What your child learns in Grade 3 in Nunavut
Grade 3 builds strong reading and early multiplication. Students learn more about Nunavut: its regions, communities and symbols, and how people live together.
Grade 3 subjects in the Nunavut Curriculum
Math
Big Ideas
- Iqqaqqaukkaringniq: concepts in mathematics, analytical and critical thinking, and solution-seeking.
- Number: develop number sense and understand how numbers and operations work.
- Patterns and Relations: use patterns and equations to describe the world and solve problems.
14 units, including numbers to 1000, round & count, facts to 20, add & subtract.
English Language Arts
Big Ideas
- Uqausiliriniq: communication and language, creative and artistic expression, and reflective and critical thinking.
- Comprehension: listen, view and read to understand a range of texts.
- Production: speak, write and represent ideas clearly for different audiences and purposes.
18 units, including read and think, story elements, word jobs, punctuation power.
Science
Big Ideas
- Iqqaqqaukkaringniq: ways to describe and improve our world through science and technology.
- Life science, physical science, and earth and space science, as in the Common Framework of Science Learning Outcomes.
- Skills of inquiry and design, and links between science, technology, society and the environment.
10 units, including science skills & safety, pushes, pulls & forces, speed & motion, structures & their jobs.
Social Studies
Big Ideas
- Nunavusiutit: heritage and culture, history, geography, environmental science, and civics and economics, with a focus on Nunavut and its links to Canada and the circumpolar world.
- Inuuqatigiit, the curriculum from the Inuit perspective, shapes how the strand is taught.
- Skills of inquiry, working with others and respecting different points of view.
6 units, including our territory: nunavut, groups, leaders & getting along, maps of our world, communities around the world.
What to look for on the report card
Look for comments about reading comprehension, paragraph writing, early multiplication and using what they know about Nunavut.
Nunavut report cards describe learning with Beginning, Approaching, Meeting, Exceeding. See what each level means.
Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit guides learning from Kindergarten to Grade 12. Read about inuit qaujimajatuqangit.
Ready for Grade 3?
Grade 3 builds on what your child practised in Grade 2. If a skill feels shaky, a few short practice sessions before or early in the year can help:
- Math: skip counting, even, odd and ordinals, tens & ones, bigger or smaller, facts to 20
- English Language Arts: rhyme time, sound detectives, sight words and reading with expression, word power, build sentences
- Science: animals of the arctic, think like a scientist, solids & liquids, water world, air & water for life
- Social Studies: then & now, needs & wants, caring citizens, working together fairly, finding out and sharing ideas
Common questions
Grade 3 covers math, english language arts, science, social studies in the Nunavut Curriculum. Grade 3 builds strong reading and early multiplication. Students learn more about Nunavut: its regions, communities and symbols, and how people live together.
Nunavut report cards describe learning with Beginning, Approaching, Meeting, Exceeding.
Short, regular practice works better than long sessions: 10 to 15 minutes a few times a week, on the skills your child's teacher flags. Read together, use math in real life, and praise effort.
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