Avery's Graduation Essay
Chugach Optional Elementary
May 16th, 2012



Do you remember that girl who was an hour late on her first day of school in second grade because she thought school started at 9  this was her first learning experience at Chugach but she could not imagine what would come and how much she would learn  Every one and her great teacher wanted to make the new girl feel welcome. Well by recess she had someone to swing with and she thought she was in a fairy land, it was so wonderful.

She learned all about Alaskan animals especially about whales.
Part of the whale studies that she remembers most was when she went outside with a group unrolled 100 feet of paper on a role to see how long a blue whale was.

But a year can’t go on forever so all too soon it was time for her to go to 3rd grade.   In 3rd grade she got a fun vibrant teacher that had so much fun stuff for that new 3rd grader.  Like all the basics to math that if she had never learned she would never be able to do the math she does now and much much more  she can’t name them all.  Throughout 3rd and  4th grade she studied the Aleut tribe for native alaskan studies did medieval studies where she got to build a castle.  She was going to burn it to celebrate winter solstice and was very excited about doing it until it went up in flames and she began crying because all of her hard work on the castle had turned a burning orange and yellow.

  In 5th grade she was really fortunate she had gotten such a great teacher.  In 5th grade she did something new and exciting all the time and it was all so much fun.  She got to study the revolutionary war.  And then she got two really good friends that were so great.  She also got to go to outdoor school and play in the snow for three days.

  Finally it was time for her to go to 6th grade. Really, already, but she just started no this can’t be true but it was true she may have just started life but she was just ending elementary school even with a year left.  She tried to get everything she could get from the school before she would have to leave and in that time she made more great friends that could always bring a smile to her face.   She created a book about outer space she studied architecture and built the Milan Cathedral which inspired her to draw a to scale drawing of what she thought her family’s new house in the woods should look like. She also built a bridge which by the looks of it was really fun for her.  She stands before you now so I think I will let her talk.

I will have to make this part short so I don’t start crying I want you all to know that I really love this school there's no way I can describe it. It’s a place where you are welcome. My life without this school would be like a book with no meaning, a life without love, or a bell that does not ring . This school is a extraordinary school, and you know what? every one of you makes it more extraordinary and great.I will miss you all !!!!!!!!!!!!!