Basic Curriculum for Grade 3

Textbooks

• Margarita 3, epipedo 3, Tefhos 3- Text Book and Exercise Book by University of Crete (EDIAME)
• Mathaino Ellinika 2 (A + B) – Text Book and Exercise Book by Ministry of Education and Culture, Cyprus
• Paizo kai Matheno , epipedo deftero, tefxos 2, by University of Crete (EDIAME)
• Mathaino na diavazo, Epipedo Proto, Tefxos 4, by University of Crete

*Parents should provide opportunities for children to use Greek at home.

Listening / Speaking

• Carry on a conversation with teacher in Greek on topics discussed in class
• Follow instructions, learn to give instructions
• Vocabulary: Review and expand on themes for Grades One and Two
• Story time: Listen to stories read in Greek at an appropriate level of difficulty
• Role play: every day or imaginative situations
• Supplementary: songs, poems, word games
• View Greek videos for listening and discussion.

Reading

• Review alphabet, vowel and consonant combinations
• Review vowel digraphs (αι, ει, οι, ου, αυ, ευ)
• Learn consonant digraphs (Στ, Μπ, Ντ, γγ, γκ, τζ, τς, γδ, θλ, χρ, ρτ, πρ, etc)
• Review word attack skills to unlock new words (using context/visual clues, syllabication)
• Weekly reading lesson: Oral reading practice at home for review and fluency
• New vocabulary: Keep lists, frequent reviews

Writing

• Improve handwriting: Copy passages from a text
• Compose captions for pictures and simple stories consisting of 8-10 sentences
• Variety of seatwork activities
• Spelling dictation: One simple sentence from weekly reading lesson

Grammar

• Review alphabet: Vowels, Consonants, vowel/consonant digraphs, upper and lowercase
• Punctuation: use of period, comma, question mark, exclamation mark
• Parts of speech: Identification
• Nouns: Concrete, common, proper, use of capitals, gender (ο, η, το), number (ένα, πολλά)
• Adjectives: Agreement with nouns (ο μικρός σκύλος, η μικρή γάτα, το μικρό παιδί)
• Verbs: Auxiliary verbs: είμαι, έχω (used in sentences), negatives using δεν
• Verbs in –ω : τρώω, θέλω, πίνω, τρέχω, διαβάζω etc
• Tenses: Enestotas – Aoristos
• Irregular verbs in Aoristos

Culture / History

• Learn Lord’s prayer in Greek, Greek National anthem
• Ethnic, cultural, religious days: Name days, March 25, October 28, Christmas, Easter
• Aesop’s fables: What makes fables unique stories? What is the moral of each?
• History and Religion based activities

Culmination Activity

Working with a partner: Students create their own fable, and then present their fable to class using narration, dramatisation, costumes, masks, props.

Dance

• Kalamatianos,
• Karagouna
• Nisiotikos
• Podaraki
• Hasaposervikos
• Syrtos