Shadowing at Morey Middle School

Henry says, "I had a great experience, it is a really nice school. There's really nice teachers. "

We arrived after the first bell rang around 8am. We met up with the community coordinator and she took us down to a conference room where we signed in and had the opportunity to look over some information about Morey. She left to go get the student that Henry was to shadow. When she came back she was with a friendly looking boy. She introduced us to David saying that he was a great student at Morey and knew a lot about the school. From there David and Henry left for the day.

Henry says "We went to class because class was already started. David introduced me to the teacher and I sat down at the same table as David. We worked on science vocabulary. I just listened while the other kids worked on pronounciations. After that class we went to gym. In gym we played flag football or soccer. I chose to play flag football. Different kids were in this class. There were more kids, about 35 kids were playing flag football. We played for about 45 minutes. After gym we went to the computer lab. I worked at a computer playing a typing game along with the whole class. There were enough computers so everyone had their own, I worked on an Apple computer. After computer lab we went to a reading class. The students took turns reading outloud from a non-fiction book about history and I followed along. After that we had lunch, all the 6th graders were at lunch. I saw my old friend at lunch recess. His name is Herman and he went to McKinley Thatcher too. After lunch recess we had science. This class was taking a test so I worked on some math that I had brought in my backpack. David has a locker that he shares with his friend. They keep their backpacks in their locker. "

I came back to pick up Henry at 2pm, a little before the school day ends at Morey. It seemed like Henry had enjoyed his day at Morey. We looked over the list of afterschool activities and Henry liked the fact that there were a lot of sports. I think it was great that Henry had the opportunity to see how middle school is different from elementary school.