3rd Grade
All four core subjects for a full 3rd grade year, reading and writing, mathematics with multiplication at its heart, hands-on science, and a first real look at how communities work. Third grade is where "learning to read" becomes "reading to learn," and every course here is built for exactly that hand-off.
Start 30 days freeFive days from the opening week of 3rd grade, taken from the lessons themselves rather than written to sound good.
The week opens with a quick read-aloud check: you read a short six-sentence passage, then ask 'what happened first, what happened next,' watching whether your child can retell events in order before any new teaching starts.
Math's opening day is about seeing multiplication before naming it: skip-counting by 5s on a number strip, then three equal groups of two counted two different ways, by ones and by adding, so 'groups of the same size' becomes a real picture before it becomes a fact.
Science starts hands-on: a book gets pushed across a desk, 'it moved away from me, that's a push,' then a chair gets pulled toward you, 'it moved toward me, that's a pull,' two plain examples that build the whole unit's vocabulary before any worksheet does.
Social studies opens close to home: your child draws themselves inside three groups they actually belong to, family, a club, the street, and names one thing each group does for them, the personal version of a question the unit builds all the way out to 'what is a community.'
By the end of the week all four subjects have had their turn, and none of them wait for the others to finish. A 3rd grader who's slower on retelling than on skip-counting keeps moving in math while ELA takes the extra day it needs, which is the whole point of mastery pacing instead of a shared calendar.
This is a full-year, 5-day-a-week reading and writing course for third grade. Your child will read short stories and nonfiction pieces, learn to back up every answer with the exact sentence that proves it, and end up writing three kinds of pieces: an opinion, an informative report, and a personal story. Nothing here is abstract grammar drilling — grammar gets taught right inside whatever they're reading or writing that week. By spring, they'll be pulling facts from two different sources, comparing them, and writing multi-paragraph pieces on their own, which is exactly what 4th grade assumes they can already do.
This is the year multiplication and division actually click - not as a set of memorized facts, but as pictures your child can draw and reason from. Everything else in the year - measuring area, comparing fractions, reading a graph - turns out to be that same equal-groups picture wearing a different hat. By June, your child should be able to look at a rectangle, a clock, or a bar graph and say "oh, this is just groups of things again."
This is a full year of science that adds up to one idea: things change, and you can figure out why if you look for patterns and back up your claims with actual measurements instead of guesses. Your child pushes and pulls real objects, tests magnets, grows a bean plant, measures traits, looks at fossils, and keeps a weather log — all with stuff you already have at home. By the end they've used four words — force, pattern, trait, evidence — in eight totally different situations, which is the actual point: not memorizing facts about frogs or magnets, but getting comfortable saying "here's what I measured, here's the pattern, here's what I think it means."
This is a full year of social studies that answers one question from a bunch of angles: how do people organize their lives together, and why does it look different from place to place? Your child starts with groups they already belong to — family, class, town — then learns to read maps and globes, compares communities around the world and across time, meets local and national government, and learns basic economics like trade and scarcity. It ends with them picking a real problem in their own town and writing an actual proposal to fix it, using everything from the year. There's no test-and-forget structure here — later units keep reusing words and skills from earlier ones, so gaps show up fast and get noticed.
Every course above is published in full, every unit, every module, every objective, and you can try a real lesson without an account.
It is one of the most common years to start, and one of the best: multiplication is where classroom pacing starts leaving kids behind, and a mastery-paced course simply refuses to move on before the child is ready. Placement happens automatically in the first sessions.
Plan on being nearby rather than teaching. The course explains, checks and re-explains on its own; your dashboard shows exactly where your child is stuck. Most families report the parent role at this age is reading the same picture your child sees and cheering.