How to read this page
Manitoba publishes its curriculum as long official documents written for teachers. This page is the same content, translated for the fridge door: each subject below shows this year's units and the skills inside them. If a skill sounds unfamiliar, that's the point — now you know what to ask about at dinner.
Mathematics this year
Numbers stop being abstract this year — they become things your child can count, compare, build, and explain. In Manitoba, that's Mathematics, Grade 3 — 4 units, 43 skills.
Number
- Skip-counting to 1000
- Mental strategies for adding
- Showing multiplication
Patterns and Relations
- Describing and extending increasing patterns
- The mystery symbol in an equation
Shape and Space
- Relating time to activities
- Referents for centimetres and metres
- Faces, edges, and vertices
See the full Mathematics, Grade 3 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
English Language Arts this year
Reading and writing grow fast at this age — this is the year the letters turn into stories. In Manitoba, that's English Language Arts, Grade 3 — 4 units, 50 skills.
Explore and Discover Language and Literacy
- Listen to and reflect on the ideas
- Engage in dialogue with others (partners, small/large
- Use complex sentences with various transition words
Comprehend and Respond to Multimodal Texts
- Activate prior knowledge including knowledge gained from
- Select a variety of multimodal texts for
- Review information gathered, and text selected and decide what to share or omit
Compose and Create Multimodal Texts
- Generate and select a topic with ideas
- Discuss new information gathered from a variety
- Use strategies to plan for text creation
Communicate Ideas and Build New Understandings
- Adjust intonation, tone, volume, expression and communication
- Develop self-monitoring skills; begin to think aloud
- Set specific learning goals related to listening
See the full English Language Arts, Grade 3 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
Science this year
Science at this age is guided curiosity — observing, sorting, asking why, and testing ideas hands-on. In Manitoba, that's Science, Grade 3 — 5 units, 67 skills.
Scientific Skills and Inquiry
- Using science tools
- Showing data more than one way
Growth and Changes in Plants
- Words for plant growth
- Plant parts and their jobs
- Needs of plants and animals
Materials and Structures
- Words for materials and structures
- Balance keeps structures steady
- Building a structure to meet criteria
Forces That Attract or Repel
- Words for forces and magnetism
- What magnets attract
- Making static electricity
Soils in the Environment
- Words for soils
- How much water soils hold
- Animals that help the soil
See the full Science, Grade 3 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
Three ways parents use this list
Common questions
What does my child learn in Grade 3 in Manitoba?
Manitoba's official curriculum sets out Mathematics, English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies for Grade 3 — 201 specific skills in total. The big themes: Mathematics covers number and patterns and relations; English Language Arts covers explore and discover language and literacy and comprehend and respond to multimodal texts; Science covers scientific skills and inquiry and growth and changes in plants. The full list is on this page.
Is this the official Manitoba curriculum?
It's built from Manitoba's official program of studies, reorganized into plain language — and each subject links to a course page that quotes the ministry's own wording and links to the government source, so you can check our work. One honest caveat: we're not the ministry, curricula do change, and we can't guarantee this reflects the very latest revision, so confirm anything important against the live provincial curriculum data.
My child is finding one of these skills hard. What can I do?
That's normal — every skill on this page is one most kids wobble on at first. MapleMind teaches any of them one-on-one: a short lesson in plain words, a worked example, then solving together. It's free to start, on any device, in 14 languages.
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The other half is the teaching — and that's what MapleMind does. Pick any skill on this page and see it taught properly, free, in under a minute.
MapleMind isn't affiliated with any ministry of education. We build these guides from each province's official program of studies and refresh them from time to time — but curricula change, and we can't guarantee this page reflects the very latest revision. Always confirm against the live provincial curriculum data. Last updated 2026-08-15.
Social Studies this year
Social studies starts close to home — family, community, and how people live together. In Manitoba, that's Social Studies, Grade 3 — 4 units, 41 skills.
Connecting with Canadians
- What citizenship means
- Our anthem in three languages
- What shapes my identity
+ 8 more skills in this unit →Exploring the World
- The equator and hemispheres
- Countries are communities
- Everyone has basic rights
+ 7 more skills in this unit →Communities of the World
- Finding world communities
- How nature shapes life
- Using natural resources
+ 11 more skills in this unit →Exploring an Ancient Society
- Life in an ancient society
- Customs and stories of long ago
- Cultures continue over time
+ 3 more skills in this unit →See the full Social Studies, Grade 3 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →