Blossomed

By Kaitlyn

                When I was 8 years old.  This was my second year at St. Martin's. I was in the 3^rd grade. That’s when I started having big tests and lots of homework. I went to another school that didn’t really prepare me. so it made me really nervous and frustrated because I didn’t know what to do about studying. I was really new to all this so it was really hard for me. I started vocabulary quizzes and multiplication. In the beginning of the year my test scores were not good but my parents really helped me. I was up late at night studying and early in the morning.

            I learned how to really study by doing flashcards, using quiz sheets and by my parents quizzing me out of my books and going over questions with me. I struggled but I got better as the year went on because my grades were like Cs and Bs the they got up to As and Bs. I would study a week in advanced for every test and quiz so I studied vocabulary and I made flashcards and got quizzed out of my book. Somehow I got my first 100% on a vocabulary test and I was so excited and so were my parents. I kept going on the rest of the year like this and somehow I managed to pull through.

            The same thing happened to me again in the 4^th grade. This year my teacher gave out so much homework, more homework and tests then I get now in 7^th grade. My parents were not happy about it. play soccer, so on nights I have practice and I have barely any of my work done, its awful because it got really hard and I would get really frustrated. My dad helped me with math and my mom helped with some of my homework and quizzed me for my tests and quizzes.

            My first year of middle school was very nerve wracking, and I was very scared. It was all a lot harder and it was her first year teaching at my school so she didn’t know a lot about middle school here either. I still had the same study habits and math got even harder. My grades were good I suppose because they were average but they could have been better but it was just so hard that my test scores weren’t amazing. In the 6^th grade something absolutely crazy happened. My mom says I have blossomed so well and have become so independent because I was so scared of mapping and I got amazing grades in it and the same as the rest of my classes.                                                                                                                             I did my homework by myself and I didn’t need my parents to help me study for things because I could do it all by myself. I went from getting Cs in math to getting As. On my first report card in 6^th grade I was one A away from straight As and that was the best thing that ever happened to me. I was so excited and my parents were really proud of me. I am now in 7^th grade and I have improved so much it’s kind of hard to believe that I have gotten too were I am now, I have amazing grades and my teachers are here to help me when I need it. I couldn’t have done it without the help of my teachers and my parents that helped me all the way.