Citizenship Word of the Month: Perseverance

Perseverance is ...

To try your best in everything you do.
The act or habit of continuing to strive in spite of difficulties.

The following are some thoughts from our class on what perseverance means to them.

It means to never quit. Keep trying and try your best. If you follow directions and listen you can get things done. Once in kindergarten we had two days to color the picture. On the last day I finally finished the dinosaur picture.: Bill Staudamire
If you pick a picture and you say you'll draw. You keep on trying and never give up. Perseverance is never giving up and sticking to it. I thought I was going to be in big trouble .. I had one week to get my contract done but I was on the second section. To get it done I never gave up and went piece by piece. I finally finished it and got a good grade.: Jenny Crash
Perseverance means that you don't quit - like on a spelling test. You try on Wednesday and if you don't get it you have to try over on Friday. If you study you might get an "O" and if you get an "O" you might get a sticker. My teacher likes when people persevere and that is why we are smart!: Gasmen Hairsten
Theo Lusage (Dr. Seuss) was persevering when his 1st book To Think What I Saw on Muhlberry Stree was rejected 43 times and he kept on trying to get it published. Perseverance is when you keep on trying and never give up NO matter how hard it gets. If you are reading and you don't know a word ... you keep on trying to figure the word out, that's perseverance!: Beth Bioxler
I think that Eron StarLynn has perseverance because every time she has a poem and somebody does not like it, she'll stick with the thing but sometimes she will change it. So I think she is a good example of perseverance because she never gives up. That's that reason she is my best friend.: Jissie Bell
Perseverance is when I kept trying to win a game against someone on multiplayer in Flight Simulator 98. I kept trying and after a few times I finally did.: Bob Newchart