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Paid in Full

Romans 5:8

CLS Mission Statement

Central Lutheran assists our congregations and

parents by preparing children to be disciples for

this life and the life to come.

Central Lutheran School

310 3rd Street W

Newhall, Iowa 52315

Office: 223-5271

Fax: 223-5257

Principal Nichole Perez

principal@centrallutheranschool.org

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2016-17 Registration Packets Coming Home Tomorrow

K-8 off site field trip to Vinton Movie Theater

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JV IDE BB Tourna-ment in Cedar Falls

30

Early Registration Opens

2/1

Jump Rope For Heart Assembly 9:30

2/1

Early Dismiss 1:15 Show Choir practice 1:30-3:30

2/3

Varsity State BB Tournament in CR

2/6 & 2/7

Athletic Committee Mtg 6:00

2/8

www.centrallutheranschool.org

Parents please watch your youngest child’s book bag for the 2016-17 registration packets. Families who have a 3-year-old enrolled at this time will get their packets today, as the three-year-olds will not be in school tomorrow (Friday). These packets hold a lot of information. Please store them in a safe place until you are ready to turn in your registration. The packets are large white envelopes that are labeled with each family name. If your child is enrolled at CLS, you will get a packet either today or tomorrow. If you have any questions about the process, please do not hesitate to contact the office for more information. If you need more forms, please contact the office.

Transportation Request: Uber Important

See what I did there?? John Carley and the soon-to-be Mrs. Carley (aka: Mrs. Block) need some help transporting daughter Isabel from Atkins to Regis Middle School in CR (and back) every day beginning in April through the end of the school year. Isabel needs to be at school around 7:30 am and picked up as early as 2:50 pm and possibly as late as 4:00 pm. Com-pensation is negotiable. There will be a need for the same arrangement for the 2016-17 school year but does not need to be filled immediately. Interested or know someone who can help? Please call John at 908-507-7073 or Denise at 319-551-4152.

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CHAPEL NEWS

2nd Trimester

Offerings

Mission of Hope

2.3.16 Leader

Pastor David Rempfer

February

Hymn O’ the Month

My Song is Love Un-

known

Singing:

Kindergarten

From the Principal’s Desk...

Introducing a new feature to the Correspondent— weekly articles From The Principal’s Desk:

Nope, not her Not him either Not him, it’s his Nope...dead ...and not this guy day off

An interesting article came across my Facebook feed last week. The article is a short synopsis of a book by family physician and psychologist Dr. Leonard Sax entitled, The Collapse of Parenting: How We Hurt our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups. The point that stood out to me involved this scenario: a 6-year-old child went to Dr. Sax’s office with a sore throat. When Dr. Sax told the child that he was going to look at her throat, the mother then asked the child for permission—even offering ice cream if

the child would agree to let the doctor look in her throat.

The child refused and had to be restrained in order for Dr. Sax to do a strep test. “It’s not a question,” Sax said. “It’s a sentence: ‘Open up and say, Ahh.’” What an interesting observation! How many times in my day do I change a state-ment into a question when I’m speaking to a student in my office? I’ve caught myself a couple times in the last week—and it happens more with younger stu-dents than with older ones. In all reality, the younger students are the ones who don’t have the ability to make a good choice when given an option. How many children have answered yes when asked, “do you want to go to time out?” Instead of facilitating whatever a kid wants to do, Dr. Sax says, “a parent’s job is to teach children right from wrong, teach them the meaning of life and keep their children safe.” And here at Central, the teachers, staff and I all believe that is our job, too. I encourage you to check out the article. It’s a good read. http://atxne.ws/1PH4PVy

THIS ONE!

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Actually, it’s not a question, it’s a school rule: parents please make sure you that you either send your child to school wearing tennis shoes or send a pair of tennis shoes with your child so that he/she can participate in physical education classes and/or recess in the North Gym. Rubber-soled shoes are not the same as tennis shoes. The rubber soles leave black marks on the floor. Stocking feet are not allowed to prevent accidental slipping and stepping on foreign ob-jects.

While we celebrate National Lutheran Schools Week, another national week-long celebration is also taking place: National School Choice Week. Every state in the union is holding some type of event to celebrate NSCW. In fact, Iowa Governor Terry Branstad is among 27 governors who have issued proclamations that recognize School Choice Week. Branstad officially proclaimed Jan. 24-30 School Choice Week. A school choice rally was held this week at the Iowa State His-torical Building in Des Moines. The week is designed to raise awareness of the options available to parents in terms of educat-ing their children. In Iowa, our options are public schools, public charter and magnet schools, online learning, homeschooling and our personal favorite: private Lutheran schools. Let’s give that a big, hearty Lutheran nod and close-mouthed smile! That’s as close as you’ll get to a Lu-theran standing ovation. For the fourth year, the NSCW has announced an official song and dance to celebrate. The song is “Verge” by Owl City, featuring Aloe Blacc. Our very own music seminar students have been learning the moves. They performed it this week in front of the entire student body. You can check them out on YouTube using this link: https://youtu.be/rsnu4jvEaBQ

Third grader Ashlee M. is collecting donations of dog and cat food, puppy training pads, dog or cat beds, cash or gift cards from Petco or Petsmart. Ashlee’s Girl Scout troop is sponsoring this fundraiser. All donations will go to Last Hope Animal Rescue, a non profit volunteer/foster rescue in Cedar Rapids. Donations may be brought to school until February 14. Please place them in the blue bin outside teacher workroom. (See flyer attached)

Tennis Shoes Anyone?

Seeking Donations of Pet Supplies for Last Hope Rescue

Meow!

Hey, that’s

my line!

Put on Your Dancin’ Shoes: It’s National School Choice Week

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NLSW: The Week in Pictures

Monochrome Monday

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Sunday Worship Schedule

St. Stephen’s Lutheran Church

Atkins

Worship: 9:00 am

Sunday School: 10:15

St. John Lutheran Church

Newhall

Worship: 8 am; 10:30 am Sunday School/Bible Study: 9:15

St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church

Van Horne Worship: 10:00 am

Sunday Sch. and Adult Class: 11:15 Wed Bible Study: 7:00 pm

St. Mark’s/Garrison Worship: Sat 6p

Sun 8a

Sunday School 9a

Trinity Lutheran Church

Vinton Worship: 5:30 pm Saturday

9:00 am Sunday

Sunday School: 10:15

Zion Lutheran Church

Shellsburg

Worship: 10 am

Sunday School: 8:45 am

Grace Lutheran Church

Blairstown Worship: 10:00

Sun School/Bible Study 9:00

First Lutheran Church

Belle Plaine Worship: 6 pm Saturday

10:15 Sunday Sunday School: 9am

St. John Lutheran Church

Keystone Worship: 10am (Sunday)

6 pm Saturday Sunday School/Bible Study: 8:45 am

Support CLS

SCRIP

Total receipts collected in 2015-16:

$174,847

Put receipts in container across

from office!

Attention Target Shoppers!

$5193.40 received 2014-15

28,171 points banked

$167 in re-

bate checks

to date

Send in your old cell

phones

Direct your Thrivent Choice Dollars to CLS

$32,000 since 2010; $210 in April 2014.

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$181.40 received

11.4.15

Submission date Novem-

ber 1 & May 1. Fall sub-

mission: $1,248.30

Coke Rewards Program:

send in your Coke and Coke

product caps with codes.

$28.00 (first payout)

St. Paul

Luzerne Sunday Worship: 8:30 am

Sun. Adult Bible Study 7:30 am

NLSW: The Week in Pictures, Cont’d

Tuesday: When I Grow Up I Want To Be…

Comfortable! Clearly the staff knew what they were doing when they chose to

dress as medical personnel. Get me a pair of scrubs with a drawstring

waist...STAT!

Stay tuned for NBC’s new-

est crime fighting duo:

Smith & Hayden. They

don’t need Smith & Wes-

sons to teach the bad guys a

lesson.

Pop singer (or tele-

marketer.) Disco Dancer: hate to

break it to you Caden but

even John Travolta had

to sell paint on the side

just to do this as a hobby.

Better hustle to find an-

other career.

Lenscrafters? Nope, future

teachers.

And the Oscar goes to:

Joey S! He’d like to

thank the Academy.

Samuel W. Baller Ella H: RN (real nice) OJ: photographer

Seth B: Engineer. Future

Rockwell employee

John S: Miner Madison W: hair stylist

Walk ins welcome. Cade V: Construction

worker

Ashtynn: Attention Tar-

get shoppers!

FFRA: Future Fire Fighters of

America

Rachel W: Mr. Runge.

Nice try Rachel but re-

port cards won’t be out

for another 8 weeks or

so. By that time he’ll

forget you wanted to be

him.

The law offices of Hupy &

Sebetka & Wallace. When

you mean business...

Steve Harvey...seriously,

Ian wants to be Steve Har-

vey. Repeat after me…

Miss Co-lo-m-bi-a

Lane is thinking about becoming a career criminal. For-

tunately his good buddy Lawrence is an attorney and is

advising his client not to speak to anyone without his

lawyer. Nice collar, Officer Hayden.

Paging Dr. Strasser

Nascar Driver Mrs.

Block..if only she could

reach the pedals.

Wildlife photographer:

Mrs. McKinney

FORE! We’ll let you

play through Marcus

Left: Volleyball players Kiah

and Grace

Right: Salute Derek B and Zan-

der T.

Zander has big shoes to fill if he

is to follow in his dad’s foot-

steps, but first we have to get

him to fill out the uniform!

When I Grow Up I Want To Be…

Gracin R : Workin’ at the Co-op

Wednesday: Our favorite storybook, movie or TV characters

There weren’t quite a million of us but there were a minion!

Macy A is cute-a-licious as Pinkalicious!

She was a dead ringer. May the Force (and your slippers) be with you Ian!

One more occupation….

Hey!Hey! Hey! It’s Big -Boned, Pleasingly Plump,

somewhat-overweight-bordering-on-morbidly obese

Albert...because we don’t say f-a-t.

Our favorite storybook, movie or tv characters...

Anna-rella Rapunzel, let down your brunette

hair. It’s okay, only your hairdress-

er knows.

Ladies in waiting

Two-thirds of the

visually-impaired

mice. We found #3

in the workroom.

Poor thing just didn’t

see the sticky trap.

Uhmmm...Emma,

perhaps you better sit

down. I have some

bad news to tell you

regarding one of

your cousins and an

unfortunate incident

in the workroom.

Kade A’s favorite movie/book (definitely not a

storybook) real-life character is Jesus.

Kade, you’ll have to forgive Ian’s photo-

bomb...occupational hazard.

Liv...

...and Maddie

Thursday: Crochet, Can You See Our Ugly Sweaters?

Check out the

CLS Face-

book page

later today

for more ugly

sweater fash-

ion.