Tag: School

Snow Day 

By: Logan Mims

   For this week’s blog I will be writing about the snow day.  Since I live in Sumter, South Carolina, snow days are very few and far between. But when we do get a snow day, it is always so exciting and I can not wait to get out and play in the snow. The week prior the weather was saying we were going to have snow, but it ended up just being sleet so I was not very hopeful for this time either.                                         

   During school I was in fifth period and I looked outside and it was actually snowing real snowflakes, not just sleet like the week before. I was so excited. It was later in the afternoon and I just got out of basketball practice and I realized that the snow was not really sticking so I did not really expect anything exciting. 

   It was that night and I looked outside and snow was completely pouring down and it was piling up everywhere and it was actually sticking to the ground. I could not believe it. 

   I had my best friend over to spend the night and we got to stay up late watching shows on the TV because we knew we could sleep in the next day. I woke up around 9 AM and looked outside to see that snow was everywhere, at least 2 inches. I really could not believe it. I went back to sleep for a few hours and woke back up around 11 and my friend and I got dressed in warm clothes and went out to play in the snow. We ended up going to our family friend’s farm where we went sledding and rode the Ranger. It was completely freezing, but it was still so much fun. We were out there for a few hours until the snow began to melt and then we came home. My mom had made a soup so whe ate that and then we watched a movie to end the night.

Which Pullout was the best in Elementary School?

By: Stirling Tindal

In elementary school, pre-school, and kindergarten at Wilson Hall we would have a pullout everyday. A pullout is essentially exactly what it says, you get pulled out of class to do an activity. You would either have library, music, computers, PE, or art

 In library, we would go check out a book for the week and take it home. We sometimes would also get books read to us. Once a year, the Scholastic Book Fair would come to the school. Every kid would get excited for this because they would have really cool toys like the invisible spy pen and awesome books like the I Survived books.

The next pullout is music. Your class would go to the music room throughout the year and you would sing all kinds of different music. Sometimes it would be with bells with different notes and other times it would be with tubes that we’d hit on our arm to make a sound. Every year we would prepare for at least three recitals, which were the Christmas recital, Grandfriends day, and May Day. Music class was really fun most of the time but sometimes it could get boring when all we would do is sing and not use the cool instruments.

The computers pullout was probably the most useful one because it was very helpful in getting everyone adapted to how to use technology. We would go to the computer lab, which is right across from the library, and we would do many kinds of activities. Sometimes we’d play typing games and sometimes we would just play normal games so that we could learn how to use the computer. Computers was always fun and something everyone always looked forward to.

Another fun pullout was PE. This was everybody’s favorite because everytime we would get to play games like dodgeball, kickball, or ultimate frisbee. We would usually run one lap or do some stretches for warm up and then we would get to our game. This pull out was always awesome because it was like a second recess. 

The final pullout is art. Each year there would be different projects to do like the hand fish in pre-school and the sun and moon in fifth grade. In art you could really see who were the true artists of your grade early on but even if you weren’t that good at it, it was still always fun. Sometimes we would draw and sometimes we would mold clay and make sculptures. Art really helped develop our creativity and our artistic side.

These five pullouts left us with very important childhood memories. Out of all the pullouts my personal favorite was P.E. because of how fun it was playing dodgeball and other sports with everyone in my grade. All the pullouts have, in some way, shaped who we are today.