Welcome to this week's edition of Swain Stories - featuring some of the highlights of our week, as well as alumni news!
This week on SmugMug
"SmugMug" is our online photo gallery, and many of our teachers use it to share photos of their classroom and extra-curricular activities. It's accessible from the front page of our
website - click on "Photos" in the upper right corner.
Click on any photo to take you to more wonderful pictures in that gallery.
February is Dental Health Month
First grade students enjoyed a visit to Dr. Mary Cresseveur-Reed's dental office, to learn more about dental health and what a dentist does.
Dr. Mary is the mom of Paul '14 and Milo '16, and has been offering these field trips to Swain students since her boys were small.
Let 'er rip!
Fifth grade science teacher Cyndi Bardman
challenged her students to create a "transporter" to safely carry a raw egg from a second story drop to the ground.
On a chilly February day, Mr. Armstrong braved the elements to launch their creative enterprises from the roof. Duct tape, shredded paper, bubble wrap, plastic bags and tennis balls were just some of the items they used - and yes, some were successful!
Junior gymnasts
The Prekindergarten teachers recently took their students to Parkettes to experience the world of gymnastics. Make sure you check out these very cute photos of our students enjoying some of the interesting pieces of equip-ment; click
here for more. (And say, is that
The Little Mermaid enjoying their visit?)
And speaking of The Little Mermaid...
The ambitious production schedule
for the middle school musical, The Little Mermaid, has begun in earnest! In a Swain rite of passage, our fifth graders participated in their first rehearsal last Friday.
They will join the 6th-8th graders in presenting the family-friendly musical the weekend of March 15-16.
They've zipped by...
Since the beginning of the school year,
our Kindergarten students have been counting the days. When they hit 100, it was time to celebrate! They did so in song (with Mrs. Rush's help), story (with Mrs. K-B's and Miss Bindergarten's help), and snacks (the famous "Gorp", made up of 35 donations of 100 pieces of tiny food items).
And make sure you check out their 100 day projects - each student created a visual representation of 100, and they are really creative and original!
