Articles for Grade 3

It all began in May of 2006, when Petra, a beautiful black swan flew into a lake in the Western city of Munster in Germany. This is where she met the "swan" of her dreams - a big white swan-shaped Paddle Boat...

17-year old Shivani Sud, a high school senior from North Carolina will receive a $100,000 U.S. Dollar scholarship from the Intel Foundation for winning the annual Intel Science Talent Search Contest, held in Washington D.C. last week. Shivani beat 1,600 other students nationwide with her research on how to improve colon cancer treatment....

Happy St. Patrick's Day! - On this fun day, we bring you a heart-warming story about an unusual "Irish" dancing troupe where the only person who is Irish is the teacher! "The Keltic Dreams" is a multi-ethnic group of 33 kids all between the ages of 7-12, who go to Public School 59 in New York's Bronx region....

On March 5th, over 750,000 students from all over the world participated in World Maths Day, an online math competition hosted by Australian company 3P learning in collaboration with Voyager Expanded Learning, a leading publisher of K-12 educational solutions in America....

Early this morning, Shuttle Endeavour lit up the dark skies with a spectacular launch to Space. The seven men crew has two main missions - to add the first module (section) of Japan's Science Lab and to attach a second Canadian Robotic Arm called "Dextre"....

Arizona's magnificent Grand Canyon made the news headlines twice last week. First because of the decision to flood it with billions of gallons of water, to try restore the Canyon's natural habitat and the second time because of a new study that suggests that the Canyon is a lot older than we think....

Eight-year old Joao Victor Portelinha de Oliveira, who lives in Brazil, really wants to be a Federal Judge. He wants it so bad that he decided to sit for a law school entrance exam this year and see how he did. To his amazement, he not only passed the exam with flying colors, but also received an admission letter to attend a private university - The Univesidade Paulista....

Calling all Spider-Man fans - the first animated Spider-Man show in a decade - "The Spectacular Spider-Man" aired it's first two back-to-back episodes on kids WB on the CW Network today at 10.am. if you missed it, catch it next Saturday at the same time....

If these determined runners look a little different from your normal sprinters - they are. They are on a very important mission - a quest to win 10,000 euros (about 12,000 U.S. Dollars), towards a shopping spree. The only wrinkle - they have to ditch their sneakers for stilettos (high heeled shoes)....