Reminders
Doors
open to the school at 8am. School
begins promptly at 8:15am.
As the
weather is getting colder please make sure you dress your children
appropriately. We will
have recess outside unless it is raining or the air temperature (including wind-chill
factor) is 15°F or higher.
Upcoming
Events
September
17 PTL Mtg @ 6:15
September
18 Panino’s Hot lunch
September
19 Chapel Dolphin
Swim Club
September
20 Soccer Games @
Rockford
Lutheran High School
September
26 Chapel
September
27 Soccer Games @
Rockford
Lutheran High School
October 1 Scoopie Night
October 3 Chapel
October 4 NO SCHOOL
Extended
Care open
October 5 NO SCHOOL
Extended
Care open
October 8 NO SCHOOL
Extended
Care open
New Hot
Lunch Procedure
After a couple weeks of hot lunches—money and
slips, slips and money and hours of counting and recounting, we’ve decided to
make it easier for the office and parents, we have put together a month long
calendar and order form for all the hot
lunches available to your student for the month of October. Just complete
attached form and turn it in with payment to the office by September 30th.
If
this procedure will not work for your family, individual order forms will be
available in the office. Payment will be
still need to be turned in the day prior to the meal. There will be NO EXCEPTIONS.
Before
and Aftercare Polices
If
you drop your child off before 7:45am, you will be charged for before
care. It is important that we maintain
proper staff levels for the number of children we have in before and after
care. There have also been new rules set
to help prevent disruptions during this time.
- No handheld game devices
- No balls of any type
- No cell phones
- No running
- Must be doing calm seated activity unless outside
Extended Care - Non School Days
Beginning in October we have non-school days where extended care will be open. There will be a cost of $25/day. Please indicate on the attached flyer what days and times your child will need extended care, we need to make sure we have appropriate staffing. Before and After Care rules apply. No lunch will be provided, each child must bring their own lunch and drink.
School
Store
The
School Store is now open! Open
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 8:15-8:30am and 2:50-3:00pm. Items for sale range from 10¢ to $3, erasers to backpacks and
everything in between.
PTL
Information - See "PTL" link on blog for more information
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September PTL Meeting was Monday, September 17 @ 6:15pm in the Commons.
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Cookie
Dough Order’s are Due Thursday, September 20.
Please make ONE Check payable to Concordia.
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Scoopie
Night ~ Monday October 1st from 5pm-8pm at Culver’s on North
Main. Enjoy Fellowship, Dinner and
Dessert with other Concordia families while earning money for our school! 10% of all monies earned during this night
will go to our school! Bring your
friends!
Don’t forget to bring in your Box Tops for Education!
From
the Desk of Mr. Blake…
For we are God’s workmanship, created in
Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. (Ephesians 2:10)
Let
me share an introduction from a book I read some time ago: “Imagine what would happen if people in the
church took up serving towels, draped them over their arms and willingly (even
joyfully) served other people in their everyday lives. Such attitudes and actions would change our
world! In my view, people are never closer to living out the teachings of Jesus
than when they are adding value to someone else’s life. And people who are far from God are rarely more
impacted than when they see 21st century Christ-followers behaving
as Jesus behaved.”
This
school year we are going to have the opportunity to really think about what it
means to be a “school in mission.” And
when the writer of Ecclesiastes decided to try to figure out the purpose of his
life – he started by accumulating a vast sum of money only to discover that it
didn’t provide the meaning that he had hoped for. So, he tried power, got it and discovered
that it didn’t satisfy him either. Then
he pursued pleasure and fame and celebrity and concluded that in spite of his
best efforts, it was useless – like trying to chase the wind.
We
were created, redeemed and restored to join God on His mission – to be His
ambassadors as though He were making His request through us! (2 Corinthians
5:20) God is at
work in our world, in our
community, filling His followers with grace and mercy and the power we need to
call this broken planet to Jesus Christ.
And
the power of your school is the power of everybody as men and women,
young and old, offer their gifts to work out God’s plan. You have gifts and talents that you
were born with; the passions that inspire you; the blessings of education; the
skills that you’ve honed at home and at work; the life experiences that have
matured you; the pain that has deepened you; the love of neighbor that spills
from God’s heart into yours! These
are powerful tools for good that God has lavished on you as His children SO
THAT we can lavish that goodness on others!
That
is why I would like to invite and challenge you this school year to jump in –
as a servant of Jesus with a willing heart, an open mind and a towel over your
arm…and at a minimum, serve somewhere one hour each month. So, this is the challenge that lies before
each one of us – that there would be a volunteer revolution here at Concordia Lutheran
School where we unleash the power of everybody!
Have a great month!!
Mr.
Blake J
