June 3rd, 2016

Swift House Events- Last Week of School

Open House: Tuesday, June 7th @ 6:30

All students will share their projects (8th Grade Challenge/NYC/Independent Projects).  We will start in the auditorium as the 8th Graders give us an overview of their work.  This is a good chance to take a load of binders home, too.

Sandbar State Park: Thursday, June 9th, leaving @ 10:00

Swift House will celebrate our 8th Graders with Swift pins and fun awards.  We will also grill hotdogs and hamburgers for after swimming and beach activities.  Click here for a copy of the permission slip and here if you can donate a cooler with ice, beverages or chips.

Home Team

The "Home Team" took part in "Venture Vermont," a Vermont State Park challenge, this week.  The challenge involves completing a wide variety of outdoor activities to earn points towards a free State Park Pass.    Students documented their activities on a Google Slide show and will send in their checklist once they reach 250 points (parent signature required).  Our group activities included:

• Identifying native wildflowers
• Identifying types of leaves
• Setting up tents
• Geocaching
• Building and floating boats made of natural materials
• Learning kayaking strokes
• Learning swim strokes
• Fire building

We highly recommend this activity for ALL- check out the website and checklist!

Student Slide Shows:

•  Melaina
• Amelia

• Shane

Photos from the week:

Preparing for handmade-boat launch

Say-eh-Ler kayaking at Button Bay

Kayaking instructions from Ms. Lizz

James kayaking

Hand-made boat launch

Setting up tents

Isabelle, Ania, Georgia and Grace at Button Bay

Button Bay Nature Center

Please go to our Shutterfly site and your child's slide show for many more images (see Venture Vermont and Home Team photos).   Password: flyforever

Swiftville

See more photos of Swiftville on our Shutterfly Site.  Password: flyforever