Swift Flyer: November 15, 2019

EVENTS

Homework Club~ Every Tuesday from 2:00-3:30
Homework Club~ Every Wednesday from 3:00-4:30
No School - Thanksgiving Break ~ November 25th-29th
Swift Hosts WCS Dance~ Friday, December 6th
Bottle Drive~ Benefits NYC Trip~ Saturday, December 7th
Polar Express Volunteer Opportunity~ 11:30-4:00 on Sunday, December 15th
No School - Early Winter Break - December 23rd- January 2nd
Dining for a Cause at Grazers to Benefit NYC Trip~ Thursday, March 19th
Bottle Drive #2~ Benefits NYC Trip~ Saturday, March 21st
Big Basket Raffle Fun Night~ Saturday, March 28th

BOTTLE DRIVE

Our next NYC fundraiser activity is three weeks away. The Bottle Drive is happening on Saturday, December 7th. We need students to help make signs, drivers and students to post signs in various neighborhoods and then drivers and students to canvas the key neighborhoods to collect bottles. Thank you! Click here to sign up.

WCS DANCE

Chaperones & Donations Needed

Swift House hosts the WCS Dance on Friday, December 6th from 6:30-8:00. Hosting entails providing chaperone coverage for the evening (at least 12 adults), as well as drinks, snacks and salespeople for the Community Room.

Come join the fun as a chaperone or donate food or drinks if you're not available. It's great way to see what a school dance looks like here at WCS!!! Sign up here if you are available and THANK YOU!

BOOK FAIR

Swift Attends on Wednesday, November 20th

The Family as Partners is having our Fall Scholastic Book Fair at WCS next week Monday through Thursday. This event is one of FAP's larger fundraisers of the year, and usually generates over $4,000, which goes to support field trips, special projects, etc for all students from prek-8th grade in both Williston Schools.

We still have quite a few open volunteer positions both during the day and in the evening. It takes a village, and if you have time available to work the fair it would be greatly appreciated by all of FAP and our kiddos.

To sign up please click here. Once you sign up you will receive an email from me with all the information you need to know to work the fair. You will be completely equipped to work and have fun.

Please note that the parent letter that came home with your child or included in your child's team's newsletter had a misprint for our hours on Thursday. We will be open from 8 am to 2 pm on Thursday 11/21 NOT 8 am to 8 pm. The weeks hours can be found below:

Monday: 1 pm to 8 pm
Tuesday: 8 am to 8 pm
Wednesday: 8 am to 8 pm
Thursday: 8 am to 2 pm

Also, all families are invited to our special ABS Family Night on Wednesday 11/20 from 5-8 pm. We will have special arctic themed games, snacks and prizes for all those who attend!

If it's through volunteering and/or shopping the fair (the holidays are coming!) thank you so much for supporting FAP and our kids!

~Shelly Masson, Swift FAP Rep

THEATER FESTIVAL

We are so proud of your children for the hard work and energy they put into this year's Theater Festival. Watching the shows on Thursday night with an auditorium full of parents, we were keenly aware of the many roles these kids took on. Of course, we had the fantastic actors with their many lines and costumes changes. Often overlooked, however, are the many hands behind stage. Swifties brought in the flats between scenes, programed and cued the lights, took charge of the soundboard and all of its trouble-shooting, built props, organized props, and found the props we lost mid-rehearsal. They gathered, repaired and created costumes, and then reglued and pinned them throughout the shows. They drew program covers and helped each other endlessly in the kiva, reading nook, hallway and project room in learning those lines. To hear students repeatedly recite Shakespeare through a 50 minute core period is the greatest background noise a classroom could wish for. Thank you for your support and for being our best audience. Please enjoy a sampling of backstage and onstage photos and find the link in your email to many more.