Boletín Familiar de Noviembre

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Dear WHEELS Families,

In October, we continued our focus on fieldwork, with visits to The Metropolitan Mesuem of Art, Hamilton Grange, the New York Public Library, the People's Theatre, the Museum of Art and Design, Poet's House and Green Meadows Farms, among others! Our students have also been getting into the swing of school and preparing high-quality work for their Student-Led Conferences.

On Tuesday, November 3rd we will have our first Student-Led Conferences of the year. On this day, students will be remote. Click this link to see their schedules for the morning.

Most Student-led Conferences will be remote, although a few will be happening in the WHEELS building. Please confirm your time with your child's Crew Leader if you don't have one yet. See the WHEELS Teacher Emails document if you need their contact info.

We're so excited to have our students share with you what they've been working on in class, where they've grown, and their goals for improving by the second SLC in February. If you need help contacting your child's teacher, call (212)781-0524 or email Parent Coordinator Yulisa Sanchez at YSanchez34@schools.nyc.gov.

Lastly, we are thrilled that WHEELS will be holding Student Government elections on Wednesday, November 4th, and we're grateful to Mr. Flath and Ms. Aguilar for all the work they've put into campaign season. Our Student Government candidates want to make sure you get out to vote on Voting Day. Click any of the pictures below to see the video they put together.

It’s a big week and month for student voice at WHEELS! Thank you for making time to listen, celebrate your child’s growth, and support their next steps. We look forward to connecting with you on Tuesday.

Continuamos,

Jon

Enrollment:

WHEELS has upcoming Open Houses for families who are interested in joining WHEELS for 6th Grade or 9th Grade. Please share with anyone who might want to send their child to WHEELS:

Open Houses for 5th-Graders starting 6th-Grade in September 2027:

• November 16th at 9 AM at WHEELS
• December 2nd at 6 PM over Zoom

Open Houses for 8th-Graders starting 9th-Grade in September 2027:

• November 5th at 6 PM

After-School:

• WHEELS After-School Programs. Please see this list and these flyers to discuss options with your child.
• For children in grades 6 through 8, Global Kids is running from 2:40 pm to 5:30 pm daily. They still have multiple spots available for your child! Here are links to registration forms in English and Spanish. Please return them in person to Room B2 in the basement of the WHEELS building.
• A child in grades 6-8 can be in BOTH Global Kids and WHEELS programs.

Updates:

• For updates on how to contact teachers and reminders about Dress Code, see our website's Important Information for Families and Contact Your Child's Teacher pages

Upcoming Dates:

You can view all upcoming dates on the calendar at our website. Click "calendar" in the top right.

Tuesday, 11/3: Students have virtual school in the morning from 8:20 AM to 11:20 AM, and then have their Student-Led Conferences starting at 11:30 AM. Crew leaders will reach out to schedule times soon.

Friday, 11/20: This is a regular, full day of school. Some schools across the city have early dismissal for conferences. Because our conferences are on 11/3, WHEELS has a full day of school.

Thursday, 11/26 and Friday, 11/27: No school in observance of Thanksgiving Break.

• Students across PreK through 2nd grade continue their learning of early literacy skills in English and Spanish and applying what they're learning to letter formation and writing tasks. Ask your student what letters, sounds and trick words they're learning!
• Monthly Birthday Celebrations: At WHEELS, we celebrate birthdays on a monthly basis with each crew. Please connect with your student's teacher to ask what snack you can bring for all to share. Please note that we do not allow distribution of goodie bags nor do we allow decorations. We make it a party with songs, dancing and fun games for all to celebrate the birthdays.
• PreK Update: Look out for your specific newsletter that will highlight classroom learning and how to support at home.
• Kindergarten News: Our first fieldwork experience will be on 11/4 to Children's Museum of Manhattan and our next fieldwork is on 11/10 to Green Meadows Farm. We will celebrate November birthdays on 11/13.
• First Grade News: Our November birthday celebration will be on 11/20.
• Second Grade News: Students' Expedition Project is Due on 11/16 (Research School Diorama Project). Our Expedition Culminating Event will be on 11/20 at 9:30am with families and our November Birthday Celebration will be on 11/20.
• Third Grade News: We have fieldwork on 11/6 to Jazz at Lincoln Center 'Who is Duke Ellington'. On 11/13, at 9am, we invite families to celebrate our learning from Module 1, 'Learning Challenges Near and Far' families will be invited to bring a snack or small dish to share as we celebrate students learning, look out for the flyer coming home soon. On 11/16 we will go to the Natural History Museum for fieldwork to launch our Frogs Expedition
  
  

• In the last week of October, 7th grade mathematicians became architects. Hired to redesign real spaces at WHEELS, student groups put on hard hats and vests, measured their space on a scale drawing (1 inch = 4 feet), and used the scale to find the actual size and area of each space. Working within a $20,000 budget, each group shopped from a catalog, scaled its items, and built a floor plan. On Friday, groups presented their designs to the Leadership Team.
• In 6th-grade ELA, students have been reading The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind as part of our unit on Critical Problems and Design Solutions. As they read, students discuss how design thinking can help solve critical problems and how our habits of character can help us make a difference in our community. Students shared their thinking, used text evidence to support their answers, and discussed misconceptions. On Friday, they went on neighborhood fieldwork with an expert to identify design problems in their community and research solutions.
• In 8th grade, as part of their Folklore of Latin America Expedition, students are rewriting scenes in the novel Summer of the Mariposas to include mythical creatures they developed.

• We had a massive turn out for our Financial Aid night in October, with over 100 attending!

• We two big trips coming up in early November on Monday the 9th and Tuesday the 10th. Our 9th-graders are going on an overnight Outward Bound trip at the Sharpe Reservation to build community together and our 11th-graders will be going on their overnight college trips.

• We're starting to make preparations for the annual College and Career March, which will be on Friday, December 11th this year. This is always such a memorable opportunity for our school community to support our Seniors on their next steps!

Please find contact information for our Parent Coordinator, Administrators, Team Leaders, and Counselors on our website Contact Us page.

Please check the website at wheelsnyc.org for updates and upcoming events.

If you have any questions you can't find answers to, please contact our Parent Coordinator Yulisa Sanchez at YSanchez34@schools.nyc.gov or (212)781-0524,