Message from Heather Moore, Head of School
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Dear Parents,
It was wonderful seeing so many parents join us for our SIA Family Shabbat Sing-a-long on Friday, September 13. Our fifth graders did an excellent job leading the prayers, and we are so proud of everyone’s musical performance!
It was such a wonderful community “
Kehillah
” building opportunity bringing our whole school together!
Join us for our next SIA Family Shabbat Sing-a-long on October 11, 2019 where we will honor our Legacy Donors.
SIA Families - Come out for an evening of fun, food and friends!
The SIA Pasta Dinner and Steam Night is Monday, September 23, 2019 from 5p.m. – 6:30pm.
It is a great opportunity to meet the parents of your child’s classmates, enjoy a delicious Pasta Dinner and have a lot of fun. We have
Buttarcups Fancy Facepainting and Balloon
crafts this year! Don't miss out on the fun, and send in your registration today or
sign up on Parent Square.
Parent-teacher conferences will take place for the Primary Years students (K-5) Wednesday, September 25, 2019 from 4:00pm – 7:00pm and Thursday, October 3, 2019 from 4:00pm- 7:00pm.
Please make sure to sign up through ParentSquare!
Parent-teacher conferences
can help develop a successful partnership between parents and teachers, an important aspect of your child's academic and social achievement. Teachers and parents can use this time to establish a rapport and develop a common goal that focuses on helping your child have the best school experience possible.
Below you will see some reminders for next week.
Shavuah Tov,
wishing you all a wonderful week ahead!
Heather Moore
Head of School
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Primary Years News - After School Activities
By Janet Jenkins, Primary Years Director
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Good after school programs can fill a student’s afternoon with meaningful time for fun and learning. In fact, there are many benefits for students who participate in these activities. These vary with the activity but can include:
- Building a sense of community and strong peer relationships as students share a common passion.
- Promoting self confidence when students select activities that are of interest to them.
- Developing healthy hobbies rather than trying to fill hours with mindless down time.
- Making learning fun rather than always having to perform for a grade or score.
- Building a better future through the development of various skills and interests.
Each year, SIA has a variety of fun after school programs. This fall we are excited to offer Intramurals, Drama Club and VR Club. We hope to offer more clubs for our younger students later in the year.
Intramurals (Grades 4-5)
are offered on Tuesdays with Mr. Leiderman, SIA PE teacher, provides participation in various sports such as Capture the Flag, Pin Dodgeball, Volleyball, Basketball, and more based on the interests of students throughout the year.
Drama Club (Grades 4-5)
on Wednesdays with Ms. Conley. Students are guided to express themselves creatively as they work on play performance, set design, and staging for our Chanukah De-Lights play.
Virtual Reality/ VR Club
is new this year and exclusive for our fifth graders on Mondays starting October 7. Students were given a special sneak peek by parent advisor, David Cardon, into a world where they can swim with dolphins, dance with robots, and virtually explore many areas of interest. Sign-ups will be coming soon. We hope to add more activities as the year progresses. Our after school programs run from an hour to an hour and a half after school and offer a good variety of fun activities for our students. Some clubs we've offered in the past are Chess, Gardening, Yoga, Coding and Robotics. Let us know if you have an interest you'd like to share with our students!
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VR (Virtual Reality) Club
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Early Years News - The IB
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Action Cycle in Early Years
By Lorna Orleans, Director of the Early Years Program
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Dear Parents,
A
n important element of the
IB
®
learning framework is something called the Action Cycle.
The Action Cycle
can be teacher guided, student driven or both. It is a a tool, used to help students understand how to choose a particular action, how to put a plan into action for that choice and how to mindfully reflect on action outcomes.
The Action Cycle
can become especially concrete for early years students when connected to the attributes of the learner profile. With early years students, the foundation of actions comes from an understanding of self and relationships with others. The attributes of the learner profile are a great place to start in that area.
The 10 Attributes
Open-Mindedness- Inquiring-
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nowledgable-Caring-Balanced-Risk-Taker-Communicator-Thinker-Reflective-Principled
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ne of our EY-4 teachers, Nicole Mones, recently displayed an example of
The Action Cycle
in order
to teach her students how it works and to help them connect to the learner profile attribute of being a “risk taker". She created this learning opportunity through children’s literature when she read
The Pout, Pout Fish in the Big Dark
. After reading the story the class discussion centered on how Mr. Fish chose to help a friend by being a risk taker. They discussed his actions to reach his goal and then considered the outcome and whether it was positive or negative.
Be watching in the hallways and reading in their newsletters for how our teachers connect the profile attributes to their students’ learning and how they depict short or long-term actions taking place with their students through
The Action Cycle.
Shavua Tov,
Lorna Orleans
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The Pout-Pout fish takes action by being a risk taker.
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EY4- Gamboa takes action and reflects on their inquiry.
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Parent Volunteer Organization Corner
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Dear SIA Parents,
We had a great Parent Coffee this past Friday before the SIA Family Singalong. It was wonderful to see so many new families. We look forward to seeing more parents at our
monthly PVO Coffee Meetings.
Save the date for the next one on
Friday, October 11 at 8am.
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Thank you for the many volunteer forms that you sent in. You will be contacted soon by our PVO Committee with more details about your volunteer commitment.
We hope to see you at the SIA Pasta Dinner next Monday Night, September 23 at 5pm!
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Thank you,
Brigitte Gottlieb, Melissa Kass, Nina Kruger, Tammy Rivera
PVO Co-chairs
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I Want to Pray but What Do I Say?
A Lunch & Learn With Amy Lefcoe
Wednesday, September 25, 12:00 pm at the Simon Family JCC
In a world with increasingly more questions than answers, more and more people are seeking the serenity that only comes from a relationship with G-d. Come explore this unique opportunity to open your heart and find the words with “
I Want to Pray but What Do I Say?”,
a discussion led by community member and teacher, Amy Lefcoe,
from 12 pm to 1 pm at the Simon Family JCC.
FREE and open to the community, lunch included. RSVP required by Monday, September 23. To register, visit
jewishva.org/whatdoisay
, call 757-321-2304, or stop by the Simon Family JCC Front Desk.
To learn more about programs like this one, contact Sierra Lautman, United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s Director of Jewish Innovation, at 757-965-6107 or
slautman@ujft.org
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