Head of School Message
Heather Moore, Head of School
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Dear Parents,
This week we are celebrating Dr. Seuss’ Birthday! All week long students will come to school in crazy socks for “Fox in Socks”, Crazy Hair and, Red, White and Blue for “One Fish, Two Fish. Our whole school will also participate in Read Across America Day Tuesday afternoon reading in their pajamas. This week is such a wonderful way to celebrate Dr. Seuss’s contributions to children’s literature.
Please join us next Friday, March 12, 2021 for our Primary Years Family Virtual Shabbat at 1:30pm. A link and more information will be posted in ParentSquare next week. Looking forward to seeing everyone!
The SIA Annual Scholastic Book Fair Week is coming up, Monday, March 15 through Friday, March 19, 2021. Your child’s class will visit the book fair and make wish lists that will be sent home. Students can make purchases during school, or families can visit the virtual version of the SIA Book Fair as well. More information will be posted in ParentSquare soon.
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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3/1 - 3/2 School Photos
3/26 - 4/2 Passover Break
3/26 - No School, Fullcare Closed, JCC Holiday Camp Open
3/29 - No School, Fullcare Closed, JCC Holiday Camp Open
3/30 - 4/2 Fullcare Spring Break Session/ JCC Holiday Camp
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SIA students had a blast celebrating Purim at school on Friday! Students enjoyed reading the megillah, rocking out to a Purim dance party, giving mishloach manot, playing Purim Bingo and participating in a virtual Costume Parade! |
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Who Knows Four?
Lorna Orleans, Early Years Director
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The four mitzvot of Purim, that is. In the SIA Early Years Program, our young friends learned about and fulfilled the four mitzvot of this festive holiday.
Hear the Megillah: Our EY students not only heard the Megillah, they all helped create a facsimile. Each class from toddlers to EY4 created a panel which, put together, told the story of brave Queen Esther, the heroine of the tale. While toddlers through EY 3 heard the Megillah read in person by Morah Elyssa, with the miracle of technology our EY4 classes were able to stream the reading in real time in their classrooms.
Mishloach Manot: It is a mitzvah of Purim to give gifts of at least two kinds of food to others. Our classes were able to fulfill this mitzvah as they each created a gift basket filled with Purim treats for our wonderful office staff and security guards Ramon and Mark.
Give Tzedakah: All of our EY classes took time aside from the fun and
festivities to remember to give to the classroom tzedakah fund.
Have A Festive Time: This was the easiest mitzvah of all to fulfill. There were costume parades, games, dance parties and lots of good things to eat like popsicles, cotton candy and of course that famous cookie named for Haman’s ears, hamentaschen.
When the month of Adar arrives we are commanded to “increase our joy.” What a day EY had celebrating both Purim and the coming of Shabbat. Many thanks to our wonderful teachers for making this time memorable and joyful for all of our students.
Shavua Tov,
Lorna Orleans
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Above: Purim revelers from EY3 are ready to hear the whole Megillah on the wall behind them.
Below: EY2 and toddlers came ready with their graggers to hear the Megilla read by Morah Elyssa.
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Above: It doesn't get much better than a dance party with cotton candy.
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Above and below: Amid the fun friends remember to give tzedakah and to celebrate Shabbat. |
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Above and below: Costumes on parade.
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These toddlers bowled Haman over. |
It wouldn't be Purim without Hamentaschen! |
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SIA Fifth Grade Learn about Sunken Slave Ships
Alicia Pahl-Cornelius, Fifth Grade Teacher
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In combination with Black History Month and their upcoming Civil War Unit, the fifth grade students joined a live presentation of National Geographic Explorer's Tara Roberts who investigates Sunken Slave Ships. Students learned about how Tara and her team of divers and researchers work to connect the enslaved people who perished in ship wrecks to their ancestors. The fifth grade had many questions about the experience of the people coming from African that they will further explore in the upcoming Civil War Unit. The fifth graders were excited to get a shout out at the beginning of the presentation by the moderator!
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Thank you YAD for Refreshing our Garden!
Lorna Orleans, Early Years Director
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We want to extend a big Todah Rabah to members of NADIV of the Young Adults Division (YAD) of the Jewish Federation of Tidewater for coming out to our school gardens on Sunday to prep our garden boxes for our spring planting. YAD members Yoni Warner, Danny Rubin and Jonah David refreshed our boxes with new soil and even helped with the weeding. We are so grateful for this mitzvah. Covid 19 put us behind in our planting schedule and we missed our Fall garden, but we are ready to start with new spring plants and seeds thanks to the help from the YAD team.
Our garden becomes an outdoor classroom for our students to understand the cycle of growing things and to have a "garden to table" experience with the lettuces and vegetables they will grow. Having a garden also helps us teach sustainable practices like using the compost our students have created from their lunch scraps to naturally fertilize the new plants. Our summer camp and staff will help keep our garden growing through harvest time when school begins again in late August. Our students starting the new school year will see the garden come full circle and be ready to plant again a winter garden.
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Is your child missing a jacket or coat?
Please send a description to Linda Bridges, and she will be happy to see if the missing item is in our Lost and Found Box!
Please write your child's name in all items.
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Thank you SIA Parent Community!
Carly Glikman, Director of Development
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Dear SIA Parents,
We are so thankful for YOU, the SIA Parent Community! This year, more than ever before, you have shown your support of SIA and our community and have come together to help us to safely create a successful in-person school year for our students. Through your care, your cooperation, and your gifts to the school, we are able to keep tuition affordable for all families, continue our journey towards IB candidacy, and fund all of the COVID-19 mitigation strategies that have ensured over 100 days of in-person learning and counting. We are so grateful for all that we have achieved together!
Our SIA parent campaign is coming to a close on Thursday, March 11th. We have had record breaking participation this year on our Day of Giving. If you have not yet made a gift to the school, please consider joining your fellow parents by participating in this year’s 2020-2021 Annual Donor Fund by making your gift or pledge today: https://strelitzinternationalacademy.org/support-us/annual-donor-fund/. All payments are due by June 30, 2021.
No gift is too small, and every dollar has the ability to create endless possibilities for our Strelitz community.
Many thanks,
Carly Glikman
Director of Developmentor "only 7 remaining!"
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LUNCH ORDER REMINDERS
Ms. Linda Bridges, Office Manager
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PLACE YOUR MARCH LUNCH ORDER!!
If you order lunch for your child (Toddlers to 5th grade), please order in advance from https://orgsonline.com/. Print the days you ordered so you know when to pack a lunch. Primary students should bring several snacks on the days they order lunch from school. Everyone needs to bring a reusable water bottle.
If you need to cancel or change a lunch, please do before 9:30 a.m. if it is on the day of the order.
Remember: if you wait to order, you may forget.
Lunch instructions are included for anyone who needs to start an account or needs a reminder about the program.
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It is hard to believe that Summer Camp is only 4 months away! If you have not registered your child in SIA's 12 month program and would like to register your child for camp this summer, please click here to register. To check if you have registered for camp 2021, please refer to your tuition statement.
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Harris Teeter will automatically give a percentage to SIA everytime you show and use your VIC Card!
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Amazon will donate 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to Strelitz International Academy whenever you shop on AmazonSmile.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY
February Babies!!
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Students
Owen Schachner 3/2
Quinn Wentworth 3/3
Ozzie Wilcoxon 3/4
Elizabeth Kimball 3/4
Willow Baker 3/4
Rowen Reyes 3/7
Talia Revivo 3/7
Briella Brown 3/9
Daniella Weinstein 3/10
Raina Jones 3/11
Kacie Kenyon 3/14
Isla Cornelius 3/16
Ruby Mitzner 3/16
Yael Haas 3/19
Gabrielle Tyson 3/25
Sarah Scaliatine 3/26
Ella Trompeter 3/27
Benjamin Silverstein 3/27
Abigail Walker 3/29
Henry Genova 3/30
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Faculty and Staff
Desyre Lawrence 3/3
Marnie Waldman 3/17
Adam Leiderman 3/26
Mirta Rivera 3/26
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Updated Class Cupcake Order Form Below |
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Ice Pops or Cupcakes can be ordered for Class birthday treats!
For Cupcake, please use the form below and drop off at Cardo Campus Cafe or email to: lunch@ujft.org
NO OUTSIDE TREATS MAY BE BROUGHT IN FOR BIRTHDAYS AT SCHOOL.
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