I don’t remember having to do speeches in school until Grade 7 but it seems like they start things young in the year 2026. Sierra had to write and deliver a speech to her class. The theme was ‘petits gestes qui change la monde’. Speeches that were REALLY GOOD would be selected to go ahead to a competition in front of the school hosted by the Vars Optimist Club.
She never usually has any homework to do at home (other than studying multiplication tables which she has been great at!), so when the speech arrived in the house, we had to motivate her to get working on it. I asked her what her plan was. “I have six days left…I will write section 1, 2 and 3 over three days and that will leave me three days to memorize the speech.”
She found it was hard work and after she was done memorizing the speech I asked her if she would have changed her plan a bit. “I probably could have used 2-3 days more to work on it.”
I guess she learned through experience!
Leading up to her presentation on a Wednesday, she said the speeches from the rest of the class were SUPER GOOD. When I heard that, I prepared myself to not get too excited about the prospect of her doing a speech in front of the school.
But Wednesday afternoon we received an email from her teacher saying that she was selected to do her speech again in front of the school the next day!
Vero and I went to the school at 1PM and sat in the front row hoping we could film it. Turns out no recording/photos were allowed but I did manage to record the audio. We enjoyed all the speeches that the other kids from the school presented.
She did a great job and we were super proud of her.
Highlights:
- After each speech, someone was helping adjust the microphone stand but it was stuck which led to a comical moment that could have made it onto America’s Funniest Videos. I still remember the image of the poor kid stuck in front of the microphone, nervous to do his speech and there are two people trying to fix a microphone stand!
- After the speech, I saw a gang of girls rush to Sierra and hug her and tell her how amazing her speech was. It was heartwarming. They also made her a #1 medal in the class afterwards even though she did not win #1.