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Getting Read to for the First Time
When my mom was pregnant with me, my dad would ask her if he could read to me. He would read so many different types of books, and I would definitely say that was my very first introduction to literacy. -
My First Birthday Party
I had my first birthday party in the Club House at the Owingsville Lions Club. While opening cards and presents, I was WAY more fascinated with the cards than I was the money inside of the cards. I would grab the card, take the money out and hand that to my mom, then stand on a table and scream gibberish to everyone, pretending I knew how to read them. -
Learning to Read
Learning how to read is a huge accomplishment, you use it everyday of your life in some way, shape, or form. Starting from little kids books like "The Cat and the Hat" and now being at books like " A Totally Awkward Love Story." -
Learning how to spell and write
Learning how to read most definitely aided in learning how to spell and write. When you know how to read, you will slowly learn how to write and spell. I started with books like dry erase books about learning how to write. I remember asking my grandparents to give me selling tests WAY before i even had to have one in school because writing, reading, and spelling were so fascinating to me. -
Going to the Cave Run Story Telling Festival
In third grade, Mrs. Goodpaster took the whole class to this storytelling festival at Cave Run. There were so many people there, telling so many stories, and we all wanted to be just like them. We all wanted to get up there and tell funny stories too. That was a while ago, so the only thing I can really remember specifically is hat a kid in my grade got the nickname "Opossum" after that day. -
Mrs. Goodpaster Reading the Percy Jackson Series to us in Class
Every single day, Mrs. Goodpaster would set us down and read to us from the first Percy Jackson book, The Lightening Thief. She would read to us chapters a day before we did class work. All of her classes got read to from this book everyday. After getting through the first book, starting in third grade, by fifth grade, we had read almost the entire series. I loved it so much I bought the rest of the series and read it at home during the summer. -
Speaking in Public for the Very First Time
When I was in eighth grade, during basketball season, we were told to write eighth grade speeches for our very last home game EVER,playing middle schools basketball. We were told to keep it short and sweet, but mine was not. We were told that our principal would say them for us, but Morgan Reed and I decided we wanted to say ours ourselves. We were nervous, but we said our speeches. No one could hear them because we were so quiet and nervous, but we spoke in public for the very first time. -
The Miss May Day Teen Pageant
In 8th grade, a huge group of us decided we were going to enter into the May Day pageant. We were all worried to death and scared that we would say the wrong thing, forget our speeches, or trip on stage. Oddly enough, none of us did any of that. I was the conductor on The Polar Express as my costume and I didn't forget my speech, the judges could hear me, I did so good in my interview, and won Miss May Day Teen First Runner Up! -
Nationals for FCCLA
Over the summer, Jenna, Chynah, and I went to Atlanta, Georgia to compete in the national competition for FCCLA. We got to present our project in front of a panel of judges, in a room full of other presentations going on. We had a verbal speech and a presentation board to go along with it. We only forgot a few parts, but I don't think anyone noticed. We did so well and came home with silver medals!! -
Presenting our National Award Winning Presentation for the First Time
Mrs. Lane and Mrs. Ramey made Jenna, Chynah, I present our barely finished presentation to her 4/5 block class. We had been working all week on our first board and trying to get the speech to interact with the board as much as possible and we had just gotten done. We did a halfway good job, but it was our first time and obviously it just kept getting better from there because we got first in Regions, and first in State, sending us to Nationals for the first time in a very long time.
