Word of the Week
Catwalk: (kat•wôk) verb. 1. To pop a wheelie.
Side Note: I’m not sure if you have to be able to pop a wheelie and hold and ride it for a while, but I do know the students like to talk about it in their journal prompts.
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Word of the Week
Drag: (drag) verb. 1. Pulling people around in a sled behind an ATV or sno-go. Recreation activity. See also, extreme sledding
Side note: When I first saw students “go drag”, I was reminded of my own childhood. We’d wait all winter for some good snow, then pull each other around by whatever vehicle could maneuver the snow, ice, or slush. It became a game. To win as a driver, you must knock the rider off in record time (making them bail by trying to ram them into objects was fair game). To win as the rider, you must hold on…even if it is only by your fingertips and you are being dragged across the ice.
Word of the Week
Brodeo: (brō•dē•ō) noun. 1. Driving in tight circles with a vehicle (ATV), often causing the back wheels to slide out and around. See also: whipping cookies, shitties, doughnuts
Side note: Students have been doing this frequently on the road outside my living room view.
Word of the Week
Honda: (hon•da) noun. 1. Any brand of a four wheeled all terrain vehicle.
See Four Wheeler or ATV
Side note: My students call all four wheelers “Hondas”, even if they are not Hondas…kind of like buying Target-brand facial tissues and calling them Kleenex.
