Story time in Room 17 as one of our fourth graders reads to the younger brother and sister of their classmate after lunch. Next time we'll try the Three Little Pigs as told by James Marshall in his witty version. But I'll probably read that one because it's a favorite of mine!

Next week some of the kids will get an award for meeting the standard of at least twenty multiplication fact problems done correctly in a minute. Our class is doing very well this year and just might set a record for earning the pizza party earliest in the year. Pizza is a frequent topic of conversation in Room 17 with pizza for lunch on Wednesdays, favorite pizza places in the Northwest, and fraction examples with pizza when we study fractions in the Spring--French Dip sandwiches are good, too, but they just don't divide into fraction pieces as well.