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ACADEMICS
GRADE 3 STUDENTS, PARENTS PARTICIPATE IN ORIENTEERING ACTIVITIES
Chiara Dilks ’31 reads her map.
TOP: Pre-K students visit Head of School Dr. Marisa Porges ’96 in her office. BOTTOM: Pre-K teacher Hope Feher works with students to construct the Residence using building blocks.
After learning how to read maps and use compasses, Grade 3 students helped guide their parents to control markers spread out on Baldwin’s athletic fields. Students and parents practiced orienting themselves on the map to determine which directions they should go to find each control marker.
Pre-Kindergarten Studies Architecture
As a part of their architecture unit, Baldwin’s youngest Bears learned about different types of buildings and structures, including various types of houses. After reading the story "What to do with a Box" and drawing their own blueprints, the Pre-K students created a 3-D model of the Residence using building blocks. They also used cardboard boxes, construction paper, magazine pictures and other recycled materials to create their own model homes complete with walls, windows, furniture and more. The girls even explored Baldwin’s historic Residence to see the different types of spaces and designs, including the office of Head of School Dr. Marisa Porges ’96.
GRADE 5 MAKES CONNECTIONS TO HISPANIC CULTURES
In the Upper School Engineering Class, students During Hispanic Heritage are making an adjustable, adult-sized ski harness for Jack, Month, Grade 5 students a 19-year-old man who has some physical challenges learned about Hispanic and is trying to learn to ski. Jack needs a harness, but cultures. They explored manufacturers don't make them in adult sizes. Students are art, celebrations and designing and prototyping the harnesses in class. dance in Latin American countries and within the
United States.
During their exploration, they created their own molas, a textile craft usually made by the Kuna of Panama.
Riya Rao '25, Lilly Rang '25 and Addison Ford '25 adjust the ski harness.
Harper Hoffman ’24 and Ali Gildea ’24 work on the prototype.
MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS VISIT GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE
In December, Grades 6 - 8 made separate visits to Grounds for Sculpture, a museum, sculpture garden and arboretum in New Jersey. Outdoors, nearly 300 contemporary sculptures are sited across 42 landscaped acres. Indoors, temporary exhibitions from established and emerging artists are featured in six galleries. The students bonded with their classmates while strolling through gardens and galleries full of beautiful artwork. Olivia Choo ’26 enjoys the sculpture garden.
Author Visits Senior English Class
In the English elective “Black in America,” seniors read and discussed Kareem Rosser’s memoir, Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever. Rosser, a native Philadelphian and polo champion, joined a class in the Simpson Center. Sherry Chen ’22, Ryan Murphy ’22 and Camille Murray ’22 moderated the Q&A session and then opened the discussion for students to ask follow-up and additional questions. Rosser signed students’ books after the conversation.
21 Seniors Honored by National Merit Program
Row 1 (front): Grace Halak, Anna Wang, Abbey Wu, Krisangi Bhargava, Thea Rosenzweig, Sarah Ying, Kaya Weiser and Shania Mundy; Row 2: Izabele Antanavicius, Sydney Bramen, Michelle Li, Blake Landow, Anya Mostek, Madeline Haugen, Jessica Lamontagne and Caroline Lingle; Not pictured: Sophia Lee and Anna Wetzel.
Baldwin is proud to announce that 21 students from its senior class have been recognized by the National Merit Scholarship Program. Seven Baldwin students have been named Semifinalists: Grace Halak, Sophia Lee, Michelle Li, Anna Wang, Anna Wetzel, Abbey Kyndall Brown, Brianna Wright and Clara Page. Wu and Sarah Ying; 11 students have been named Commended Students: Izabele Antanavicius, Krisangi Bhargava, Sydney Bramen, Madeline Haugen, Jessica Lamontagne, Blake Landow, Caroline Lingle, Anya Mostek, Shania Mundy, Thea Rosenzweig and Kaya Weiser; and three students have been recognized as National African American Scholars: Kyndall Brown, Clara Page and Brianna Wright.
GRADE 6 RESEARCHES ROMAN GODS, WORKS IN THE DREAM LAB
Top: Joyce Chen ’29 works on her manual. Bottom: Lingxi Kong ’28 takes apart a fan. Grade 6 students in Latin Foundations have been researching a Roman god or goddess on their own and presented either a poster, a slide show or a movie to the class about their research. In the Middle School DREAM Lab®, Grade 6 engineering students have been taking apart small appliances and other objects and creating manuals showing how to put them back together.
GRADE 8 HOLDS “OPEN MIC” POETRY READING
Students in Grade 8 English read poems on the Residence steps for a class “open mic” presentation. While students read Yoko Ogawa’s novel, The Housekeeper and the Professor, which combines math formulas and poetic language, they penned a few poems to personify a number, create a formula for friendship and connect with or celebrate their Grade 4 Book Buddies. The poetry reading goals included providing a space for students to share their poetry with their peers and confidently practice public speaking, especially since the final project was to write lyrics, sing and record a music video about the novel.
