Spanish language and the visual arts blended beautifully in the Middle School (MS) for a cross-collaborative project facilitated by Ms. Junia Robinson, MS Spanish Teacher, and Ms. Lydia Scrivanich, P ’27, MS Art & Design Teacher. To conclude a unit on Spanish culture, Ms. Robinson’s sixth-grade Spanish class created a bulletin board on the art form of flamenco, which derives from southern Spain and combines song, dance, and guitar music. Movements are often accompanied by clapping and playing castanets. Each student presented their research on flamenco at the MS Building’s Segal Family Front Porch. Ms. Robinson said she felt lessons such as these should not be gate-kept. “We wanted to share a little bit of what we learned, which is why the facts on the board are written in English,” she noted. Ms. Scrivanich helped students fold, cut, and tie together three-dimensional tissue-paper flowers that they used to embellish a silhouette of a flamenco dancer amid the traditional colors of red, black, and yellow—creating a striking piece of visual art. Olé!