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At Bayfarm we have a few clubs that people can join. Anime club, robotics, scrabble club, and many more. All the new clubs have to have a teacher to supervise them.

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The four B's are be kind, be safe, be responsible and be an ally. If people follow all of these rules than our school would have no problems, but of course there is always the occasional rude word or rumor.

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Global day of play is wearing we take the last hour of the day and play our little hearts out. Different teachers host different activities in their classrooms, stuff like card games or science activities and what not. You can take this time to play with friends you haven't been able to play with before because you're in a different class. All in all global day of play is a day to cherish and have a good time at.

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Throughout the years you stay at Bay Farm you take many field trips some of are, Caloma, motherload, trip to the dump and many many more. these field trips will teach you in many ways including teamwork, history, math and science and so much more.

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Technology is all over the place. At Bay Farm we use our chrome books in class. K-5 use school chrome books, but 6-8 we have to bring our own. There are a few rules like we can not share stuff that will hurt others, no games in class, and if you break your device then the school will NOT replace your device.

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The MPR is a great place from all the plays going on to students eating in there everyday. Also sometimes P.E is done in there and assemblies.

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In third grade I loved that we got the chance to make a little market place that the second graders go to. The third graders give the second graders a chance to spend the school currency(Bay Farm Bucks). Also I liked how to get the chance to feel like your in middle school by switching classes to learn different subjects.

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At our school we have a program called B.Y.O.D a.k.a bring your own device. I have only been here for a year but as far as I know no one has lost their device. Many people have computers that they bring, but some people have iPads you just have to have a keyboard that's connects to the iPad.

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At Bay Farm School we let the younger kids (K-2 grade) go first to eat their lunch. Then 3-5 goes. The middle schoolers then go last. The kindergartners eat their lunch in the multi-purpose room, 1-5 graders eat at the quad, and the middle schoolers eat at the 4-5 grade yard.

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The fundraisers at Bay Farm School is Adopt a Classroom, Read-A-Thon and Auction Art. For Read-A-Thon you read and ask for money to donate to your school. There are rewards for the longest readers and most money earned. The rewards are dying teacher’s hair, tricycle races, and ice bucket challenges.

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Kindergarten through 5th grade do this weekly, they cook and observe plants which is very fun and entertaining.

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The field trips at Bay Farm are great. Some of the field trips I remember  when I first came to Bay Farm were going to safety town. It was really fun and we got to learn all about safety and what to do if we had a emergency. In third grade you go to the Academy of Science,  probably the best museum I ever went to. In 4th grade,  was the start of over night field trips. The the fourth grade was all about the gold rush, so we got to go to Colma, where it all started. When you are in the six grade you get to go to Mother Load, The two night field trip is all about teamwork. The first day you get there you work on regular team building skills, the the second day you do the ropes course.  One of my favorites were the leap of faith and the pipe dream. The leap of faith is climbing up a tree then jumping off the 30 foot tree, first you have to climb which is the scary part. The pipe dream course is all about teamwork . You and your partner have to work on trying to get to the other side of the course while your about 9 feet up trying to get to each pipe on a single string.

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If you are a new student at Bay Farm, other students will give you a tour and ask them if you want to eat with them during lunch. They will also ask if they wanted to play during recess. New students here at Bay Farm never felt like they were new the next day.

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Council /Leadership Group: Student council is an amazing thing that you should try out if you have the opportunity. Student Council is a good way to have your opinion heard at the school. First you have to fill out an application like a real job. If you make it you will have to meetings supply you with snacks. Even though I have never been on student council, I would highly recommended trying out for student council.

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Going green was probably one of the biggest changes the school has gone through. One of the changes we made is trying to lighten the load on the grey bin and sort better. This program is run by our 2 grade teacher, Mrs.Kuttner. Mrs. Kuttner who is probably work as a team with other people from different grades. Being a student council member, you have to be at school at 7:30 am sharp for the meetings, but the teachers who are running the more dedicated to this than anyone else. We are doing so well, our school received the National Green Award and we are one of California’s  Green Ribbon Schools.

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The Butterfly Garden is a beautiful place. It is a nice and calm place for you to relax. If your a artist there are so many good things you can draw around you. Some people like to sit there and play games. We also go to the  garden to pick leaves to make tea. After we finish the tea we go to the Butterfly Garden to chill and drink the tea we just made.

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Bay Farm Middle School is the only school in Alameda (as of 2018) that uses the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) system. If you can’t bring your own, a device (a Chromebook) is issued to you that you can use during school.

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Media Center is a prep period where you learn about coding, digital footprints, online safely, etc. We can also check out books for up to 2 weeks. There are plenty of projects to work on during the school year, like MLK day or New Years Resolutions.

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Every week, K through 7th grade comes into the Media Center. Students get to check out books from the number of books provided. We use Chromebooks to complete online assignments and 6th graders get to bring in their own computers to complete their assignments such as reports and researching. We also have amazing library assistants. They come in as one of their classes for a whole trimester.

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Middle school has 3 dances in the whole of the year. One per trimester. Usually, we have a cotton candy machine, a photo booth, a dj, a raffle, and a snack bar. Admission is $5, snack prices vary and cotton candy is usually $2. You can get an unlimited photo booth pass. At the last dance, the 5 graders can come too. You can also request songs to the dj. Middle school students from any school are welcome to join in the fun as well.

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In the 6th grade at Bay Farm, you get to go to this wonderful 2-night camping field trip at Mother Lode River Center. We stay in tent-cabins, play games, rock climb, row a bit, and can I just say, that the food is really good!

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Bay Farm school has numerous school Spirit Days. Such as Crazy Hair day, Trashin Fashion day, Dr. Seuss day, and Twin day. On spirit days kids can participate and dress up or make school stuff depending on the day. Sometimes teachers will offer rewards for kids that participate. Spirit days are a great way for kids to get creative and have fun.

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Field trips are always a blast whether its overnight or not. Overnight trips are In 4th grade Coloma, 5th grade Marin Headlands, 6th grade is Mother Lode. The food at overnight trips are always good. I don't really know what 7th and 8th grade will bring to us.

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Middle School Dances were always fun. You can brings friends from other schools if they are in middle school too, that means meeting new friends. At the dance they have the kitchen which means food, cotton candy machine, the photo booth, and don't forget the DJ. You can requests songs on an list which is next to the DJ or on an table near the stage. Middle School Dances are a great place to meet up with your friends.

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Each year there are three dances. Two of them, only middle schoolers from any school can come but the last dance, we invite 5th graders from Bay Farm to join us. They take part in several games and get a chance to win some raffle prizes. There are food and drink which our middle schoolers help sell for community service. It's only 5 dollars to get in too!

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I was a new student at Bay Farm, and I thought that we’re very privileged to be able to eat outside during lunch.

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We fundraise for many different thing. One thing is the read-a-thon. The read-a-thon is something that you do for the most reading and the most money. The person who has the most money gets to be P.E. teacher for the day and skips all of the classes to teach P.E., they get to choose what the students get to do, such as dodgeball, basketball, and many more. The person who read the most gets to be principle for the day.  For the read-a-thon you have a chart that your teachers give you. On the chart it has something where you can put the people who give you the money and a place for you to put the books that you have read and how many minutes you read. That was just one example of fundraisers but there are many more.

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At this school we don’t have many fundraisers, but we have one event that everyone knows about, it’s the “Read-a-thon”. If you get to a certain level of donations, we get to see teachers do all sorts of crazy things like tricycle races, ice bucket challenges or even seeing the teachers dance to Michael Jackson’s “thriller.”

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In 3rd grade, we get to earn Bay Farm Bucks for the Marketplace and Carnival. We rotate through different classes like Science, ELA, and Social Studies. Kinda like in middle school. We also went on plenty of fun exciting field trips.

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Bay Farm has a student council/leadership program that is currently run by Mrs.Reynolds. You fill out a form and they select people they think will best support the school. Anyone from 4-6 grade can apply for student council. The student council helps prepare and plan for col school events like the pumpkin carving contest and the hour of play. They also sort dolphin awards which you can get for being kind, being safe, being responsible, or being an ally.

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Everyone is talented and amazing, some people are talented in art. In Ms.Linderme’s exploration/life skills class she teaches art, But not only does the middle school get all the arty and crafty things, the elementary schoolers do too. There are the dot day- make your own art, the Music K-8 art contest, Middle school spirit wear contest.There is also a art club in Middle School.

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At Bay Farm we have four different rules called the four B's. One b is be kind this rule is self explanatory just be nice/kind. Another rule is be safe, be safe means don´t run on sidewalks, don't play with sticks just be safe in general. The third b is be responsible, this rule means take responsible for your actions whether good or bad. The last rule is be an ally, this rule means to be a helpful member of the Bay farm community.

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we can't forget the Main Office along with Ms. Mimi, Ms. Diane, and other people who works in the office. They are always busy but they are still important to our school and plays an big role. The office isn't a scary place it's quite nice and cozy. The office is a place where you can check out your child for any important reasons or a place to get your tardy slip.

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The Main office is where you go to drop off a dolphin award or when you get hurt. The Principal does her main work in the main office and sometimes goes around into the classrooms for check-ins. The office is a place teachers go to copy papers or heat up water for fun experiments!

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MPR- The MPR is a great benefit to our school simply because it stands for multi purpose room.  If you’re not catching on, that means that it is a room which we use for many things.  The generall use of this room though is to eat lunch in it on rainy days.  Well at least that’s what the the little kids say. As a younger student at the school, I could see how you would only think of it as a cafeteria, because you don’t do many  things in it besides eat, and only occasionally do you ever have assemblies, and P.E. in there, but there’s a lot more to this room than they realize.  As a 6th grader at Bay Farm, I think i’m old enough to notice that there is a lot more things that go on in there.  Bay Farm hosts many events in the MPR, such as cupcake wars, the science fair, information nights, and Mrs. Reynolds even hosts middle school parties in there.  I think that the MRP is a very important building in our school because it makes our life so much easier because it is a room where we can do just about anything.

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The art at Bay Farm school as pretty amazing. There’s a huge mural at the front of the school, of dolphins (our mascot). There’s an art club and art competitions. The artists are very talented and know what they’re doing. The art competitions are school wide and sometimes student vote for their favorites!

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At Bay Farm there are many ways to acquire community service hours. One way to acquire community service hours is garden work days. Garden work days are hosted every couple months by our garden teacher Mr. Jim. Another way to get hours is the random events that come up every now and then. For example our math teacher needed help sorting papers and asked for help.

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Elementary has morning ceremony. Morning ceremony is when you go into the quad and you say the pledge. After the pledge the principle ( or whoever is speaking ) will call names of people who have birthdays or when their birthdays are coming up. Then the kids ( and staff ) will come up to where they are speaking and take their card and a pencil. After that sometimes there are announcements about various things. Then you go to your classrooms.

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5-  Here at Bay Farm, fifth grade is an important year.  The teachers are great, and really focus on their students personal health.  This is the year everything starts to become a lot more challenging, and things start to move faster.  People start to see you as more mature kids because you are getting older, and it's also a really mentally and emotionally challenging year for a variety of reasons.  The teachers here at Bay Farm do a great job making sure each and every one of their students get the education they need, but also make sure that they are personally doing well both in and out of school.  This year is looked at mainly as preparing for middle school, and that's why it seems like things are starting to move a lot quicker.  This is a time where students begin to write long and comprehensive essays, and and they are starting to see things like variables and exponents in math.

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(All I know is that we are a very green school, we even got an award last year or so?)

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Sometimes at school, there are field trips that take students to educational places like the Oakland Museum of art. Sometimes there are overnight field trips that happen in 4th, Coloma, 5th Marin, and 6th-grade Motherlode.

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4-  In the fourth grade Bay Farm students are taught a lot more about writing, and go really far in depth when it comes to history.  The fourth graders are taught about the different colonies of Native Americans that were spread throughout California.  You learn about the different regions, and are assigned projects to help you better understand the concept of what they did and how they survived.  Later in the year, students are taught more about the different explorers, and their importance to their homelands.  Science is also another subject that had a big increase in activity.  This is the year where you begin to learn more about how technology is based around science, and how it works.  You even do actual experiences with different circuses using batteries, lightbulbs, and different electrical things like short and long wires to help transfer the energy.  Environmental science is also introduced, but you do more of in fifth grade.

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The main office is where you go when you are late to school and need a late slip, medical attention, if your parent/guardian isn’t at school to pick you up yet, or if you need to sign your child out of school early.

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For our middle school clubs we can pick and choose which group we want to join . There’s an art club, a GACC club (gardening and cooking club), a math club and a lot more. We all enjoy these activities. Most of these clubs are during lunch or after school.

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The Outdoor Learning Center, or the Garden, help kids spend more time outside and learn a lot about nature. We pull weeds, cook, garden, visit the butterfly garden, and play games. Our school has 4 garden areas. One for the youngest kids, one for the older kids, one for the oldest kids, and a butterfly garden for everyone. The gardens have a lot of foods which we pick and cook with. Everyone loves when we cook. At the end of the year, we get a cookbook filled with all the recipes we used over the course of the year. Garden is great because we all have to pick the foods fresh and we learn how to eat healthy and see the process of making non-processed foods. It's great that can see what it's like to eat healthy and fresh foods. The foods we have are kale, lemon sorrel, apples, broccoli, herbs, and peas. We also have a lot of other edible plants.

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Throughout elementary school and in 6th grade, students go to music classes every week. In the lower grades, students practice songs and play simple instruments, like the song flute or recorder. In middle school, students are assigned ukuleles and learn to play them. Our music teacher, Ms. Bonnie also hosts GLEE club in her room. They practice performances and plays for assemblies.

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At Bay Farm School the Global day of play is a day where the last hour of school is a giant recess! During the global day of play, most classrooms are open for activities such as slime and card games.

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Library/Media Center:  When we go to Media Center for our weekly visit, we mostly do stuff on the computers. The Media Center is also where the “Book Fair” is located. My favorite thing I do in media center is hour of code.

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When there are spirit days, like Twin day, for Twin Day you wear something the same clothes  as your friend and you plan what you wear or go to a store and buy matching clothes. Another spirit day is Trash-n-Fashion day, Trash-n-Fashion day you wear clothes made out of trash, such as candy wrappers, trash bags, and many other things. The next spirit day is Aloha Friday, Aloha Friday is only for the middle school.  Every first Friday of the year we wear Hawaiian clothes or accessories and celebrate the day with popsicles and play with our friends. Those were some of the Spirit days at Bay Farm School.

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At Bay Farm School, we have school wide events like “Evening on the Green” where we sit on the quad and eat a picnic dinner with fun activities, but it’s known for the amount of trash we generate from the event. We generate only one trash bag per that event.  At the end of every event, everyone is laughing and fun.

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Middle school here at Bay Farm is great.  The same rules as in elementary school still apply like the 4 B's ( be kind,safe, responsible, and Ally) but things do Change too.  Middle school has a different lunch menu than the elementary students, but sometimes still get to choose things from the “kids” menu we call it.  In middle school we don't get recess any more, but we do get occasional breaks where we just go outside and play,eat, or just relax and take a break from sitting and being in class so long.  Middle school is a big transition from elementary school, and you will see very big changes in people.  The workload is a lot higher, and the expectations are too, but it is nothing anyone can't handle.  Our middle school teachers do a great job of teaching us multiple things every day, and making sure every student gets a great understanding of what they are being taught.  The students are taught at a much faster tempo, and also get a really big say in what they want to do, and what they think they should do that would help benefit themselves or even the school.  The student council at our school has created school wide events that we do every year, so the students could just have fun every now and then, and take a little break from school.  When you're in the middle school you also get to pick what third period class you have for each trimester, but it isn't guaranteed.  Bay Farm also started a new program where the middle school students can be a teacher's assistant for their third period class, and I think this is great for a student to have a little break from desk work.  Middle school here at Bay Farm is great. The students have a great say in things, and the teachers are constantly open to hearing ideas.  The teachers do a great job of teaching, and they make things pretty fun for us too.  I think that middle school here at Bay Farm is great, and I am glad to say that both students and teachers are doing a great job of making are school even better and better.

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Middle schoolers need at least 20 hours of community service before the end of 8th grade. They get a paper that they can track how many hours they have. There are many opportunities to get in hours like helping out at school events and you can always sign up for community service opportunities out of school.

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Student Council and Leadership makes spirit day like Trashin Fashion, Hour of play, and lots of other fun spirit days. Student Council make decision about the school when to have our spirit days. One of my favorite spirit day is the Hour of play. I think Hour of play is the best spirit day because we get to play for an hour with all of the other little kids and we could go in to classroom to play other stuff. If Student council didn’t exist Bay Farm wouldn’t be as good as now.

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P.E is probably one of my favorite classes.  What makes it one of my favorite classes is the different type of sports we play. My three favorite sports we do are hockey, soccer, and baseball. Why I like playing the sports in P.E. is because we do a class of practice before we play the game. Mrs. Rabel and Mr.Slez are probably the best P.E. teacher’s in the world. What makes them the best P.E. teacher’s is they both have a really big sense of humor and make P.E. fun for us even if you never played the sport before.

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At Bay Farm School we have an art club which I go to weekly. The club is open to all middle schoolers. At the art club, we work with art supplies to make beautiful art. Some of the art supplies include markers colored pencils, pencils and paint.

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Schoolwide events at Bay Farm are pretty great. One of them is the Fashion Trash’n Show, where students can voluntarily take trash items, to make costumes at Bay Farm. They walk down a runway in their costumes. Another event at Bay Farm is the door decorating contest. Every classroom at Bay Farm decorates their door with a certain theme. There are so many awesome school wide events at Bay Farm.

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Bay Farm School has a variety of different spirit days. One of the spirit days is Dr. Seuss Day. There is also pajama day, Aloha Friday, and more. Some people participate in the spirit days for rewards, but most participate just for fun.

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Without the four Be’s, Bay Farm would be an unruly place. These four guidelines are not too harsh, but yet so important. The four Be’s are “Be kind”, “Be Safe,” “Be responsible”, and “Be an Ally.” If you follow these guidelines well, you will get a dolphin award. Once the school gets a certain number of dolphin awards, they receive an hour to do whatever they want, called the hour of play.

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In music class, you get to play the ukulele in 6th grade! We learn basic chords, learn fun songs, and we get to take them home. Our teacher is the amazing Ms. Bonnie.

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At our school, we have Book Fairs in Winter and Spring. Everytime there is a book fair everyone gets really excited. Since one, we can buy books, and two there is a raffle in where we can get free books. Who doesn’t like free books? Another thing is at each book fair there is one main book that everyone wants. Luckily, the teachers know which story is most popular so they have a high stock of that book.

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Library in a box is people donating books and putting them in a shoe box and decorating it. We have a lot of shoe box decorated and we are going to ship it to schools in paradise because we want to help other students like us learning too. Another thing that we do in Library in a box is we give it to summer schools to let other students read and learn. Library in a box helps other kids read and they could enjoy it and keep it. I think that others school are doing Library in a box and donating books to other schools.

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In Bay Farm Middle School, we have dances 3 times  year. You pay 5 dollars to get in, but for 1 dollar you can buy a raffle ticket! You can work shifts at the door or the kitchen, or you can snack while listening to the music or talking to your friends.

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Main office:  Bay Farm School’s office is located near the front of the school. This is also where the principal’s office is located, and this is where to go if you need to check out your child early for important reasons. The office is also where you go if your late, and they will give you a slip, which would be turned into your teacher.

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Student Council and Leadership at Bay Farm School is a big deal. Student Council decides all of our school-wide activities/events like the Hour of Play, Aloha Friday, and much more! Hour of Play is a day on Friday where everyone plays for the last hour. Aloha Friday is for middle schoolers where on the first week of school, on Friday the last hour, it’s basically the hour of play but for middle schoolers only. Student Council is a great way to improve your leadership skills.

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At Bay Farm Middle School, we have free seating for lunch. There is also a variety of school lunches. Younger students sit in an organized spot.

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New students:  In Bay Farm new students are treated extremely well. If you're a new student that goes to Bay Farm Middle School, the first Friday of the year there is “Aloha Friday” where everyone gets a popsicle, and about an hour off.

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The book fairs at Bay Farm are the best place on Bay Farm to pick up the newest book by your favorite kids or teen author. Whenever a new book comes out that is even somewhat popular, (And is published by Scholastic- it’s the Scholastic Book Fair,) you can rely on Bay Farm to have it.

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At Bay Farm school and any other AUSD schools, it is required to get 20 hours of community service to go on to high school. You need to get 20 hours in the span of 6-8th grade. I usually work at the food bank for community service hours, but you can work anywhere you want to as long as you get 20 hours. There are a variety of things you can do like help package food, help run an event, help the teachers (grading, organizing books, and more), and much more.

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Middle school lunches at Bay Farm are different for each grade. Middle school lunches start at 12:10 and end at 12:50. Unlike elementary school lunches you can play and eat instead of doing one or the other. You can eat your food or you can go out in the yard and play. There are basketball courts and wall ball walls. There are also a lot of tables so you can just sit and eat. Our principle likes to keep her guinea pigs out on sunny days and you can go play with them.

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When I first came to Bay Farm School I started in kindergarten it was so fun from getting little monsters with your face on it to get the ball at recess to hunting for the gingerbread man and eating it. In 1st grade, I loved doing motor fitness and P.E for the first year and learning about plants and how they grow. In first grade, we had an animal in the classroom like the year before in kindergarten but we had ladybugs.

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2- In the second grade you  are still taught all of the basic subjects, like Math, ELA, and History, but what’s different about the Bay Farm second grade teachers is that they make this year a year about life skills.  What I mean by this is that in the second grade they work a lot on helping you become a better person.  When I was in the second grade, I had Mrs.Kuttner.  At times we would take a break from work and we would have class conversations.  She would tell us about how different things like driving, factories, and pollution is causing a big negative impact in our world.  We would have a class discussion and brainstorm ideas how everybody in that class could help keep  the environment around us healthy. Because of the teacher’s and student’s motivation, the school has a trash sorting system, and makes sure everyone sorts their trash correctly.

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At our school, we have technology that all of our middle schoolers use because We use learning tools and educational sites to help us learn. The technology that our elementary schoolers use are Chromebooks I pads and Smart boards.

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K-1: In Kindergarten you get to take care of real frogs and their eggs! Some of the activities is making gingerbread and kids made missing posters, you bake a Gingerbread man and read the story. The Kindergarten and the First grade teachers are very nice, and caring.

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In the Multi Purpose Room (MPR) we eat lunch on rainy days and watch school plays. It is also where people buy school lunch. It includes a bathroom, a stage, tables, chairs, and a kitchen. We also have PE on rainy day.

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Bay Farm is  a really fun school, you can do many fun things at this school . What I like is that there are so many fun things to do. Everybody welcomes the new students to make them feel comfortable. They will play with them and make sure they are not left out. The new students will make friends, good friends that they might have for a long time.

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On spirit days people from the grades K-8 dress up by something related to the theme. Sometimes people do it because their teacher will give them a reward but most people dress up for fun.

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Book fairs are amazing every year there is a book fair Fair at lunch, before or after school you can go to the book fair and buy a book. Plus you can find amazing books that you never knew you would be interested in, now go out there and support this school.

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Clubs: Bay Farm has a lot of clubs that are held during lunch. Some of these clubs are a journalism club, an art club, and even a scrabble club. In my opinion the best thing about the clubs in Bay Farm is that the students can also try to establish clubs too.

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Community Service Hours: Community service is helping your community to do things that they need to. Community service  is required to pass 8th grade and is important to your academic career.  Some ways to get community service are to help with school events, like evening on the green or garden work days. You can also do thing for Alameda, like a beach cleanup, but it has to be an organized with an adult to sign your sheet that keeps track of your community service.

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At Bay Farm School we have an Outdoor Learning Center that is funded by the PTA. For kindergarten through 5th grade, you have garden class and for middle schoolers you have a weekly gardening program.

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The 4th and 5th grades were probably my most favorite years as a student of Bay Farm School. In 4th grade, we went back in time to the San Francisco Gold Rush in Coloma. We also did a lot of fun projects like the Native American Tribe display. In 5th grade, we got to go to the Marin Headlands. We had fun hiking and goofing around. We also did projects in 5th grade, like the Wax Museum, where you dress up as a famous (or infamous) character in history. When someone walks up to you and “activates” you, you dive into a long biography of yourself. Also, at the end of the year, the 5th graders host Carnival, where kids who have Bay Farm Bucks can spend them on games, prizes, and food.

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Music is super fun, you get to learn how to sing, play the recorder, ukulele, and many other instruments. And Ms. Bonnie, the music teacher makes music way more fun than it sounds. She helps us with basically anything that we need help on like the recorder, ukulele, and other things. Ms. Bonnie is an amazing music teacher as she sometimes directs plays like You’re a good man Charlie Brown (Snoopy) and she helped make a play that my class and I could be in. We did a play about the environment and I got to be a banana peel. Ms. Bonnie also directs the glee club that plays amazingly.

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Global Day of Play (AKA Hour of Play) is an opportunity to do whatever you want with whoever you want. For example, if you're in middle school, you don’t have the privilege to go on the swing because its in a different playground. On Global Day of Play, you can go to any playground at any time. Another example is if you want to play basketball with your 4 or 5th-grade friends but you’re in middle school so you don’t have the same recess times. On Global Day of Play, you can play with any student at Bay Farm school.

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Bay Farm makes it possible for everybody to learn. When you are finished with a book, you can look in the Library in a box right next to the Media Center. You can then trade your book in for another great book in the Library in a Box. This makes it possible for everybody to have books to read.

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Hour of Play is where, during the last hour of the day on a Friday, we all go out and play. We can play on any yard during the hour of Play. I like Hour of play because it is really fun, and we don’t have to do any classwork during it.

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1- Our first graders are taught in a similar manner as the kindergarteners but move at a faster tempo, and work at higher academic skill levels.  The main mindset/goal for the first graders is to teach them to become fluent with their adding and subtracting, and to be able to fluently read a book and then comprehend it to their teacher.  At this grade level, the teachers show them the importance of treating each other equally, and try to do as social activities as possible. First grade is also the year you start going to the library/media center on a weekly basis.  Here, the students learn more about reading, how to check out a book at a public library, and begin to code on kid friendly coding sites.  At this stage, the students are only getting introduced to coding, but the complexity gets higher every year based on their skill level.  There are some field trips spread throughout the school year that the whole grade will attend, but it is not mandatory for your child to go.

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Fundraisers:Fundraisers at Bay Farm are used to buy technology, planners, art stuff, school supplies, and so on and so forth. Some of the fundraisers are: Boxtops, where you bring in Boxtops and the school works some magic and shazam you have money(for the school). Another is the Read-A-Thon, where you record how many minutes you read and how much money you raised, and their totals are recorded to add up to prises. Some prises are things like dying teacher’s hair, the tricycle race between teachers, and the ice bucket challenge for the teachers.

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The butterfly garden is an amazing place to relax and enjoy the butterfies. One of the reason I love the butterfly garden is because it is really relaxing. I remember we used to make tea and sit down and relax in the butterfly garden. What was also cool, is that we were able to manage and help the garden. It was pretty cool to think I helped with this when you walk through.

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2-3: You take care of a caterpillar for a sign of responsibility. In this project you predict, observe, and study.The caterpillar grows into a butterfly or a Monarch and everybody is excited when they see this! Overall second and third grade is an amazing experience.

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Global day of play is wearing we take the last hour of the day and play our little hearts out. Different teachers host different activities in their classrooms, stuff like card games or science activities and what not. You can take this time to play with friends you haven't been able to play with before because you're in a different class. All in all global day of play is a day to cherish and have a good time at.

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The Butterfly Garden at Bay Farm is a magical place. Every morning, after I get off the bus at Bay Farm, I go to through the wonderful Butterfly Garden. It is full of plants that smell good and attract butterflies. It is like walking through a nature shop on the way to school every morning. Sometimes, teachers will take their children to learn in the Butterfly Garden because of the science behind having plants near you. The Butterfly Garden makes Bay Farm a better place.