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Swigert International School
February 2013
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Wed, Feb 5th - Greater Park Hill/Stapleton Meeting | Smiley Middle School | 5:30-8:00 p.m.
Fri, Feb 8th - Million Word Reader Assembly | Cafetorium
Wed., Feb 13th - School Accountability Meeting | SMIS Library | 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Thu, Feb 14th – Valentine’s Day Parties | Classrooms | 2:30-3:30 p.m.
Mon, Feb 18th-Tue, Feb 19th – NO SCHOOL | Presidents Day and Professional Planning Day
Tue, Feb 26th – TCAP Reading Testing | Third Grade
Thu, Feb 28th – Second Grade Music Program | Cafetorium | 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Fri, Mar 1st – NO SCHOOL FOR ECE STUDENTS | ECE Planning and Professional Day
Don't forget, every FRIDAY is spirit day! Wear your Eagle gear or something blue!
Save the Date!
Sat March 16th Swigert Auction at the Tivoli Center
Sat April 27th 3rd Annual Touch-a-Truck
See the PTA CALENDAR page for details on these events and more.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM SCHOOL
TCAP TESTING DATES
Reading: 02/26
Writing: 03/12
Math: 03/19
It is important to note these testing dates in your personal calendars to help plan trips and appointments accordingly so that your student is present for all testing sessions.
CHOICE PROCESS UPDATE
Round 1 of the Choice process is over! Round 2 will open on March 1st. Acceptance and wait list letters will be mailed from the Choice office in March.
Thank you for your patience with the office staff during this busy time as we collected and processed hundreds of applications!
JUMP ROPE FOR HEART
We are looking for volunteers to help with the Swigert Jump Rope for Heart event!
Ms. Collings will be introducing the event in PE class February 11th – February 15th and will be sending Jump Rope and Hoops for Heart envelopes home in Friday Folders that week. The event will be March 11th through March 15th and Kendra will be making a Heart Wall to help celebrate the students who have made donations. We would love to invite parents to get involved and help out with some of the preparation before the event and wrap up after the event. Please contact Ms. Collings at Kendra_Collings@dpsk12.org if you are interested in volunteering! For more information on JRFH there are two links below for your review!
Jump Rope for Heart video: http://youtu.be/LpBOepCtdJ4
Hoops for Heart video: http://youtu.be/dvamh6-njHY
ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM PTA
AUCTION UPDATE
Building Our Eagles' Nest, Saturday, March 16, 2013 - Tivoli Turnhalle - 6-10 PM
Thank you for the generous donations during our classroom contest. We are still tallying donations, but hope to announce the big winners soon! While the contest has officially ended, we will still accept and welcome donations.
Be on the look out for communication from your room parents regarding class baskets to be sold at the auction, as those will be assembled over the course of the next couple weeks. Again, thanks for your support with the baskets - they are always popular items!
The auction is just over a month away! Formal invitations will go home in Friday Folders on February 15. Tickets will go on sale at that time, so be sure to buy tickets in advance before prices go up!
While packages are still being created, we wanted to share a few examples of the amazing things that will be waiting for you to bid on at the auction...and there are many more to come!
- Park Hopper passes to Disneyland!
- Churchill Living Room Performance: Denver's own Churchill will perform live - acoustic unplugged in your home! Start planning your next party! See the video for "Change" their song playing on stations across the nation, at www.churchilltheband.com.
- Opera Orchestra seat tickets for the opening night performance of Don Giovanni on March 30th, including access to major donor lounge at intermission and invitation to the VIP after party with the cast.
- Prime parking spots at school reserved for YOU!
- Private pool party for up to 100 guests at your favorite Stapleton pool!
- Suite tickets to a Rockies and Rapids game - including parking, food and beverage!
Keep visiting www.swigertpta.org for updates and don't forget to 'like' us on Facebook. We hope to see you March 16, at the Tivoli!
TOUCH-A-TRUCK
The Touch-A-Truck planning committee needs you! This is our 3rd annual event and we are looking for some volunteers to help organize this great family event to be held on April 27th. Our first meeting will be on Sunday Feb 10th so contact me at ksulewski@msn.com to be included. This event really doesn't take much time and if you are looking for a small way to help out Swigert, this is a FUN event to help with.
Thanks,
Kelly Proctor
Touch A Truck chair
EXPLORATIONS
Q2 Explorations Program a Success!….Q3 Begins February 15th
When we take a chance to sit back and think about the Explorations program, we are always so impressed by the level of volunteerism and commitment that help make the program run each Friday. In fact between our volunteer class leaders, committee members and staff (office support, teachers and paras) – there are 60+ people working every Friday to make Explorations a success.
We are very excited and grateful to be wrapping up an exciting quarter of Explorations and to let all of you know that we did get enough volunteers to run 27 courses in Q3. The program would not be a success without a tremendous level of hands on volunteers every Friday.
Thanks to our volunteers listed below – the students at Swigert can continue to explore and find new passions…
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Aimee Bernard – What’s Biology About
Elizabeth Imhoff Mabey – Dance
Cherie Schunk/ Amy Mackett/ Steven Coit – Origami
Anne Draper – Storytelling & Creative Writing
Chantel Vogel – Reading for Pleasure
Kelly Leonard – Return to Preschool
Shadi Letson – Create a Kalediascope
Shana Lurie – Glee Club
Rebecca and Christopher Gelston – How the Body Works
Kristine VonDrell/ Kara Chan – Legos
Noriko Rothberg – Games, Games, Games
Chris Campbell – Jewelry Making
Traci Gillespie – Funky Felting
Sonia Anders – Recycle It, Remake It
Gregory Hurst – Exploring Space
Carrie and Emerson Vaughan/ Lauren Kushkin – Wizard Camp
Kari Guiness, Paula Dinges – Yoga
Mark Jarvis – Engineering for Kids
Kimiko Egy –Arts & Crafts
Sally Peterson/ Babette Brown – Breadmaking
Shelby Samuelson – Collage Art
Stephanie Sanders – Photography
Dianne DeLongchamps – Into the Deep
Katie Kindred – Snack Attack
Raul Galang - Chess |
Elaine Shulman – Photography
Anda Seale – Yoga
Keri Deixler, Kara Chan – Doodles & Drawings
Gay Burke – NeedlePoint
Beth Talkington – Scrapbooking
Anne Draper – Storytelling/Creative Writing
Kay Kamienski, Mara Hackett – Run 4 Fun
Paul Egy – Science is Fun
Jenny Bailey McGinn – Legos
Rachel McMahan – Icky, Weird, & Gross Science
Greg Hurst – How the Body Works
Chris Campbell – Fun with Numbers
Peggy Batchelor – Ancient Egypt
Carrie Vaughan – Wizard Camp
Shadi Letson – Klutz FestTM
Jim Conzelman – Build with K’Nex
Luke Douglas, Ben Gladstone, Dave Gladstone – Create a SW Galaxy
Chantel Vogel – Reading for Pleasure
Elizabeth Imhoff Mabey – Dance
Kristy Ballog – Paper Airplanes
Traci Gillespie – Make Your Own Masterpiece
Loes Nardi-Korver – Jewelry Making
Kathy Duda – Spring Gardening
Lisa Easterwood – Young Impressionists
Courtney Gibbens – Kindergarten Math Games
Courtney Lis – Snack Attack
Susan Esmond – Arts & Crafts |
Take a moment to thank someone you know that is helping with Explorations and helping bring your student a new opportunity every Friday.
Amy Douglas and Kristy Ballog
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NEWS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED
My son, Garrett Eisenman (6), a Swigert student in first grade, has decided to shave his head at an event in downtown Denver (Fado's pub on March 15th at 10 am) raising money for the St. Baldrick's Foundation and Childhood Cancer research. He is so invested in this project!! He has donated all of his own money (which is a big sacrifice for him) and checks the website about every 10-15 minutes to look for new donations. If you would be willing to help him it would be so appreciated! It is a wonderful cause! NO amount is too small! He is currently in 2nd place out of 150 participants and his goal is to be the first place fundraiser! Please forward to anyone who might be interested in helping out. Here is a link to his website:
http://www.stbaldricks.org/participants/mypage/584293/2013
Thank you!!
Kristen Eisenman
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CAMPS/WORKSHOPS/ENRICHMENTS
MY ENRICHMENT
Winter 2013 (Dec, Jan, Feb) enrichment brochure and online registration is available and majority of the programs are complete by the end of February. Many providers allow late registration at prorated pricing. Spring 2013 (March, April, May) brochure and online registration will be available by February 8th with majority of programs starting the first week in March. Please view the matrix, brochure, registration status, and SIS General Information by going to www.myenrichment.com and selecting Swigert International School to the left. To order online go to www.myenrichment.com/store. You must update ALL family contacts (open and save) in the My Family section before the system will allow you to register. Credit cards will only be charged when the program meets its minimum and is a GO by the provider.
Molly Killinger
My Enrichment, LLC
PARENTING SAFE CHILDREN WORKSHOP WITH FEATHER BERKOWER
Dear Parents and Caregivers,
We are writing this email to invite you to a Life Changing parenting workshop. Yes, we really used that term! The workshop is called Parenting Safe Children. It is a wonderful, one-time commitment that is super empowering and so smart to keep our kids safe from sexual abuse.
The class is led by Feather Berkower, a licensed clinical social worker. Feather makes a tough topic easy to talk about. We can tell you from personal experience that you will leave the workshop feeling like it is the best investment, in both time and money you have ever made toward your child’s safety and wellbeing. (And it costs less than a car seat!)
Before we took this workshop, we thought we knew the basics on teaching our children about body safety. In fact, we know so much more now and our children are safer. We actually left that evening excited to talk to our kids about this!
We have found that it is very important for both parents to attend the workshop together when possible. We know this makes it a little more logistically challenging, but it makes a huge difference when you are both on the same page.
To register, click here: http://parentingsafechildrenworkshopapril17.eventbrite.com
The workshop flyer is attached. Please feel free to contact us with any questions!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Sincerely,
Amy Calabrese and Carrie Thomas, Swigert Parents
COMMUNITY HAPPENINGS
GREATER PARK HILL/STAPLETON (GPHS) COMMUNITY MEETING
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
5:30 PM - Refreshments
6:00 PM until 8:00 PM - Meeting
This community engagement process will include both the Park Hill and Stapleton communities specifically around middle school programming. Included in the discussion will be determining the replacement middle school program for the Smiley Building, discussing the anticipated growth of McAuliffe International School, and solving for other middle school programming in the region.
The Office of Community Engagement will post meeting information and materials on our website. To view our website please click here: http://communityrelations.dpsk12.org/regional-community-meetings/near-northeast/upcoming-meetings/>
FREE TAX PREP
Beginning on Saturday, February 2nd, DABC will be offering free tax preparation services on a walk-in basis to families earning less than $51,000/year and single filers earning less than $35,000/year. For more information, please see the attached site schedule flyer in both English and Spanish for the 2013 Tax Season.
LACROSSE
REGISTRATION is now OPEN for the Spring Season for the Stapleton Jets Boys Lacrosse Program for boys between the ages of 5 and 13 years old. Please visit: www.StapletonJets.com for more information.
GET CONNECTED
THANKS TO OUR GENEROUS SWIGERT SPONSORS!
    
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