Fourth grade

Eagle School is an intermediate school for third through fifth grade in Martinsburg, West Virginia. The area surrounding the school is urban with apartments, housing, and many businesses. Houses surrounding the school are close in proximity to one another. Through an interview with the school principal Mr. Mullenax, the majority of the students live in poverty and have parents with criminal backgrounds. The school is a title one school with free breakfast, lunch, and take home meals for the…

My mother didn’t get too far in her education, only third grade because money was tight at the time and she wasn’t the only child, she was the first of nine all getting as far as third grade. My father on the other hand was the only child to go far in school, having finished all of high school with grades equivalent to straight “A.” Unfortunately my dad had lost his mom at thirteen and my grandfather’s damn machismo pride got in…

The school year was ending and I was excited to be going to the fourth grade. Little did I know my mind was shattered once my teacher pulled me aside one day and told me that I had to have a meeting with herself and my mother. During that meeting she broke the news to me and I felt like my heart was snatched from out of my chest, thrown on the floor and stomped on. Many thoughts raced through my mind at that moment, thought like, “How I was never going to move up with my friends,” “How ow my…

years old, and an identity that couldn’t even go to kindergarten. For this reason, I ask you to forgive me, for I have very few answers, and very little joy in remembering how I got here. One of the first times I realized I had an identity was 4th grade, when I told the girl who would become my best friend that my family was Wiccan, and she asked if we sacrificed goats. To be honest, I didn’t know how to respond to that, because to me the question was not “are animal…

Fourth Grade “Now remember, if you need any help or anything make sure to ask. Also make sure you actually talk.” My mom said while pulling into the bus loop. The school looked huge. I could see that it had another level, where my old school was small, old and only one story high. “I will.” I sighed and played with my hands. Today was my first day of fourth grade so I was nervous, but I was even more nervous because I was starting at a new school. People would already stare at me because I was…

happened along time ago compared to the difference from then and now, not to say it wasn’t a while back, yet it feels as though it were yesterday. At the beginning of this entire story, believe it or not, I was in the 4th grade it was around October of 2013, I had just started 4th grade. One night my parents were in the kitchen and creeped in like a...uh a...well a Creeper? When they saw me I asked what was going for it was rather late. That’s when they…

Every individual goes through an experience that helps define who they will become. That experience for me happened in fourth grade. Fourth grade was a big transition year, it was the first year with big standardized tests, called WKCE at the time, and it was my last year at Susie C Altmayer Elementary School. However, the largest downside to fourth grade is getting the first “talk” where health professionals sit down the girls and describe the changes that will begin to occur. A couple weeks…

When I was in fourth grade, I got really sick and missed a week of school. When I returned, there were many tests and makeup work I had to do. My grades had gone down a lot since I missed so much. My grade in math was a D+ because of a test and other work I had missed. I really only cared about the work and getting my grade up. The school year was almost to an end, but since I was in fourth grade, there were finals. That was also a problem because since I missed lots of studying I was worried…

times on certain days no matter what was going on in class. Around age nine i had convinced myself that I didn't need the extra class and tried to stop going altogether. I thought that just because I could read in my head that I was reading at a fourth grade reading level. This just resulted in the Title One teacher coming and personally getting me from class, drawing more attention to my learning problem. The class was in a small little room that echoed horribly and my teacher was a very loud…

That Day in Fourth Grade “People come into our lives for a reason, bringing something you must learn, and we are led to those who help us most to grow if we let them and we help them in return. -Glinda” One of my best friends today, Teonna Frye, has influenced a lot of the choices that have made me into who I am today. I first met her as a “not-so-little,” brown-haired fourth grader. She was a giant that towered over all the kids in our grade. I sat down next to her, eager to find out who…