Dear Parents,

I hope that all of you had a nice weekend. As we get closer to Easter, activities will increase here at Apostles. One of the things that the children will enjoy will be the ‘Easter for Kids’ day on March 15. Pastor Kronebusch has already started the planning and preparations for this important day. If you will be coming, please sign up in advance. It helps us out when we know how many will be coming.

This week we will be reading the story Jump into the Jungle by Theresa Volpe. We will also be working with the letter J. For this unit, I am adding three new sight words to the stack of word cards. They are ‘do,’ ‘not,’ and ‘what.’ Please keep going over these words with your child. Next year the new words will come at a much greater pace so we need to see how your child handles this task. In math, we will continue working with measurement. Along with that, we will work with the numbers one through twenty. During our circle time, we will be working with the plants again. I am enjoying this unit and I think your child is too. The class as a whole doesn’t like to get dirty, but when you work with plants, it happens. Our Bible lessons will be “God Speaks to Samuel,” “God Chooses to be King,” and “Saul Takes Sin Lightly.” >From these lessons we will learn how the humble Christian can serve God well, while the proud person who takes sin lightly cannot.

This Friday we have a collaboration day. All of the students will be dismissing at noon. There will be child care, but no hot lunch.

I am sending home a new how lunch form. They indicated on the old schedule that there was no school for March 21. That is incorrect. We will definitely have school and there will be hot lunch.

Please note that this is our last week of Lent. Next week, we will go into Holy Week many services will be offered here at Apostles. The service that will be of concern to you will be on Friday, March 21. The children in all of the classes are expected to be here to sing. Your child is welcome to use the child care services. (You will not be charged until 3:00 that day.) I will pick up the children at 1:45 to get them ready for sitting in church. After the service, your child is free to go with you. This is a beautiful and very touching service. We can never take for granted what Jesus did for us to make sure that we could live with him in heaven. I hope you will be able to join us for this special service.

Have a great week!