Swift Flyer: December 17, 2019

IMPORTANT DATES

Homework Club~ Every Tuesday from 2:00-3:30
Homework Club~ Every Wednesday from 3:00-4:30
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

INDEPENDENT PROJECTS

We will begin Independent Projects after vacation. Each student will select a topic to research related to their fall science and social studies classes. They will create focus questions, find resources, create an outline, take notes, write a report and present a visual over the month of January. Brainstorm potential topics with your son or daughter over vacation so they have some ideas about what they might want to study when they return! Eighth graders will continue on with their 8th grade challenge projects.

BOTTLE DRIVE

We made $1075 from last Saturday's Bottle Drive. That's 21,000 bottles! Thank you again to everyone who participated. If you see any "Bottle Drive" signs out still, please pick them up and send them to the Swift House project room if you're able.

Learn To Ski/Ride Program- K-8th

Registration Deadline- Sunday, December 29

The program is a collaboration between Williston Recreation and Williston Schools. The emphasis is on learning to downhill ski or snowboard, through weekly lessons. The program is primarily for the participant that wishes to learn or improve on their skills. All participants will take a one hour weekly lesson. (Lower level participants will have weekly lessons that are longer until they progress up the levels). The Learn to Ski/ Ride Program is for children in grades K-8th. Click here for registration.

SPARK SESSION 3

The 3rd session of Spark Enrichment, an after-school applied learning program for students in grades 5-8, takes place from January 9th - February 6th. These small group classes will be facilitated by school faculty and staff. Please access the link to the sign-up form below by January 7th. You will be able to rank your choices for better placement!!

Session Choices

Chess with our younger students at ABS
Watercolor painting
Olympic Games
Cooking with Sally
Card Games
Lego Building Challenges
Gardening & Sustainability - building a PVC greenhouse!
Design Your Own Anime Character

Further Details

POLAR EXPRESS

So it's true-- your kids truly are the perfect elves. We had a blast at the Polar Express, greeting young people as they came off the train at the "North Pole," headed into the train station for storytime, and then sang their way upstairs to meet Santa. We are proud to have supported this important fundraiser for the Children's Trust Foundation and look forward to returning again next year.

Our fabulous retired Swift-facilitator,
Mr. Howard, returns as Santa.

All of the Swift elves!

Alumni elves- Tristan and Elliott- performed in
the Madrigals and Mr. Clow paid us a visit!

SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS

Swift 5th and 6th graders planned, organized, carried out and reported on experiments related to the human body, with a specific focus on the nervous system. They invited 3rd and 4th graders from Equinox to be their "test subjects," looking for relationships between two variables. Tests included "dizziness vs balancing time," "left and right hands vs reaction time," and much more. See their tests in action and summaries of their work below.