Category Archives: Off Campus

 NC Museum of Natural Sciences

(Photo taken by DA teacher)

The Durham Academy 6th graders had an amazing time at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is a museum in Raleigh that has four floors with things about North Carolina I never knew. The exhibits not only showed me things about North Carolina that I never knew but showed them to me in an engaging way.

One amazing thing at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences was the Research Center. The Research Center was a place where, through a glass panel, you could watch paleontologists study real fossils! This was really cool to me because I have never seen scientists at work.

Another amazing thing at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences was Prehistoric North Carolina. Prehistoric North Carolina was a place with actual skeletons of dinosaurs that walked on the lands of North Carolina including the acrocanthosaurus atokensis. This was awesome to me because it’s cool to know you might be standing in a place where a dinosaur once stood.

We had an amazing time at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and we learned so much. The exhibits taught me things I never knew in a memorable way. It gave me new reasons to love North Carolina. I hope to go back sometime soon!

My Baking Adventure!

If you didn’t know already, I love baking, tennis and skiing. For this blog post, I will be talking about baking. This September, 2022 I baked some cupcakes for my class.

This inspired my whole class to start baking. I started baking more and so did the rest of my classmates. Sweet treats after sweet treats until I finally ended up with my ganache covered, fake blood stained, vanilla cake.

I love baking because of all the exciting fun you can have. Baking for me is like making the most fun DIY kit in the world that’s also edible. I also love baking because baking makes other people want to bake. Right when I started baking for my class I started a chain reaction of everyone wanting to bake. I love baking!








Camp Hanes!

The Durham Academy 6th grade had an extraordinary time at Camp Hanes. I stepped on that charter bus thinking this was going to be one of those camps where literally everything was broken. I walked down the aisle and sat next to one of my friends, trying to get as close to the TV as I could. Finally, we drove off, with me trusting myself that this was gonna be a rough day.

I stepped out of the bus and smelled the nice fresh air. The camp was beautiful, with a huge lake, nice lawns, and tall trees. I was amazed but still, in the back of my mind, I was thinking to myself that the food is going to be gross and the cabins will stink. The whole 6th grade has a meeting and then we head to our cabins to get ready for the activities. The cabins are amazing! I unpack my things and get ready to go to one of the best summer camps of my life.

We first headed out to rock climbing which I expected to be a 10 foot wall. I was proven wrong again after I saw the awesome 30 foot wall of what is the funnest hour and 15 minutes of camp. The day just got better! We did archery and canoeing which were both super fun because of the people we were working with, and just the super amazing activities in general. The rest of the day was awesome and we had a bonfire at the end  of the day to top the day off with a cherry. Camp Hanes is the best!

Thank you so much Camp Hanes! I would recommend going there again. Your counselors  were so nice and so awesome which made me feel excited the whole time. You guys made this one of the best camping experiences ever!