of an 8th Grade Student

Lunchtime. On today’s menu: beef or veggie lasagna, cheesy garlic bread, and roasted zucchini and squash. So good!

12:50 p.m.

Rainy day indoor Recess is only a little bit of a bummer, since it means we get to spend it playing with students from 6th and 7th Grade, too.

2:00 p.m.

Instead of our regular 7th period class, the whole school is meeting in the Auditorium for a Black History Month assembly. This new assembly is a companion to the annual school-wide Martin Luther King, Jr. assembly and project—a long-standing VCS tradition. Just as we’ve done the last few years, this year every grade looked at Dr. King’s life and work through the lens of one of his characteristics and completed a collaborative project related to that quality. It was so cool to see all the different forms the projects took, from poetry to coding. My personal favorite was the original song about climate change written and performed by the 4th Graders.

For the first time this year, the assembly was led almost exclusively by 8th Graders. I’m so used to speaking in front of younger students by now; it barely phases me!

2:45 p.m.

Closing out the school day with a very exciting Spanish class…we’re writing our first letters to our pen pals in Madrid, Spain! We’ll have time to exchange a handful of letters before the end of the year, and I was surprised how many questions I had for my pen pal once I started writing. Now, how do you say TikTok in Spanish?