Good Things Come In Small Packages - Back On Mainstreet!

Happy Birthday Toni Pruzin. Your students and colleagues appreciate you and love you.

Some days I feel like it's Christmas and I'm playing with my Fisher Price Mainstreet.

I like to look at the blossomy track of the moon upon the sea,
But it isn't half so fine a sight as Main Street used to be
When it all was covered over with a couple of feet of snow,
And over the crisp and radiant road the ringing sleighs would go.

Now, Main Street bordered with autumn leaves, it was a pleasant thing,
And its gutters were gay with poppies early in the Spring;
I like to think of it white with frost or dusty in the heat,
Because I think it is humaner than any other street.

A city street that is busy and wide is ground by a thousand wheels,
And a burden of traffic on its breast is all it ever feels:
It is dully conscious of weight and speed and of work that never ends,
But it cannot be human like Main Street, and recognise its friends.

There were only about a hundred teams on Main Street in a day,
And twenty or thirty people, I guess, and some children out to play.
And there wasn't a wagon or buggy, or a man or a girl or a boy
That Main Street didn't remember, and somehow seem to enjoy.

The truck and the motor and trolley car and the elevated train
They make the weary city street reverberate with pain:
But there is yet an echo left deep down within my heart
Of the music the Main Street cobblestones made beneath a butcher's cart.

God be thanked for the Milky Way that runs across the sky,
That's the path that my feet would tread whenever I have to die.
Some folks call it a Silver Sword, and some a Pearly Crown,
But the only thing I think it is, is Main Street, Heaventown.

"Main Street" - a poem by Joyce Kilmer

Failing grades went out today.

Language Arts
edit sentence:
(2) 1. Many story setting have become legendary,
(1) Oz, Mudville, and Pottersville are between
(1) the most famous of these kind of fictional place.
Journal write 9/13 How do you think our country would be different if China had settled the West Coast instead of England settling the East Coast?
Vocabulary test grades:
A
B
C
D
F

Social studies
Chapter 2 test grades (this was an open book test);
students who did well prepared like it was a regular test,
becoming very familiar with the material - some used post-it
notes to mark important parts of the chapter:
A - none
B - 5
C - 2
D - 6
F - 9
Naming the states test is a week from today.
Science
Test Friday and study guide.
Math
Six missing signed grade sheets today.
Things that will help math learning;
1. Write readable numbers in straight columns.
2. Show all the work.
3. Never make calculations in twelve font.
4. Correct all problems wrong on lessons, homework practice, and tests.
Silent Ball winners: Garrett and Curzana.