Third Grade
updated May 16, 2019

Out of the Garden and into the Desert:
The Nine-Year Change Through the Stories of the Third Grade Curriculum

Encountering the Self:
Transformation & Destiny in the Ninth Year

Morning Verse for Lower Grades

Waldorf Today Gallery of Main Lesson Book Pages - Elementary School
Beautiful and inspiring

Overview of Childhood Characteristics - includes the four temperaments
article by David Mitchell

Gallery of Chalkboard Drawings in the Waldorf Classroom grades 1 - 8

BLACKBOARD SKETCHING book By FREDERICK WHITNEY (1908)
available online for free - with step by step directions and illustrations

Main Lesson Book pages shared by Christopherus Homeschool Resources

Waldorf Inspirations Gallery (grades 1-8)

browse through my collection of Pinterest Boards with samples of chalkboard drawings and main lesson book pages for many blocks

*NEW* Waldorf Science Newsletter - issues available in PDF format for FREE

page 13 of Vol.1 has a Science Curriculum in the Waldorf School Grades 1-8 overview / one page handout, page 14 has the same for High School Grades 9-12

Summary of Math Skills for Grades 1 through 8 (PDF)
A Grades 1 through 8 Math Curriculum Overview (PDF)
Word Problems in Grades 1 through 8 (PDF)
written by Jamie York

What's Taught?
The Waldorf School Curriculum - Grade 3 by Eugene Schwartz

Block Rotations Grades 1 - 8 (PDF)
written by Jamie York

see also
• How to Bind a Main Lesson Book
• Movement for Childhood - WONDERFUL site!
• Basic Sculptural Modeling: Developing the Will By Working with Pure Forms in the First Three Grades
  by Hella Loewe
  available FREE as a download at the link above - courtesy of the Waldorf Online Library
• Grade 3 Training Manual FREE PDF
  WRITTEN FOR THE EAST AFRICAN WALDORF TEACHER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM BY CATHERINE VAN ALPHEN & PETER VAN ALPHEN
• Grade 3 Content from Waldorf Teacher Resources
  An unbelievable resource with FREE main lesson pages and lesson plans (called "gems")
  Form Drawing

  Music

  Movement

  Math

  Language

  Circle

  Painting

  Class Play

  Verses

  Main Lesson Pages

  Old Testament

  Measurement

  Time

  Shelters

  Clothing

  Cooking and Food

  Remedial

  Stories

  Blackboard Drawings

• Extending Indigenous Cultures Throughout The American Waldorf Curriculum

More amazing free books from the Waldorf Online Library:

• 25 Plays by David Mitchell
  very helpful for Old Testament Stories - my Sunday School class always put on a play each year using books such as this for our scripts
• An English Grammar: The Language Before Babel by Rudolf Schmid
  also for the Old Testament block, which is when Grammar is introduced (Adam named all the animals... nouns)
• And There Was Light by Jakob Streit
  also for the Old Testament block, a wonderful book, the first in his series of three, with retellings of the OT Stories
• Commentary on the Old Testament Stories by Roy Wilkinson
• Misc. Additional Resources
• Summer Reading Lists
  from the San Francisco Waldorf School
• five math games
• Grade 3 posts - Schooling from the Heart
• Noah and the Flood - a play for 3rd grade by Eugene Schwartz
• Suggested Course of Study for Third Grade by Waldorf Curriculum
• Parenting the Nine Year Old from Waldorf in the Home
• *NEW* The Nine Year Change
  blog post from Momma Skyla
• *NEW* While philosophically I disagree with a lot of the political links on this website, the resource list for week 8 contains many suggestions for print resources that go extremely well with the Waldorf Third Grade curriculum, including making fire, shelter building, handmade baskets, simple pottery, cordage, foraging, stone tools, and tanning hides.
• Books for Third Grade from the Baldwin Project
• The Spring 1977 Issue of the Waldorf Clearing House Newsletter focused on 3rd grade
• Waldorf Third Grade Student Reading List

For the Money block (in Maths of Practical Life)
"Smart" from Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings by Shel Silverstein





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• Notes on Homemade Calendar Activity






samples from the Third Grade Curriculum by Live Education!

• Humanity's Shelters from Humanity on Earth - Shelter, Clothing, Farming
• Sundial from Time, Weight, Measure and Money - The Math of Practical Life
• Painting the Six Days of Creation from Time, Weight, Measure and Money - The Math of Practical Life
• Writing Letters from Literature, Grammar, Spelling, and Word Families
• Learning to Write Hebrew from Hebrew Myths and Culture - Prophets and Kings
• Live Education! recommends the following books to supplement the third grade curriculum:

  The Illustrated Story Bible by Pearl S. Buck
  

  Legends of the Bible by Louis Ginzberg

Class Plays

• List of Pedagogical Plays by Arthus M. Pittis
  useful for homeschool groups or Waldorf schools - contact him to purchase scripts

The following is exclusive content:

• Native American Legends
• Bartering: Trade Goods & The Development of Currency
• Old Testament Stories

Share your ideas!

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• Handwork:
  Teaching Kids about Fibers and Spinning

Some of my favorite weaving projects which don't require a loom:

• In the Art Room: Tree Weaving with Third Grade
  from Cassie Stephens
• Woven Finger-Knitting Hula-Hoop Rug DIY
  from Flax and Twine
• giant grapevine arch with bench for sitting in on the playground
  from Wildflower Farm
• woven hideout
  from Kids Weaving: Projects for Kids of All Ages by Sarah Swett

  

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