Newsletter 1/14/2026

Calendar      

¨  January 15^th 

Basketball game HOME

Vs. St. Paul’s-Arlington

A & B at 4:00

¨  January 19^th 

NO SCHOOL

¨  January 20^th 

Basketball Practice

3:30 – 5:00

Cheer Practice

3:30 – 5:00

¨  January 22^nd 

Basketball Practice

3:30 – 5:00

Cheer Practice

3:30 – 5:00

NO SCHOOL

January 19^th there is no school in observance of Martin Luther King Jr Day. 

SCHOLASTIC BOOK ORDERS

Flyers will be sent home this week.

It’s a great way to build up your child’s book collection at home and help them improve their reading skills. And when you shop with Clubs, your orders earn points I can redeem for books and other classroom supplies we need.

Order due date: 1/28/2026Shop our class page: https://orders.scholastic.com/GWWND

Happy reading!

THRIVENT CARDS

We are blessed to have many school and church families willing to apply for Thrivent Action Team cards for various activities during the school year.  In order to best utilize those cards, we are asking if you are a Thrivent member and would be willing to apply for a Thrivent card for us, that you please click on the link below to provide us with your information.  Once we have a good list, we can then contact you if we are in need of a card for Fall Festival, Basketball Tournament, Christian Education Week, or other big events.  Thank you!

https://forms.gle/TLRRrAhxbnuZ4jubA

PAY-THE-DAY FUNDRAISER WINNERS

All participating students will be sent a Culvers ice cream token.

$100 gift card - Peik Family

$75 gift card - Barfknecht Family

$50 gift card - Kruse Family

$25 gift card - Lyle Family

Once the gift cards are in we will hand them out to parents/students.

CHURCH SINGING

Sunday, February 1^st we will be singing at St. Paul’s Lutheran church in Litchfield. Please have your child/ren to the church by 9:15, there is a back room that they will gather in.  Church begins at 9:30. 

Attendance has been very low the last few times we have sang, all families are encouraged to attend.  We know there are many churches that feed into our school family, we understand if you are able to sing but need to leave after.  All are welcome to stay for the entire service.

SCHOOLSTORE FUNDRAISER

This week, your child is bringing home a Book Buddy Lanyard letting you know about a safe and easy way for our school to raise funds for essential tools our students and teachers need to succeed.

The SchoolStore Program is 100% online so there is NO face-to-face selling, handling money, or delivering products.  Your participation will take less than 12 minutes, and there are exciting prizes to make it fun for the students.

Here is all you need to do to participate:

1.  Go to https://www.schoolstore.net/sid.t?0000288081 to sign up.

2.  Send form emails inviting family, friends and co-workers to support your child.

3.  Return the Book Buddy Lanyard with the Student Prize Code to school for your child to get their fun participation prize.

Be sure to ask your child for the Book Buddy Lanyard.  Your participation will make a difference for our school and teachers!

PRESCHOOL (3): Miss Lokensgard

This week has been so much fun learning about snow and ice, rocks and sea shells, and solids and liquids. In the sensory table are rocks and sea shells with soap and water to wash them. At the science table we are sorting the rocks and sea shells and weighting them.  Our science experiments this week are seeing that the fastest way is to melt ice and how to stick ice cubes to yarn. We are also planning on painting with snow and ice. Also, throughout the week we are learning what makes something a solid and what makes something a liquid. 

Monday: Writing Center- Scribble Scrabble lesson we are learning how to draw a snowman. Activity Center- Use pins to make the letter Qq. 

Tuesday: Writing Center- Phonics page of the letter Qq.  Activity Center- Making Snow with snow flakes and glue. 

Wednesday: Writing Center- Q-tip dots to make the letter Qq. Activity Center- Winter Bingo game

Thursday: Writing Center- Practice spelling our name by making a snowman. Activity Center: Use pins to make the letter Q and the number 7. 

Friday: Writing Center- Shape game. Activity Center: Coloring page of a church with chalk. 

Our Bible story this week is Jesus teaches in the temple. 

PREKINDERGARTEN (4): Mrs. Dragt

Welcome to snow and ice week!

Focus Wall

Letter- Gg

Number- 11

Color -Pink

Shape- Pentagon

Monday- We worked on making the letter Gg. In movement, we used scarves and had a freeze

dance party with Ms. Lokensgard’s class.

Tuesday- We worked on our names, and some of us started on our last names! We also

learned how to make paper snowflakes!

Wednesday- In our STEM activity, we learned that gas, liquid, and solids are forms of matter.

Thursday- We sorted uppercase and lowercase Gg’s, then counted how many of each there

were. Show-and-share is to build a snowman with mom and dad! I'm excited to see the

creativity!

Friday- We worked on making the big number 11!

Our Jesus story is Jesus Goes to Church

Memory Treasure: LORD, I love your house. Psalm 26:8

Kindergarten: Mrs. Eckstrand

This week we have 2 Bible lessons. First, God kept Jesus safe as a child when King Herod wanted to kill him.  An angel sent a message to Joseph in a dream.  Joseph, Mary, and Jesus fled to Egypt and lived there till Herod died.  Then we jumped ahead to Jesus as a 12-year-old.  He goes with his parents to the temple in Jerusalem for the first time.  There we see that his parents "lost" him.  But we learn he wasn't lost, he was simply in his Father’s house, teaching the teachers.  He reminded Mary and Joseph that this is the true reason he came.  Psalm 91:11 Yes, he will give a command to his angels, concerning you, to guard you in all your ways is our memory treasure this week.  

            In Math, we will move on from height and length and move to measuring weight and capacity.

            In Reading, we enjoyed Nature with Nina, and will get to meet Golly, the Garbage loving, smelling dog.  

            In Social studies, we are voting and learning more about how the government works.  

            In Science, we are looking at living and nonliving things.

1-2^nd: Mrs. Markgraf

This week a big focus is showing what we've learned this year through our MAP computer tests. This is just one measure we use to assess student progress. Each student has also had a chance to read to me to check in with reading fluency. In reading class first graders are very excited to unlock "Super e". This is what we call a silent e that makes the vowel say its long sound. Second graders will be thinking about the sounds that "oo" and "ew" make. 

In math 1st grade is starting a new chapter about length. Second grade is continuing to study multiplication and division facts including tens.

Our Bible lessons taught us about why the Israelites had to wander in the desert for 40 years. We learn to trust God and not ourselves. Our Memory treasure is Romans 6:23, The wages of sin is death, but the undeserved gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. We are proud that we can learn such a long and important passage. May God bless your week!

3-5^th: Mrs. Horn

Happy Wednesday Parents, Students, and Families!

This week, we have been completing the winter session of MAP testing. Students are focusing and working hard to do their best on these tests. 

In Christ Light, we see how some of the Israelites rebelled against God in different ways and how God punished them for their rebellion. In our last lesson of the week, we are studying the story of the Bronze Snake, which is what the Israelites looked to when they sinned. This reminds us of Jesus who was hung on the cross for our sins. 

In Math, 3rd graders are working on the multiplication table. 4th graders are continuing to multiply whole numbers and fractions. 5th graders are starting to learn about dividing with decimals.

In Language Arts, each grade is continuing in their grammar workbooks. We are all learning new parts of speech and parts of a sentence. 

In Science, we are learning about erosion, weathering, and different types of rocks.

Have a great rest of your week!

6-8^th: Mr. Holz

Hello Parents, Family and Friends

This week:

Grammar we are working with gerunds.

Reading, we are reading Where the Red Fern Grows.

6th Grade math is working with plotting points.

7th Grade math is working with slope-intercept form.

8th Grade math is working with standard form.

In Science, we are studying the different types of bonds that elements form. 

In History, we are studying when the first European settlers began to establish towns and cities in Minnesota.