What Your Year 3 Child Needs to Know

Editor: E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
UK General Editors: Robert Whelan and Tanya Lubicz-Nawrocka
December 2012

What Your Year 3 Child Needs to Know is the third in the series of six books—one for each year—for parents, home educators, teachers and children to enjoy. Read below to see a selection of the varied topics and activities it includes.

Language and Literature:

• Poetry, including: ‘Something Told the Wild Geese’ by Rachel Field; ‘Rickety Train Ride’ by Tony Mitton; ‘On the Ning Nang Nong’ by Spike Milligan; ‘There Was an Old Man with a Beard’ by Edward Lear
• Stories and Tall Tales, including: ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ by Hans Christian Andersen; Albion and Brutus; ‘Robin Hood and his Merry Men’
• Myths from Ancient Greece, including Heroes and Monsters, Gods and Goddesses; ‘Arachne the Weaver’
• Learning about Language, including: Sentences, Subjects and Predicates; Nouns; Verbs; Adjectives; Antonyms and Synonyms
• Familiar Sayings, including: ‘Better Late Than Never’; ‘Where There’s a Will There’s a Way’

History and Geography:

• World History and Geography, including: Great Rivers of the World; Civilisations in Asia; Ancient Greece: Birthplace of the Olympics; Athens: Birthplace of Democracy
• British and European Geography, including: Geography of Western Europe; British Rivers and Basins
• British History, including: Norman Monarchs; The Crusades; The Magna Carta; de Montfort’s Parliament; Wars of the Roses; The Reformation; The Elizabethan Era

Visual Arts:

• Lines, including: Lines and Form (Paul Klee’s Was Fehlt Ihm?, Pablo Picasso’s Mother and Child); Lines and Movement (Katsushika Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa); Lines and Symmetry (Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper)
• Looking at Landscapes, including: Jacob van Ruisdael’s Bentheim Castle; John Constable’s Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows
• Still Life and Mythology, including: Paul Cézanne’s Still Life with Apples and Antonio del Pollaiuolo’s Apollo and Daphne
• The Art of Designing Buildings: Architecture, including: The Parthenon, St Paul’s Cathedral, The Great Stupa, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao; The Scottish Parliament Building

Music:

• Many Kinds of Music, including: Patriotic Music; Folk Music; Classical
• Meet Some Great Composers, including: Vivaldi, Bach and Beethoven
• Families of Instruments, including: String Family; Percussion Family
• Writing Music Down, including: Follow the Notes; Pitch: High and Low; A Musical Scale
• Songs, including: ‘Bobby Shaftoe’; ‘The Happy Wanderer’; ‘My Grandfather’s Clock’

Mathematics:

• Working with Numbers to 100, including: Skip-Counting and Tallies; Doubles and Halves; Working with Equations; Fractions
• Working with Numbers to 1,000, including: Place Value; Expanded Form; Adding Three-Digit Numbers; Subtraction and Regrouping Hundreds
• Measurement, including: Measuring Length; Measuring Weight and Time
• Geometry, including: Plane and Solid Figures; Lines and Segments; Lines of Symmetry
• Multiplication and Division, including: Multiplying Vertically; The Multiplication Table; Brackets: Multiplying Three Numbers; Division Word Problems; Remainders

Science:

• The Cycle of Life and the Seasons, including: From Seed to Seed: A Plant’s Life Cycle; From Frog to Frog: An Amphibian’s Life Cycle; The Cycle of the Seasons
• The Water Cycle, including: Evaporation; Condensation and Precipitation
• Insects, including: What Makes an Insect an Insect?; Insect Life Cycles; A Simpler Kind of Metamorphosis; Social Insects: Ants and Honeybees
• The Human Body, including: Cells: The Building Blocks of Living Things; Cells and Tissues; Organs and Systems; What Happens to the Food You Eat?; A Healthy Diet
• Magnetism, including: That Special Magnetic Attraction; Magnetic Poles; Using a Compass
• Simple Machines, including: Levers; Wheels; Pulleys; Inclined Planes; Wedges; Screws
• Stories About Scientists, including: Aristotle; Archimedes; Antonij van Leeuwenhoek; The Curie Family

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