The Academy Way Experience

November 2024

November has been a very exciting and busy month at The Academy Way schools. Scroll through to see what busy things we've been up to! Thank you to our students and teachers for making it a great edition!

In this issue you will find...

Our Grandparents Day Celebration

Veterans Day

How we are doing?

Thoughts on Food

A Turkey's Perspective Stories

Autobiographies

High School Poems

Harvest Day

Veteran's Day

By: Kody and Carter, The Academy Virtual

A veteran is someone that served in the American Military. We celebrate every November 11th. Celebrating veterans is the best thing you can do. Because the ones in the war, World War One and World War 2. There was a lot of people killed. And they took that risk for us. Doesn't matter who you are, they took a risk. So I think it is important to celebrate veteran's day.

Our Grandparents' Day Celebration

On our last day of school for the month of November, our schools welcomed grandparents into a wonderful celebration of family and love. It was an amazing time, thank you to all who attended! Below are a few of the school wide tributes we did to honor our grandparents. Check out the Grandparents Day Cards our students made.

We had some fabulous grandparents and grandpals join us and we laughed so much! Thank you to Mrs. BB for leading us in our traditional Generation Gap game! FUN TIMES!

Grandparents/Grandpals Day Cards by Students

Self Awareness: How are We Doing?

This section is a reflection of all of the work our students have done to become more self aware this month.

To wrap up their National Elections and Government Experience, Academy HS students held mock Presidential Debates.

Proving that students can have impactful debates and discussions even while still in high school, great work!

Focus Plan

Two students improved our class focus by creating their Focus Plan! Check it out. Great job!

By: Drew and River, The Academy Virtual

Mrs. Witters writing class created a focus plan to help keep all students on track!

Thoughts on Food

As our students prepared for Thanksgiving foods, we took some time to think about what we eat.

How do Energy Drinks and Caffeine Affect our Bodies?

By Sophie, Liberty, and Jayden The Academy Virtual

By Sophie

Caffeine has negative and positive effects on our body. Caffeine raises your blood pressure and can give you anxiety. But how does it give you energy? Well caffeine slows down molecules that help you sleep. Your body will break down molecules like ATP (adenosine triphosphate) and that will create energy. Your nervous system in your brain uses receptors. ATP goes to those receptors which make a biochemical reaction and that slows down important brain molecules. Adenosine and caffeine look very similar, so similar that caffeine takes the spot of adenosine but it won't cause a chemical reaction because the ain't the same size so the caffeine can’t kick in. Energy drinks are good for you. Some have vitamine, nutrients, minerals, antioxidants and more. Energy drinks have caffeine to 80-200 milligrams.Coffee has 92-283 milligrams depending on what coffee it is. The problem with energy drinks are that they can cause sleep issues and that they take a bad path for mental and physical health. Recently people have had out that energy drinks are starting to cause health problems. It causes very high blood pressure and it will decrease important blood vessels. If you drink it three times every day that is when you start to create a problem. Don't mix energy with coffee or alcohol because of blood pressure and toxins.

By Liberty

Caffeine can cause you to be anxious or sweat. It's because it activates the fight or flight response known as the sympathetic nervous system. Overdoing caffeine by a small amount can increase baseline anxiety and the likelihood of panic attacks caffeine can make us feel anxiety and get high blood pressure. Caffeine is the world's most used drug. Energy drinks Make your heart rate faster and your more aware. After the effect of the caffeine where your mood is worse than before you had it And your heart rate goes back to normal and if you drink some more it could cause jitters, which means your body will shake. Small amounts of energy drinks are ok but a bunch of caffeine in big amounts is bad.

By: Jayden

In the human body caffeine acts for the central nervous system. It keeps us awake by blocking one of the body’s key sleep inducing molecules, a substance called adenosine. Your body needs a constant supply of energy, which it gets by breaking down a high-energy molecule called ATP (a high molecule with a lot of energy). Energy drinks and caffeine don’t actually make you have more energy, instead the trick your brain into thinking you have energy. When you drink energy drinks and caffeine it makes your heart rate faster and makes you feel more energetic. But after around 12 hours your body will feel sleepy and you can barely keep your head up. Energy drinks can be dangerous because the amount of sugar and the amount of caffeine, after time it can really harm you and can be life threatening and can send you to the ER.

The Academy Way High School Poems

By Brady, Jacob, and Brody, The Academy Way High School

Brady's AABB Poem

By Jacob and Brody, The Academy Way High School

Middle School: Worst Years of My Life Summary

By: Julianna, The Academy NJ

Julianna's thoughts on our class novel: Middle School: Worst Years of My Life

If I Could be Queen for a Day

By Liberty, The Academy Virtual

If Liberty could be Queen for a Day....

Our Autobiographies

Jayden's Autobiography

By: Jayden, The Academy Virtual

I was born in Miami Florida. I just came to online school 3 weeks ago and I went to a public school and had a lot of friends. I still hang out with them. I struggle in division. I really like football, and my favorite player is Tyreek Hill that plates for my favorite team the dolphins, and I have a mowing and pressure washing business, that makes a lot of money and I started it because I love to have money when I need it and I like the feeling to have money, I also want money when I need and want it, I have two employees. I like to play vr games and car games and shooter games like fortnite but mostly vr.

By Liberty, The Academy Virtual

I was born in Banfl Utah and had two older siblings when I was born,my sister Colette was the oldest and then my brother Brock. When I was 3 or 4, I took dance lessons and have done it my whole life as well as play soccer. We had another sister Eliza so we moved to a bigger house and I had two siblings my sister Britta and my little brother Levi after that. I went to public school in preschool, kindergarten and first grade. When I was 7 we moved to St.Croix during COVID so I did home school and some online classes. I went to public school in fourth grade and I did online for 5th grade and I'm doing it again this year in 6th grade. When I was 1, I was put in a cast because I had hip dysplasia and it meant my bone was growing in the wrong way, so they put me in a cast. When I was 3 or 4 I had surgery to fix it. The surgery is called left pemberton osteotomy. I've had no problems since, but I had to relearn how to walk and ride a bike. My grandma also had hip dysplasia just like me, none of my aunts and aunts have it and none of my cousins have it. My sister had it but the cot it ealy so she just had a brace.

Academy Way Art

River's Thankful Turkey

An image of a home sitting in the middle of a hurricane

by Mackenzie

Mackenzie read a story about popcorn in structured literacy and then drew popcorn and added r controlled words to the popped corn.

Turkey Thoughts and Ponders

The Turkey's Perspective

By: Dante, The Academy GA

If I were a Turkey

By Mackenzie, Kennedy, Nick, Iliana, Charlee, and Liam, The Academy Virtual and The Academy FL

If I were a turkey on Thanksgiving, I would be slightly anxious. First I would go and find and find a disguise. Unfortunately i did not found one but i found satna on my roof and i told all the other turkeys and they ran and cried. Once we ran for miles and miles, we got hungry so we hunted… The we fund a chicken and followed him to a barn full of feathers. But there was a cowboy with a axe and then one the chicken bit his leg and he cried it's was funny plus anyonning and everyone stared and attacked him and ran until he fall on a tree. Turkey was so confused, he ran straight back into the barn and landed in all the feathers! Then we got scared and started screaming and running. Then we ran back to the barn. Until it was on fire and iliana ran called but you might ask how will guess what i was turkey i coont call it bc i am a turkey duh. A kind, little duck asked turkey if he was ok and he said “well, Taco Bell would make me feel so much better!” So then we go on out morder sicles and drove into the sunset to get Taco Bell. And that we our Thanksgiving.

The End