Dear Woodshedders,

If you want to be great at something, you have to work at it. You’ve probably heard people tell you that over and over, but we repeat it because it’s true. And it’s not just true for important things like learning your multiplication facts or learning how to read, it’s true for everything. If you want to be a great kazoo player, you have to spend tons of time playing the kazoo. If you want to be a good Minecraft player, you have to spend tons of time playing Mincraft. If you want to be a good math thinker, you have to spend lots of time thinking about math. 

Most of our time spent practicing something is time spent messing up. You have to play a bunch of wrong notes on the kazoo before you can ever play one right note. Success is not the absence of failure but the persistence through it.

Play slide tic-tac-toe or Yut with a partner.

Let’s have a great day,

Mr. Heimbuck