Welcome back!

Grade three has returned from Winter Break ready to do some big learning. We have been busy creating new art projects to brighten up our freshly painted walls, practicing 3 digit addition and subtraction, and we even started multiplication this week! We are focusing on four different countries in Social Studies - Peru, Ukraine, Tunisia and Peru. We will be learning about different features of each country in the coming months. In Science we created our own engineering firm - Fantastic Futures - to learn about testing materials and designs when building safe structures. 

Coming up next week is the Crime Not to Read pizza party, on Wednesday January 21st. This is an evening sponsored by the Crime Not to Read program. Families are invited to the Thornhill branch of the Calgary Public Library to enjoy a pizza dinner and stories with our police officer. There is no charge for this evening, and all families and siblings are welcome to attend. Students are encouraged to bring their library cards with them in order to check out books with their families! 

On Monday January 26th our grade three class will be attending a National Geographic Live presentation at the Arts Commons (formerly the EPCOR Centre for Performing Arts). Forms for this trip went home on Friday, and are due back to the school by Thursday January 21. If you are available to volunteer for this event please let us know as soon as possible so the appropriate forms can be sent home. Students will be departing the school via school bus at 9:15, and will return in time for lunch. We look forward to doing some good learning about the animal needs and adaptations in the Antarctic region!