Third Grade Reflection Essay

Like most people, the third grade was a highly intense time. This was the period in which you had to decipher between wanting to learn how to multiply or learn how to divide first. Or for me the most difficult decision may have been choosing between kickball and tetherball during recess. But I had an issue of seeing adults doing things and if it was simple I would do them too. For me as a child I had what many considered an old sold. This old sold came to haunt me in the third grade. I had to learn from my mother that everyone is not capable of doing the same things. I had to learn that from signing another persons name on a document you are committing a crime, ethical, and moral issues. To a third grader this may not have been much of a significant standpoint outside of mommy being mad. Now that I look back I can see how I misinterpreted things and learned how to put everything into perspective. It took some years. it also took a lot of learning but from this one incident I was able to build a better understanding. …show more content…
Signing your mothers name on your agenda to me was not a crime but a timesaver. I only began doing this because I felt that if I had no bad reports and always told my parents of any special events or announcements that went on why would I keep giving them a useless item to sign everyday. Hence why I took it upon myself to start signing my mothers' name. What I did not know was this was also known as plagiarism. Since I was putting someone else name on a paper that they did not approve of was against the law and once I was told this my heart pounded a million times outside of my chest. I could even go as far as to say that I broke out into a cold sweat. It was hard for me to imagine being known as a good girl that i had done so mething so wrong. I learned a lesson that day. Being that I did not want to ever go to