Editor’s note: Young Writers Project, a Vermont nonprofit dedicated to helping students write well, will be sharing several exceptional pieces of best student work each week at VTDigger.org for special display over the weekend. We hope you appreciate the young writers’ viewpoints, imagination and experiences. Please let us know what you think.
Margot Frost, a fifth-grade student at Tunbridge Central School, is an avid skier and loves to race! Here’s what Margot says: “I have been skiing for six years now – since I was four. I learned to ski at Quechee Ski Area. I skied there for one year, and then at Pico for two years. Currently, I ski at Mad River Glen and have for the past three years. Skiing brings me great joy, and I hope to continue skiing as long as I can.”
Thrill on the Hill
By Margot Frost
The wind nipped my face
as I flew down the hill.
I’m skiing, I’m skiing!
What a thrill!
My parallel skis glided through the snow,
making deep tracks in the powder.
Go! Go! Go!
I raced past fellow skiers, laughing with glee.
Faster! Faster!
Ski, ski, ski!
I flew by a skier, and when I saw her face,
I knew I had found my competition and we started to race.
We ripped down the hill, the whole time side by side,
and when we reached the bottom together, I realized we had tied.
About YWP
YWP publishes about 1,000 students’ work each year here, in 19 newspapers across Vermont and in parts of New Hampshire and on Vermont Public Radio. It runs an online teen writing community, youngwritersproject.org, which has only one rule: be respectful. It works with teachers in 63 schools who use YWP’s unique, free digital classroom platform and provides many with ongoing professional development mentoring and other teacher training. And it is developing NxN, a writing center at its Burlington headquarters. For more, go to youngwritersproject.org or ywpschools.net.
If you are a youth or you know a youth who is passionate about something and works hard at it, be it building models or flying or playing the drums or climbing cliffs, please contact Geoffrey Gevalt at ggevalt@youngwritersproject.org and tell him something about the youth and how to get in touch with her or him.
