Dolphin Families,

We are so excited about the week ahead as we travel to Washington, DC with our 8th grade students. These traditions will last a lifetime for our students, I know they do for many of us!

Literacy Week starts this week at PIA. Make sure to read all about it below as our team has planned some fun experiences and of course "dress" days to celebrate.

In addition, our Kinder friends and 1st grade friends celebrate the 100th and 101st day of school at PIA. It is always fun to see how they celebrate these special days!

There is a lot happening this week, so make sure to read through the Family News for important information!

Have a wonderful week,

Mrs. Riedl

Highlights for ALL below:

• Signing in to PIA - IMPORTANT
• Literacy Week Information
• Yearbook Purchase
• Family Portal Score Reporting Information
• PTO Highlights

K - 5 Highlights

• Author Visit Order form - See Below

Middle School Highlights

• 8th grade Yearbook Ads - deadline Feb. 14

PIA Athletics

Please read through each section of the NEWSplash to ensure you have all the details. 

Signing In at PIA - District Policy Reminder

• Proper identification must be presented each time a person signs in at a school. The only forms of proper identification are the following:
• Current state issued driver’s license
• Current state issued identification card (issued only by the Department of Motor Vehicles)
• If a person has a visa and/or does not have a social security number, the applicant must contact the Volunteer Services department right away for alternate steps.

Battle of the Books Tryouts -

• Check out the flyer below if you are interested in trying out for our Battle of the Books Team.
• We will have two(2) teams - 3rd - 5th grade & Middle School

 Celebrate Literacy Week, Florida!

          January 22-26, 2024

   District: St Johns County

School: Pine Island Academy

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Monday, January 22 - PIA kicks off Literacy Week

• Begin reading and copleting your goal tracking sheet
• Bring your tracking sheet every day to your teacher every day to add to your classes total of pages read chart
• The class from grade K - 2, 3 - 5, and middle school with the most pages read will receive 50.00 to buy books for their classroom!
• Students build their “Self on the Shelf” by creating a cutout person to place on a class shelf, where each shelf is identified as a genre.
• Students will place their cutout on the shelf that corresponds to the genre of the book they are reading.

Tuesday, January 23 -

• Idiom Parade

Wednesday, January 24 - Partnering to read!

• K - 5 students will buddy up with our middle school students to read together

Thursday, January 25 - Reading is cool and breezy!

• Wear your Hawaiian shirt

Friday, January 26 - Reading is restful!

• Wear your lounge wear and snuggle up with a good book

Yearbooks for Sale

• Yearbooks are on sale until sold out or until 4/30-
• Yearbooks will not be available after 4/30 and a second round of orders WILL NOT be ordered once we sell out.
• Yearbooks are $30.00 until 11/30. After 11/30 yearbooks will increase to $35.00
• You can add personalization to the covers until 12/31/2023

School Access(IMPORTANT)

• Please make sure you have school access approval now so that when you attend events on campus, you are cleared to attend.
• Your application is good for 3 years. Please do NOT submit another application, original application will be renewed.
• Instructions were in the back to school packet but can also be found here.
• If you are unsure of your approval status, please contract the front office at 904-547-4300.

Family Portal Score Reporting Updates

• Student scores for PM2 are currently available in the Family Portal.
• Families are able to see and print their student’s scale score, achievement level, and a bar graph indicating the student’s scale score and where it falls in the achievement level.
• Access codes for students in grade 3-10 are available in HAC under the Registration tab.
• Click on the flyer to help access information.

Kinder - 5th grade Author Visit -

• On Jan. 25 & Jan 26 Author, Andrew Donaldson, will visit PIA.
• Mr. Donaldson was a 1st grade teacher at PIA last year and excited to share his new journey as a writer with our students.
• He will share his book, Guardians of the Wilderness: Sunset over the Savannah.
• Families have the opportunity to purchase Mr. Donaldson's book.
• Click on the flyer to place the book order and learn more about the book.

• Should you have any questions, please contact Mrs. Myers
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8^th Grade Yearbooks Ads

PTO Weekly Updates

ATTENTION!!! Click on the graphic below to read PTO weekly updates!