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The Halloween season brought plenty of smiles to Lower School today! 👻 We loved seeing everyone’s creativity and getting into the spooky and silly spirit together.
Oct 29
“It really worked!” said a Nest student when they spotted all the pumpkins scattered across the grass this morning. 🌱✨
Inspired by Heather Williams’ book, “The Magic Pumpkin Patch,” students planted magical pumpkin seeds at Wheeler Farm yesterday to grow a patch of their own. And when they stepped outside their classrooms today, you guessed it — pumpkins everywhere! We do love a little Halloween magic around here. 🎃🍂
Oct 29
We’re on the case of a character, courtesy of Middle School English Teacher Britt Page P’25, P’27 and her 7th-grade students.
“We’ve just started reading ‘I Must Betray You’ by Ruta Sepetys, a historical fiction novel set in Romania in 1989, during Nicolae Ceausescu’s communist dictatorship,” Ms. Page says. “The story follows a teenage boy, Cristian, navigating a world of fear and secrets and difficult choices. It’s an exciting book with complex themes to explore, and there’s also a good dose of humor and teenage romance.”
To help her students explore those themes, Ms. Page created four “confidential dossier” bulletin boards that are each focused on a different character in the book.
“Each of my four classes will be in charge of one board,” she says. “They will track their assigned character using categories like key events, difficult decisions, and current loyalties, and they will also make predictions and leave questions and notes for the other classes to read and respond to.
“Students will update these boards every few days as the story unfolds.”
We can’t wait to see how the story and corresponding dossier boards take shape!
Oct 29
Our student clubs and affinity groups play an important role in helping us create a community of belonging at Wheeler. Often, that work happens in partnership with others around school and throughout our local communities.
Last week, for example, the Upper School’s Best Buddies chapter hosted Stephen Astone and Emily Sanita from @bestbuddiesmari for a presentation on disability etiquette.
“We feel it is very important to see the person first, regardless of their background and interactions with the world. Using the proper language and not assuming go a long way. Being patient and mindful allows for the person to be seen as just a person. That is all anyone wants: to be seen and valued for who they are,” says Wheeler Best Buddies President Hannah D. ’27.
“This presentation was so important to us because we want everyone at Wheeler to have these skills so that when they go out into the broader world, they treat everyone how they want to be treated.
“It was especially impactful to hear how more people with IDDs [Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities] are gaining opportunities, and equity is growing. Everyone just wants to belong, and Best Buddies is a space where everyone can receive that.”
Oct 28
