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Hi,
Maybe you were wondering why everyone was bringing food to school.
Our names are Estelle, Maeve and Tess. This week we had a homesick party. We each brought in food from our immigrant persona’s country. In Deborah and Megan’s 4th grade we are studying immigrants. Immigrants were from Ireland, Scotland, Greece, Italy, Russia, Sweden, or France. Each Immigrant had a special food from their own home country. The food may not taste delicious to us, but it was special to the immigrant. Remember your yuck could be your immigrant’s yum [Some people brought in sweet dishes. Some people brought in savory ones. For example, Mia brought in a sweet dish called a cannoli. Andrei brought in pasta which is not sweet. We all got to try a little bit of each person’s dish (and some of us got seconds). We all got milk because that’s what immigrants first drank when they came through Ellis Island. We drank it In America also. We did this project because we wanted a chance to really get to know what they used to eat. We all loved to try different food from different countries. It was interesting to see how immigrants ate. When we made our food, we really thought about how they ate. Maeve and I (Tess) made the same thing. It was called poverty cake.

When we first got into the room we talked in a circle about what our immigrant name was, what our food was and why it was important. I (Estelle) made “Prosciutto e melone.” This is an Italian dish. My immigrant persona brought it because, only Italians made this dish I remember Stella saying “My name is Sibina Moore. I am from Ireland, I made soda bread. It is important to me because it is my grandmother’s recipe when she passed through Ellis Island, she adopted a baby.” Everyone wanted to actually be their immigrant so they could always have this feast. Also everybody shared their immigrant persona’s dishes, and everyone else had different stories. Some kids made healthy foods like Sophia’s scottish pie. Lots of people made pastries like Thomas’s crepes, Mia’s cannolis, and Pema’s broken biscuit chocolate bar with shortbread. Others made in between foods like Charlie and Andrei’s spaghetti, Stella’s Irish Soda bread and Ally’s meatballs. These foods you would not find so often. You would probably find them in a country of origin.

Some 4th grader’s quoted:

“The homesick party had a lot of food representing a lot of countries.”-Max

“I liked teaching people to put lemon juice in my crepes.” -Thomas

“Tasting the food was so good.”-Ally

“I tried so many new foods!”-Julia

“ I liked how everybody’s dish was different”-Charlie

“I found out that I really like prosciutto and melon.”-Sophia

“I loved all the different sweet, salty, and savory food.”-Stella

“I thought it was really cool that we had different foods from all over the world in our classroom”

“It was amazing seeing how immigrants ate”-Tess

Everybody loved everybody’s dish. There was no dish that was not liked by anybody. Everybody complimented and appreciated everybody’s hard work. In fact nobody discouraged anybody about their foods even if they did not like it they would hold it in for the sake of the person who made it’s feelings.

Nobody ate lunch after this feast!
We loved all the dishes that we had never tried. We also loved the ones that we did try! Some of them, we still eat today! like:
Estelle’s Prosciutto e melone, Thomas’s crepes and Andrei and Charlie made some pasta with tomato sauce. Each food was unique in it’s own way. Most of them were different and new we have never had a better time taste testing.

“It kind of felt like I was traveling all over the world.” -Clarissa

By Maeve, Tess, and Estelle