NATIONAL
LUTHERAN SCHOOLS WEEK
MARCH 8-14, 2010
“Securing
Each Child’s Future – For A Life Of Service” is this year’s
theme for National Lutheran Schools Week. Lutheran schools
prepare children for their future in school and in life, as
well as a life of service to their church, school,
community, country and world. Throughout this week there
will be many events and activities for the students to
enjoy and grow in their understanding of what service
means.
On Monday, we
will open Lutheran Schools Week with a chapel service at
9:00am. It will be “Mismatch Day” and students will be
allowed to wear mismatched clothes! It will also be
“Service to Church Day” and students will work with their
classmates to make bookmarks for members of Immanuel
Lutheran Church.
Tuesday is
“Dream Job Day.” Students should wear an outfit that shows
what their dream job would be. “Service to School Day” will
be held on this day and students will be paired up with
students from other grades to read with each other. We will
also be collecting Box Tops For Education this week to earn
money for our school. The winners will be selected based on
the average Box Tops per student. The winning class will
receive casual dress tickets.
On Wednesday we
will have our weekly chapel service at 8:35am and students
may wear crazy socks for “Crazy Socks Day.” We will
celebrate “Service to the Community Day” on Wednesday.
Students are asked to bring in small toiletry items that we
will package and send to the Danbury Homeless Shelter.
Examples of toiletry items we will be collecting are travel
sized shampoos, soap, toothpaste etc. Students may begin
bringing in these items and we will put together the
toiletry kits on this day. There will be an open house
Wednesday night from 6:00 to 8:00pm.
“Pajama Day”
will be held on Thursday. Students may wear their pajamas
to school and will be watching the movie
No
More Baths. Students must
wear sneakers; NO slippers may be worn to school. This is
“Service to the Country Day” and students will be making
Easter cards for soldiers.
Friday is “ILS
Pride Day” and students can dress in blue and yellow to
show school spirit. There will be a Chapel Service at 1:30
and the Concordia College praise and worship group “Holy
Ground” will be performing. Students will also be
presenting their service projects during Chapel. We
celebrate “Service to the World Day” and throughout the
week students can bring in school supplies that we will be
sending to Haiti. Examples of school supplies we will be
collecting are notebooks, scissors, pencils, crayons etc.
Saturday
morning there will be an open house from 9:00am to 12:00pm.
Saturday night students will be performing in
Pasta-bilities starting at 6:15.
Finally, Sunday
will be the closing worship service at 10:45am. This is a
mandatory attendance day for students. Students will be
performing during this service and should arrive no later
than 10:15am to practice. Parents please plan to stay in
the sanctuary with your children during this 20 minute
rehearsal.
Each
of these days will allow the children to gain experiences
in service that they can carry with them throughout their
lives. Please join us for any or all of the exciting
activities we have planned for the week.
What to
Bring
- Box Tops will be collected until Friday, March 12.
- Toiletry items will be collected until Wednesday, March 10 for the Danbury Homeless Shelter.
- School supplies will be collected until Friday March 12 for Haiti.
Immanuel
Lutheran School will be hosting an Open House on Saturday,
March 13, 2010.
Principal Nate
Palkewick