{"id":995,"date":"2012-09-26T12:30:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T12:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/?p=995"},"modified":"2012-09-26T12:30:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T12:30:28","slug":"long-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/?p=995","title":{"rendered":"Long Division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Good morning. \u00c2\u00a0It&#8217;s quite early&#8230;5 something a.m. \u00c2\u00a0The Mr. is packing for his Seattle trip and the oldest is looking over his 1o long division problems and finishing the last 2. \u00c2\u00a0I don&#8217;t remember doing long division in 5th grade&#8230;nor do I remember fractions, percentages or multiplication tables. \u00c2\u00a0Seems to me, that was given to me in 7th grade. \u00c2\u00a0Better to learn it early and get a jump on it, besides math is really fun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The youngest had a great Student Council meeting. \u00c2\u00a0The kids voted and passed the idea to have more fundraisers for two fellow classmates. \u00c2\u00a0One boy has had cancer since second grade (now he is in 6th) and \u00c2\u00a0a little girl has a terminal disease (life expectancy of 14-16 years) and now has a brain tumor<span>\u00c2\u00a0to go along with it. \u00c2\u00a0Certainly, this gives a new perspective on being thankful for the health of my kiddos. \u00c2\u00a0The medical bills for these families must be staggering. \u00c2\u00a0Anyway, the kids raised about 5,000. dollars for each family last year and they want to double it this year. \u00c2\u00a0Last year, one of the teachers said he would shave his head if the kids raised a thousand dollars&#8230;he has really nice hair. \u00c2\u00a0Each student was encouraged to bring in a dollar donation(400 plus students)the kids raised $4,000. I guess they really wanted to watch Mr. Tharp get his head shaved. \u00c2\u00a0The quad was filled with students and parents to see the hair fall. \u00c2\u00a0It took about 30minutes, as I said&#8230;really nice, thick hair. \u00c2\u00a0What a gesture from the teacher. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;ll keep you posted on what ideas the students come up with this year.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Mr. is out the door and on his way&#8230;I have to make breakfast and get the oldest to Intramural\u00c2\u00a0practice by 7&#8230;.so I am off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Love to all and God Bless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning. \u00c2\u00a0It&#8217;s quite early&#8230;5 something a.m. \u00c2\u00a0The Mr. is packing for his Seattle trip and the oldest is looking over his 1o long division problems and finishing the last 2. \u00c2\u00a0I don&#8217;t remember doing long division in 5th grade&#8230;nor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/?p=995\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}