Soccer Day is Thursday

On Friday the grade 3 students  celebrated their writing success! Over the past few weeks, our children have been working on personal narrative stories, and Fridaywas a culmination of that process.  During the personal narrative unit students learned ways to generate seed ideas; learned ways to organize and plan their writing; practiced using colorful language; learned how to begin the story with a catchy lead and endings; learned how to edit work for spelling and punctuation errors; and learned... read more

This is my opportunity to welcome all of my friends to my personal obsession: Futbol aka Soccer in this backward land of Xtreme Sports, Golf and Neck-Car being more in the public zeitgeist than the most important global sport bar-none. Welcome, and be glad that I will give you some great information, some highlights of the week and my personal opinions. A little about who I am and how I have become a fanatico. I, like many Americans, have been on the periphery of "Soccer" for more than 20 years...

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOT I am playing soccer ;) and I am a happy boy ;) I am on two teams …………. Yea two >.> a little more then I wanted but that is ok I like it so I am fine with being on two. There is The Red team 0-2 they lost both games Game 1 – Terri mcarthey *sp* this is a Mexican team and they are very good it was like 30 degrees out and the team didn’t know names it was the first game and it was just horrible >. < final score 6-0 Game 2 – Yellow team yea Red played Yellow this was a fun game...

Practice went well for DD.  She got in there and was agressive with the ball and seemed kind of fearless.  She did fall once, she went to kick the ball, missed and fell on her tailbone.  She cried for a few minutes but once she got up and shook it off she was fine.  She got right back in and made some great plays during the pracitce games.  After I pointed out to her that she doesn't seem worried when she plays with her own team or with me and dad.  She told me that is because she knows all of our...

OK, I am no fan of David Beckham. I have always thought him to be overated a bit. He would not hold a candle to Zizou or Platini to tell you the truth. But still I believe he is going to be good for US Soccer and the MLS. He is certainly bringing a lot of attention to the Galaxy and he is probably going to sell a bunch of number 23 jerseys! Now, I found this guy's article on Yahoo this afternoon and found it a bit disturbing and quite sarcastic. Obviously he doesn't like soccer and couldn't careless...

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