UPCOMING EVENTS
1/18 Report Cards come home
1/21 No School - Martin Luther King Jr. Day
1/22 No School for Students – In Service
1/23 9:00 SCRIP orders due
1/25 12:00 Market Day orders due
1/26 4:30-7:00 Spaghetti Dinner
1/26 7:00 Talent Show
1/29 6:30 PTF meeting, open to the public
1/30 SCRIP order available for pick up
1/30 Market Day order pick up
1/31 5:30-7:00 Chocolate Night (Current & Upcoming K students)
2007- 2008 TUITION STATEMENTSCopies of your 2007-2008 tuition and band statement are available in the school office if you need them for tax purposes. Please pick them up at your convenience.
REPORT CARDSReport cards came out today. There will be no update on your FAITH hours in this report card. Please remember that you are responsible for recording your own hours in the FAITH binder located in the office.
FUTURE FRESHMANCentennial High School will host their Future Freshman Night on January 31st at 6:30 in the Theatre. It will highlight curriculum offerings in English, Mathematics, Science, Social Science and Foreign Languages. They will offer information about AVID and ECP programs. Counselors will be available throughout the evening to answer questions.
Centennial High School would like to invite new freshman to schedule a morning or afternoon to shadow a Centennial student and experience first hand the essence of their school. The counselors will be pre-registering students from private schools on the evening of February 21st from 5:00 – 7:00 in the library. Please bring a birth certificate for your student when you come.
Information will be sent home today with your 8th grade student.
Central High School will host their Freshman Orientation Night on January 29th from 7:00 – 9:00 in Decker Theatre. This is a program intended for both students and parents. It will give a brief overview of the high school program. Families may choose to meet with representatives from various academic departments or the athletic dept.
Feb. 1st from 8:45 – 1:00 is Future Freshman Visitation Day. Students from public and private schools will come to spend the morning and learn a great deal about Central. In order to attend Visitation Day, families must make reservations to attend. They should contact the registrar, Jessica Vlna, at 351-3922 by Tuesday, Jan. 29th.
Information will be sent home today with your 8th grade student.
SPAGHETTI DINNER Tickets for the 7th Grade Spaghetti Dinner/Dessert Auction are available in the school office until Friday, January 25th, on sale between church services in the Fellowship Hall on Sunday, January 20th and at the door the evening of the dinner. The date is January 26th, from 4:30 – 7:00 p.m. with the Children’s Talent Show immediately following. Adults are $8.00 and children 6-10 are $5.00. The menu is all you can eat spaghetti, salad, bread and a dessert auction. This is a fund raiser to support the 7th grade class going to Gettysburg and Washington D.C. next school year. Thank you for your support!
TALENT SHOWIf you would like to do an act for our PTF Talent Show, it is not too late. Please bring in your sign up form to the office no later than Wed. Jan. 23rd. Get together with your friends and make up an act. The more acts we have, the more fun it is.
NATIONAL LUTHERAN SCHOOLS WEEKNational Lutheran Schools week will be held March 1 – 7. For those of you new to our school, each day that week we do something special, with more information to come out as the date gets a little closer. Monday, March 3rd, will be our Grandparents or Special Guest Day. On that day, students may invite grandparents or special guests to come to our school. They may begin the day with a breakfast in our Fellowship Hall from 8:00 – 8:40, go to chapel with their student, visit their student’s classrooms and then eat lunch with their child. On that day, we will cater lunch from KFC (2 crispy strip meal w/2 sides) and Village Inn (large chef salad). An order form is attached . Children and grandparents or special guests need to pre-order these lunches if they wish to have a lunch that day. The pre-order form is due Feb. 13th. You may also bring a sack lunch from home. We will not have our normal caterer that day.
MISC. ITEMS NEEDEDMrs. Folkmann is in need of some donations for the art classroom. If you having any of these items 'lying around' at home, please bring them to school!
• cardboard oatmeal containers
• toilet paper rolls
• paper towel rolls
• cereal boxes
• scrap fabric
• Pringles containers
JUNIOR HIGH DANCE We are still looking for parents to help with our junior high semi-formal dance on Friday, February 15th. We especially need parents to help with photography and to help clean up after the event. If you can help, please contact Mrs. Rivers or Mrs. Greene.
ATHLETIC SCHEDULE
1/18, 1/19, 1/20 TBA 7/8 Boys Kankakee Tournament
1/21 6:00 5/6 Girls @ Bloomington
1/21 7:00 7/8 Girls @ Bloomington
1/22 6:00 7/8 Boys Uni-High@ Home
1/24 6:00 5/6 Boys OLOL @ Home
1/24 7:00 7/8 Boys OLOL @ Home
1/26 10:00 7/8 Girls Trinity-Springfield @ Trinity-Springfield
1/26 11:15 7/8 Boys Trinity-Springfield @ Trinity-Springfield
St. John Parent Teacher Fellowship Happenings
PTF NEWS
Volunteer Opportunity
The PTF is looking for parents and 6th, 7th, or 8th graders who are willing to assist in watching the children during our monthly meetings. Our next meeting is Tuesday, January 29. The time frame is from 6:15pm to about 8:30pm. Volunteering in this capacity can count as F.A.I.T.H. hours. Please contact Karen Rohrer for details 359-0432.
SCRIP
Orders were available Wednesday in the school office. If you have not yet picked up your order, please try and do so before the weekend. Also, we have extended the due date for the next orders. Please note orders will be due in the lockbox outside the school office by 9:00 am Wednesday, January 23rd. These orders will be available for pick-up Wednesday, January 30th.
If you need an extra information packet or enrollment form, they are available in the school office and on the Narthex table. You may also go to www.glscrip.com to view this program more closely. While there, click on "What's New" to see the long list of retailers offering increased discounts this month! There are quite a few. Check it out!
A special thank you to Faye Drews, Michelle DeYoung, Linda Prom, Lesley Ellison, and Laurie McDonald for the time and special talents you have given to this program.
Market Day
January Market Day orders are due by next Friday to the school office.
Box Tops Winter Collection
It is time to start turning in those nicely trimmed Box Tops. We will be actively collecting Box Tops until February 22. At that time the class with the most neatly trimmed Box Tops will win a class Ice Cream Party. The key words are neatly trimmed. For the Box Tops to count for the Ice Cream Party, the Box Tops need to be trimmed around the dotted line. Thank you for supporting our school.
St. John Lutheran School Website
ANNOUNCING the new and improved St. John Lutheran School Website!!!! Come and visit the Parent Teacher Fellowship pages! Check there for Announcements, Events, Information about F.A.I.T.H., Calendar items, Fundraisers, Tuition Reimbursement Programs, and much more. The new school website also has classroom assignments, school board meeting minutes and other great information!
Logo Items
These items would make great gifts and help show your school pride! Logo items will be available in the school office or by contacting Michelle DeYoung at 359-1876 or email:
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