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🍂 Yesterday’s beautiful fall weather made for a great outdoor rehearsal 🎶! The Upper School Performance Jazz class joined Jazz Teacher Francisco Cardoso on the playground to practice a new song they composed together, guided by the theme of “Belonging.”
Watch until the end to hear Autumn A. ’27, Jyvon P. ’28, and Sophie D. ’28 talk about the process. 📝
Oct 15
We’re excited to introduce a new series, featuring students talking with Wheeler faculty and staff who have made a powerful and positive difference in their lives. ✨
For our first conversation, student reporter Cece S. ’30 sits down with Middle School Math Teacher Linda Leonard P’18.
“Ms. Leonard was a teacher who truly changed the way I looked at math,” says Cece, a 9th-grader who has been at Wheeler since nursery. “Having her for two years allowed us to build a strong connection and develop a relationship beyond just teacher and student. When this project came up, I immediately knew Ms. Leonard was the teacher I wanted to interview! I wanted to highlight the impact she had on me while also giving her the opportunity to share her own perspective.” 💭
Oct 15
🌏 World Geography is the overarching theme for 5th-Grade Aerie Enrichment this term, with students exploring the relationship between people and the places they inhabit and asking essential questions like, “How does geography impact where we live and who lives there? and “How do they, in turn, impact the geography?”
To help our Lower Schoolers explore this question, 5th-Grade Teacher Emily Abedon P’27, P’30 invited cartographer Andrew Middleton, owner of The Map Center, to lead a series of three sessions on maps and mapmaking. 🗺️
During the first session, students learned that Mr. Middleton helped create maps for Apple Maps and Google Maps, as well as a mapping tool utility companies use to track outages. He also demonstrated how an astrolabe works and shared a detail about the night sky: the position of Polaris, the North Star, changes depending on where you are on Earth.
In the sessions ahead, students will examine maps from the Age of Discovery, make their own maps using clementines, and explore critical cartography. Along the way, they’ll consider questions like “Why does this map look so weird?”, “Is it wrong? Is it useful?” and “Why was it made, and by whom?”
They’ll also be asked to consider a question that applies to maps far beyond the classroom: “Do you trust it?”
@themapcenter
Oct 15
To honor National Hispanic Heritage Month (which comes to a close tomorrow), our Upper School Spanish 5 and 3 Honors students recently went on a field trip.
The day kicked off with an intimate theater experience at ECAS Theater in Providence, where they saw Lope de Vega’s classic 1613 comedy, “La Dama Boba,” reimagined with a modern twist.
“Thanks to a pre-trip classroom visit to Wheeler by lead actor Jorge Rivera, our students were able to understand this quirky poetic play a bit better, and they found many connections to modern day,” shares Upper School Spanish Teacher Amy Bonnici P’26, P’28.
After the applause and curtain call, the Wheeler group got to participate in a private Q&A session with the director and cast!
“The immersion didn’t stop there,” Ms. Bonnici adds. “Students enjoyed a delicious Dominican lunch at La Gran Parada and finished the day dancing together as they learned Bachata dance moves at @culturadancearts in Pawtucket.
“Real-world experiences like this can bring language learning to life, connecting our students with our talented neighbors and building meaningful community relationships,” she continues. “Special thanks to @teatro_ecas , especially to Jorge Rivera, Director Francis Parra, Brandon Contreras at Cultura Dance Arts, the kind team at La Gran Parada, and to Ms. Horita Graham [P’35] for being such an amazing chaperone. As always, thanks to the students for bringing such positive energy!” 🌟
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