Lizzy and Emily are working on their times tables in 3rd grade. Every day, their teacher, Mrs. T. gives them a sheet with 100 problems on it. It includes the 0's through the 9's, all mixed up...or "all the facts" as they say. At the beginning of the year, Mrs. T. challenges them to beat her on all the facts. Her best time is 1:26. I did 1:30 the other day and felt like I was flying. I couldn't believe I hadn't beat her. I was writing the answer to one while solving the next one in my head. Not fast enough. If the kids are able to beat her, she gives them a fresh crisp 5 dollar bill. 5 dollars! The girls have been obsessed. They bring home blank times table sheets every day. They practice all the time. It's all the talk around here. Elizabeth especially. She wants to beat her teacher. So, so badly. Her best time to date is 2:00. Emily is a little faster. She is fast at everything...school, moving, talking. She's just fast. She doesn't care quite as much as Lizzy though.Yesterday, when I picked them up from school, Lizzy immediately told me to guess who had beat Mrs. T. I thought of Emily right away. I kept looking in my rearview mirror at her face, just sure it was her, but she kept denying it. I was wrong...it was LIZZY! She was beaming. And giggling. And my eyes were watering. She showed me the money. None of us could believe it. She did it in 1:13. Faster than me! We went through the whole scene, time and time again...until she went to bed. How she was shaking the whole time she was writing. How Mrs. T.'s eyes bugged out when Lizzy raised her hand to show she was finished. How Lizzy couldn't believe it when she heard the time. How her heart was "beeping so fast" when she went to the front of the room to get her 5. Her hands were shaking. She was teary she was so excited. I am so VERY proud of her. So happy that it was Lizzy who did it first...before Alex OR Emily. It was Lizzy. She needs to finish 1st once in awhile. So she knows how great she is. So she knows that practice pays off. So she can feel that adrenaline rush. So she can be proud.
WAY TO GO LIZZY!
15 comments:
I got teary reading this. Way to go Lizzy!!!! So so so proud of you.
That is so great. She is one determied little girl. I miss having her and Emily in my class and now I will miss Alex in Webelos. Will I still be in primary when molly turns 8? ;) She handed me a Molly Origional in church on Sunday and it made my day.
I imagine your adrenaline rushed just listening to every detail. I'm happy for you as a mother and being able to watch her "win." :)
go Lizzy Go! Oh man, thus made me get teary too. You should be a proud Mama!!
AWESOME!!!!!!!!
So, so happy that Lizzy did it !!!! what a wonderful lesson she no doubt learned....practice makes perfect.
Yea Lizzy!!! That makes me so happy. I loved doing those time sheets in school. I don't think I could do it even close to that fast anymore. That is awesome!
way to go lizzy!!
I LOVE it: your amazing little girl, being a proud mother, how hard she has been working...such a cute story.
Glad I'm not the only one that got teary! Way to go Lizzy!!
Yay, Lizzy! What a smart girl!
I've read this about ten times, and the tears still come !!!
Way to go Lizzy! You are the best and fastest multiplication problem solver in the family! I am really impressed that you beat your mother and your teacher!
YEAH!!!
YAY LIZZY! I bet I couldn't do it any faster. I KNOW I couldn't. LOVE LOVE your girls! And I loved the build up! So great!
They told me all about this when I watched them last week!! Wow, I can't believe she did it so quickly!! That's so awesome. Way to go, Lizzy :) :)
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