Monday, April 26th, 2010
by mrsmith
6th grade english students in Mrs. Baldwin’s class chose their own independent read book. Each reader presented their book and project to their class. Each student was given 8 different ways to present their book. Click on the image below to view the completed projects.
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Monday, April 12th, 2010
by mrsmith
How do you remember 19 bones and 4 joints in 7th grade? Through Music! Have a listen.
Bones Song by Susie Shepardson
Mrs. Anderson’s 7th Grade Science Class
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Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
by mrsmith
This Wednesday through Friday the 8th grade class will be in New York City on on their annual trip to New York City. They will be on an “Urban Trek” led by OutwardBound of New York City. The students will be navigating their way through the city, attempting different challenges that Outward Bound has set out for them, and experiencing the culture and diversity that New York has to offer.
There will be four groups of 8th grade students all led by Outward Bound staff and one Worcester Academy Faculty chaperone. Each chaperone will be blogging via their cell phones to the following blogs. Please follow along as the 8th grade class navigates their way through New York City this week.
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Friday, April 2nd, 2010
by Ms. Iaccarino
Salifu Kamara speaks to the eighth grade.
By Molly R.
The class of 2014 just finished reading the book A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah, the story of Beah’s journey as a child soldier during the civil war in Sierra Leone as part of our African Connections unit. We were fortunate to have Salifu Kamara, another former boy soldier from Sierra Leone, come to talk to us on March 31.
The room was silent. The air was thick. We all were waiting for Salifu Kamara to speak. At first glance Salifu looks like the average college student: collared shirt and tie with a leg injury forcing him on crutches. But Salifu is far from average, for hiding behind his eyes is the haunting past of his childhood.
Salifu grew up in Sierra Leone during the civil war. He grew up in a poor house on a small farm where he had no bed and little education. But nonetheless he was happy. He would play soccer for hours on end like any other African child. When Salifu was nine, the army rebels came to his village and destroyed everything he once knew. He watched his family die, his sisters get raped, and his life change forever. Salifu became a child soldier in the rebel army at the age of nine.
While most nine-year-old children are learning how to multiply and do long division, Salifu was learning how to use a gun and how to kill. He stayed with the rebel group for about two months, making little friends along the way. The one boy Salifu was able to connect to was gruesomely ambushed while sitting next to Kamara. If there’s one thing Salifu remembers about being in the rebels’ army is that he was taught to be forceful, and was taught to kill. “My gun was my everything.” Salifu described, “Without it, you were gone.” Salifu didn’t even know what he was fighting for. It wasn’t until his arrival in the United States that he learned the war was over diamonds. Continue reading »
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Friday, March 26th, 2010
by mrsmith
Before we left for March break, many Middle Schoolers started creating “doodles” for a contest put on by Google. The goal is to create a new Google logo based on a theme with the winning doodle to be put on Google’s homepage for an entire day. 
This year’s theme is, “If I could do anything I would…”. Over 60 Middle School students submitted finished doodles and they were voted upon by faculty to obtain a group of finalists. The final 15 doodles were then voted on by the Middle School student body and the 6 winners from Worcester Academy were chosen. These 6 doodles will be sent in to the national contest which will be judged by a panel from Google. Once the panel chooses state and regional winners, there will be a national vote between May 18th and May 25th to determine a national winner.
The winners from Worcester Academy are:
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
by Dave Boike
Senior Privileges
Recently I was given a detention for leaving campus during the academic day. I was not going to do any illegal, frowned upon, or mischievous things, I left campus simply because I had free period and a friend of mine forgot his cleats for lacrosse so we left campus to go to his house and get his cleats. I feel that this rule regarding seniors leaving campus is unfair and needs to be changed. The idea of a senior getting a detention simply because they had to go home to grab some
thing they forgot, or because they wanted to take a quick drive to Dunkin Donuts and grab some breakfast, in my eyes is preposterous. As seniors I feel we have earned the right to leave campus as we please, as long as we are not doing anything destructive. We should be able to take the three minute drive to Dunkin Donuts and buy a coffee without worrying about getting a detention. Many seniors are responsible students, eighteen years of age, who have spent almost four years working extremely hard to expand their minds and become smarter wiser individuals and I feel that this hard work has earned us the right to leave campus without punishment. It’s not like I am asking for an extensive amount of freedom, I just want to, as a senior, have some privileges, the most important being the allowance for seniors to leave campus during the academic day. As long as seniors are not missing classes and behaving inappropriately I see no harm in allowing us to leave during extra help to get a coffee or leave during lunch to go to Regatta and buy some subs. On a different note, this rule is unfair because it negates the fact that we all forget things. We all forget things and I feel that just because someone forgets something does not mean that they should be punished for simply going home and retrieving this forgotten item. Now I understand the other side of this argument, if seniors are allowed to leave campus during the academic day they are going to behave poorly, miss classes, and do a number of other things that are looked down upon. But here is my argument, why just because one student behaves poorly do all other students have to be punished. For those students who take advantage of the rule by missing classes or leaving campus for other bad reasons take their privilege away and for the students who follow the rules and just go to Dunkin Donuts to grab a coffee or for students who forget their cleats and have to go home to get them, allow them the privilege to do so, it is only fair, as seniors I feel we have earned the privilege.
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010
by Dr. John Fox
The Giving Tree is really taking root in the Middle School! We appreciate all the efforts of middlers and their families to support this effort. All items can be brought to the Middle School Office. Reminder: the Giving Tree will end on Friday, February 26. 
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Friday, February 12th, 2010
by mrsmith
Mrs. Carter’s 7th grade advisees spent some time this week creating Valentines for residents at the Radius Health Care Nursing Home near our campus. These masterpieces will surely bring a smile to the faces of some of our senior citizens.
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Thursday, February 11th, 2010
by Ms. Iaccarino
by Johnston W. (Aladdin staff)
Here is a brief look at some of the sports offered in the Middle School for the Winter Season.
Boys’ Basketball
The Worcester Academy Middle School Boys’ Basketball Team ended a great season last year; however, with new eight graders coming back, they have greater skills. Sam Joaquin, an eighth grader, thinks that the team will have great chemistry this year due to the eight graders, who are great leaders on the court.
When interviewed, Sam Joaquin, told us that he is excited for the up coming season and to play with his friends. Joaquin also predicts a good season for their team, due to all the new players coming in. Sam, a“6 foot 2 monster”, says that he has a lot of trust in his eight grade teammates to lead the team to victory. Continue reading »
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
by Ms. Baldwin
During the winter months, the 6th graders in Mrs. Baldwin’s English class each chose a fiction independent read book. After completing the book, a list of eight possible projects was given to the students. The completed projects were presented in class. Click here to view the projects… and enjoy!
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