8th Grade Graduation Speeches

Welcome family, friends, students, and faculty. We arrived at this school 9 years ago and now we are already graduating. How did time go by so fast? It seems like only yesterday we were short little kindergarteners trying to learn our alphabet and looking up to the intimidating eighth graders. The bad news is time flies by, the good news it we are the pilots. I have got to known all 50 of my fellow classmates over these years, some more than others, but I will always remember them all for having such a large impact on my life. I still remember the first day when we all met as we walked into Mrs. Sette’s kindergarten classroom. As I entered I noticed a girl in the corner of the room by herself crying by the name of Alex. I approached her to ask her what was wrong and she told me about how she missed her mom. I sat down next to her and she became the first friend I ever made in this school. As we went through the year, kindergarten started to get hard as they expected us to be able to read at least one book. I had been …show more content…
I would have a different teacher for every subject and a homeroom teacher I knew nothing about. I knew this was the year that school became the most difficult but, I knew I could make it threw with most of my friends in my class. When I first met my homeroom teacher, Ms. Herliczek, I was relieved. She helped us learn our new schedules and always put an amazing amount of effort into class. She would teach us anyway that would get the message through, even if she had to dance around the room(and it did happen a couple of times). She taught us everything we needed and even allowed us to participate in a Science Fair. I enjoyed sharing new scientific articles I had read at home and discussing them with her. She continued with that same energetic attitude through the end of eighth grade. I found not only a teacher in Ms. Herliczek but, also a