This is a short personal book by Myah Olson about taking an SD class with a friend named Maddie. It opens with the nervous energy of the first day and the friends they made, then walks through what the class covered: the Personal Wellness Wheel, SMART goals, and budgeting. The author closes by describing how the class helped in college and life, sharing what she learned with her sister, and…
This is a short personal book by Myah Olson about her experience in an SD class alongside a friend named Maddie. It is written in simple, repetitive sentences suited to a young or new reader and reads as a first-person account of the class.
The opening describes the first day of class as full of nervous energy, and notes that Maddie and the author made friends there. This sets up the rest of the book as a look back at what the class involved.
The middle sections go through the class activities in order. The students learned about the Personal Wellness Wheel, which gave them a chance to identify strengths and weaknesses across areas of personal wellness. They then learned about SMART goals, setting their own and discussing why such goals help in the future.
A further section covers budgeting. The author explains that the class taught a way to budget and why budgeting money matters, and notes that many college students with payments benefited from the lesson.
The closing pages describe the effect of the class. The author says college and life got easier after it, that she told her sister everything she learned, and that she became an elementary school teacher after college.