Grades 3 to 5
From play to purposeful learning
Children move from learning through play to more structured learning, while keeping it active, hands-on and joyful. They become fluent readers, confident with numbers and curious about the world around them.
What children learn
Subjects in Grades 3 to 5
- English
- Stories, poems and folk tales from India and the world; reading for meaning; writing paragraphs, letters and stories; speaking and listening
- Hindi and Kannada
- Reading, writing and conversation; poems, stories and everyday language
- Mathematics
- Numbers into the thousands and beyond; the four operations; fractions as fair shares; shapes and patterns; length, weight, capacity, time and money; collecting and reading data, often set in fairs, festivals and family life
- The World Around Us (EVS)
- Families and communities; plants, animals and life around us; water, food and health; things we make and use; taking care of waste; different lands and the sky above us
- Arts
- Visual arts, music, dance and theatre as full subjects
- Physical education
- Running, jumping and balance; kicking, catching and striking; local and traditional games; yoga
- Computing and robotics
- Digital basics, block coding, simple machines with motors and sensors
Subject and What it covers
In the classroom
Experiments, groups and real problems
Children carry out simple experiments, work in groups, solve real-life word problems and create something in every unit. Reading corners and vocabulary logs build a love of reading.
By the end of Grade 5, your child will
- Read longer texts fluently and with understanding, and write clearly for different purposes.
- Calculate with large numbers, fractions and measurements, and explain their method.
- Observe, question and explain how things work in the world around them.
- Work in a team, present to the class and take responsibility for their tasks.
Indian roots in the Preparatory Stage
- Mathematics problems set in Indian fairs, festivals and family life.
- Panchatantra, Jataka and folk tales in reading, used to discuss values such as honesty and kindness.
- Karnataka’s lakes, crops, foods and crafts as the first examples studied in EVS.
- Traditional games such as Chowka Bara and Ali Guli Mane for counting and strategy, and rangoli for patterns and symmetry.
- Indian music, dance and art forms in the arts.
How progress is checked
Short assessments, with the whole picture
Short written assessments begin in this stage, alongside teacher observation, portfolios, projects, and self and peer reflection.
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See learning in action
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