My years at Mission Estancia Elementary school have been like a roller coaster. When it starts, you want it to stop; but when it stops you want it to start again. And with every roller coaster, there is ups, downs, twists, turns, and stops. Advancing in grades is like stages of a roller coaster, you start in line make your way up to the top, hit the top, make your way down the hill, experience twists, and turns, and finally make it to the final stop, known as graduating.
Stages of a roller coaster have been like stages of elementary school in a glimpse of time. In line for a roller coaster is when you get nervous and a slight bit of excitement rushing through your body. Exactly like walking into your kindergarten classroom where you learn social skills, letters, …show more content…
When you first get on the ride and slowly start moving is in first grade, where you strengthen social skills, learn basic math, basic reading, and get familiar with spelling. Progressing up the hill lies second grade, when you slowly memorize times tables, read bigger books, and have a slight amount of homework due at the end of the week. Third grade is at the peak of the roller coaster, homework starts slowly increasing, and you learn all of the times tables and an introduction to division. Fourth grade is the big drop of the roller coaster, homework will be due in two days, history becomes more important to learn about, five paragraph essays are introduced, and the math gets harder. Fifth grade is the twists and turns part of the roller coaster, everything gets harder, and homework is suddenly due the next day. The slow ending is the sixth grade, were a