Week 15: Cultural Luncheon

It was great to see everyone on Thursday! Thank you for your patience as you waited for your appointment and  I appreciate all your comments and support. These conferences have provided me with some insights and direction as to how we will work together to have a productive remainder of the year. There were no Weekly Updates attached to your child's homework folder this week due to the conferences but it will be there next week. Please keep checking them through the upcoming weeks.

After a busy and productive week, we are looking forward to celebrating! Next week, we will have the Cultural Luncheon which will take place from 12:00 to 12:55 pm Friday at our Multimedia room. So many of you have generously promised to share some amazing dishes from your family. The children and quite a few teachers are looking forward to this!

Dishes for the luncheon can be brought to the MMr anytime before the celebration. Please have your food in disposable containers with your child's name on it.  Please keep in mind that there will be plenty of food for the children and adults to try so we really only need about 30 teaspoon sized portions or enough to fit in a 9 x 12 pan. There will be a specific table set aside for our class. Please look a label for 3-303!

We have begun a new unit on Nonfiction Reading this week. The main focus of the unit is to help our children read information texts with understanding of main ideas and supporting details. Children are getting the chance to shop in our library's nonfiction section and they are having a great time with books about animals. places and science topics like minerals and weather. Our Reading response sheet has also changed to reflect our new learning. Below is a sample response to show how the response can be written. We worked on it together as a class after reading from Shark Attack.

Here's what to expect next week:

• We are wrapping up our work on Multiplication this week. There will be a test on Chapter 5 on Thursday and afterwards, we will use our multiplication facts to help us with Division facts. Please continue to use the links provided in previous weeks' posts to help your child practice multiplication facts with speed and accuracy.
• The Third Grade Cultural Luncheon will wrap up our week on Friday! We look forward to many of you joining us on that day.