3rd Grade

All content of this current unit, including this week's learning, can be found on your child's Google Classroom. The link is for how you log in to your child's Google Classroom. Make sure you use your child's CPS email credentials to log in to Google Classroom.  

Assessment Calendar: 

• Interpretive Assessment: One assignment every week, usually happens on Tuesdays. One assessment every other week on Thursdays. This assessment happens up to 4 times per quarter. 

• Presentational Assessment: One assignment every week, usually happens on Mondays. One assessment every other week on Wednesdays or Fridays.  This assessment happens up to 3 times per quarter. 

• Interpersonal Assessment: One assignment every two weeks, usually happens on Tuesdays or Mondays. One assessment every other week on Mondays. This assessment happens up to 3 times per quarter, depending on the quarter length and the unit content.

• Link to general objectives for all quarters: Click Here

Quarter 1, Objectives and Unit 1: Shopping for School Supplies

Learners Can:

• Do simple math in Arabic, namely, simple addition and subtraction.

• Read about school supplies and understand them within a text.

• Describe school supplies while trying to convince customers to buy them at a school fair.

• Ask about prices and discuss if they are expensive or inexpensive (using phrases, معقول, رخيص, غالي)

• Introduce prices of school supplies at a school fair.

• Use vocabulary of school supplies to create a school fair selling these supplies at the beginning of the school year;

• Recognize some Arabic currency and the value of each kind, along with prices of school supplies;

• Make Arabic currency by painting and copying.

• Use the money that they made to buy school supplies, and 

• Learn how to negotiate a good price as in traditional Arab old city marketplaces.

Quarter 2, Objectives and Unit 2: Expressing My Emotions and Daily Movements

Learners Can:

• Do the corresponding movements and facial expressions while listening to the teacher’s commands of movements and emotions; 

• List in writing and orally compare and express happy and unhappy emotions. 

• Read, write about, and understand the different emotions and movements within a text.

• Describe the emotional states of themselves and others based on visuals. 

• Ask about each other's daily statistics. 

• Use multiple pronouns and conjugate verbs of emotions and movements appropriately.

• Recognize some Arabic reactions and body gestures related to the various movements and emotions that are different from their own cultures, and 

• Identify and match Arabic words to movements and various emotions based on visuals. 

• Identify the location of objects, here, there, on, and under. 

Quarter 3, Objectives and Unit 3: Eid Clothes

Learners Can:

• Identify and recognize the Arabic names of common items of clothing and use them in meaningful contexts. 

• List in writing and orally compare summer and winter clothes. 

• Read, understand, and write about the different types of common Arabic outfits within a text. 

• Describe the clothes worn by oneself and others in pictures, including details about the colors and sizes of clothing items. 

• Ask about the clothes, color, and size of clothes they have, like, and wear. 

• Use multiple pronouns and conjugate the verb “wear” appropriately, along with placing the proper color adjective after the noun.

 • Recognize some Arabic clothing that is different from their own cultures and

 • Identify and match Arabic words to clothing based on visuals. 

• Sort and classify winter and summer clothes.

 • Participate in a fashion show in which they describe their clothes. 

Quarter 4, Objectives and Unit 4: Useful Expressions 

Learners Can:

• Identify and recognize the common Arabic expressions that would be used in and out of the Arabic classroom. 

• List in writing and orally compare opposites when it comes to expressions and idioms. 

• Read, understand, and write about the different types of common useful expressions within a text. 

• Ask about certain expressions and idioms to be used in everyday conversation. 

• Use multiple pronouns and conjugate the different verbs appropriately.

• Identify and match Arabic words to situations based on visuals.

• Sort and classify opposites and idioms.