First of all, it looks like you had a good sleep. Good job! You look great today!

It has been a busy week already. And it’s only going to get busier! Students should be practicing their Xtramath facts as many nights of the week as possible including weekends.

To the Parents:

Please don’t skip to other levels of the Xtramath. Students should be completing them in order of addition, subtraction and multiplication with each one being competed in order.

If your child is having difficulty with the layout of the keyboard, practice with your child finding the number keys before they start the program so they become more familiar with where the numbers are.

To the Students:

Yes, it will be hard and, yes, it will be hard for awhile but nothing worth doing comes easily at first. It will get easier and you will get better at it. When something is hard, you don’t give up. You try harder. The questions will go fast. They are supposed to go fast. You will get faster too. If you had all the time in the world to answer a question, it wouldn’t help your brain to learn to be faster at remembering.

Showing that you can stick to something, even when it is hard, is one of the qualities that all heroes have. Yes, I did say heroes. You can be a hero simply by always doing your best and persevering when things gets hard. Persevering is a tough word but I think you know what I mean. Spiderman wouldn’t be much of a hero if he ran away when the bad guys came at him. Superman would be just a strange guy in tights if he flew away and hid when things got hard.

I know you are not Spiderman or Superman. But you are still a hero and you can still be a hero.

You can be a hero in the things you do or say everyday. Heroes are made when ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things. God has given you the tools to be a hero to the people around you. Those tools are the fruits of the spirit.

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So, who has been a hero to you? How are you going to be an extraordinary hero to others today? Don’t wait for a signal. Be the hero God meant you to be. You have everything you need to make someone else’s day more awesome.

Do Awesome, Be Awesome, Live Awesome