Volume 25, Issue 9 Thursday, January 7, 2016
Important Dates
Thursday, January 7, 6:00 PM: School Committee Meeting
Thursday, January 14, 5:00 – 7:00 PM:
“What’s it Like?”: Parents, Teachers, and Students Speak about Testing
Monday January 18: No School - Martin Luther King Jr. Day Observed
Wednesday, January 20: Community Reading Day
February 15 – 19: Winter Recess
The next Swift River Current will be published on January 21, 2016.
January Dean’s Beans Orders
Are Due Tomorrow!!!
Please have all orders in by 3:00 PM tomorrow: Friday, January 8. Send your order form to School or order online at srsdeansbeans.weebly.com. Thank you for supporting our PTCA by enjoying delicious, organic, fair trade coffees and cocoa!
PTCA Notes
The next PTCA meeting will be on Tuesday, January 19, at 6:30 PM. Childcare will be provided by the Mahar Key Club. Please join us!
Spirit Day
Book Character Day!!! Next Friday, January 15. Please bring in a $0.25 donation, if possible.
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD
These announcements and events are not school-sponsored.
Mucho Gusto Spanish
with Laurie Davidson
Wednesdays at the Wendell Free Library
January 13-March 23 (No class Feb. 17.)
For Grades K-3 from 1:30-2:15 PM
Come for games, stories, drama, poems, songs, art projects, and bookmaking.
For ages 0-6 (with caregiver) from 2:30-3:15 PM
Come for songs, circle games, creative movement, and stories.
The sliding scale fee from $80-$140 for the 10-week session includes take-home materials. This program is sponsored in part by the Friends of the Wendell Free Library. For more information or to register, contact Laurie Davidson at [email protected] or call
413-367-9608.
Come Play the Apache Stone Game with Loril Moondream
Wednesday, January 13 from 1:30-2:30 PM
At the Wendell Free Library
The Apache stone game is a sit-down game taught to children to prepare them for bigger stones in life.
Recommended for Grade 2 and up. Adults are welcome. This is a good preliminary program for Sarah Kohler's Stone Cirlces talk at the Wendell Free Library on Friday, January 15.
Loril Moondream is the director of Medicine Mammals Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Wendell.
The New Salem-Wendell School District assures that all programs, activities, and employment opportunities are offered without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, disability, economic status, homelessness, religion or sexual orientation.