Dear Parents,
Happy
Wednesday! How are you? We are well into the season of Lent now. Did
you give anything up for Lent? Or maybe instead of giving something up, you are
adding something to your days? I pray
that you are able to spend some quiet reflection time during this Lenten
season. In Chapel today, Mrs. Hurley played one of my favorite Lenten hymns and
I wanted to share it with you! The words are below. Please read them…they are so, so good.
My song is love unknown, My
Savior’s love to me,
Love to the loveless shown
That they might lovely be.
Oh, who am I That for my sake
My Lord should take frail flesh and die?
He came from His blest throne
Salvation to bestow,
But men made strange And none
the longed-for Christ would know.
But, oh, my friend, My friend
indeed, Who at my need His life did spend!
Sometimes they strew His way
And His sweet praises sing
Resounding all the day
Hosannas to their King
Then “Crucify!” Is all their
breath,
And for His death They thirst
and cry.
They rise and needs will have
My dear Lord made away;
A murderer they save, The Prince
of life they slay.
Yet cheerful He To suffering
goes
That He His foes From Thence
might free.
Here might I stay and sing,
No story so divine!
Never was love, dear King,
Never was grief like Thine.
This is my friend, In whose
sweet praise
I all my days Could gladly
spend!
In Religion class yesterday,
we learned about a very important verse in the Bible, John 3:16. “For God so loved the world, that He gave His
only Son, that whoever believes in Him, shall never perish, but have eternal
life.” Isn’t that our salvation in a
nutshell? God send His Son because He is
crazy about us! He loves us SO
MUCH! I pray that you are able to
remember this simple fact not only during Lent, but always!
Thank you for getting your
firstie to school so that they have time to visit with their friends and complete
their morning routine. When they are on
time, it helps to start our day in a positive and successful way!
Over the last few weeks, I
have been noticing more and more kiddos not getting their homework completed at
night. I understand that our routine has
been a little off because of snow days and breaks and everything, but at this
point of the school year, this isn’t something we should be struggling with. Please help me in making sure that your
firstie gets their work done and returns it to school the next day. Thank you!
To help strengthen our
writing, we have started using our little green dictionaries (Words I Use When
I Write). Did your firstie tell you about this?
They seem to be actually enjoying looking up words and working on things
themselves (It’s impowering!) Their
reading has improved in leaps and bounds throughout the year, now we have to
work on our writing skills!
Next week is when we are
celebrating National Lutheran Schools Week! We celebrate with doing fun things
throughout the week. Below are the
activities for each day! I am looking
forward to having fun and celebrating our Lutheran school and Lutheran
education!
Monday-
Dress
Like Your Favorite Movie Character Day (please be appropriate and
absolutely no weapons) and we will watch a movie in the afternoon (students
will get to choose what movie they’d like to watch)
Tuesday-
Twin/Triplet
Day (Students can dress alike with one or two people in our school)
Wednesday-
Olympic
Day (Each class will dress to represent a country and in the afternoon
we will have all-school “Olympic” activities) (1st grade will be
representing Ireland! Firsties can wear St. Patrick’s Day stuff or
clothes that are green, orange, or white)
Thursday-Tacky Day (Students may wear clothes that don’t match)
Friday-
PJ and Pancakes Day (This one is
pretty straight forward…..!)
Don’t forget to send in a
flashlight for our first Flashlight Friday (this
Friday!)!
Blessings!
Miss Gallagher
