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Newsletter 1/21/2026
- Brittany Clark
- 4 days ago
- 6 min read
Calendar
¨ January 22nd
Basketball Practice
3:30 – 5:00
Cheer Practice
3:30 – 5:00
¨ January 27th
Basketball HOME Game
Vs St. John’s-Redwood Falls – 4:30 & 5:30
¨ January 29th
Basketball Game AT
Immanuel-Gaylord
4:00 & 5:00
¨ January 31st
MVL Basketball Tournament
CHURCH SINGING
Sunday, February 1st 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.
PIZZA-PUZZLES-PIES
When: Sunday, February 15 at 4:30 p.m.
Where: Immanuel Church basement
What: Pizza-Puzzles-Pies. Family fun evening – Everyone Welcome!
Pizza will be served – we will have some fun with a little challenge of putting together puzzles. (Puzzles will be provided.)
Bring a Pie (or dessert) to share.
Hope to see you there! Everyone Welcome!
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!
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!
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. 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.
CALL EXTENDED
This weekend a call was issued for grades 3-5 for the 2026/2027 school year to Brittany Trimmer who currently teaches at St. Stephen’s Lutheran School in Beaver Dam, WI. Please keep her and her family in your prayers as she deliberates where best to serve.
PRESCHOOL (3): Miss Lokensgard
This week we are learning all about animals that like to live in the cold Arctic weather. Our standard that we are learning is how to measure things with different shape blocks. Tuesday, we got to make volcanoes as our reward and had a snowball fight with our indoor snowballs. Our focus wall this week is the letter Gg, number 8, shape rectangle, and the color blue.
Tuesday-Writing Center: letter Gg phonics page. Activity Center: Counting marshmallows and letter tables.
Wednesday- Writing Center: Glue marshmallows to make the letter Gg. Activity Center: Sorting shape stickers
Thursday- Writing Center: Name worksheet. Activity Center: arctic memory game
Friday- Writing Center: Rip and tear penguin. Activity Center: Bible art, tracing a boat and gluing fish and Jesus on the boat.
In the Bible lesson we are learning, Jesus calls Peter, Andrew, James, and John. Memory Treasure: Come and follow me. Mark 1:17.
PREKINDERGARTEN (4): Mrs. Dragt
Welcome winter animal week!
Focus Wall
Letter- Ss
Number- 12
Color -Brown
Shape- Rectangle
Monday - No School
Tuesday- For winter animal week, we painted penguins and made their bellies out of cotton
balls.
Wednesday-This week, we are learning about measurement. We played a game where they
walked around the room and measured objects with linking cubes. We also worked on making the letter Ss.
Thursday- More measuring fun! We measured arctic animals and wrote down their heights.
This week's show and share is their choice. I'm excited, they usually bring in some good ones!
Friday- We worked on making the big number 12.
Our Jesus story is Love your Neighbor. Memory Treasure: Love your neighbor as yourself. Luke 10:27
KINDERGARTEN: Mrs. Eckstrand
This week our Bible lesson is "Jesus is Baptized”. We learned that Baptism washes away our sins and God has adopted us to be his children. He sent Jesus at just the right time to be born and to start His ministry here on Earth. Galatians 4:4 But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son to be born of a woman is our memory treasure this week.
In Reading we met Golly, who loves the smell of /g/arbage. We will be taking our Unit 4 test as well.
In Math, we are measuring weight and capacity, then we will test on all our measurements.
We are finishing up our quarter 2 assessments and the report cards will be coming home very soon. Please reach out if you have any questions or concerns.
1-2nd: Mrs. Markgraf
Greetings! We are back to normal classes after testing last week. It is amazing to see the students grow in so many different ways. This week our reading and spelling are continuations of last week with first grade unlocking a whole new set of "Super e" words. Ask them to show you their imaginary Super e cape. Second grade is exploring dialogue punctuation as well as reading about the Superkid friends going on a field trip.
After a few chapters about some non-arithmetic concepts, first graders are diving back into some more calculations by learning about subtraction as comparing. "If there are 10 1st graders and 7 2nd graders, how many more first graders are there?" Second grade is finishing their chapter on multiplying and dividing by 2, 5 and 10 and will move next into mental calculations.
Our Bible lessons are two more new stories to these students. We are learning about how God disciplines those who do not give glory to him. We see this when Moses did not speak to the rock to get water, God's people continuing to complain about the food he provides and Balaam and his donkey. (If you haven't heard about Balaam and his talking donkey in a while, check it out in Numbers 22.) John 3:16 is our Memory Treasure for Friday.
3-5th: Mrs. Horn
Hello Parents, Students, and Families!
This week in Christ Light, we are learning about Balaam and how God used him to carry out his will. And finally, we hear that after their long journey in the desert, the Israelites enter the promised land. We are reminded of the promised land that we have waiting for us in heaven.
In Math, 3rd grade is working on their multiplication facts. 4th grade is starting a chapter on graphs. 5th grade is finishing up a chapter on multiplying decimals and whole numbers together.
In Language Arts, 3rd grade is studying contractions. 4th grade is working on identifying different types of verbs. 5th grade is practicing writing with details.
In Science, we are discussing weathering, erosion, and different types of rocks.
Stay warm and God's blessings on your week!
6-8th: Mr. Holz
Hello Parents, Family and Friends
Grammar we are working conjunctions and interjections.
Reading, we are reading Where the Red Fern Grows.
6th Grade math is working with different types of tables and graphs.
7th Grade math is reviewing for their next test.
8th Grade math is reviewing for their next test.
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.
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