Message from Heather Moore, Head of School
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Dear Parents,
As we head into our last of school before winter break, we are so excited for the upcoming
Chanukah De-Lights show on Thursday, December 19, 2019 @ 6:00pm
and the
Mini-Zimryah on Friday, December 20, 2019 @ 10:00am.
I am so proud of all of our students! They have been working so hard preparing for the show singing, dancing, acting and celebrating the joy of Chanukah. And don't miss the Strelitz Art Show starting this week through January 6. Our students' artwork will be on display in the JCC Cardo Cafe (next to the stairs).
I want to thank the entire SIA faculty for helping to make this production another wonderful and joyous event! I feel so fortunate to be a part of such a professional and talented group of faculty and staff. You don’t want to miss this amazing performance!
Yesterday, our EY4 - Grade 3 students enjoyed meeting
Jane Bernstein
, Author of
Gina from Siberia
and hearing her read her book to them. It was a sweet story of a dog from Siberia who travels to New York with her family and her experiences a long the way. The students enjoyed the story and asked great questions! Thank you to the Lee and Bernard Jaffe Family Jewish Book Festival for sponsoring Jane's visit.
Today our Chanukah store opened our students to shop. This is always such a fun project and the children are so excited to pick out gifts for their family. Thank you so much to the PVO chairs
Melissa Kass, Tammy Rivera, Nina Kruger,
and
Brigitte Gottlieb
for heading this project this year and to all the volunteers who will be helping run the shop.
Have you ordered your
SIA Spirit Wear
yet? Check out our new SIA POP UP SHOP. The items are available until Sunday, December 22, so please hurry. I can't wait to see all of our students sporting their new SIA apparel!
Click here to order.
I hope everyone enjoys the well-deserved break and comes back to school on Monday, January 6, 2020 refreshed and ready to learn.
Below you will see some reminders for next week.
Happy Chanukah and Happy 2020!
Heather Moore
Head of School
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EY4- Grade 3 LIstening to Author Jane Bernstein
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Third Grade learns about Graphic Art!
By Ms. Melanie Columbus, SIA Library and Computer Teacher
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In technology class, the students have been working on breaking down images into simple geometric forms. Ms. Columbus introduced this process by printing out images of animals found online. The students had to use different colored markers and draw as many geometric shapes to fill in the animals' bodies. Then, they were tasked to rebuild the animals by using 'Google Drawings' with the shapes they came up with in order to create a silhouette of the animal's body. After their initial design, they took it to the next level by adding color to create divisions between the shapes.
Below are a few examples of students' work so far. Eventually, they will work their way up to more complex drawings and these images will be added to the 'digital art' page on the 3rd graders' website that they have been actively working on. Also, feel free to check out the "digital breakout" page and solve the puzzle and our "digital library" page with short stories written and illustrated by students.
Here is the link to the 3rd graders' website!
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Chanukah in the Primary Years Program
By Rashi Brashevitzky, Director of Judaic Studies
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Chanukah is in the air at SIA! We have student sequencing the events of the Chanukah story, practicing wishing each other “Happy Chanukah” in Hebrew, doing Chanukah puzzles, learning about the wondrous Chanukah miracles, tasting traditional Sufganiot (jelly donuts), decorating Chanukah cookies and even comparing the fight of the Maccabees to the Revolutionary War as part of an IB unit.
Chanukah is a busy holiday filled with candles and latkes, donuts and dreidels, menorahs and chocolate gelt, blessings and gifts! As we celebrate with our families let us thank God for the many miracles He performed during the Chanukah story, as well as for the bountiful blessings and miracles we receive each day. Let us watch the beautiful, dancing Chanukah flames, and recognize the importance of religious freedom for one and all. We can discuss the story of Chanukah with our children, and come up with ways that our families can continue to add light and kindness to the world around us.
May your Chanukah celebration be filled with love and light and of course lots and lots of sizzling latkes!
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Chanukah Shows
Our students have been practicing for their special performances that we will get to see next week. I hope you have marked your calendars for our upcoming school performances:
Primary Years
Chanukah De-lights
Thursday, December 19
at 6pm
Early Years
Mini Zimriyah
Friday, December 20
at 10am
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Is it Chanukah Yet?
By Lorna Orleans, Director of the Early Years Program
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Dear Families,
Much of this last week has been about Chanukah learning and preparing for the holiday celebrations. All of our Early Years learners from toddlers to four year olds have been learning songs and practicing for our Chanukah Zimryah (little songfest). We will continue to practice this week and look forward to performing for you all this Friday. We hope you can join us!
Our students have heard wonderful Chanukah stories, sang songs, explored the variety of Chanukiot and played with dreidels. Did you know that in America the letters on the dreidel stand for the words
A great miracle happened there
? ( Nes Gadol Haya Sham) But, in Israel it changes to,
A great miracle happened here.
(Nes Gadol Haya Po) The letter shin is changed to the letter peh. Our three years olds shared that with me last week!
Our two year olds have been spinning like dreidels and sizzling like latkes as they sing and move to traditional Chanukah songs. Our four year olds, in between Family of the Week, have been retelling the story of Chanukah and learning the blessings to recite over the Chanukia.
Chanukah does not arrive until we begin the first week of Winter Break for our Fullcare students, but each Fullcare group will spend a part of each day during the break lighting the candles and saying the appropriate blessings.
We look forward this week to Chanukah parties in all of our class rooms and, be on the look out for lots of Chanukah art from our students. It will be going on display Monday and Tuesday in the Cardo for our annual Winter Art Show. Some classes created a collaborative piece while other will offer up individual pieces. The works will be on display until January 6.
Have a great week and see you all Friday at our Chanukah Zimryah!
Shavuah Tov
Lorna Orleans,
Director, SIA Early Years
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Mixing the ingredients for latkes, above, and frying, below! Thanks to our parents who came in to help!
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Sizzle , sizzle, sizzle. Latkes in the pan.
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This Chanukah art piece is ready for the Cardo Art Show.
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The hallways are looking very festive.
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Our teachers take advantage of the many wonderful Chanukah stories for "read - a - loud" times.
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Four year old chanukia art is ready for the art show.
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Our two year old friends are learning that the Shamash is the helper candle. It's the red one in the middle!
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This group collaboration, above, ended up as a beautiful Chanukia. See below.
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Upcoming Events and Programs at SIA
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Tuesdays, 4 – 5 PM
November – January 2020
Boys and Girls K-5th Grade
$120 members
$140 for potential members
Fortnite is a popular video game, but did you know there are more than 100 Fortnite dances? In this class, learn hip hop dance basics and core technique including footwork, floorwork (breakdancing), popping and locking, and freezes with a primary emphasis on Fortnite dances! Students will have a blast mastering their Fortnite dance skills and have fun dancing in this high energy class!
Register by visiting the JCC front desk or calling 757-321-2338.
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9:30 AM
Simon Family JCC
2nd Tuesday of every month,
Dec. 10 - May 12
Free for members
$5 for potential members
Come bond & learn together with your baby (newborns to 18 months) and other moms (or dads) through exploration, play, music and movement offered through our Shalom Baby programming.
To register,
contact Carly Glikman at
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