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

December Events 2019

2- 4th Grade Jimmy Sawgrass

3- Music Club to Vicar’s

Landing

9- 3rd Grade Battle of the Books

9- 6pm Music Club Mini Concert

10- 4th Grade Battle of the Books

12- 5th Grade Battle of the Books

13- School Team Battle of the

Books

12/23-1/3- Winter Break

Upcoming Events

Principal’s Message

December 2019

PVPV/Rawlings Elementary

“There is always, always, something to be thankful for.” -unknownAs we head into Thanksgiving break, I cannot help but

reflect on how thankful I am to serve this school and community. Every day, I am reminded and awed by the amazing students, families, and faculty here at PVPV/Rawlings. Just this month, our students and families have volunteered and cheered on Veterans during the Carry Forward 5k, have collected countless canned and packaged goods to donate to Farm Share, and have provided Thanksgiving feasts for local families who otherwise would have gone without one this holiday season. This really is a special place because of you all. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday and I’m so looking forward to making memories with my family and enjoying precious time with my loved ones. I hope you all will do the same.

Of course, after we stuff ourselves silly on Thursday, we begin the hectic holiday shopping season. I’ve been asked by many families how they can help provide a toy for a needy child to open this season. Our PTO has made providing a toy for one of our students, or a needy student in St. Johns County, easier than ever. Boxes will be set up at both schools starting Monday December 2nd

to collect toys that are brought into school. However, we also have set up an Amazon wish list for parents who find this option more convenient. Simply click on the link in the wave, pick out and pay for a toy, and the packages will be delivered here to PVPV/Rawlings. Our PTO will deliver these toys to students here at our school as well as needy students at our local Title 1 schools who otherwise might not be getting a toy this Christmas. I have personally spoken to Randy Kelly, the principal at Southwoods Elementary school in Hastings, who tells me he has well over 200 students whose Christmas could be brightened by one of these gifts.

Cherish the time with your loved ones this week. Thank you all.Sincerely,Dr. Gates

Early Act Club facilitated

its first service learning

project for the year with

the Wounded Warriors

Carry Forward 5K on

Saturday, November 9th in

Jacksonville. Dr. Gates,

teachers, parents, and

student leaders had an

awesome time

volunteering and running

for Veterans at the event!

Mr. Redmond, a veteran (and Emma’s dad), talking to Ms. Huston’s class about his experience in the British army as a tank gunner.

Ms. Douglas’ First Grade class created this beautiful American flag to honor our veteran’s.

Early Act Club leaders have been busy building and

delivering recycling bins to all of Rawlings classrooms and

offices; the recycling bins were donated by Advanced

Disposal. Next steps...Early Act Club leaders are partnering

with Mrs. Huston’s 1st grade class to distribute recycling bins throughout PVPV! 🌎💪🏼 More updates to come soon...

Reduce, reuse, and recycle! #servicebeforeself

Ms. Whitlock’s students loved their STEM project and worked hard to build the tallest tower! Unfortunately, the candy corn breaks easily, and they learned they are using marshmallows next time!!

PVPV/Rawlings staff celebrating Book

Character Day!

Mrs. Caldwell’s class read The Keeping Quilt and decided to try using a needle and thread to make pillows. The finished product!

Ms. LaMonica’s 30 Days of Gratitude Tree inspired by Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree

Ms. Brubaker handing out Student of the Week certificates to our First Graders!

Congratulations to our Spelling Bee champ Rafay Bajwa!

The 5th graders wrote letters to the

November class at K9s For Warriors as well

as donated Kongs, Peanut Butter and

Nylabones to give to their service-dogs.

Florida law prohibits using a handheld “wireless communication device” while operating a vehicle in any school zone, school crossing, or work zone. The definition of a wireless communication device is broad and includes cellphones, tablets, laptops, and similar devices.

No-Phone-Zone Reminder

The district has updated our school web site so that it

automatically adjusts to your mobile device, which means the

format automatically changes for your iPad, iPhone, computer,

etc.

The new layout is very user friendly! Be sure to check it out

often for important updates!

http://www-pvmkr.stjohns.k12.fl.us/

School Hours8:05 – Doors Open8:15 – First Bell: Students report to class8:20 – Morning Announcements aired via closed-circuit8:25 – Tardy Bell

After 8:25 - Please park your car and walk your child into the office and sign them in.

Don’t Forget!

Early Release is

1:45 every Wednesday

We are now allowing parents to bring in younger children to join their sibling for lunch. Please keep younger children with you at all times. You are welcome to sit at the Family Table in the café or out on the Turtle Terrace (at PV). Please note there is no parent/family lunch on Fridays.

This year our PTO is organizing a Holiday Toy Drive for our Blessings Families and South Woods Elementary School, a title one school in the south part of our district. Please browse the holiday wish list on Amazon or send in a toy of your choice to either front office by Friday, December 6. If you choose to purchase from our Amazon Wish List, it can be shipped directly to the school! Thank you in advance for helping us spread holiday cheer to all children!

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/L097F1I9L7H9/ref=nav_wishlist_lists_1?_encoding=UTF8&type=wishlist

PVPV/RAWLINGS Elementary School is a

participant in the Chip in for Youth Program

through the PGA. If you purchase your tickets

to THE PLAYERS GOLF TOURNAMENT

through the link below using our special code

PVPV/RAWLINGS will receive $30.00 of the $55.00

ticket. This is a great way to purchase tickets for

the golf and help your school!!!

The top three schools selling the most tickets will

receive an AWESOME REWARD!!!

First place receives $10,000

Second place receives $5000

Third place receives $2500

Order your tickets today and help our school be in

the top 3!!!

Deadline is February 28th.

Thank you for your support!

https://www.ticketmaster.com/promo/jybfen

SPECIAL CODE: PVPV

We would like to thank the ExxonMobil Educational Assistance program for their grant of $500 to PVPV/Rawlings to support our science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs.

December 4th will be Family Night in the Ponte Vedra Community. PVPV/Rawlings, Landrum, and PVHS will not have homework on December 4th and will not have tests scheduled for December 5th.

We are so grateful for our wonderful teachers and staff! This year to show our gratitude, the PTO teamed up with Fisher, Tousey, Leas, & Ball, and the Manners Family to provide a delicious meal for our teachers and staff!

Thank you Box Tops Classroom Coordinators for all of your hard work! PVPV/Rawlings collected a total of 8,920 Box Tops for a total of $892. The top classes were . . .

PVPV1. Mills2. Huston3. Lyons

Rawlings (there was a tie for 3rd place!)1. Tucci2. LaMonica3. Boehner & Garcia

The next collection deadline is 4/24/20 for both physical & digital Box Tops. Please encourage your classes to keep collecting! It's a great time to collect Box Tops from family and friends you may see over the holidays and show them how to download and use the new Box Tops App (make sure to pick PVPV/Rawlings as your school).

Thank you!Desiree Boyer & Katie Sanfilippo

CONGRATULATIONS to our

November Kids of Character

Citizenship

KindergartenBronson BabinSkyler MandevilleGigi SapiaElliott CombsRory WandellEmma BerquistGraham KingstonMalia Werner

First GradeJohn SmerinaWilliam BowdenLillian SchraderAvery RoseKate BerquistLola RoacheLennon CookPalmer PhillipsEvan Policastro

Second GradeAustin WodehouseHarper HronekNicholas MartyLayla TillmanAmaia RuizRex SternbergNate BlackJeremy StewartBella Wall

Ace- Alena HudsonCooper Osol

Third GradeLuca SantimauroNya TepperJuliette BurrellKelly RobertsGabriella OlitskyLiam PuzeyKingston KrauseMina Bohsali/Jake ScribnerShrpresa Hoxha

Fourth GradeMax HowardGracie PorterCal McGrawFinley VadeboncoeurKate HurfordAbigail WilsonAbigail SquiresZoey BrownElla Galen

Fifth GradeKsenia VorobjovJayden LimColton DietrichLeianna WilliamsOwen BesticJameson HarringtonMalia GautamGavin Mesquit

Resource- Michael SmerinaAlexander Schmidt

Students verify their reading through quizzes on the SSYRA books … offered by our Media Center Specialists, Mr. Edeker

and Mrs. Gallaher.

Spotlight on Achievers!

The Ambrose Deception Annie’s Life in Lists

Ben Franklin’s in my Bathroom!

The Bicycle Spy

Bob

Cosmic Commandos

Dragon with a Chocolate Heart

Ghost Attack

Sled Dog School

Stella Diaz Has Something to Say

Superstar

Survival Tails: The Titanic Tumble & Blue

Wedgie & Gizmo

Congratulations!!!

These 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.

Mysha Azhar

Jackson Bohsali

Connie Bowden

Kaiya Dodson

Quinn Faircloth

Malia Gautam

Anna Graves

Lila Gregory

Raquel Hill

Kate Hurford

Catherine Mitchell

Nicholas Olomu

Dhruv Patel

Arianna Rahmathulla

Rilyn Rogers

Ethan Rozen

Lincoln Rozen

Catherine Stoltz

Leila Warren

Ms. Grzybek

Ms. Garcia

Congratulations!!!

These 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.

The Princess and The Pit Stop Melia and Jo The Very Impatient Caterpillar Rot: The Cutest in the World Inky the Octopus We Don’t Eat Our Classmates Grumpy MonkeyThe Bagel King The Little Red FortNeck & NeckGood Rosie! Stealing the SwordThe Great Cheese RobberyThe New Kid Mia Mayhem is a Superhero!

Joseph Mitchell

Nathan Olomu

Noah Olomu

Aubrey Somensatto

Luke Tsao

Lydia Tsao

Rylan Wolford

Students verify their reading through quizzes on the SSYRA books … offered by our Media

Center Specialists, Mr. Edeker and Mrs. Gallaher.

Spotlight on Achievers!

Nicholas Atkinson

Maggie Black

William Bowden

Keegan Carroll

Kahlan Crowley

Garrett Gregory

Gemma Laaser

Reid Miranda

Great Books for Readers

1st – 5th GradesThe goal is for students to read the required number of books on their grade level list to achieve READING SUPERSTARDOM and AWESOMENESS!!!

Students must take the AR quiz to get credit for reading the book.All reading superstars will have their photo placed in the media center and be invited to attend a special celebration in May.

http://www-pvmkr.stjohns.k12.fl.us/media/great-books-for-readers/

Required Number of Books:1st Grade: 40 books2nd Grade: 40 books3rd Grade: 25 books4th Grade: 25 books5th Grade: 25 books(Grade Level Book Lists provided through link above)

GREAT READERSViolet Graves- 1st gradeAsher Bullard- 2nd grade Anna Graves- 4th grade

ACE

NEWS

NOVEMBER

ACE PARENTS NEWSLETTER

PAYMENT NO. 6 IS NOW DUE. IF NOT RECEIVED BY THE 15TH YOU

WILL BE CHARGED A $25 LATE FEE. ALL PAYMENTS AND ACCOUNTS

MUST BE UP TO DATE BEFORE HOLIDAY BREAK OR YOUR CHILD

WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO ATTEND EXTENDED DAY UPON RETURN

IN JANUARY.

REMINDER – WE WILL BE CLOSING AT 5:00 PM SHARP ON

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20TH , THE LAST DAY BEFORE HOLIDAY

BREAK. IT IS A VERY BUSY TIME OF YEAR FOR ALL OF US. Please be

sure to have a backup in case of unforeseen things like traffic, accidents,

etc. We appreciate your picking your child up as early as possible.

As we enter the holiday season please remember to leave time for

traffic/accidents at this busy time of year when picking up you child.

PLEASE HAVE A BACKUP in case of an emergency should you not be able

to get here by 6:00.

Please check the lost and found before the break as we will be donating

everything right before break.

BEST WISHES FROM THE ACE STAFF FOR A HAPPY, HEALTHY

AND PROSPEROUS HOLIDAY SEASON AND NEW YEAR!!

TRASH OR TREASURE?? Please send Mrs. Scribner (at PVPV) any random items you think she could use for her Recycled Art Unit. Old maps, DVDs, vinyl records, fabric, yarn, paper, newspaper, bubble wrap, Styrofoam, etc. Even objects like old keys, silverware, kitchen utensils, smaller blocks of wood, etc. are great for creating textures for clay and printmaking.REUSE, REDUCE, RECYCLE!

Thank you to Fishman Pediatric Dentistry

and the book fair dream team: Debbie

Rozen, Beth Squires, Mona Altaf, Heidi

McLeod, Genevieve Miranda, and Julia

Hightower for sponsoring such a wonderful

and successful Fall Book Fair!

CAFETERIA NEWS

Every child will be provided with a lunch account. You are now able to deposit funds in

SchoolPay.com for your student. To set up an account to put money in for your child and see

what your child has purchased for lunch.

Please check your child’s lunch account weekly. School pay does not send reminders or have automatic refill at this time. If you have any questions you can reach me at

Jessica.peto@stjohns.k12.fl.us or 904-547-8576You may also send in money with your child’s first and last name in a sealed envelope. Your

child’s teacher will send it down to me. Your child may get breakfast every day. Your child’s

breakfast includes breakfast entrée, fruit, juice and milk. Your child’s lunch includes a choice of

one entrée, choice of vegetables, choice of fruit and milk. If your child gets a second entrée

then he or she will be charged ala carte. We also have a one cool box daily for lunch that

includes yogurt, graham crackers, slice apples carrot dippers w/ranch, choice of another

vegetable and milk. Here are the items we sell in our cafeteria.School breakfast $1.25 School lunch $2.80

Dry Cereal $0.60 Extra entrée $2.25

Fruit $0.75 One cool box $2.70

Yogurt $0.75 Vegetables $0.75

Graham crackers $0.75 Popcorn or gold fish $0.75

Milk $0.60 Water $0.75

Cookies (Thurs.) $0.35 Garlic toast $0.35

Cheese sticks $0.50 Fruit snacks (Rawlings only) $0.75-0.85

Ice cream (Friday) $1.00 Papa John’s slice $1.85

On Wednesdays only we will serve Papa John’s pizza. Each slice is $1.85, and everything that

your child gets with Papa John’s will be charged as ala carte.

If you have any questions or concerns please email me at Jessica.Peto@stjohns.k12.fl.us or

call me at 904-547-8576. Thank You!

If you receive free or reduced lunch, you may qualify for a weekend food supplement

program known as Blessings-in-a-Backpack. This food staple snack bag is given out

weekly throughout the school year. The bag is typically sent home in your child’s backpack

on Friday afternoons. If you would like to participate or need further information about

Blessings in a Backpack, please contact your building’s counselor, Stacey O’Brien

(Stacey.Obrien@stjohns.k12.fl.us) or Christy Thacker

(Christy.Thacker@stjohns.k12.fl.us).

To apply for free or reduced lunch, visit the St. Johns County website at

www.stjohns.k12.fl.us/food/free/. You may also contact the cafeteria manager, Jessica Peto

at 547-8576, for questions related to the application process.

BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK