The Wave PVPV /Rawlings Elementary

December 2017

December, 20174 Toy Drive kick-off for Sister School

5 Music Club performs

@ Vicar’s Landing

7 Music Club Performance, 6:30pm

Rawlings Café

8 5th Grade Spelling Bee

13 Kids of Character Breakfast

19 Student Holiday Sing-a-longs

21 Early Release, 1:50 pm

22 Winter Break (Dec 22- Jan 5)

Jan 8 Classes Resume

January, 2018Club/New Student Pictures,

Jump Rope for Heart, and more…

610 A1A North, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082Rawlings (904) 547-8570 PVPV (904) 547-3820

Happy December Everybody!

This time of year is exciting for our young students who

take in the holiday hubbub around them in the world. While

we keep our learning environments focused and calm, we

also welcome a little holiday enrichment to put smiles on

our students’ faces. On Dec. 19th, our two marvelous Music

Teachers – Mrs. Suppa and Mrs. Hunt – will host holiday

sing-a-longs. Mrs. Suppa’s music club will share holiday joy

in the community as well, with performances at Vicar’s

Landing Dec. 5th and for their families Dec. 7th.

Our amazing Art Teachers – Mrs. Stroer and Mrs.

Scribner – have worked since school began on your

SquareOne art orders so you can have them in time for

holiday gifts. Mrs. Scribner is also our yearbook sponsor,

so you may see her taking pictures around campus in her

spare time (little joke there…she has no such thing!).

Our multitasking Media Specialists – Mr. Edeker and

Mrs. Gallaher – offer STEM “maker spaces” to welcome

students for books and beyond. Mr. Edeker and Mrs.

Gallaher also monitor student progress toward reading all

15 Sunshine State books for our Walls of Fame and Pals

with the Principal programs. Our popular PE teachers –

Coach Harden and Coach Sparks – are making sure our

students exercise their holiday excitement in this beautiful

weather. Come January, Coach Harden will support our

Rawlings students as they Jump Rope for Heart!

Thank you to our resource teachers who enhance our

students’ experiences, and who help us offer such

Excellence in Education! I hope this holiday season brings

much peace, love and joy for your families.

Caty Van Housen, Principal

Upcoming EventsPrincipal’s Message

Media Center Maker Spaces!

Kindergarten Second Grade Fourth Grade

Isla Harvick Noah Weinroth Alessia Losada

Maggie Black Berkeley Johnson Ava Lee

Alena Hudson Lucia Ellis Grace Griffin

Olivia Caron Zachary Pirris Steel Lickliter

Harper Knarr Connie Bowden Kate Pelot

Aubrey Somensatto Grayson Ditzel Eric Hanel

Addison Smith Ella Galen Taylor Scribner

Jaxie Zarczynski Cooper Combs Annabelle Giurato

Briella Webber

Benjamin Johnson

First Grade Third Grade Fifth Grade

Aria Gilberto Sarah Stanton Jane Hardy

Kate Dickerson Anton Berianu Banks Vadeboncoeur

Andrew Pak Leianna Williams Ashley Oakman

Annalise Luby Brody Johnson Neale Snell

Jayla Miranda Sophia Zawacki Samay Patel

Madilyn Steckenrider Carter Stoltz Dani Conk

Charlotte Chowske Charlie Wells Whitfield Brice

Madison Dailey Edith Alford Rowan Millan

Kate Lydon Joselyn Russell

ACE

Emily Peterson

Carrie Aung

Congratulations to our October

Kids of Character

“Responsibility”

Congratulations!!!!!

The following students have read all 15 Sunshine State

Young Readers Award books! Their 8x10 photo is

posted on the Media Center Wall of Fame and they will

be invited to a special end-of-year celebration.

Allie, First at LastAlmost a World Record

BreakerCastle HangnailA Dragon’s Guide to the

Care and Feeding of Humans

Framed!The Hero Two Doors DownMaxi’s Secrets: Or What you

Can Learn From a DogMy Brother is a SuperheroNight of the Living WormsPugs of the Frozen NorthSave Me A SeatThe Vanishing CoinA Whole New BallgameThe Wild RobotWilly Maykit in Space

Spotlight on Achievers!

Wynston AlexanderLevente BanyaiJackson BohsaliKatherine ChattawayZoe Epstein

Carter MagnanoAshley OakmanEmlynn RossiyaZane SwierzNikki Walton

Ada Twist, ScientistThe Bad GuysDouglas, You Need GlassesFerocious FluffityLet Me FinishMarch of the Mini BeastsMy Life in PicturesMy Pet HumanNarwhal: Unicorn of the SeaThe Rooster Who Would Not

Be QuietStorybook KnightThere’s a Bear on y ChairThunder Boy Jr.We Forgot BrockWoodpecker Wants a Waffle

Congratulations!!!!!

The following students

have read all 15 Sunshine

State Young Readers

Award Junior books!

Skylar Busch

Brogan Tanner (both in Mrs. Tye’s class)

Students verify

their reading

through quizzes

on the SSYRA

books … offered

by our Media

Center

specialists,

Mr. Edeker and

Mrs. Gallaher.

Thank you everyone who helped our Farm Share

Food Drive! We collected 1,015 pounds!

We helped more than 1,000 families in need at the Thanksgiving Farm

Share event! Thank you Guidance

Counselors Stacey O’Brien and Christy Thacker!

Our clinic at Rawlings is accepting clothing donations for those little accidents that happen during the day.

Please drop off any clothing donations to the Rawlings clinic. Thank you in advance!

Our next service-learning project is to support our our sister school -- Otis A. Mason

Elementary – by collecting toys for their families so they too can enjoy the holiday season. We

would appreciate any unwrapped NEW toys you can donate. We are accepting toys for ages 4-10

years, both boys and girls, including Legos, Barbies, Action Figures, Nerf toys, footballs,

soccer balls, etc. Donation bins are located at the entrance to both front offices during the collection period of December 1st – 8th.Thank

you for helping to make the holiday season for others memorable.

Our Sister School OTIS A. MASON

ELEMENTARY TOY DRIVE

December 1-8

PVPV/Rawlings is proud to announce our Volunteers of the Year! We thank these

dedicated individuals for their contributions to our school and our community.

Marianne Stein is our Senior Volunteer. Mrs. Stein is well-known to our Rawlings

students for her work in the Media Center. She assists with book restoration,

categorizing books and when time allows, she is a brilliant storyteller.

Laura DeStella-Whippy is our Adult Volunteer. Mrs. DeStella-Whippy has worked

tirelessly with the Blessings in a Backpack program in our area schools. BIP is a

nationwide charity that provides breakfast and lunch supplements for children in

need. Last year she and her husband funded the program at PVPV/Rawlings, and

she single-handedly shopped and packed blessings for our students.

Neale Snell is our Youth Volunteer. Miss Snell is a 5th grader in Ms. DeGrasse’s

class. She helps her family work foster rescue dogs with SAFE (Saving Animals

from Euthanasia.) Neale has fostered Bernie, Skippy, Chicken, Cheeto, and Joey.

(But she’s keeping Cookie!)

Our stellar volunteers will be honored, along with other St. Johns County School

volunteers, at a reception on April 5th.

Thank you Food Service Manager Mrs. Peto for the

wonderful Thanksgiving Lunch!

NEW ENRICHMENT CAMP FOR JANUARY

Watch the website for a new enrichment camp coming in January – CHESS! As of

now we are planning on Fridays from 3:00-4:15.

PARENTS: FRIENDLY REMINDER: We need your help to make dismissal time go

as smoothly as possible. Let Lynda Wing, Extended Day Coordinator, know as

soon as possible and no later than 1:45 (12:45 on Wednesday) if your child will not

be attending EXTENDED DAY. You can reach her at 904-547-3830 or via email

lynda.wing@stjohns.k12.fl.us.

If your child will not be attending their ENRICHMENT CAMP you should contact the

Camp directly and also the front office of your child’s building. It would be a huge

help if you would remind your student in the morning when they have a Camp after

school. You might also want to email or send a note to their teacher so she knows

where to send them. IT MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE

News from Extended Day

December Lunch MenuDECEMBER LUNCH MENU 2017 ST JOHNS COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT ELEMENTARY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

1 Hot Dog

Chicken Nuggets w/ garlic toast Cheese Sticks & Marinara Spinach and Romaine Salad

Carrot Dippers & Celery and Cucumber Bake Beans

Assorted Fruit Variety of Milk

4 Chicken Quesadilla Cheese Sticks Chicken nugget W/WG Roll Steamed Broccoli Green Beans Carrot dippers w/ ranch Assorted Fruit & Variety of milk

5 Cheese or Pepperoni Calzone

With marinara Chicken Patty Sandwich Mini corn dogs

Spinach and Romaine Salad Cherry Tomato & Celery Dippers

Bake Beans Assorted Fruit & Variety of milk

6 Cheese Pizza

Pepperoni Pizza Chicken Nuggets & WG roll

Cherry tomato & celery Broccoli florets/ranch

corn Assorted Fruit

Variety of milk Papa John’s Ala carte

7 Pasta and meatballs

Hot dogs Chicken Nuggets w/garlic toast

Spinach& Romaine Salad Celery & sweet red peppers dippers

carrot dippers sweet potato puffs

Assorted Fruit Variety of milk

8 BBQ Chicken and garlic toast Cheese burger Mini Corn dogs

Bake Potato cuts Cherry tomato with celery Spinach and romaine Assorted Fruit Variety of Milk

11 Mac & Cheese

BBQ Chicken Max Snax Chicken nuggets & garlic toast

Carrot Dippers w/ ranch Steamed Broccoli

Green Beans Assorted Fruit

Variety Milk

12 Mini Corn Dogs Cheese Ravioli & garlic toast

Nacho Bites Spinach& Romaine Salad Carrot dippers & Corn

Celery and sweet peppers Assorted Fruit

Variety of milk

13 Cheese or Pepperoni Pizza

Chicken Nuggets w/ WG Roll Carrot dippers

Spinach and Romaine cucumbers and Celery Dippers

Sweet peas Assorted Fruit Variety of milk

Papa John’s Ala carte

14 Cheese Burger Chicken Patty Sandwich

Chicken Nuggets w/garlic toast Spinach& Romaine Salad

Celery & sweet red peppers carrot dippers

Crispy Potato cuts Assorted Fruit

Variety of milk

15 Hot Dog Chicken Nuggets w/ garlic toast

Cheese Sticks & Marinara Spinach and Romaine Salad

Carrot Dippers & Celery and Cucumber Bake Beans

Assorted Fruit Variety of Milk

18 Chicken Quesadilla Cheese Sticks Chicken nugget W/ WG Roll Steamed Broccoli Green Beans Carrot dippers w/ ranch Assorted Fruit & Variety of milk

19 Cheese or Pepperoni Calzone

With marinara Chicken Patty Sandwich Mini corn dogs Spinach and Romaine Salad Sweet red

peppers & celery dippers Bake Beans

Assorted Fruit & Variety of milk

20 Cheese Pizza

Pepperoni Pizza Chicken Nuggets & WG roll

Cherry tomato & celery Broccoli florets/ranch

corn Assorted Fruit

Variety of milk Papa John’s Ala carte

21 Cheese Burger

Chicken Patty Sandwich Chicken Nuggets w/garlic toast

Spinach& Romaine Salad Celery & sweet red peppers

carrot dippers Crispy Potato cuts

Assorted Fruit Variety of milk

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One cool box is served daily contents include Strawberry yogurt, Cinnamon toppings, carrot sticks with ranch, choice of vegetable, slice apples and milk.

Dad's Club Campus Cleanup

Thank you to our Dad's Club who worked so hard on Saturday,

November 11! The volunteers worked on the kindergarten garden

beds, trimmed shrubs, cleaned up debris, and fed and groomed

our orange trees! If you are interested in joining Dad's Club,

please contact James Streit at james.s.streit@gmail.com

PVPV Rawlings collected a total of

17,523 Box Tops for a total of $1,752.30! The top classes were . . .

PVPV1. Lyons (1st) - 8102. Sloan (2nd) - 5463. Tye (2nd) - 544

Rawlings1. Link (4th) - 10022. LaMonica (5th) - 6843. Henkel (3rd) - 572

These classes won their own Dunkin Donuts celebration! Every child in the top 3 classes at each school will also receive a Chick Fil A Free Kids Meal.

The next collection deadline is February 9. Please keep collecting! It's a great time to collect Box Tops from family and friends you may see over the holidays.

The PVPV/Rawlings PTO would like to extend a super Sea Turtle thank you to our

amazing Community Partners for the 2017-18 school year. We are excited to welcome our newest partner, The Goddard School!

Thank you for all you do to support our school!