fun things.

[@amykelly5606]

We are using the gather round homeschool curriculum along with your survival school, national parks, & I plan on getting some of the who was unit studies thru out the year.

[@kg-ry8ss]

This was such a helpful video! We have some similar things planned, it’s nice to know someone else is reading Sassafras’s Adventures without the additional parts. I love how you follow your daughter’s interests, I find myself at times getting caught up in curriculums, but they never go over well, and I have to remind myself to just follow my kid’s lead.

[@TheWaldockWay]

When things go sideways it is normally because I am teaching the curriculum and not the child.

[@charlesakline1553]

What a fun year you are planning. We are headed into 4th grade and doing Creation to the Greeks.

[@Niki-pk9hk]

I am absolutely amazed at the amount of planning you have put into your homeschool.

[@daniellerobar4562]

We are using the Tuttle Twins this year too. I'm excited about it. I love that you incorporate yum boxes. What a great idea!

[@valerieheyn1663]

So much fun! I’m so excited to see your new products coming out. We’re using math facts that stick per your suggestion along with minecraft math work books, we will also be using Waldock’s Wizards & Wands for our history, language arts and a few unit studies, all about reading, and laying down the rails with lots of other fun games and books thrown in there.

[@toledoleslie]

I have a third, sixth and eighth grader and I'm also looking forward to using the Right Start math games.

[@kristinajones9975]

Love your choices and the lack of pressure of finishing thick workbooks. It should be fun and engaging! Love that you follow her lead. I always have a huge amazon cart after your videos!

[@AMims22]

We love Exploring Nature with Children! I hope you’re able to start your nature group back up this school year.

[@learningmadsway2859]

This is our first year homeschooling. Kindergarten. 😊😊 your videos have been so helpful to me because you have an only & so do I.

[@MariaTecuatl]

This is our first year homeschooling and we're considering Masterbooks for our first and third graders.

[@briannaeveritt8757]

I love these resources. We are not in 3rd grade yet but I also love researching curriculums to use in the upcoming years!

[@jeannettejensen2988]

Looks like fun! Another vote for a Look Inside Tuttle Twins...I've been eyeing that.

[@joannabarton3985]

My daughter is going into 4th grade. We use Gather ‘Round and a coordinating Brave Writer Book and dart/quiver of arrows guide. Then I pull in resources that coordinate with the unit study theme. I get most of my ideas from you! We have enjoyed your Traveling the Parks this summer. Looking forward to Traveling the World! For math, we use Good and Beautiful, Touch Math, Mathtacular, Bedtime Math, Mathematical Reasoning, and a variety of games. Math is her weak subject so we use a variety.

[@desheajones6623]

I can’t wait to check some of these items out! We are doing Waldock Wizards and Wands and a few other things next year.

[@schoolbeginsaftercoffee4759]

Curriculum wise, I have a 5th and 6th grader. They'll be using Math Mammoth for math, The Good and The Beautiful Language Arts, RSO Biology 2, and Story of the World volume 3. Our co-op has been cancelled for the 2020-2021 year, but another mom and I plan to teach science and history together.

[@Becs-bb1xr]

Loving all these videos and ideas! I can't wait to include Who was and passport to adventures this year!!!

[@brittanydavenport3116]

Thank you for sharing. I’ve been down the curriculum rabbit hole all day!

[@ZappyChipmunk]

I love that you follow her lead and interests. I can't wait to follow along this year.

[@jennynickel6345]

I love seeing what you are using as my daughter is going into 3rd as well. I’d love to see the right start games in a future video!

[@nancystevens8475]

I'm excited to use Exploring Nature with Children and Notgrass Our Spangled Story again this year!

[@yeccreations6360]

We wont be adding much the first 2 quarters of homeschool because we have to finish what we have but I'm super excited for all the new read alouds we have and a few games! I love this time of the year!

[@rachaelgriffith6922]

I have a 1st and 2nd grader so I love seeing what you use. We love our Usborne products!

[@platinum2601]

I love that Emily is in third grade and ahead of my daughter because I get to look ahead and plan which is what love to do. Excited to try something you've created as well!

[@SmithsInTheMaking]

SAME! My daughter shares SO many interests with Emily and is a year behind so we always loves seeing ideas we can use next

[@jupiterfarmhousebookshelf]

I love how you incorporate a lot of Usborne books into your curriculum! Thanks for sharing! I will have a fifth grader, a third grader, and a second grader this year. We use Life of Fred, Explode the Code, and The Good and the Beautiful for our core subjects, but I love to add The Who Was? series, DK books, and Usborne books to beef things up and make them more fun!

[@jessicajones2739]

We start our new school year Monday!! So excited!

[@gigglez636]

Your choices are great. I look forward to your suggestions and feedbacks all the time. Really thankful that our daughters are the same age.

[@wanderingravens-arlene4108]

Wonderful plans! I love that your daughter is a year ahead of mine. 💕

[@halieirizarry7291]

Oooh! I can’t wait for Traveling the World! Love how you incorporate games into everything! Thanks for sharing!

[@Megnut3636]

Thank you for sharing your plans for this school year. I ordered the What Your Second Grader Needs to Know and the one for Fifth grade for my two kids. Your videos are so helpful and my son loved your Who Was George Washington unit study. We used it as part of his first grade social studies curriculum. I also ordered The Tuttle Twins series so I'm definitely interested in how that goes for you and Emily. I haven't figured out how to fit them into our schedule...I may start out just as family read alouds and see if they get interested enough to dive deeper. I'm looking forward to your upcoming videos!

[@Deeb1727]

I love all of your ideas, you sound like such a fun homeschool mom! I would like to see inside the Tuttle Twins books, Usborne Wipe Clean books, and the Right Start Math Games!

[@melissamiranda7322]

Love your choices. My daughter is excited to learn cursive this year. The wooden cursive tracing board looks neat!!!

[@TheLearningLadder]

Great to see your choices! I am super excited to see, travelling the world. Thanks for sharing!

[@SevenInAll]

I enjoyed seeing your choices! The illustrated grammar book from Usborne looks so cool! Hurray for Edgewood and Farming! We really enjoy reading the Life of Fred series. That set of math card games is really cool! We need to do better at including games in our math lessons.

[@elizabethcetta6027]

We are excited to be using your National Parks unit for geography this year. But I can't wait to see inside the Around the World!

[@rebeccadula8626]

Excited to see The Who Was units that you cover. We are also doing a zoology unit that will be a simplified version of what my son does for his senior year.

[@Mirzy03]

Sounds like a fun year. Can't wait to see what else you have planned. I would love to see what the Right Start math games look like.

[@estherbouchillon95]

We did an around the world study for social studies last year! If you don't already have it, I highly recommend the book Give Your Child the World which has book lists divided by World region and age.

[@fabiolamendez6143]

Great choices, my son is going to 4th grade, we’re doing the Tuttle twins books too, and exploring nature with children, and Evan Moore books...

[@blondestyleslife3017]

I have a third grader as well so I love seeing your selections and ideas! For my 3rd grader, we’re using All About Reading and All About Spelling, Math Made Fun, Evan Moor Geography Skill Sharpeners, Critical Thinking Company Mind Benders, the Lego class you recommended (which he’s in right now too and is loving!), your Traveling the Parks curriculum, then whatever else he wants to do. We’re also using Let’s Play School. It’s mainly for my kindergartener but my 3rd grader loves it too. I would love more info on the Right Start Games and the Tuttle Twins books and game. I can’t wait to see your Traveling the World curriculum!

[@teambfarm5415]

We have a 2nd and 4th grader (and youngers)! I just finished our curriculum hauls....mostly The Good and The Beautiful! There are a few subjects that you definitely inspire me to be a little more free with (and not tied to a curriculum)!

[@aelzim01]

Tuttle Twins for the win! We will be reading it as a family after dinners during my daughters kindergarten year and onward.

[@rlewis9562]

Very much looking forward to hearing more about zoology and animals around the word!

[@elizabethwoffordgirard7103]

Awesome choices. I would love to see more of the Right Start math games and the Usborne writing books. Thanks for sharing It’s our first year doing Prek/kindergarten so we are still figuring it out. She enjoys science, art and nature so probably a good bit of those things.

[@kuyuke]

We're starting our first year homeschooling PreK/kindergarten too! After agonizing for literally months I chose to get the rightstart curriculum for my daughter, as it had the most amount of positive reviews for setting a strong foundation in math skills, as well as being very scripted for those of us parents/caretakers who have never been strong in math. But I only expert to get through A-C and then move on to possibly Singapore. And because of Jessica's videos I also grabbed Life of Fred Apples to read as part of our morning basket. At least that's the plan for now! I'd love to hear what you're doing! ☺

[@elizabethwoffordgirard7103]

Kari Coggins Hello. We’ll be using a lot of things from Pocket of Preschool from teacher pay teachers, mostly her science and math centers. We will also work on Phonemic Awareness with a The Moffatt Girls. I’m adding in nature study as the weather permits and kitchen schooling as she loves to help cook. Thanks

[@elizabethdarr7633]

Would love to see a flip through of the right start card games.

[@smallwondergarden9407]

I just found your channel and I feel like I "found my people". I'm a covid homeschooler with an only child 3rd grade daughter. While homeschooling was accidental for me, I don't feel upset about it because the idea was always appealing to me (though i do wish circumstances to get here were better!). I am facing this upcoming year with a weird combo of both anxiety and excitement. Thank you for your content, I've already gleaned some good ideas to help me on this journey from your videos.

[@jaden3333]

As a new homeschooling momma I am so glad I found you in the beginning of my journey! I have my eye on your wizards & wands. Still trying to figure it all out.

[@hfuller24]

We love our Evan Moor workbooks for language arts right now. I'm so intrigued by your new Traveling the World curriculum!! We're doing Traveling the Parks now and my second grader loves it!!

[@hillaryenloe]

Thank you! Love your Who was series! And can’t wait to see more of your zoology unit study!

[@cherylholliday4115]

I just subscribed to your channel and have been hooked....I love lots of your resources! I have been so disappointed when buying box curriculum and it is refreshing to listen to you and how you homeschool. Thank you for all the information! I am going to binge watch your channel. I have a 3rd grader and a 5th grader!

[@melanies3141]

I have a third grader and love seeing all the Usborne books you are using!

[@whitneybair-sneed8146]

Love your videos and your planner!! I have a 4th, 1st 3 year old and 9 month old. The materials I’m most excited about are Brave Writer and Wild Math💕

[@abbyjoy9957]

I just checked out your shop ❤️ We love the Bear Grylls books and the Who Was series. Totally keeping those in mind for the future. I love how relaxed and fun you keep school but still challenge her. It's very encouraging to watch your videos.

[@Emerson27638]

Love watching curriculum choice videos, thanks for sharing. We are doing sassafras science this year too. Looking forward to getting around the world curriculum when it comes out.

[@janaimaughan3599]

I have been wanting to get one of those tracing boards for a while. I may try one for my reluctant writer!

[@sarathrockmorton2058]

Patiently waiting to see the Traveling the World curriculum!! I have a second grader. We're using your Survival, Traveling the Parks and Who Was units this year plus Bravewriters Dart and Jot It Down and Rightstart Math.

[@TheWaldockWay]

I know. I am taking this week off for "vacation" but I am working as fast as I can.

[@sarathrockmorton2058]

The Waldock Way Take you time!! Enjoy your vacation.

[@jessiepatterson9433]

Those are awesome choices. I have a upcoming 3rd grader and a 1st grader. We are using Grammar Galaxy, Story of the World, and Fun Schooling journals as are main curriculum. I will be adding in a ton of books and games too.

[@awesomegrace6]

Thanks so much for showing us your curriculum! We have a third grader also. One Evan Moor book we will be using is their Paragraph book.

[@psherman1579]

Love your choices. My oldest will be in 1st grade, but you always give me plenty of inspiration which I appreciate.

[@mckenzie9305]

We are a Charlotte Mason based family but I love unit studies! My son is starting second grade this year and is interested in cursive as well. I think we are going to start it midway through the year as I want him to work on his print a little bit more.

[@knowledgebynature8480]

Super fun choices! We are also starting cursive this year, I really like the wooden cursive board you chose to add. I just uploaded my first-grade curriculum video today, I'm so excited to get started. We added quite a few new things for first grade, but we are continuing on with some of our favorites such as All About Reading and Dimensions Math! We love utilizing Outschool and Reading Eggs :)

[@kathryndevine]

We just started Passport to Adventure this week! I can't wait to see more about Traveling the World.

[@AKiHope]

I always enjoy seeing your resources. Thanks for this video! I would love to see an in-depth flip through of the Math Journey series. Best wishes for 3rd grade!

[@melissakrahn3211]

We just discovered the Who Was Series and love it. I need to check out your resources that correspond. Thanks for all the work you do. I have Grade 3 and Grade 4 boys so I'm always looking for new "out of the box" ways to teach them.

[@Gemini0110]

I have a 5th grader this year. I snagged the Evan moor daily fundamentals back when they first put the download out for free and also ordered a bunch of their skill sharpener books to build off of. I am using units out passports to adventures and more passports to go along with or who was unit studies to go with our science units, heritage letter subscription, and history

[@Jessicah256]

I have a third grader and definitely taking note of your curriculum choices! Thank you!

[@tammybrown7243]

As always, your school plans look fantastic!!! I am super eager to see Exploring the World...especially excited to see which spine you choose. :)

[@andreawalterhouse1458]

Looks like a fun year! My son is third grade also this coming school year and we like you play a lot of games. We are excited to do the National Parks curriculum you made and will also try one of The Who was units as well as Survival School. I’d love to check out those Usborne times and Division dry erase ones... we are doing beast academy 2 C and D, just a couple lessons a week so we will go slowly w them as well as life of Fred and lots of games. We are also doing AAR and AAS as those seem to work best for my son. Everything else is interest led and what I already mentioned above. Love your videos and FB page! 🤗

[@jamieridley8556]

We are using sassafras zoology too. Following it with a marine biology unit study.

[@cambrynwillsey6004]

I hadn’t heard of some of these. Thank you for sharing! I love your creative approach.

[@heathersullivan4621]

I love how you are so student led. 😍 we are doing math u see, all about reading, and spelling you see. I'm planning on adding in unit studies this year, but this will be new for us!

[@rohrerconstruction2585]

My kids love the Tuttle Twin books. Even the 5yo loves to look through them. I didn't know there was a game though!

[@heatherslittlelibrary]

Love this-thanks for all of your inspiration Jessica! We’re using Sonlight for pre-school & pre-k, then next year will be back to using The Good and The Beautiful for pre-school year 2 & kindergarten!

[@kaylaevans526]

I always love hearing your choices! My boys would love The Who Was studies!

[@aneel406]

Wow. Your name has come up a bunch in the fb homeschool groups I've been following thia year, but I had no idea you wrote so much of your own curriculum!!! Fun!!! Can't wait to explore your site more. My kiddo is 3rd grade, too😁

[@kimatterbury8990]

Your videos provide such great inspiration for me! We’re going to be using Waldocks Wizards and Wands, so I am SUPER excited for that!

[@melissabritt7712]

I love your around the world theme this year! I have a third grader also, so I love seeing your ideas. You are beyond inspiring...thank you for sharing your gifting with us!

[@LoveLearningEveryday]

Oh I would really like to do your national parks curriculum! Thanks for sharing. ❤️

[@wandawilder8242]

Thanks for sharing with us. I love seeing your game choices. My son had dyslexia and I am wanting to include more games this year. I will have to look into the right start math games more in depth.

[@jenniferhines1018]

I absolutely cannot wait to see Traveling the World!!!!

[@brookezimmerman5599]

We are doing third grade this year too, but i haven't had much time to plan yet! Thank you for all of your wonderful ideas, as usual. Gets me motivated!

[@gemmafarndon449]

I have an only child too. I was nervous about home educating an only until I came across your channel. Thank you for giving me the confidence to home school my daughter.

[@TheWaldockWay]

Oh you can TOTALLY do this!!

[@wesproutwestendsprout4343]

I'd love to see a flip thru of Traveling The World. It looks interesting and I love the wooden cursive board.

[@sarahbennett7235]

I have one daughter in 3rd grade this year. We are using Saxon Math 3, Notgrass Our Star Spangled Story for history, All About Reading level 4 with a grammar workbook from Amazon and Sassafras Zoology as well! It is only a half year science so depending if my 1st and 3rd grade like it we will do book 2 the human body for the second half of the year or just find something else.

[@lindseydsimon]

Love all your choices! Sounds like a fun year ❤️ I would love to see a more in depth look at your Who Was Unit Studies & Traveling the World!

[@ronniehickman2714]

I am excited to see the Traveling Around the World unit! My son is very interested in learning about different countries and cultures. I would love to see a look through this unit when you are finished creating it.

[@jenniferb5579]

We're in 3rd this year & we have a mix of Evan Moore, Master Books, Sassafras ( we're doing zoology this year too) still have some unit studies to figure out..getting so excited for our first year.

[@jessicabailey6897]

This is my 1st year homeschooling. You have given me so many ideas. Thank you!

[@TheWaldockWay]

You are so welcome!

[@rrichards1210]

I am excited to see more of Travelling the World! Looks like another exciting year for Emily and yourself. We have been using the nature curriculum for a while now and loving it.

[@Kayla-jc2xi]

I love all your ideas for themes! I’ve bought so much that you recommend. Thank you for sharing!!

[@dodiblumstein7559]

I love that you are letting her take the path on subjects. When I was in elementary school we had are regular English math subjects but then a unit study, you don't realize how much you are actually learning. I'm horrible at spelling but was already learning about doing research and interesting things with real math science and math directly mixed in. This helped in middle school because are English and social studies do a joint project every semester where we had to research things and write a full 5 paragraph essay. Then in 8th grade English worked with science, we had a science fair, but it wasn't just doing an experiment, it was learning how to write up the experiment in the proper way with then sitting sources. High school continued like that but I went to an ultra orthodox all girls high school do I had dual education my entire school life. But they tied things together where we ended up producing a unit study all written up and sorced the correct way with the reasrch coming from the Torah and other things but put together in the presentation mode. Science and math worked close together sometimes and with history and literature it was always on the same topic like Greek literature and Greek history. I was very fortunate and in 12th grade they brought in community College teachers and we took actual college courses that counted for both. When I got to college first I got to skip most of the intro classes which worked much better than a.p. credits. But people had some much trouble figuring out how to research, how to write papers and even how to present topics. Do i use my college degree no, but learning with everything put together is how the real world works. Yes you need the core things but you also have to nurture intrests because the kids don't realize how much they are actually learning. I wish I could home school but I'm a single foster mom who works full-time at home and had an in house babysitter before the virus so I could work. I did buy a ton of the books and games you mentioned to supplement but I never know when they are going to leave my home, reunification is the best, though one of the kids is looking more like an adoption case. Outschool has saved my life and depending on what school is for this coming year it might be 2 days a week in school and the other online I have been looking into hiring someone to supplement their education.it will keep them busy letting me work but also letting them learn. Even if I adopted i doubt I would go the home school way just because of the nature of my job. We do tons of read a louds and crafting things. I'm loving the kiwi company subscription boxes. You are setting her up for a great future

[@Mariefb1980]

You are going to have such a fun year! I’m still narrowing down choices for our family. It’s so helpful to see what you’re using.

[@samanthacoats2031]

My daughter's is going into 2nd and and pre-k. I downloaded the Evan Moor Fundamentals. We were supposed to go to Disney World this August, but don't think they are opening yet for tickets, but we got the Walt Disney unit study from waldock way. I ordered more Evan Moor Workbooks, Explode the Code, 1St 4 Life of Fred Elementary Books, and some Masterbooks

[@MeredithHazel]

I’m a big fan of researching curriculum as well. It’s just so much fun!!

[@DanniRose26]

Can’t wait to see the Traveling the world curriculum! Would also love to see inside the a Tuttle twins curriculum too. So many fun choices!

[@cynthiar3407]

I’ve been looking forward to this video. I have a third grader as well and we are very excited because we will be using your Passport to Adventures and Who Was Unit Studies. Can’t wait for Traveling the World!