School Speech by Chief Guest

Good Evening Everyone, It's Been a pleasure to be a Virgil middle school student in 1 and a half years, for all the joy the sadness that we all been together, today is the day that the lord has made for all of our hard work. patience, teamwork and now the day hascome for all of us to be rewarded

Hastings High we are very proud of you! You’re the best school in the land. Your boys and girls and teachers too! A loyal happy band. RAH! RAH! So sing with us so merrily, to Hastings High be true! Cheer the tigers to victory for they’re fighting on for you! Much like our school cheer, we all have spirit!

It seems that no one really understands us. By “us” I mean the people who live every day in fear of starving or freezing to death. People walk past us on the streets and comment on how sick we look, but they do nothing to help! They think that if they give us money we will just spend it on alcohol, cigarettes, or drugs. They don't understand that we are scared, scared of dying, and scared of having nothing to live for.

I am super late to the party in announcing this, but am ecstatic to have been chosen as a student site leader for Alternative Breaks through the Bennion Center this academic year. I will be leading a weekend trip this upcoming spring break on Affordable Housing. This is the first year weekend trips are being available for students, and I am very happy to contribute to the growth of weekend trips. Last Spring Break I learned about homelessness, and now I will learn more about Affordable Housing. I find it fitting that I keep having opportunities to educate myself on the different aspects of homelessness as I would like to one day actively help towards the eradication of homelessness. Anyways, with that being said, there are still slots available

I wanted to let you know I am still not well, but I am going to come in and speak with you at some point today. I am behind with work , but I plan on being fully caught up and hopefully feeling much better after spring break.

The trip will be here before we know it, and I wanted to give you a heads-up regarding ticket prices, hotel rooms, etc...

Thank you for welcoming me into your school. From my visit I feel like this is a suitable school for me where I can learn many things from the staff and children. Such as, the diversity from the children and how it reminded me of my primary school. I feel a diverse school encourages children and adults to help understand each other’s cultures and how we can work together as a team as well as support each other to progress in life. I feel this is a type of school where I can excel but also provide support to the children and staff.

Do you remember what you felt the first time you met a Rainbow Girl, Grand Officer or your first GWA? Take a moment and think about you felt. Were you happy? Did you feel welcomed? It is a wonderful feeling that floods your heart with happiness the first time you make a new friend but not just any friend, a lifelong friend. We as Rainbow Girls need to make sure that we are always striving to make a dynamic impression on pledges and prospects because they are our future. The next time you meet a prospect or a pledge, share your enthusiasm about Rainbow and most of all make them feel important and accepted. Welcome these future Rainbow Girls with open hearts a outstretched arms. May you too plant that important seed that will continue

Nature has been shown to support all areas of a child’s Whole: cognitive, social, emotional, and physical. In a natural environment, we can witness the ways in which a child engages all aspects of the core competencies fueled by their own curiosity and engagement of the wilderness. Children learn and develop best when they gain skills holistically and experientially such as exploring nature, rather than in discrete subject areas or domains such as specified classroom topics. When allowed to engage in meaningful exploration of the world around them, children can develop skills and understanding of many areas at the same time. Learning with nature is such a powerful motivator for skill development.

The author considers environmental education as a cause for children to remain unknown with the nature. He describes environmental education as being “didactic and stead, restrictive and rule bound” (Sobel, 2012). The author mentions that children these days are not allowed to interact or play with the nature in a wild way because environmentalist and naturalist believe that those interaction might be harmful for the nature. Therefore, author has compared nature as being a museum for children because they can look at it but they cannot feel or touch it. The author believes if children were left to play with nature on their own terms, they establish an affection with it, which will encourage them to care about nature in future. Like John Burroughs stated “Knowledge without love will not stick. But if love comes first, knowledge is sure to follow”, children learn more through their experience with nature as children establish a deep connection with it which will inspire them to take care of nature (Sobel 2012). To further elaborate this, the author have shared the experiences of naturist such as Wilson, Muir, Rachel Carson, and Aldo

I hope that you had a a great holiday and are having a great start to 2016. Over here in Farmington Hills, the new year has been very grateful to me. For starters, my final first semester grades were released last week. I am happy to say that I got straight A's and was able to get a 4.17 GPA. This is the highest GPA I have ever received through my four high school years at U of D.

At the moment, as student body president of my high school, my goal is to not only represent my school to the best of my ability but to also inspire and lead the student body. Since my Freshmen year, I've longed to have a voice and position in the school where I could actually make a difference. During my Freshman year I ran and was elected class secretary. Sophomore year I decided to step it up and was elected student body secretary, but it didn't seem to do the trick. I wasn't able to voice my ideas as much as I had liked. So, by the end of my Junior year I decided to run for student body president. Now, I'm gearing up for an amazing year. To specify, some ideas I hope to establish are a larger-than-life student section at games, a peer-mediating

Superintendent Crouse, Loveland Administration, and Loveland School Board Members, just last year you vied for us to obtain our own tennis courts, which I use every week. As a result of this, I hold very high regards and respect for you, and the fact that you care for all your students, and want to do all you can to improve our school lives. For this, I know you are welcome to new ideas, and I hope to be able to share mine without giving you the wrong impression, as I have no intent to offend you in any way. My focus as of this moment is to change the course scheduling for classes, so that we could have different weeks for different subjects, but still maintain a four block day. The idea came to me from my French class, on account of the fact that the French actually do this at their schools.

On October 17th, 2016, Barack Obama gave the speech “Remarks by the President on Education. The speech was given by the end of Obamas presidency. Obama gave his speech at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School in Washington D.C. Obama mainly directed his speech to the young students, to explain to them the importance of finishing high school and going on to further their education.

During the summer I served as an assistant in the younger two-year-old room at a daycare. Working alongside other teachers gave me the chance to learn innovative teaching methods, as well as how to collaborate with them. Accordingly, I ran numerous circle times and practiced countless techniques to find the best results. Activities such as painting, reading, cutting with scissors, building towers, and acting out various scenarios with costumes and play toys helped stimulate learning for the children. In order to achieve intellectual work, I believe one must constantly learn new theories in the world and produce teaching mechanisms based on what serves the students’ best interest. In the words of Malala Yousafzai, a young girl fighting for children rights to education, “One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.” In my Investigating Critical and Contemporary Issues in Education class with Professor Wilder, I discovered the complications with trying to create an equal opportunity for all children. Every teacher has the responsibility of providing an