Wade Year in Review: 2022-2023 

It has been a wild school year. So much stuff is happening, and fun events have come through.  

We are really excited for summer, I’m sure. But let us go back in time and look at the stuff we did this year. The first day of school was fun, wasn’t it? You meet your friends again, new and old. And you also get cool new teachers! You get to do first day of school activities, and everything is fun. Now let us skip to the 1st quarter celebration. We got ice cream, and extra recess, on Halloween too! Speaking of Halloween, we got to dress up as our favorite book character and bring that book to school. Now, one of everyone’s least favorite event of the first quarter: I Ready. I Ready is a test to show what you know and what you do not know. You will take it in the fall and somewhere near end of spring, but we only took the one in fall. I am SURE that nobody is looking forward to that. But, anyways, we will put that aside for later. Let us get to the interesting stuff, like Booster-Thon! Sure, you have not heard that in a while. Two people came and visited our school and we watched videos of different parks and learned words about positivity, such as perseverance and courage. And a park we learned about was Yosemite, which is basically the only things I remember since it was long ago. Then, when all that was done, we did a fun-run for 35 laps! I am not complaining though, it WAS fun! Anyways, lets skip to the most wonderful time of the year, shall we? Christmas, the time everyone (or not) loves! This school year for Christmas we had a sing along with our favorite Christmas songs in the gymnasium. Then, some classes watched funny Christmas movies, such as the Grinch! Then we left school, for Christmas break, but we then return to a new year. When we get back, we all do our “Happy new year’s” greetings and get back to work. But the fun hasn’t ended there! Our Quarter 2 celebration was on January 31st, and we celebrated by watching a fun mini movie with hot cocoa, apple cider and blankets. 

Fun is in the air with our next event, Valentine’s day. I’m pretty sure most classes did different things, but who knows? Maybe you sat around and did work all day. Or you passed out sweet treats and cards to your friends, like my class. But that’s STILL not the end of this year’s events. On February 22nd, we celebrated people’s cultures with international night. Which is one of the things I’ve wrote about this school year! People with different nationalities set up stands set up with clothing they wear, information and yummy food! Now, for our quarter 3 celebration, we played a fun game of kickball and enjoyed a sweet treat, which was a freeze pop. I’m pretty sure most people played kick ball, but I just sat on the bleachers cheering them on. Pretty fun for me. Now another event from the 3rd quarter was read across America. I’m pretty sure not everyone did the same thing, but my class combined with Mrs. Hott’s class and read books with the first graders. When that was finished, Mrs. Hott gave us some “s’mores”, which was tiny marshmallows, golden grahams and chocolate chips in a bag. Yum, tastes like school spirit! Anyways, on to my FAVORITE, 4th quarter. Yup, were here folks. School ends in 15 days and the 4th quarter celebration is in a week. We haven’t even done field day yet! But, to make things better we still have more events. I’m pretty sure everyone remembers the Go-Green assembly, right?  Well, credits to Ms. James son for making the go green song and credits to Ms. Stern for making that terribly embarrassing Go-Green YouTube video. Another thing is the visit from Nanjemoy animal center for teaching us about animal habitats, and types. We looked at a snake, and the most adorable owl! We also saw a model of a fox, which was cool as well. Now, I would like to write about a field trip the 4th grade went on, which was a baseball game for the blue crabs. We had chaperones take students in different groups and people had money to get food from the concession stand or items from the gift shop. The Blue Crabs won too, and it was just a fun trip overall! One last thing, MCAP. 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders took this test a few weeks ago for reading and math. Everyone in Maryland took this test, and it is scary. But the 2nd grade crew decorated the hall Mario themed and they gave us treats and trinkets for us after we finished our tests. But this article is now over, and I hope you enjoyed the recap of our very fun year. Goodbye! 

                                                     By: Taryn