Monday, March 07, 2005

The Last Few Miles

Yesterday thousands of runners participating in the Los Angeles marathon came past Third Street School. They were beginning the hardest phase of the marathon, the last few miles as the passed June Street. In a way, our students also feel like they are in those last few miles. The days before Spring Break can pass so slowly! And only a few weeks remains before Open House and Testing. So much to do, so little time!

Still, I am happy to report that everybody is working hard and making good progress. We will be wrapping up our Storytelling Unit in the next couple weeks. We began a new story today called The Keeping Quilt. We will be practicing our folktales and getting ready to put them on videotape soon. We will be beginning a new unit in math this week, this time on multi-digit multiplication. We're also going to be aiming at real "automaticity" with our math facts as we do this. We want to know them COLD!

Today we had some really great PE participation, so maybe some of you "had a talk" with your children. Thank you so much.

Homework: (1) Complete the study questions on Aunt Flossy's Hats. (2) Write a rough draft of a dialogue between two friends. Be sure to use quotation marks correctly. Begin a new paragraph every time a different person speaks.

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