The third grade program expands the base of knowledge that students learned in second grade by introducing new concepts and enhancing their skills. In social studies, the focus is community. The students learn what a community is, study other communities around the world, and then focus on our own community. Students participate in a research project of Revere's past as a thriving city with the first public beach. They view web sites, examine old postcards, and finish by creating their own postcards and tourism posters.

In language arts, the students begin to improve their paragraph writing skills by adding pronouns, adjectives and adverbs to sentences. Studying poetry helps the students summarize the information they have learned in science by creating cinquains about the Earth's rotation and about their yearly project studying the life cycle of mealworms that are hatched into Tenebrio Beetles in our classroom.

In math, the students learn to add and subtract numbers into the thousands, learn to measure to the 1/4 inch, tell time to the minute, and how to multiply and divide. The students also have many opportunities for art projects within the classroom and see the art, music, computer, physical education, and library specialists for a weekly class.