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WOLF NEWS
NEWSLETTER | SEPTMEBER 2017
Liberty Pines Academy WO
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UPCOMING DATES
OCTOBER
November
3 PTO Meeting – 10 a.m.
6 Boosterthon Fun Run
8:45 a.m. K & 1st
10:00 a.m. 4th & 5th
12:30 p.m. 2nd & 3rd
10 SAC Meeting – 4 p.m.
13 End of Quarter One
16 Hurricane Make-Up Day
24 Report Cards Issued
26 Leader of the Pack Ceremony
– 7:30a.m.
2 Picture Retakes
7 PTO Meeting – 10 a.m.
9 Liberty Parade – 9:00a.m.
10 Hurricane Make-Up Day
14 SAC Meeting – 4 p.m.
16 Interims Issued – 3rd – 8th
grades
16th –
17th
Kindergarten, 1st, and 3rd
grade Health Screenings
22nd –
24nd
Thanksgiving Break
Message from Mrs. Hemingway
Liberty Pines Academy Families,
• Thank you to our 8th grade families that attended our Washington
DC Parent information meeting. If you were not able to attend, we
will email out the information, forms, and links for the trip. If you
have any questions, please contact Ms. Alex Martin at
• Thank you to McDonalds on 210 for providing the Everyday
Leaders program for our second and third grade classrooms.
Students were able to learn ways to successfully show how to
listen to others, set a good example, to be responsible for their
actions, and how to do their best!
• In a continuing effort to provide safety and security to our students
and staff we ask that you complete a School Access Form if you
plan to enter a facility in the St. Johns County School District. This
includes if you would like to participate in activities or events for
your child in their classroom, eating lunch with your child in the
cafeteria on special occasions, field trips, book fairs, field days,
parent/teacher conferences, etc. I would like to remind our families
to please complete the school access form online at
http://www.stjohns.k12.fl.us/volunteer/. It is important that each
member of the family (grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc.) complete
this access form online prior to requesting access into the school.
LPA Learning Leader,
Traci Hemingway
WOLF NEWS
Odyssey of the Mind
LPA is building an Odyssey of the Mind
(OM) Team! OM is a creative problem-
solving program involving students
from kindergarten through college.
Team members work together at length
to solve a predefined problem; and
present their solution to the problem at
a competition. They must also generate
solutions to a problem they have not
seen before. LPA will have a middle
school team that will meet on Tuesdays
from 3-4. All applications will be due on Wednesday, September 27th.
Box Tops
Please remember to save your box
tops and send them into school with the
name of your teacher on the bag.
Every quarter the teacher with the most
box tops from their class will win a
prize. This is an easy way to earn
money for our school!
Spirit Wear Fridays
We encourage you to wear LPA
apparel on Fridays to support the
school. Your last chance to buy LPA
spirit wear is before curriculum chat on
Tuesday, August 29th and Thursday,
August 31st. Students can also wear
their AVID shirts, which they will
receive in the coming weeks.
HAC
Do you have a 3rd – 8th grader? All
grades will be posted on our school
HAC. Parents are encouraged to
check their child’s progress frequently.
Media Matters
For the seventh year in a row, LPA will continue our military
supply collection and letter writing campaign for soldiers
deployed overseas. Our project was so successful in past
years that we have decided to keep our momentum moving
into the 2017-2018 school year. Your child's grade level will
be participating only in the given months. The Jacksonville
USO has graciously partnered with us to ship all of our
supplies and letters overseas to our deserving soldiers.
In the month of September and October, third, fourth and
fifth grade students will be collecting supplies and writing
letters. Letters outlining this project went home on
September 26th, including a list of approved USO supplies.
Please use the care package supply list and send in your
donated supplies by Wednesday, October 11th. Your child
will be writing their letters in class during a writing lesson.
Thank you for supporting our school, our community and our
troops!
LPA Supports Our Troops
The media center is a very busy place at LPA!
Thank you PTO, parents, teachers and students for all of
your support to our recent Scholastic Book Fair. We
reached out highest amount in sales in the history of LPA!
That means more books on the shelves for our students.
Thank you so very much for all of your support.
I will continue notifying our students and parents every
other week regarding overdue books. Parents will receive
overdue notices via email.
SSYRA books are a big “hit” again this year. Students can
receive brag tags once they read/test on a SSYRA 2017-
2018 book. We have many SSYRA books available in the
media center and some available as eBooks on the media
center website under the DESTINY icon.
Thank you for your support to the media center. It is an
honor to be the media specialist at LPA – a FANTASTIC
school!
Laura Rogers
3
The Liberty Pines Academy Drama Department will present “It’s a Wonderful Life, A Live
Radio Play!” December 7th and 8th at 6pm. This beloved American holiday classic comes
to captivating life as a live 1940s radio broadcast. With the help of an ensemble that
brings a few dozen characters to the stage, the story of idealistic George Bailey unfolds
as he considers ending his life one fateful Christmas Eve.
Congratulations to the cast: Eli Buettner, Rogan Dech, Logan Cardinal, Dane McGraw,
Emily Pacciano, Ella Buettner, Megan Brantly, Dylan Cordova, Annie Dill, Ella Kavanagh,
Rosemary Aziz, Ryan Toussaint, Hailey Sands, Lauren Holmes,
Meredith Aziz, Samantha Blanton
SJSCD MS Volleyball
Date Away Home
9/26 LPA POA
9/28 LPA FCMS
10/3 MMS LPA
10/5 SMS LPA
10/10 LPA GRMS
*Girl’s games start at 5:30 and boy’s games start at 6:30.
Date Away Home
9/27 LPA PBMS
10/5 SPMS LPA
10/11 LPA FCMS
10/18 SMS LPA
10/25 LPA GRMS
SJMSAA Football
NOTICE: The St. Johns Middle School Athletic Association (”SJMSAA”) middle school sports program is not operated or sponsored by the St. Johns County School District. SJMSAA is an independent, private non-profit corporation, which uses District middle school names and facilities under a license agreement with the District, and which is solely responsible for
the operation of the SJMSAA middle school sports program and its individual teams.
Date Meet Location
10/11 GRMS
11/1 FCMS
LPA Cross Country
Stay Informed!We want to continue to encourage parents
to join the Liberty Pines Academy PTO
Facebook page (you must be an approved
volunteer at the school to join) to get
information updates about events and
happenings at LPA.
Please sign up for Remind on your phone.
It’s a great way to get helpful reminders and
information about LPA events or grade
specific updates! Click on the following
links to enroll:
School Level Reminders:
LPA NEWS: https://remind.com/join/lpafyi
VOLUNTEER:
https://remind.com/join/helplpa
LPA PTO
Grade Level Reminders:
K: https://remind.com/join/lpakinder
1st :https://remind.com/join/lpafirst
2nd: https://remind.com/join/lpasecond
3rd : https://remind.com/join/lpathird
4th : https://remind.com/join/lpafourth
5th: https://remind.com/join/lpafifth
6th: https://remind.com/join/lpasixth
7th: https://remind.com/join/lpaseventh
8th: https://remind.com/join/lpaeighth
The "Of the Month" program is looking for your help in recognizing LPA
students, teachers, staff, and volunteers who go above and beyond for our
great school. I know there are some outstanding people who deserve this
recognition. If you feel you know of just the right person to be recognized,
please send an email to [email protected] with a short
description as to why this person should be considered.
The panel loves to receive nominations from parents, teachers, and
students!
Nominations will be accepted until October 2nd, and once each month for
the rest of the year.
Categories are:
• Teacher/Staff of the Month
• Volunteer of the Month
• Student of the Month K-4th
• Student of the Month 5th-8th
Check your Email: SignUpGeniusHave you gotten PTO’s emails about
SignUpGenius? PTO has sent out three emails so far this year. If not they may be going to your junk email. Please
check!
LPA’s Fun Run festivities kicked off on Monday, September 25th with a
pep rally. During the pep rally, students met the LPA Fun Run team and
were introduced to this year’s theme – “Castle Quest.”
The LPA Fun Run is a PTO‐sponsored educational program and
fundraiser. Boosterthon teaches students in Kindergarten through Fifth
Grade the values of fitness, leadership, and bravery. Students have been
learning about the six virtues of a true hero: Focus, Self-Awareness,
Respect, Trustworthiness, Creativity, and Life-Learner.
All parents are invited to attend the Fun Run that will be held on Friday,
October 6th at the following times:
8:45a.m. to 9:45a.m. Kindergarten and First Grade
10:00a.m. to 11:00a.m. Fourth and Fifth Grade
12:30p.m. to 1:30p.m. Second and Third Grade
Parents, grandparents or friends who would like to attend the fun run must
be approved volunteers. Please be sure to log on to funrun.com to enter
your pledges.
If we reach our goal of raising $40,000, students will get to participate in
an LPA Pajama Day. Additionally, incentives are being offered for the
class in each grade that raises the most money.
LPA 2017 Fun Run - Boosterthon
Of The Month Program
LPA PTO
Meet the Artist October-November sessions will focus on mixed media.
What is Mixed Media? It is the use of two or more art materials in an artwork. Collage is a type of mixed media and
the word comes from the French word “coller”, which means “to glue ". A collage is an artwork made by gluing things
together, such as: magazine photos, tissue paper or pieces of string. Most K-5 students will be making collages this
session.
Meet the Artist Volunteers - please check your emails for instructions on scheduling sessions with your teachers
and notifying MTA coordinators of your confirmed date/time with at least 48 hours notice.
Supply donations needed- magazines with photos that are appropriate for 5th grade students to cut out for their
Salvador Dali collage projects. If you have magazines to donate, please email Stephanie Colca at
Meet the Artist
2017 – 2018 LPA Business Partners
