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Middle school students enjoy class trips to Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico
Sixth and seventh graders traveled to Washington, D.C., and eighth graders to Puerto Rico for exciting and immersive class trips from April 2-5. Students visited national monuments, memorials and museums in Washington and they traveled to the rainforest, historic landmarks, beaches and the bay in Puerto Rico, and also found time to volunteer at a local elementary school. Assistant Head of the Middle School Jess Merrick described the trips as "action-packed and enriching."
The students who traveled to Washington visited the Washington Monument, World War II Museum and Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial and National Archives shortly after landing at Reagan National Airport. After lunch, they visited at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, Arlington National Cemetery and the September 11th Pentagon Memorial. They concluded their first day with stops at the Lincoln Memorial, Korean Memorial and Vietnam Memorial.
On day two, they visited the American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial, the Supreme Court, Library of Congress and U.S. Capitol. After a drive past Embassy Row, the group visited the National Cathedral, the National Zoo, National Museum of African-American History and Culture and the Iwo Jima Marine Memorial, and they finished the day with stops at the FDR Memorial and Jefferson Memorial.
The whirlwind visit ended with a trip to the Air and Space Museum before boarding a flight back to Miami.
The Puerto Rico contingent – 51 eighth graders – experienced a full immersion into the culture of the island, dancing bomba, making and eating mofongo, and practicing their Spanish at Luquillo beach. The group also encountered the island's biodiversity by swimming in a breathtaking bioluminescent bay, exploring Caracol beach, hiking the rainforest in el Yunque, and planting pineapples on a wind-powered farm. To cap the experiential trip, the students volunteered at an elementary school in Ponce, serving as teachers' aides in classrooms and on the field.
Faculty members J.P. Arrastia, Ron Magnusson, Ali Fisher, Robin Escobedo, Vanessa Lopez, Melissa Salvo, O.J. Armstrong, Flavia Araripe, Cathy Leibinger, Lenny Castaneda and Victoria Castells traveled as chaperones.
"At RE," Arrastia said, "we are blessed to offer our students the opportunity to learn beyond the four walls of the classroom."
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On day two, they visited the American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial, the Supreme Court, Library of Congress and U.S. Capitol. After a drive past Embassy Row, the group visited the National Cathedral, the National Zoo, National Museum of African-American History and Culture and the Iwo Jima Marine Memorial, and they finished the day with stops at the FDR Memorial and Jefferson Memorial.
The whirlwind visit ended with a trip to the Air and Space Museum before boarding a flight back to Miami.
The Puerto Rico contingent – 51 eighth graders – experienced a full immersion into the culture of the island, dancing bomba, making and eating mofongo, and practicing their Spanish at Luquillo beach. The group also encountered the island's biodiversity by swimming in a breathtaking bioluminescent bay, exploring Caracol beach, hiking the rainforest in el Yunque, and planting pineapples on a wind-powered farm. To cap the experiential trip, the students volunteered at an elementary school in Ponce, serving as teachers' aides in classrooms and on the field.
Faculty members J.P. Arrastia, Ron Magnusson, Ali Fisher, Robin Escobedo, Vanessa Lopez, Melissa Salvo, O.J. Armstrong, Flavia Araripe, Cathy Leibinger, Lenny Castaneda and Victoria Castells traveled as chaperones.
"At RE," Arrastia said, "we are blessed to offer our students the opportunity to learn beyond the four walls of the classroom."
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2045 South Bayshore Drive, Coconut Grove, FL 33133Phone: 305 250 6850
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3575 Main Highway, Coconut Grove, FL 33133Phone: 305 460 8800
Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.