1. We come to school by car. Our mom or dad or another relative or friend drives the car. Almost all of us come with brothers or sisters who are in the school. Our school has grades 1 through 5. There are 5 bilingual third grade classes and 2 monolingual third grade classes. We are a bilingual third grade class.

2. Most of us have breakfast at school and we get to school about 7:15. The breakfast and lunch are free.
 At breakfast we can choose cereal or something else, it depends on the day, it might be for example menudo, or hot cakes, or rolls with jam, or waffles, or a burrito, etc. We also get milk and orange juice or a fruit.
 After breakfast we go to play on any one of our three playgrounds. When the weather gets very cold (which here means near freezing) we will be allowed to wait for class in the halls.
 When it's time for class the crossing guard blows her whistle and we go to class. When we get to the classroom we take our toothbrushes and we go to the restroom to brush our teeth and to use the restroom. Gemma oversees the girls and Alfredo oversees the boys.

3. Then we go back to class and the student of the day writes the date on the board and asks date questions like "What will be the date 10 days from now?" and time questions like "What time was it 6 hours ago?" and week questions like "How many days are there in 8 weeks? In 100 weeks?" etc.
 We copy what the student of the day writes. Then he or she writes "Family of number sentences" and we tell him or her the number sentences. For example the number of today is 6. The number sentence has to have the number of the day. For example 26 + 6 = 32, and the others in the family are 6 + 26 = 32, 32 - 26 = 6, and 32 - 6 = 26.
 About that time the principal or the assistant principal talks by the public address system and we say the Pledge of Allegiance (except if it is against our religion). Then we listen to him saying the announcements.
 The teacher writes a number pattern on the board, for example
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4. At 8:45 José and Ixtzel go to Special Education to learn reading and language until P.E. time.
 At 8:55 Mayra and Liliana go to "HOSTS" (the letters mean Help One Student To Succeed) until 9:30; there tutors from 5th grade help them to read in English more carefully and they do some math, but they don't go to HOSTS on Fridays.
 The rest of us do our math lesson, or E-mail, or reading. In math we get to do side A in class and side B for homework (Saxon Math 3).
 Sometimes we tell our team about the library book which we read at home, and our team gives us a grade.

5. The teams are the Red Rabbits (aka Funny Bunnies) Gemma, Cristina, Marco Antonio, and Xochitl; the Black Bulls Elisa, Pedro, and twins Perla and Corina; the Green Giraffes Mayra, Fernando, Nancy, and Jesús; the Bluebirds Alfredo, Jovanny, Liliana Zulema, Manuel, and José; the Purple Pandas Julio Cesar, Martha, Hector, and Ixtzel.
 In each team there is: Praiser, Material Manager, Writer, Speaker. Every week we change roles.
 Our class rules are Listen, Ask, Work. We raise our hand to ask, with a letter of American Sign language (Q for question, A for answer, H for help, etc.)

6. At 10:10 we go to the restroom and then to P.E. (Physical Education). Mayra makes us walk in line properly. In P.E. we do exercises, such as jumping jacks, pushups, arm circles, ABC-scissors, etc.  Also we play basketball, kickball, soccer, freeze tag, jump rope, etc. In P.E. we have a coach, not our classroom teacher.

7. At 11:00 we go back to class, we go to the restroom, we wash our hands, we drink at the water fountain.
 Then we have class until 11:45. It could be math, or language, or science, or social studies, or penpal E-mail, etc. (whole language)

8. Then at 11:45 we go to lunch in the cafeteria (which is also the gym for when the weather is bad). Usually we don't like the food much, except when it is pizza, hamburgers, flautas, enchiladas, or chicken. We have 2% milk to drink or sometimes chocolate milk (which we prefer). Jovanny checks who eats everything.
 Then we go to a playground to play.

9. At 12:15 we go back to the classroom and we go to the restroom to brush our teeth, drink water, and use the restroom. Then we have class. At 2:15 Ixtzel goes to Special Education for math. At 3:00 we go home, or we can stay in the library or, if the teacher does not have a meeting, in the classroom until 4:00. We sometimes go home walking, but more often in a car. We have homework every day, even Fridays.

10. Today we did a lot of six-week tests of reading and math in English and in Spanish, and we told the teacher what to write for this web page and we wrote individual penpal letters.