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What does your third grader need?

Oh, the feelings! This is a an age of huge social/emotional growth and your child is exploring all of those big feelings. They need the opportunity to focus on this growth alongside academic learning in order to fully absorb what you hope they will learn this year.
 
In the Your Natural Learner Third Grade Curriculum, we help you help your child, with a focus on those social and emotional development skills that are so desperately needed! The academic necessities are woven in seamlessly while you focus on helping your child develop self-regulation skills and emotional growth through themes that focus on things like Courage, Determination, and Humility. Your child will not only make it through this year, but walk into next year with tools that even many adults today are lacking!
 
  • This integrated curriculum includes 9 themes that include exploration of all subjects: Literacy & Language, Art & Expression, Math Connections, Science Experiments, Social Studies, Technology, and Fun Food Experiences.
  • All themes include an overview, a list of skills covered, learning focuses for each subject, how to know your child is learning, a comprehensive final project in each theme, and additional resources and books lists.
  • This curriculum covers all academic standards and will provide guidance submitting documentation as required by your state/local Department of Education. 
  • Access to our community Facebook group to connect and learn with other families learning with Your Natural Learner. (Homeschool support membership with author, Leah McDermott, is available by appointment only. Join the waitlist here.)

Nine Flexible Themes to Explore Together!

The nine themes in this curriculum are structured in a way that allows you to flexibly choose the activities that you integrate into your daily routines with your child. The categories in each theme are Math Explorations, Science Experiments, Creative Expressions, Literacy Explorations, and Social Connections.

Each theme begins with a selection of journal prompts to encourage self-reflection. With all of the main content categories, you can bounce around and plan activities in a way that best fits your schedule, resources, and child’s interests and questions. Every theme wraps up with a final project to culminate the theme exploration in a fun and creative way.

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Skills Covered in this Theme

Literacy: journaling, parts of speech: ADJECTIVES, cause and effect, information writing, using a thesaurus, facts vs opinions

Math: measurements (refreshing knowledge of linear measurement and measuring liquid volumes), estimation, proper tool choices for measuring

Science: ocean life and ecosystems, symbiotic relationships in the animal kingdom, pollution and human impact on waters, water displacement

Art & Creativity:self-love, using art to spread joy, confidence in our creativity, color shading

Social Studies: civic issues of ocean protection, filtering our thoughts, problems and solutions

Other: consideration of others, online research and media literacy, researching an animal, information writing

Hint: This curriculum includes a final project/journal.

Once your child reaches 2nd Grade in Your Natural Learner Curriculum, they will end each theme with a comprehensive final project. Each project is designed uniquely and is meant to help your child wrap up their learning in a creative and inventive way, while giving you an opportunity to assess their comprehension of the material. 

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Every academic standard your child needs is met here.

You want to give your child the opportunity to freely explore the world around them and develop at their own unique and natural pace without the influence of unnecessary and un-fun experiences of worksheets, desk work, and “drill and kill” learning practices that have infiltrated the world of education today. Of course, as a concerned parent, you also want to make sure that you are checking the boxes of what your child “needs” academically should they need to be evaluated now or in the future.

Your Natural Learner allows you to be flexible and follow your child’s interests, while ensuring all of the necessary material is covered. Natural learning is encouraged and supported through child-led activities, flexible timelines, and a relaxed, yet carefully structured environment. All of the activities are carefully chosen to give your child a variety of opportunities to explore across all learning domains – you will see your child grow emotionally, mentally, physically, socially, and academically as they progress through the themes and grade levels in Your Natural Learner.

You will also notice that the subject areas are interwoven in Your Natural Learner. One activity might have your child dipping their feet into science, math, and social connections at the same time; and all of the activities incorporate a component of literacy by connecting to various book titles, as well as encouraging discussion (remember that speaking and listening are part of literacy too!). Just like in real life, we are constantly finding ourselves thinking and learning about a variety of things – subjects are not isolated in the real world, and you won’t find them that way here either.

See what parents are saying:

“This curriculum is amazing! It has everything I was looking for: nature based, divided into units, all hands on (no boring worksheets or workbooks!), encourages a child’s natural curiosity and desire to learn, and covers all the subject areas! As a former kindergarten teacher who has seen first hand the detrimental effects of mainstream, public schooling I was determined to choose a different way of schooling for my child. I was not comfortable enough to go full on “unschooling” but this curriculum is a great compromise between the two extremes! It meets my needs for “structure” and having specific things to cover, but also meets her needs for engaging, hands on, real life learning. I can’t recommend this program, and all that it comes with, enough!”

Stacey Kinder Plasch
Doula, Former Teacher, Mom

See what parents are saying:

“As the mother of a 2.5 year old with endless interests, I find it very helpful to have a great starting point for planning our days. We can go at our own pace and my daughter often spends over a month engrossed in one theme.”

Kaitlin Champie Akerley
Homeschooling Mom

See what parents are saying:

“Because of this curriculum I have been inspired to make a greater commitment to living a life outside, something I have wanted for a long time, but finally have the inspiration I needed to actually do it. I have referred many people and all of them have been impressed with the great deal they got once they saw the quality and content that Leah offers.”

Mary Grove
Homeschooling Mom

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