This week in preschool, we have been learning about our 5 senses. This lesson is always fun! Today, our activity was about taste. We tasted sweet, salty, sour, and spicy (of course, not too spicy and only if they wanted to try it). The kids always have fun with this activity, and so do we 😁
What a great day for some THS Tennis 🐾🎾Go Bulldogs
Bits and pieces of our day at Swifton PreK!
The Bulldog Golf teams went to Coopers Hawk Golf Course in Melbourne yesterday for an 18 hole match against Melbourne, Mountain Home, Yellville-Summitt, and Greers Ferry West Side. Jordan Watson had the best round for our boys, by carding a 98. Taryn. Sink led the way for our girls with a score of 84, which was two strokes better than her state championship round on the course last fall. We return to action on Thursday when we go to Newport Country Club for a 9 hole match.
Today we explored attributes. We drew one out of the box, then figured out which category it matched!
The cross country team had their season opener yesterday in Jonesboro at the CBC Invitational. Avery Brunner won the junior boys race, and set a new school record of 8:40.46, breaking Zeke Church’s previous record of 8:45.38. Macy Bowen led the junior girls in 24th place for the bulldogs with a time of 12:00. In the sr high 5K, Bronx Holland led the pack of bulldogs with a time of 21:36, and Emeri Baughn and August Huckabee paced the sr girls with times of 27:42 and 27:49, respectively. The team will travel to Sulfur Rock next week for the Batesville Invitational.
FFA members volunteered their time today to clean up the communities city parks and the school's playgrounds! Proud of these students who took their time to make our communities a little cleaner!
Parents PLEASE complete and return your student's Free and Reduced Forms, if you haven't already done so. We have a $100 WALMART gift card, donated by Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance to be drawn for on October 1, 2024. Everyone turning in a form will be eligible for the drawing.
Thank you.
6th grade practiced their fluency skills by building fact towers during Pirate time this week!
in PreK We have talked about the shapes of the first letter in our names, and how some of the letters are made up of straight lines, some are curved lines, and some even have both! Today we felt for our letter using ony touch and feeling for the shape of our letter! The kids loved this!
This week in pre-K we learned about our bodies. We learned about the parts of our bodies, what they do, and about the receptors in our hands that help us to feel the textures of things we touch. We also learned about the top, middle, and bottom by folding our paper in half and drawing a self portrait with the head, body and feet in the correct area.
Earlier this week, the Bulldog golf teams went to Eagle Mountain in Batesville. The course was tough and the weather was hot but they managed to make it through. The girls team ended up only playing 9 holes and they were led by Taryn Sink who had a 45 for the medalist honors on the day. The boys team had a lot of tougher competition from higher classification schools, but managed to be within 8 strokes of comparable 2A schools . Amare Neal had the best round of the day followed closely by Kade Keton and Jordan Watson. We return to action after the Labor Day break on Tuesday when we go to Cooper’s Hawk in Melbourne to play 18 holes.
This week we have been studying about our body. In groups we labeled the body. We also talked about our shadows during recess. We also watched our pet Donatello.
Thank you M&P Bank for welcoming our students and their parents back to school during open house.
Congratulations to James Chaplain for winning the door prize.
Preschool is working on positional words.
We explored with letter builders to build the letter of our first name!
Huge shout out to Entergy and the lineman who brought donuts for teachers and helped out with morning drop off. Thank you! It was very much appreciated!
6th graders are gearing up to read a story next week by Roald Dahl. After our study of the author, we watched a video of the illustrator, Quentin Blake, showing how he drew one of his characters, Willy Wonka. Students followed along and showed off their art skills. We are excited to read "Boy, Tales of Childhood" next week.
Some of the Spanish Club members started the school year by breaking a couple of piñatas that were made by the club last school year!
Ag Mechanics and Ag Structures classes help install the new Laser Engraving machine for our shop while the Plant Science class plants Lettuce for our Hydroponic Tower Gardens! There are so many opportunities for our students to learn with some amazing innovative agricultural technologies!
