Elementary Speech Meet

Some people may say that elementary school is the easy life. That statement is true in some ways and false in other ways. Each year in the beginning of March the elementary have to do speech meet. The speech meet is where the students pick a poem or a verse. After the students pick their verse or poem they have to memorize the whole thing.

Now these poems or verses are not short they are a good length. When the day of the speech meet comes the students show off their memorization to parents, two judges, and the whole class. After a couple of weeks the results come back of the speech meet.

There is a first and second place out of the whole class. If you win first or second place you get to recite your poem or verse in front of the whole friday chapel. Some people like the speech meet and some people do not. Some people like to speak in front of the whole class and some people are not fond of it at all.

The speech meet is first graders through fifth graders. So the kindergarteners get an easier life for a year. For the first graders the speech meet can be a scary thing for them, but they always do great at it. For the second graders it is still pretty new but they are still getting better and better at it. For the third and fourth graders it is easy for them because they have done it for a while. For the fifth graders it is a bittersweet moment for them. It is their last year doing it, but most of them are excited for being done with it. From what I have heard from some people the speech meet went great. Good job elementary you guys did great!

- Sam Nesbitt, Freshman