Dear Parents, 

We opened the week with IB Professional Development Day for for all faculty. The professional development day covered provocation, curriculum development, vertical planning and training on our new IB Unit of Inquiry management system, Toddle. We also kicked off a Faculty and Staff Spirit Week, in honor of our G2G Faculty Giving Campaign! Thank you so much to all of our faculty and staff who have made a donation to the school.  

Please join us on Friday, January 20, 2023 at 9:00am in the MPR for Early Years Family Shabbat Singalong. The PVO will have challah for sale for $6.50 per loaf so pick up a freshly baked loaf of challah for your family's shabbat. We hope to see you there!

Early Years Toddler Families please join us on Friday, January 27, 2023 for our Early Years Preview from 8:30am - 9:30am. We will cover both EY curriculum highlights and registration changes when students transition from Toddlers to EY2 this fall. We look forward to seeing you there!

Early Years Families please join us for a Tu B’sh’vat celebration on Monday, February 6, 2023 from 9:00am - 12:00pm. We are so excited to celebrate the birthday of the trees! More details will be posted in ParentSquare in the coming weeks.

February 1 -15, 2023 is Re-enrollment for rising EY2 - Grade 5 students.  We will be sending you information and instructions through Parentsquare to re-enroll through FACTS for the 2023-2024 school year. All re-enrollment contracts (with reenrollment fee) are due by Wednesday, February 15, 2023.  

Save the Date for our SIA Evening of the Arts on February 16. We are excited that this year, the program will be sponsored by the Benjamin Goldberg Foundation. EY4-Grade 5 students will be performing!

We have so many exciting events coming up in the next month. I look forward to connecting with you.

Shabbat Shalom!

Heather Moore

Head of School

On Monday, we kicked of the Faculty G2G Campaign. We appreciate all of our wonderful faculty who not only work tirelessly for SIA, but also donate to the Annual Donor Fun because they believe in the school mission!

Thank you SIA Faculty and Staff!



To donate online: https://strelitzinternationalacademy.org/support-us/donate/

Fifth Grade students learned the Hebrew blessings for various foods in Judaic studies and made pretzels to enhance their learning and practice their fractions!

Upcoming Dates:

January

1/20 EY Family Shabbat Singalong, 9am; 8:30am EY2 Schmooze

February

2/1 SIA Student Reenrollment begins (EY2-Grade 5)

2/10 PY Family Shabbat Celebration, 1:30pm

2/15 SIA Student Reenrollment deadline (EY2-Grade 5)

2/16 Evening of the Arts, 6pm

2/20 Presidents Day (No School, EY Fullcare Closed, JCC SDO Open)

2/24 EY Family Shabbat Singalong, 9am

3/7 Purim; Noon Dismissal; Sundown/Fullcare closes at noon

3/13 - 3/17 Scholastic Book Fair all week



3/14 Book Fair Family Fun Night, 4pm - 6:30pm

Click here for our 2023-2024 Year at a Glance.

Dates are subject to change.

Please click here to RSVP.

Baby and Me

9am - 10am

Tuesday, January 17 (Ongoing every other Tuesday)

Join other parents and our Youth & Family Coordinator, Nofar Trem, for an hour of coffee and a sweet treat, baby activities and games, and much-needed parent talk!

Free + Open to ALL PARENTS with babies up to 18 months.

No registration required. JCC membership not required.

Every other Tuesday at the Simon Family JCC!

For more information, contact Nofar at ntrem@ujft.org.

Thursday, January 19

7:30pm

Why Do Jewish? A Manifesto for 21st Century Jewish Peoplehood

FREE & Open to the Community. Registration Required >> JewishVA.org/BookFest

Insisting that taking action is what matters most, Zack Bodner proposes a creative new framework for doing Jewish based on an acronym from the Yiddish word TACHLIS, which means “getting down to brass tacks.”

T – Tikkun Olam (repairing the world)

A – Art and Culture

C – Community

H – Holidays and Rituals

L – Learning

I – Israel

S – Shabbat and Spirituality​