Middle School Memories...

Here are some memorable and inspiring contributions from our fellow Sherwood 8th Grade Class of 2010-11!

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We all deserve a voice.. so let's reminisce on our happy SMS/LRMS days! 
        Where has time gone? -Katy R.                            

It seems like yesterday all two hundred sixth graders had to be contained in the gym in the mornings, like just today we walked into the gyms to see brand-new bleachers. And now, here we are, a bunch of thirteen, fourteen AND fifteen-year-old eighth graders exactly one school week from receiving the paper stating we completed our middle school journey and are ready for the next step of our lives- HIGH SCHOOL!!!

We know it’s going to be four years before our final goodbyes as we depart from our school days and head off to college, but take a moment to relive the middle school days- the excitement of entering the school as little fifth graders June 2008 and then later coming in September 2008 as SMS’s brand-new 6^th graders! Remember the joy of having your own locker, no matter how small it was, and traveling from class to class? Or the crowded hallways and getting used to being shoved around?

And now, look at us: it’s 2011. That was THREE whole years ago! Look how much we’ve grown and, some of us, matured!!!

We are the amazing class of 2015-and I hope none of you guys forget it!!!

 All right, now it’s story time. Settle down, curl up on your bed or beanbag or sit back in the computer-desk chair. Relive the memories of 6^th, 7^th and 8^th grade (actually, you’re living that grade now…) Anyway; let’s begin:

          

6^th Grade:

            Taylor Swift’s song ‘Fifteen’ is running through your head as you walk through the activities entrance on your first day of 6^th grade. You were, what, eleven, twelve? We had all anticipated this day since we set foot in SMS during our fifth grade visits. Now we had become big 6^th graders. We had more freedom now, getting to change classes every hour, have a locker, and dress down for P.E! It was an exciting year.

            Towards the end of it we went to Outdoor School, aka Welcome to Oregon, State of Constant Rain Even at Camp. Yes, it poured. The kids at Cedar Creek all caught colds from one of the counselors. Wi-Ne-Ma kids got time on the beach, while Trickle Creek kids were caught in a thunderstorm. We had to sit in the creepy chapel with the dusty collection of rocks, remember? And after we all returned from our long trips, we went straight home and into bed.

       

 7^th Grade:

      Okay, 7^th grade, the year SMS was split down the middle, dividing friends until high school. It was also the year we dissected frogs. I still cannot get that odor out of my head! We were now bigger kids than before, and a lot of us had really matured over that long summer… :)

Nothing big really happened in 7^th grade that was really school-wide. People had personal problems, of course, but that’s nothing to put down in a Class-of-2015-Tribute. It’s actually kind of weird to do that. Well, no, actually, in 7^th grade they invented the finger-scanner at lunch because people would steal other’s cards in 6^th grade and use the money off there. Pittsburgh Steelers! How cruel.

           

Another door that opened up, possibly permanently, was the Homework Coupons-and-Lunch-Academy door. It’s been propped open since that first week of school, and many have hated it since. (Aren’t you all happy we’re leaving it behind?)

8^th Grade:

Now here we are, our last few days of middle school and SMS. Boy is I going to miss this place. In 6^th grade, I remember the math hall and 8^th grade wing were like No-Man’s-Land for me. Or at least, No-6^th-Grader’s-Land. Maybe Place of No Return?

Anyway, we are still the obnoxious 5^th graders that came here at the end of the 2007-2008 school year and probably always will be—because we’re the 8^th graders of Sherwood Middle School, and nobody, nobody can change that. No matter how hard they try—nobody can go back in time and change the fact that we’re the class of 2015, we’re the kids of the future, and we’re the future of Sherwood. We’ve been through everything here, and those memories will stay with us forever.

Never forget that.