Newsletter 5/14/2025

Calendar      

¨  May 16th 

Preschool Graduation 5:00

¨  May 22nd   

Closing Service & Graduation (K and 8)

6:30

¨  May 23rd 

LAST DAY OF SCHOOL

¨  June 2nd 

Summer Care Begins

¨  July 7th – 11th 

Immanuel & Grace

Lutheran Church

Vacation Bible School

GRADUATIONS & CLOSING SERVICE

PRESCHOOL: Friday, May 16th pictures from 5:00-5:15 with graduation starting at 5:15 at Immanuel Lutheran Church.

CLOSING SERVICE & GRADUATION:

All are encouraged to attend!

Thursday, May 22nd at 6:30 will be our closing service for the school year as well as graduation for K and 8th grade and any awards or certificates will be handed out at Immanuel Lutheran Church. 

PRESCHOOL: Litchfield Park

Both preschool classrooms will be visiting the Litchfield Park/playground on May 21st from 9:30 to 11:30.

LAST DAY OF SCHOOL

Is Friday, May 23rd! 

This will be a full day of school.

Our annual end of the year dance will be held at school from 6:00 – 8:00 on Friday, May 23rd.  

Please bring a snack or beverage to share. Please no adult beverages on the school campus.

This is not a teacher supervised event; there must be adults present responsible for their child/ren.

SUMMER STANGS

Our Summer Care program begins on June 2nd.  Registered families should have received calendars to fill out for the summer, please return the JUNE calendar by Friday, May 16th so we can start scheduling caregivers.

A food drive has been started for snack donations for the summer, if you’d like to help by donating, please drop off donations to the school.  No peanuts or items containing nuts as we do have an allergy, also items should be individually packaged for easy distribution.

An Amazon wish list has been started for craft and toy items; we go through A LOT of crafts throughout the summer.  If you would like to and are able to purchase any items, please click on the link below to purchase. 

https://www.amazon.com/registries/gl/guest-view/2ZAPGCXT3QMV4

WATER CARNIVAL PARADE

IGLS will be walking in the Water Carnival Parade on Sunday, June 15th.  A sign-up will be sent for those who’d like to participate, we have a truck for a couple smaller students to sit in but the majority of volunteers will walk the entire parade and hand out pencils/candy.

VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL

The Immanuel and Grace Lutheran Church vacation bible school is July 7th – 11th.  Registration forms are available at both church locations.

PRESCHOOL (3): Miss Lokensgard

It's the end of the school year and we are wrapping up our alphabet with the letter Zz and reviewing letters 0-5. This week we are learning about affirmations. During this lesson we will be building up confidence and fostering positive self-esteem in preschoolers.  It’s also baseball week. On Tuesday we will be learning how to play baseball with a real-life baseball player. At the activity center we will be playing a fun baseball game with numbered cards and 10 frames, building a number tower with blocks, lacing baseball cards, and letter Z activities. 

        Monday- Writing center: Phonics page. Large Group: Made slime with cornstarch and water.  

Tuesday- Baseball Day

Wednesday- Writing Center: Spelling out names with baseballs. Large Group: Show-N-Share

Thursday- Writing Center: Scribble Scrabble-learning how to draw an outside picture.  Large Group: Make an ice cream cone with puffy paint. 

Friday- Writing Center: Roll the dice and dobber the dots to match the dots. Large Group: Summer Tree (we will learn about the season of summer)

Our Bible story this week is God takes care of the birds. Our memory verse is I am with you always. Matthew 28:20

PRESCHOOL (4): Mrs. Dragt

Welcome to baseball week!

What better way to learn about baseball than to have a real, live baseball player come and teach us how to play! It was hot, but the kids had fun! Show and share this week is to bring something in that reminds you of your favorite sport. With the weather being so nice, we decided to go outside and write our number on the sidewalk. Make sure to check them out when you come into the school! Our Jesus story this week is God sent the Holy Spirit. So, for our Jesus craft, we made Holy Spirit headbands. With the field trip last week, we didn't get to make our rainbow in a jar, so we will do that this week for science.

With next week being the last week of school. Please make sure to send their backpacks with them every day. We will slowly be taking things home. Memory Treasure Repent and be baptized. Acts 2:38

K-1st: Mrs. Eckstrand

            This week our Bible lesson is Phillip and the Ethiopian.  We continue to learn that we can spread God's word to all nations.  The Holy Spirit will give us the words and strength. Mark 16:15 He said to the "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation."  

            In Reading and Math both grades are finishing up classes. We will still have lessons next week too.  

            Math, 1st grade is adding and subtracting with bigger numbers.  Kindergarten is skip counting by tens and learning tens place value/groups.  

            Reading, 1st grade is really discovering some important vowel and word work rules with doubles, -y, and adding endings.  Kindergarten continues with a skit made by Icky. 

            We will be planting beans and sunflowers to see if we can grow anything 😊

            Keep encouraging the kids to STAY FOCUSED.  We are enjoying some extra recess with the nice weather, but we need to maintain behavior and respect as we close out the year.  We've had a great year, and we want to finish strong! 

2-4th: Mr. Loersch

Hello Parents and Students!

In God's Word this week, we're learning about Jesus preparing his disciples to spread the news about his resurrection to the rest of the world. We'll hear about Thomas's doubt and Jesus's appearance in Galilee.

In Language Arts, 2nd graders are learning about different letters that work together to make the long "e" sound, such as ee, ie, and ea. 3rd- and 4th-graders are finishing Because of Winn-Dixie and our second round of literature circles. Our class is watching the movie with popcorn on Thursday afternoon. 

In Math, 2nd grade is preparing for their test on fractions. Then, we'll work on telling time with an analog clock. 3rd graders continue their unit on geometry, focusing on triangles. 4th graders are finishing their unit on geometry and will take a test this week. Next week, we will wrap up math with a review and various lessons on skills necessary for the upcoming grades.

In Social Studies, we're working to finish our Google Slides Road trip projects to present the last week of school. 

This week in spelling, 3rd- and 4th-graders are reviewing before their end-of-year spelling bee. 2nd graders will have normal spelling lists this week and next week.

I will graduate from MLC this Saturday and share the call committee's decision for my placement with the students on Monday.

God's blessings on your week!

5-8th: Mr. Holz

Hello Parents, Family and Friends

In Math, 5th Graders are working with ratios and proportions. 6th Graders are working on finding volume of different figures. 7th Graders are working to find the surface area of cylinders and cones. 8th Graders are working with sine, cosine, and tangent.

In History, we will be finishing Japanese history by covering the Samurai. 

In Music, we are moving into reading music and how to count songs that you have not seen before. We are also working on singing the 8th grade class song. 

In Grammar, 5th-6th are working on punctuation. 7th-8th are working through hyphens, underlining, and apostrophes. 

In Reading, we are working through how to read poems and identify key poetic elements such as tone, diction, rhyme, and meter. We will be finishing by working on writing our own poems.

In Spelling, we are working on the 31st lesson. The spelling tests are every Friday.