December 5

We were delighted to have so many of you come visit our shelter museum! The kids were excited to share the work they've done studying a shelter from a different culture. The kids were super excited to receive all this compliments from you!

Here's what's happening next week:

• We have our second session of Dance on Monday. Please have your child dress for movement. Girls were reminded on Friday to not wear footed tights as we might have to go barefoot during  class.
• Please expect your child's Chapter 5 math test returned to you on Monday. Thank you for your patience as we needed an absentee to make up the test before we could take them home. We have already begun our unit on division. Students are finding that mastery of the multiplication facts will help them greatly with division facts. We have had some great math talks about division as a concept of fair sharing and creating equal groups from a large amount. 
• Music will take place on Tuesday. Your child needs his/ her recorder in class on that day. 
• We have the Third Grade Cultural Luncheon on Friday! I really appreciate everyone's donation of a special dish from your families culture and the children are beyond excited for this! A letter went home today to families who volunteered to donate plates and utensils. Please keep an eye out for those and thank you for taking on this extra contribution! I will contact you next week if you have volunteered to help set up or clean up.
• Here is a copy of the menu from our class so far. This will be combined with dishes from the other third grade classes so we'll have plenty of choices for this feast! Most children will need only about a tablespoon sized portion, so please do not feel you have to produce a massive amount of food for everyone. If you have not already done so please send a list of ingredients so that children can make informed choices about what they are eating, especially if a child has an allergy. 

Entrées	Desserts	Sides
Lasagna	Apple pie	Southern Biscuits
Enchiladas	Israeli dessert	Irish Soda Bread
Curry wurst	Sweet Potato Pie	Potato Latkes
Middle Eastern rice	Mint Chocolate brownies	Guacamole and chips
Lumpiang Shanghai	Japanese sweet potato cake	Irish Brown Bread
Schnitzel in pita	Biscuits
Fried chicken	Chocolate chip cookies
Tamago-yaki (Japanese egg omelet)
Canadian Meat pie

Have a wonderful weekend!