Transcript Swift House Washington, DC Trip 2009

Trip Coordinators: Julie Longchamp and Debbie Donnelly
Parent Coordinator: Liz Neeld
Important Information
 Things we need before we leave:
 Health Form – (notary required for students without a
parent going on the trip)
 Payment for the trip – Would like 2nd Deposit by 2/15
 Payment for Ball Game (Yankees vs Tampa Bay- Tuesday
Where are we Staying?
http://www.hostelworld.com/hosteldetails.php/Hostelli
ng-International-New-York/New-York/1850#facilities
Room Assignments
 Rooms will be dorm styled and will be determined by the
number of male and female chaperones.
 Right now, we will have some “mixed rooms” of young
males (5/6) who are going with their mothers.
 Rooms are 8-12 to a rooms. Baths are in the hallways.
 Some Girl Scouts from Williston have stayed there and
really enjoyed it.
Food!!
Menu
Breakfast
$6 includes a cup of fresh fruit, butter with jelly and Orange Juice
BAGEL with EGG, BACON OR SAUSAGE BAGEL with Cream Cheese
CROISSANT with EGG
JUMBO MUFFIN
Blueberry, Corn or Chocolate Chip
CEREAL
Corn Flake, Raisin Bran or Cheerios
Food!!
Tuesday Dinner- Dinner at the Ball Field!
Wednesday Dinner:
DINNER SANDWICHES
$11.99 All include a cup of fruit, potato or macaroni salad, cookie, water or soda
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PHILLY CHEESE STEAK
RUEBEN
Hot pastrami, Swiss cheese, lettuce, tomato on a roll
GRILLED CHICKEN SWISS CHEESE
with lettuce, tomato on a roll
MEATBALL
with mozzarella cheese on a hero
CHEESEBURGER 1/3 LB
VEGGIE SANDWICH
(Grilled eggplant, roasted peppers, grilled onion) on a Kaiser roll
Food!!
HOT DINNER
All include green salad, garlic bread, a cup of fruit, cookie and water
$13.80
MEAT LASAGNA
CHICKEN PARMIGIANA
over penne romano
CHICKEN CORDON BLUE
FRIED FISH & CHIPS
MEATLOAF
with mashed potato and gravy
ROASTED BEEF
with mashed potato and gravy
SPAGHETTI and MEATBALL
GRILLED CHICKEN
over penne and vodka sauce
Schedule
Tuesday, June 5th
7:00 am: Arrive at WCS
7:30 am: Leave WCS for NYC
2:30 pm: Arrive in NYC, Settle In, Walk around to
Central Park or other areas in small groups
6:00-6:15 pm: Meet at Yankee Stadium
11:00 pm: (or when we return) In rooms – Quiet time.
Schedule
Wednesday, June 6th & Thursday, June 7th
7:00-8:00 am: Breakfast
8:00-8:30 am: Meeting in lounge and organize the day.
Students will be in small groups and will attend 1-2 sites during the day.
6:00 pm: All will have dinner together.
7:00 pm: Evening Activities
There will be an assortment of evening activities. Evening activities are “extras”.
There are many free activities.
Broadway Tickets and other expensive items: In order to include everyone, we
would love people to propose an activity and “open it up” to all interested. For
example, I know someone wants to go see Wicked (Me ). Let’s find out who
wants to go and see if we can get a group rate. I would love a parent to take
charge of this, perhaps through google docs.
Schedule
Friday, June 8th
8:00 am: Breakfast
9:00 am: Clean rooms and have things packed up.
We might have some time to walk around and spend
that last bit of spending money.
11:00 am: Bags down to the curb and ready to load
the buses.
11:30 am: Depart NYC
1:00 pm: Stop for Lunch on the Thruway
6:30 pm: Home for Dinner!
Projects
All students are required to complete a project for this
trip, which will be presented at our June Open House.
They will have Lunch Meetings beginning February 15th.
Possible topics are endless. Last trips projects included:
Projects
Jewelry and Stone Cutting
United Nations
Space Travel
Modeling
Guitars
Broadway Production
Art
Production
Reinactment
Murals
Penguins
Madison Square Garden
Pit Orchestras
Technology
Ellis Island
Endangered Species
FAO Schwarz
Endangered Species/Zoo
Pianos
Teardrop Memorial
FAO Schwarz
Snow Leopards/Central Park Zoo
Comets, Meteorites, Asteroids
Twin Towers
Art
Leukemia
Bronx Zoo
Modern vs. Older Art
Brooklyn Bridge
Animals at the Bronx
Empire State Building
Projects
Grand Central Station/Grand Central
Van Gogh Art/Museum of Art
Asian Elephants/Bronx Zoo
Art, Painting, Sculpture/Metropolitan
Tigers/Zoo
Broadway Theater/Broadway
Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island
Pet Therapy/Mt. Sinai
Yankees/Yankee Stadium
Shallow Sea Life/NY Aquarium
Diamonds/Natural History Museum
Column Writing/NY Times
Visual Impairment/Eye Bank
Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island
Fashion Design/Fashion Institute
Playwriting/NYU
NY Architecture/Empire State Building
Ellis Island/Ellis Island
Project Schedule
Project Requirements
Date
Due
Topic/Focus Question & NYC Location for project
Wednesday
2/15/12
Overview Article
Sub-focus Questions
Pre-Concept Map
Wednesday
3/14/12
Outline
1st Draft Bibliography
Including one Periodical resource
Wednesday
3/28/12
Date
Complete
5th/6th – Minimum three resources
7th – Minimum five resources
8th—Minimum one new resource
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Notecards (fully referenced)
Wednesday
4/11/12
Written Report: First Draft/Content Focus
Wednesday
5/2/12
Second Draft: Content/Editing
Wednesday
5/9/12
Visual Plan
8th graders: add to visual plan or start new one
Wednesday
5/16/12
Written Report: Final Draft
8th graders: add NYC Connection to current final draft
Wednesday
5/30/12
Your written report should include the following:
Cover
Pre-Concept Map
Outline
Written Report
Bibliography
Post-Concept Map
Visual/Model/Experiment/Demonstration
8th graders: Add to current visual
Monday
6/04/12
New York City Trip
Tuesday-Friday 6/5/12-6/8/12
Presentations & Open House
*Open House will be the evening before 8th grade Graduation
Monday*
6/11/12
Facilitator
Initials
Metro
 Each person will get a unlimited subway pass. This is a
seven day pass and we will collect them at the end and
donate them to HI international to give to other
guests.
Chaperones:
 Will be given student information on a need-to-know basis.
 Will be given a “check-in” student that isn’t their child (We
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expect you to be their parent buddy for the week ).
Should let us know your cell phone number for our list.
Will meet daily in the morning to go over the day’s schedules.
We’ll figure out the meeting place when we see the dorms.
Should expect polite and respectful behavior from everyone. Let
a teacher know if you are having any issues with a student.
Should expect students to clean up after themselves. “Please
don’t make work for other people” will be our motto!
Enjoy and get to know each child who is with you. We do most
things in small groups, so you can build relationships with the
students on the team.
Are GREATLY APPRECIATED! We are hoping that this trip will
be as much fun for the adults as it has in the past. We really
believe this is why so many parents volunteer to come.
Fundraising
Projected
Actual
September
Adams Festival Tractor Rides
$
824
November
Craft Fair Concessions 11/5
Shakespeare Festival 11/11
Mexicali
$
$
$
579
1,000
250
December
Fun Night 12/2
Bottle Drive 12/17
$
$
2,086
720
January
Marko 1/28
$ 1,000
February
Bottle Drive 2/11
On-line Auction
$
$
600
800
March
Silver Palace Night
$
200
April
BBR Fun Night 4/14
$ 1,000
May
Play Concessions
$
300
Hanging Flower Baskets 5/1-5/13
$
500
Total
$ 4,400
Projected Total
$
5,459
$ 9,859
Payments
 Deposit- $50 per person
 Second Deposit- Due February 24th $100 pp
 Final Cost- May 18th
We have already submitted $20,000 deposit for the HI
International, which is half the cost of food and rooms.
Our bus deposit and final HI payment is due in May.