Dear Parents,

Happy Friday! Today was the last day of the 2^nd quarter (ummm……WHAT?!?) and just like that we are half way through the year already (That seems a little CRAZY!)!!!  There is still so much to learn and so much to do!  Thank you for helping, praying for, and encouraging your child as they go through this year. 

Report cards will be coming home on Wednesday.  Please watch for them!

Just as a reminder…here are the fun activities that will be happening during Lutheran Schools Week, next week.   

Monday: PJ day & Pancake breakfast

Tuesday: Mustache/Crazy hair/Hat Day & Chapel Family game day

*All color on hair & mustache must be FULLY removed by Wednesday morning*

(students may bring in board or card games to play with their chapel families. Please be sensitive to younger students being included and time it takes to play the game.

Wednesday: Career Day, Chapel, Bucketfiller Assembly

Thursday: Favorite Movie Character Day (no weapons whatsoever,

dress needs to be appropriate/modest) & Movie Day.

Friday: Spiritwear Day & Teacher Quiz Bowl

It’s shaping up to be a fun week and I am looking forward to celebrating Lutheran Education and our great Lutheran School!

We were able to watch the swearing in of our new vice president and president of the United States today at noon!  We then prayed for the office of the President and asked that God be with President Trump and all of the leaders of our country.

Science books are going home today so that chapter 3 can be reviewed for our test on Monday. Thanks for reviewing with your kiddo!

See you on Sunday, to sing praises to our God.  We will be meeting in the basement by 10:15am.  Thank you!

Blessings on your weekend,

Miss Gallagher

“Following the Signs”

Dear Parents,

It has been SO LONG! With all of the craziness of the last few weeks, there hasn’t been much opportunity to blog on a regular basis. 

This morning in Chapel, Pastor spoke to us about how we can YIELD to Christ and His will.  This is so hard to do sometimes….wouldn’t you agree?   There are times that Christ is knocking on our hearts and we don’t want to listen!  I pray that we are able to listen a little more closely to what God’s will is for us, daily.  

Today, we also learned about Martin Luther King Jr. and how he stood up for equality and how he fought against the injustices of this country…not with violence, but with love. After we read the story “Martin’s Big Words”, we talked about some words that we thought described him.  I was so impressed with the firsties’ list!  Words such as; determined, brave, loving, calm, leader, godly, were a few that they came up with!  We also talked about how he had BIG dreams and some of them came true!  A part of their homework tonight is for each firstie to write about 4 different dreams that they have for their lives.  Please make sure that these papers come back so that I can create a big of our BIG dreams! Thanks!

We are unto Chapter seven in Math!  Today we talked about the numbers 11-19; how we can make them and what their number word looks like.  Please review these at home! 

Tomorrow, I will be sending home the words for our song that we are singing on Sunday (It’s called “The House of the Lord”).  Please just have your kiddos go over the words a few times before Sunday.  Thanks!

Have a great rest of your Wednesday!

Miss Gallagher

Dear Parents,

We are back at it! The Firsties seem to be refreshed and ready to learn and that makes this teacher pretty happy!

There was a funeral in the church yesterday, so Chapel was held in the Gym.  Pastor shared with us all about the Epiphany Turtle.  

What?!?
You’ve never heard about the Epiphany Turtle?!?

 (Don’t worry…neither had I). 

Epiphany is the season in our church year that celebrates not only the Wise Men coming from the East to find and worship baby Jesus, but also Jesus, the Savior, being born into our sinful world.  He is the light that came into our dark world and saved us from our sins.  Just as the Wise Men from the East followed the star, Jesus is our light that we follow.  The Epiphany Turtle has a solar panel on the back of it and when it absorbs the light from the sun, it will show off the light in the dark for others.  What a great example for us!  When we take in the light from the One that gives light, we can’t help but shine that light to others!  How will you share that light?  How will you give that light to others? 

We wrote our “New Year’s Resolutions” today in class!  These Firsties are going to “knock our socks off” with what their goals are for 2017.  Watch for them to come home!

Next week will be starting our 2^nd round of NWEA testing.  Please try to not have your child miss any school in the next two weeks!  Thank you for making sure that your kiddo has a great breakfast and that they get enough sleep each night. 

It is has been SO COLD that we have not been able to go outside.  With the wind chill, it was -7 today!  BRRRRRRR!  That being said, hopefully it won’t continue to stay this cold out and we hope to get back out side again soon.  Please make sure your that your child is prepared with snowpants, mittens, gloves, hat, scarf, boots, etc..

The January calendar will be coming home tomorrow so you can get a head start on spelling words and the memory work for next week. 

Blessings on your weekend!

Miss Gallagher

“Following the Signs”