For the entire year, kids at Watertown Middle School await one thing: the yearbook.

The yearbook comes out every year for all grades, and features pictures from field trips, honor roll breakfasts, assemblies , and school dances.

The eighth-graders get a special section in the yearbook where they write their name, future career, their favorite middle school memory, and other facts about themselves.

Every year there is also a contest. All students from grades 6 to 8 are allowed to submit a drawing of what should be on the cover of the yearbook. The winner will have that drawing published on all of the yearbook covers.

The yearbook is submitted to the printer in March, although the books will not arrive in school until the end of June.

Each year, the yearbooks are different. Two years ago, the eighth graders formed the numbers ’08, for the middle school graduating year.

At the beginning of the year, the school passes out order forms so whoever wants a yearbook can order one. Although many people purchase the yearbooks, there are always a couple of students who don’t get it and regret it. Therefore at the end of the year, when the yearbooks are about to arrive, the school gives the kids that didn’t order books a chance to buy one.

Although the price of the yearbook is raised by a little, the school continues to sell the remaining yearbooks until they run out.

Last year, at the back of the yearbook , there were extra pictures of everything that happened in the year for all grades.

Who knows what will happen this year?

–March 15, 2010–