Back at it

In this, episode we talk about being back in school, plans for the future and a brief introduction of one of our rising students. School is back in session, and we’re kicking things off with our very first episode of It’s a Kid’s World! Join us as we talk about the excitement (and nerves!) of a new school year, our favorite things about coming back, and what we’re most looking forward to. Get ready for laughter, real talk, and plenty of kid-powered energy!

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:16

Welcome, welcome, welcome to another episode of It's the Kids World Podcast. It is new school year, school year 25-26, and we are back recording. So today I have one of our fourth graders.

SPEAKER_00 0:32

Cameron.

SPEAKER_01 0:34

And Cameron's gonna be joining us on a lot of episodes this school year. Um, she's one of our fourth graders. I feel like one of our bright fourth graders. So we'll be directing this ship. Sometimes Cameron's gonna be leading the conversation because I'm not gonna be doing all the talking.

SPEAKER_00 0:50

Yes, you are.

SPEAKER_01 0:51

No, I'm not.

SPEAKER_00 0:52

Yes, you are.

SPEAKER_01 0:52

I see you got the polo on today. Why you didn't tell me you was gonna wear the polo today? I would have worn it.

SPEAKER_00 0:57

I didn't I didn't even know.

SPEAKER_01 0:59

You just pulled it out.

SPEAKER_00 1:01

That's that's when my mama pulled out.

SPEAKER_01 1:03

Yeah, mama, okay. All right, nice. How's your summer?

SPEAKER_00 1:06

Good. I went to Punta Kanda.

SPEAKER_01 1:08

Oh, what you do there?

SPEAKER_00 1:10

We went my auntie, she, it was her birthday. So we went to Putta Kanda for her birthday. And then my family came.

SPEAKER_01 1:24

Okay. How long did y'all um how long did y'all stay?

SPEAKER_00 1:29

I think it was four days.

SPEAKER_01 1:32

Okay. That's good. I got my passport. I still haven't used it. Is this your was that your like first stamp?

SPEAKER_00 1:40

I think it was my first time going out of the country.

SPEAKER_01 1:43

That was your first time? And you beat me. Yeah, I got mine. I plan on going out of the country soon, so hopefully uh I get to do that. So, the new school year. This is your last year as an elementary student. How you feeling? Are you are you ready to go to middle school?

SPEAKER_00 2:02

No.

SPEAKER_01 2:03

Why not?

SPEAKER_00 2:04

Because we're gonna be the youngest there again. It's gonna be like kindergarten all over again.

SPEAKER_01 2:09

It is. But it's gonna be okay though. I feel like you'll be okay. Cause you like stick to your friends and the people around you. You don't really try to. Wait, do you try to get to know other people or you kind of like to stay?

SPEAKER_00 2:24

I guess try to get at least like one more friend from the new grade.

SPEAKER_01 2:30

Okay. Well.

SPEAKER_00 2:32

Especially if there's new students.

SPEAKER_01 2:34

Do you like gravitate towards the new students? Like you try to get the like gravitate means like if you see new students coming in, do you try to like welcome them and become friends with them? Or you kind of like it?

SPEAKER_00 2:46

I wait for like a little bit to that. I wait if they don't come to me first, I'm gonna go to them.

SPEAKER_01 2:54

Okay. Does it matter if it's a boy or a girl? It don't matter. Okay. That's good. Some people not like that. Um why do you think why do you think that sometimes when you're a new student, um, you kind of wait to make friends with people? Like, wait, have you ever been a new student in like a?

SPEAKER_00 3:18

I was a new student in kindergarten. I game in the middle of the year.

SPEAKER_01 3:22

Okay, so so as a new student, like how do you know like when to, you know what I'm saying? Like be yourself or be kind of like shy and not talk to people. Like, what makes you come out?

SPEAKER_00 3:36

The first like week, no, not the first week, but the first couple of days that I was there, I was kind of like shy. I didn't do like how how I now how I am now, but then when I got to know people, got more friends, I came to my real self.

SPEAKER_01 3:54

What are like certain things like that people can do to make you be like, you know what? I think they're pretty, pretty cool, or I could talk to them.

SPEAKER_00 4:02

They make you feel like you belong.

SPEAKER_01 4:05

Okay. That's a that's a good word. Tell me more. What what you mean by belong?

SPEAKER_00 4:11

Like that you should be here. This is the right school for you.

SPEAKER_01 4:15

Okay, nice. And and how how has it been like from kindergarten? Now you're in fourth grade, because I remember when you came in kindergarten, and now it's like you're about to get ready to go. Like, is it kind of sad or it's just like kind of exciting in a sense? Like you you can't wait to see what will happen. Because you're getting older. You can't be here forever. No, you can't.

SPEAKER_00 4:40

Should I be coming down here?

SPEAKER_01 4:42

You gotta go. That's only for dismissal. You cannot stay here, though. You gotta eventually. You playing any um sports, anything?

SPEAKER_00 4:51

I wanna try out for cheer. I tried out for soccer. I don't I didn't do good though.

SPEAKER_01 4:56

Uh why why don't you think you did good?

SPEAKER_00 4:59

Cause they said spread out and I was the only one like standing there. I didn't, but nobody else spread out. They just grounded the ball.

SPEAKER_01 5:09

Oh. Did you like soccer?

SPEAKER_00 5:12

I like I like soccer, but I I just don't like running.

SPEAKER_01 5:18

You don't like running?

SPEAKER_00 5:20

I like running, just not that much.

SPEAKER_01 5:22

Well, you can't play soccer then. That's the wrong thing for you. Cause that's all you do in talking. You just running back and forth, and sometimes you don't even score. So, I mean, that's just what soccer is. But you did say you want to uh try for cheerleading. Have you been a cheerleader before?

SPEAKER_00 5:38

Yeah, I was last year. I just quit.

SPEAKER_01 5:40

What? But why you so why you want to go back?

SPEAKER_00 5:44

Because I want to get a second chance.

SPEAKER_01 5:47

But you can't quit though. You can't quit. You can't quit again, especially if you make it. But you but most definitely you you should go for it. Um, so once again, this is our new um school year, new season of the podcast. And with that, we do want to like start doing more things within the school, like hosting different events. This is all student-centered. Uh, the reason why uh we're doing this is because we want our students to have a voice and to be able to express themselves um to the best of their ability. Cameron, what do you want to see happen with with the podcast this school year? Like, what would you like for us to do? Or what do what are some things that you want to see happen?

SPEAKER_00 6:30

Like a fundraiser.

SPEAKER_01 6:32

Okay. So what we're gonna do with the money for the fundraiser and what type of fundraiser?

SPEAKER_00 6:35

What do you mean, what type?

SPEAKER_01 6:37

I mean, it's different type of fundraisers. You got like the car washers, you got to sell in the candy, the popcorn, you got sales stuff. Like it's different type. How how we gonna raise money? How you wanna raise money? I put it like that.

unknown 6:48

Car wash.

SPEAKER_01 6:49

Car wash. You gonna wash some cars? Girl, you ain't gonna wash them.

SPEAKER_00 6:54

I like washing dishes. So I'ma wash the car.

SPEAKER_01 6:58

Oh, alright. Alright, so then, alright, just say we do the car wash, right? So, what we're gonna do with the money that we make?

SPEAKER_00 7:04

We can like get new stuff to like new things. What they call uh stuff like the shirts and the coffee mug, like the pent.

SPEAKER_01 7:20

Okay, okay, like buy some buy some more different um merchandise. Merchandise and stuff like that. Okay, I like that idea. How about like so you know how they they have like different organizations and charities and stuff like that that donate to different people and stuff like that? Is it any type of population of people like, you know, like kids made, you know, like homeless? Like, is it any type of homeless people? Okay, we probably could do something like that. Or we might host some things at school too. So you think that'll be something that we could do?

SPEAKER_00 7:54

Yeah. Like how we did the jars with the pennies, and we put like pennies and quarters in it. I think that was when I was in sixth grade.

SPEAKER_01 8:02

Oh, like the penny wars. Yeah. So um, so we did the penny wars about a couple of years ago, and it was like every every class had a jar, and we would see who were raised the most money, and I think it was like some type of like maybe pizza party or something at the end of it.

SPEAKER_00 8:22

It was a pizza party.

SPEAKER_01 8:23

But uh the money was donated to an organization that uh what was it? I think I think they like did something with playgrounds like for kids that are handicapped or disabled. Like they they um would take go into schools and going to places that had uh students with disabilities or kids with disabilities, and they would restructure their playground to be able to um to fit them. So that was pretty cool. I like that idea. I think we'll we'll host that. We can do that around Christmas time. Yeah. All right. You want to write that down? You got good handwriting?

SPEAKER_00 9:03

Sometimes.

SPEAKER_01 9:04

Oh God. This time, all right. Write that down. Write um to the best of your ability, write Penny Wars. Write it. Yep. Yep, Penny Wars Christmas Fundraiser. I think that'll be cool. That's a cool idea, Camera. I like that. All right, so wow, um, she is writing it down. Uh so yeah, Spotify is where you can find the podcast. Um, I'm sure we'll, you know, expand it out to other different places. But for now, um, that's that's pretty much where you can find us. But Cameron's class is about to be over because she wanted to uh duck elective. She wants she didn't want to go to gym class, so I stole her away from gym class. But gym class is about to be over. So, Cameron, anything you want to say? You know, this is our first episode. Anything you want to leave with the people?

SPEAKER_00 9:59

I think that's how you spill it.

SPEAKER_01 10:01

You know what? I give you looking at this, Penny is right, Wards is correct. You missing the T and Christmas and the R. So I give you an eight out of ten. And fundraiser, you're missing two letters. I a. If I was grading this, I give you like a no, no, no, for real. I give you like a B plus. You're only missing one, two, three, four letters out of all these. I'll probably give you like a A minus or a B plus. So it's pretty good. It's pretty good. But anything you want to say before we get off here?

SPEAKER_00 10:33

Goodbye to the world.

SPEAKER_01 10:35

Goodbye to the world. All right. Thank you. This has been the episode of It's a Kids World Podcast.