Grade 3

In elementary school, children learn how to learn—and remember—new information. Students study a variety of subjects. These help them develop both creativity and critical-thinking skills. These skills are what they’ll need to meet the challenges in later years.

Grades K–5 set the foundation for:

  • reading
  • writing
  • listening
  • speaking
  • math
  • science
  • social studies
  • health
  • physical education
  • the arts

Third Grade

Once in third grade, students learn how to express their ideas clearly while improving their mastery of math to include multiplication and division, students:

  • solve problems with multiplication and division of numbers up to 100
  • learn about world communities and cultures for the first time
  • gain a better understanding of sound and heat
  • study how animals and plants live and adapt to their surrounding environments
  • are expected to take NY State Math/ELA exams (Grades 3–8) for the first time