Month: April 2019

After school when you walk into the locker and your getting ready for practice there is a lot that happens and that is going on around you while you’re getting ready. For example, everyone in the locker room is talking and being loud and most everyone is a friend in there so it’s fun to be in the locker room. But some people in there aren’t the smartest people like for instance, my friend was in the locker room while everyone else was ready and he was just sitting there trying to put his belt into his football pants and he sat in there until our coach came in an helped him. And everyone was already out on the field warming up when he came strolling out of the locker room and slowly walked over to the field.

Every day the coaches sit and wait on the field and usually when I get in the locker there is already people leaving to go to the field because of me always talking to people I’m always late and by the time I get on my pads and I’m done talking and laughing to the rest of the people in the locker room when I get outside to put on my cleats coaches and players are waiting on me and a couple of other players, and when you make the coaches wait they get mad because they just want to start practice and when they get mad at you, you either have to run more or do extra conditioning at the end of practice which is, in my opinion, the worst and least fun part of the whole two hours we are practicing.  Congratulations now you know what happens in the locker room!!

The day starts off by my alarm going off at 5 o’clock in the morning beep! beep! And so I get up and go for a 2-mile run and then a leg workout tell 5:45, then an upper body workout tell 6:30. Then take a shower then get ready for school. Get on the bus at 6:45 and ride to the school. Then get dropped off at the high school at  7:30 and walk to the locker room in the middle school and drop my football pads off.

1st Period 

The bell rings at 8 0´clock, I make my way to math and grab my bag to get all of my stuff for this class out and plug in my chrome book so it’s charged for 2nd period. Get my homework for math and the bell for 2nd-period rings

2nd Period

So I make my way to science sit down and get my computer out and this class is really chilled, but when Mr. Nuttle gets mad you better not be talking over him

3rd Period 

PE is one of my favorite classes, Mr white is a great teacher. He pushes you to do your best you can and its just fun to work out and run with friends

4th Period 

SSR- sit down, shut up, and read. This one of least favorite, it’s just boring you just sit there and do nothing

5th Period 

So I go to work with the ilc kids and help them with math and take them lunch. To be honest it is tuff not to just  do the work for them

6th Period 

history with ms terry is fun with the group work but it has its ups and downs the worst is the vocabulary slides. But every time we do it.

7th Period 

English is really fun with Mr. Blair he makes the work fun and I have learned a lot about writing from him

After School 

A lot of people go home and sleep but some of us go to a sport like a football or cross country

5:00am My first alarm goes off I need more sleep I’ll wake up at six

6:00am I’ll wake up at six thirty

7:00am Crap*, I slept through 4 alarms, I get up and get ready for school, bearly getting downstairs in time to walk out the door on time

7:33 Time to walk to the bus stop

I step on the bus and hear the sixth graders on the back of the bus yelling, the day of chaos has already begun* I sit by Emily and we ride to school, talking about upcoming tests and unfinished work*.

I get off at the middle school and walk over to the high school with two friends the walk there is cold and we have to go all the way around the school to the doors that are unlocked, we walk to class like a salmon* going upstream.

1st-period Geometry, this class challenges me, if I am not feeling well I know that I can’t miss this class, because I will have 7 pages from classwork* and homework, most days I just end up with 2 or 3 pages of homework.

We walk back to the middle school our bags fractionally heavier from black and white pages from the teacher

I stop at my locker before heading to my next class

2nd-period History, this class is always rowdy and is different from my last class. Why do we need history?* I’m not going to use any of this info when I am an adult! I ponder this idea as I do my work and sometimes take notes.

3rd-period P.E. I change into my black and red uniform and head into the main gym, we run for about 7 minutes, around and around and around. Then I sit in my role call spot and wait. Eventually, a p.e. teacher will tell us to stand up and do 5 jumping jacks if you have to do 5 push-ups, you know you will do 5 sit-ups, 4, 4, 4, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1. Finally, we squish into a small square up front, so we can be told where to go next, today it is the weight room for the cardiorespiratory unit. I walk there and know we are running*, and we do. Afterward, we go back to the locker room. p.e. is very repetitive.

4th period SSR, it is supposed to stand for silent sustained reading but is more commonly known as sit down, shut up and read. So I walk in, sit down, shut up and read. Sometimes we are allowed to do homework, but that is very rare. There are better uses of my time than half an hour of nothing.

5th period, I walk to language arts, my teacher is usually playing some sort of song as we walk in, he makes us write these blogs, in this class we either read or write when I go to this class I have to hurry because the teacher is very strict on tardiness*.

Lunch, I walk to my locker to put my binder away and meet Maddie, we walk to the lunch room together and I go to the lunch line because I woke up late I didn’t have time to pack a lunch. I sit by Maddie and we talk and laugh. Then we have to go to the courtyard, and freeze, if you are cold, suck it up, you are not allowed to be in the hallway or you will be yelled at.*

6th period, Science, the teacher is laid back, I never get homework and I understand the information.

7th period Office Aid, I get some of my homework done in this class, but mostly I deliver notes, and as soon as I walk into a classroom everyone turns to look at me*, except the teacher, I wander up to them and hand them the note as walk out as quickly as I can.

2:30 Now I get on the bus again, but the sixth grader’s volume has increased by about 80%*

Next, I get home, I do more homework* and eventually go to bed at around 10:45ish

The cycle repeats again and again.

*Every time you saw an asterisk, it represented a feeling of stress, from tests, presentation, homework, time management or possibly even worrying for my safety because I feel like our school is not prepared for certain events. My day is filled with stress and that is not a good way to live your life, there were about 12 astricks, and that is not good for students outlook on school, they will think of it as a stressful place. There are things that school administrators can do to help fix these problems, but from my three years at ems, almost nothing has been done about it. For student safety, I believe that we should practice lockdown drills in places other than one classroom, such as during lunch. I also think that students should have less work outside of school.

 

 

Middle school sports are really good for you because you can show your school spirit and still play the sports you love. Middle school sports are also good motivation to get good grades and do good in the classroom because there are requirements that you have to follow in order to play in the game. School sports will also help you make more friends and not be as shy. Middle school coaches are also very good most of the time if you have never played the sport before they are really good at explaining how to do things an not to put you down when you do something wrong they explain what you did wrong then tell you how to correct yourself. it also does not matter what team you make because if you don’t make varsity that just motivation to get better so you can make varsity the next year. Middle school sports also help you stay in shape. even if you are not good at the sport you can play the sport an get better and stay in shape until the next sport you play. Middle schools do not have the best equipment in the world but its also not the worst. My school’s football helmets are good helmets they just have uncomfortable padding and sometimes is tight and gives you a headache. I personally think there should be a bigger variety of sports like golf and tennis at the middle schools to get more kids involved in sports. most middle school sports are for all grades. Some sports all three grades can participate in a sport together like girls cross country. some sports the 6 graders and 7th and 8th graders are separated like basketball. Some sports only allow 7th and 8th graders to play like Football. Sportsmanship is also a huge role in middle school sports. Yes winning is good and it feels good but you can’t call the other team a bunch of losers after you beat them you tell them good job and shake there hand.