My name is Mia Leff. This year I am attending 6th grade at Skinner. I attended Edison Elementary until last year. I am very excited to move on to middle school and very happy Skinner is helping me ease into this HUGE step.
When I first entered 6th Grade Academy I was nervous and scared. I scanned the premises looking for familiar faces. I saw a lot of faces that I recognized from Edison. Most were people that I had never really talked to. I took a seat next to a friend of mine in the front row.
We sat in the auditorium so we could learn about the basics that everybody needed to know. Then we broke into groups. In those groups, we toured the school and learned about other things such as the agenda. The agenda is a planner for school where you write homework assignments.
After a little while we went outside and played team-oriented games to learn about each other. One game we played was Human Pretzel. In that game we learned to feel comfortable with other students by holding hands. (Holding hands is not something a lot of middle schoolers like to do.)
Skinner 6th Grade Academy was a very fun experience and a great way to get us used to the new school. I really enjoyed the overall involvement and the ability to learn new things about a school I would be attending in a week.
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