Welcome to the last day of 2025, and we hope it’s been a good one for you and your family. As we get ready to start a new year, many of us adults are making resolutions ‒ although, admittedly, we may drop some or all of them by Valentine’s Day. Children also have their goals for the new year – if we ask them anyway – and we once again did just that. We’d like to thank the principals, teachers and students at Waddell and Natural Bridge elementary schools for participating in this year’s edition of the New Year’s children’s writings project. As you will see, some of their resolutions are similar to ours, like not eating as much candy and helping others, while others are unique to children – most of us wouldn’t dream of getting on a trampoline. We hope you enjoy them all and we wish each of you a healthy and prosperous new year.
- Darryl Woodson
My New Year’s resolution is to eat more veggies! Kinsley Coffey Third grade, Waddell
My New Year’s Resolution is trying to get better at sports, get better at wrestling. I want to travel somewhere like Myrtle Beach. I want to stay up all night because my mom doesn’t let me stay up unless it is a weekend. I want to learn how to swim, maybe even do karate. Colton Third grade, NBE
My New Year’s resolution is to get better at my spelling. Gabriel Third grade, Waddell
My New Years resolution is to be a good listener because I can walk through my room and get my clothes off my bed and my cats and dogs can sleep with me and I can make my bed and I can walk in my closet and I can have my friends over and we can have a sleep over at my house. Brynley Third grade, NBE
My New Year’s resolution is to improve my soccer skills for my last year at RARO. Alaysia Fifth grade, Waddell
My New Year’s resolution is getting less frustrated with school work. Craig Fifth grade, Waddell
My New Year’s Resolution is be kind every day and be good and listen in school and not interrupt and go to school every day. Macie Third grade, NBE
My New Year’s resolution is to start reading more books. And eating breakfast more daily. And cleaning my room more. Natalia Fourth grade, Waddell
My New Year’s resolution is to stop my negative and bad thought about myself. My explanation to this, I have grown up almost my whole life with negative self talk. So for my 2026 new year’s resolution is to stop all of it and feel good about myself again. To help me and the folks around me. P.S. I hope you have or had an amazing day! Makenzie Fifth grade, Waddell
I am going to get better at soccer and I am going to help my mom do the longrey and help my mom cook and help my mom clean the home and help my mom walk the dogs and help my mom clean the dishes and be kind every day and be a good listener and clean my room. I will help my teacher wene she needs help. I will help my class mates. I will help my mom clean the car and I will help my teacher clean the classroom. I will listen to your mom and I will listen to the teacher. Kaydence Third grade, NBE
My New Year’s resolution is to be a successful business man and sell lemonade. Landen Fifth grade, Waddell
My New Year’s resolution is to not eat as much candy. I eat to much candy and I need to be better about it. My parents say the same thing. So obviously I have to listen to them. That’s my New Years resolution. Baylee Fifth grade, Waddell
My New Year’s resolution is to join as many sports I can and to also get by backhand spring because I am very close and last do different things for school. Thanks for your time, by by. Tenley Fourth grade, Waddell
My New Year’s resolution is I am going to get bedr at Reading and Virginia Studes. Eleanor Fourth grade, Waddell My New Year’s resolution is to do better in dancing and to do my best in fifth grade. Scarlett Fifth grade, Waddell
My New Years resolution is to be able to draw really good and be a good artist and I want to make drawings look realistic. And I want to be able to color drawing to make it look realistic. And I want to be a talented artist. And I want to land a front flip because I can do a front flip. I just can’t land it. And I will practice on my trampoline. I also want to learn how to do a back flip because I can’t do a backflip or land it. Annistyn Third grade, NBE
My New Year’s resolution is to make the laccrosse part of midfield and practice EVERYday so I can get better. Nellie Fourth grade, Waddell
Clean the floor, clean the car, wash the dishes, clean my room, listen to your mom, I love my mom, I love my dad, I love Aslin, I want my mom to live forever, I want my dad to live forever. Jax Third grade, NBE
My New Year’s resolution is to make All-Stars 2 years in a row, stop biting my nails, and spend more quality time with my dog. From the cool kid, Ax Fourth grade, Waddell
My favorite thing to do next year, I want to play football and basketball and soccer. Tommy Third grade, NBE
My New Year’s resolution is to get to Recorder Karate number 2 and get those “belts” too. I want that because I like doing recorder karate and getting the belts it feels good. I am going to try to get there by practicing very hard and writing down the notes that I have to play on my recorder for recorder karate. Willow Fourth grade, Waddell
I want to be good and kind and nice and cool and help people. Ross Third grade, NBE
My New Year’s resolution is build gret foot work for soccer and know what to do with the ball and scor a gole. Wyatt Third grade, Waddell
I want to be kind. If someone fell I would help them up and give them a bandaid and if didn’t have money I would give them 10 bucks. Joslyn Third grade, NBE
My New Year’s resolution is Being healthier and get better at spelling hard words. Eliana Khoshpasand Third grade, Waddell
My New Year’s resolution is to not change anything about me. Dylan Fifth grade, Waddell
My New Year’s resolution is to get on the Finch app every day for a year to help me develop good habits. You’re probably wondering what the Finch app is, so I’m going to tell you. The Finch app is an app that helps you get good habits. Also you get to hatch a penguin egg plus you get to choose the color of your penguin. Then you get to name it whatever you want. Mine is named Waddles. After that you get to set up goals to complete and when you complete your daily goals you get rainbow coins and buy clothes for your penguin. Some goals I want to work on are drink 3 glasses of water and read something before bed. And that is my New Year resolution. Izzy Fourth grade, Waddell
