The Rambler JANUARY 21, 2016 Being an RLS Ram, a Lamb & a Child of God Kindergarten Round-Up is fast approaching and will be from 9:30-11:00am on Saturday, January 30th. Children who are kindergarten-age (turn 5 before 9/1/16) and their parents are invited to this special event. We ve had a good sign-up thus far; if you know of anyone who is interested in attending RLS, please share your RLS experience with them and invite them to set up a tour or come on January 30th. In addition to Kindergarten Round-Up, Precious Lambs Preschool will begin enrollments for returning students on February 1st. Spots fill up fast! To ensure a spot for the 2016-2017 school year, please talk to our Pre-K Director, Mr. Christensen, or pick up an enrollment folder from the office. Not only that, but we will also be opening up re-enrollment for current RLS students. Please return the salmon-colored enrollment form that will come home with your student on February 1st. If you or someone you know is interested in Resurrection Lutheran School or Precious Lambs Preschool, please have them contact us through the office at 282-8280. We would gladly be available to answer any questions and give tours of our school and the preschool. To prepare all children for this life and eternal life through Christ-centered education Our Christian Cornerstone Bible lessons for this week follows the theme of God s Word is the one thing needed. When Jesus Visits Mary and Martha the students learn how Jesus taught his friend Martha that the Word was the one thing needed. Serving in our family, workplace and play is good as long as we make time for the one thing needed: the Word itself! May the Lord give each of us a renewed desire sit at Jesus feet and gladly hear His Word. In the next lesson, The Big Dinner, students learn that those who despise God s Word may not enjoy His banquet of salvation and will discuss ways to gladly hear and learn the Word. Psalms is a wonderful resource to teach us, comfort us, and strengthen our faith. As you continue to let the Word dwell in you richly, immerse your family in the richness of the psalms and ask the Lord to bless your study. Next week s theme is: Our theme is Jesus forgives repentant sinners. The first lesson, The Pharisee and Tax Collector, shows students two very different prayers. The Pharisee bragged about his good works but the tax collector humbly asked God to have mercy on him. Both were sinners and both were redeemed by Jesus on the cross but the Pharisee was not forgiven because he rejected it! The tax collector confessed his sins and trusted God to forgive him. The second lesson, The Lost Son, shows us our Father loves us and forgives our sins when we repent. The lost son returned home after living sinfully and his father welcomed him home instead of scolding him. That s how God forgives and welcomes us, too. We are His own dear sons and daughters! Resurrection Lutheran School 4520-19th Avenue NW, Rochester, MN 55901 P 507.282.8280 F 507.285.9724 www.rlsrochester.com Find us on Facebook UPCOMING EVENTS: TODAY, Thur, Jan 21 Monkey Junction, Exercise Group, Bible Class Fri, Jan 22 Chapel, BB v Winona Sat, Jan 23 Monkey Junction, Mankato Chargers BB Tourney Sun, Jan 24 K-Gr 2 sings at Life (9:15), Worship services, Jesus & Me, Sunday School, Mon, Jan 25 Evening worship service, School Board Tues, Jan 26 Monkey Junction, Band, Bookmobile, BB v Cannon Falls Wed, Jan 27 Monkey Junction Faith Night (5:30 meal; 6:15 classes) Thur, Jan 28 Exercise Group, Monkey Junction, End of 2nd Quarter Fri, Jan 20 NO SCHOOL Sat, Jan 30 Kindergarten Round-Up, Monkey Junction Sun, Jan 31 Worship, Jesus & Me, Sunday School & Bible Class Mon, Feb 1 Report Cards Tue, Feb 2 Monkey Junction, BB v Redwing Wed, Jan 20 Faith Night, next Rambler published This Week s Hymn I Am Jesus Little Lamb Christian Worship #432 (for 1/15) K - v 1 Gr 1 & 2 - v 1-2 Gr 3 & 4 - v 1-3 Gr 5 & 6 - v 1-3, 5 Gr 7 & 8-1-5 Next Week s Hymn Jesus Sinners Does Receive Christian Worship #304 (for 1/25) Gr 1 & 2 - v 1, 7 Gr 3 & 4 - v 1, 4, 7 Gr 5 & 6 - v 1, 2, 4, 7 Gr 7 & 8-1-4, 7
PAGE 2 January Birthdays Jan 23 ~ Bella T. Jan 27 ~ Nick S & Lydia B Jan 28 ~ Mr. Zahn Jan 31 ~ Nico D Feb 2 ~ Reed F & Mrs. Bourman Snow Shoveling The Snow Shoveling List is on the school website (under the News tab). Please note the suggestions included with the list. The families listed below are responsible during the listed weeks: January 25 Barthel Finley J. Larson Rogness Stelzer Zorteau February 1 Bartholomew Brewster Fischer K 2nd Graders! Grades K-2 will sing at the 9:30 service at Life Lutheran this Sunday, Jan 24 9:15 assemble & rehearse! Sunday-best attire. Kindergarten Round-Up Saturday January 30 9:30-11:30 Sign-up in the office or at church Learning Fair February 11 Kindergarten - 4th Grade Display boards will be ready for pick-up by dismissal time on Thursday afternoon. Parent-Teacher Conferences 3:00-7:00pm Thur, Feb 4 Tue, Feb 9 We ll send an email with the sign-up link. Watch for it! School Closings When you see notices for Rochester Public School closings, delays or early dismissals for inclement weather notices remember: those apply to Resurrection, too. You will NOT receive a separate alert from RLS although we may post something to the school Facebook page! If you don t see a Rochester PS announcement we STILL have school. NOTE: Sign-up for text notifications right here: Rochester Public School website. Then you ll know at the same time that we know! :-) Camp Whitewater Week 1: July 10-15 Week 2: July 17-22 www.campwhitewater.org Registration begins 2/8/16 M. Larson Sahlin Are we ever going to have a SNOW DAY Managing Editor: Mr. Jared Christensen Assistant Editor: Mrs. Deb Hofland IMPORTANT! Please adjust your calendar! March 7 ~ NO SCHOOL and NO PRESCHOOL March 14 ~ normal school day School Calendar Change
PAGE 3 New Ulm Basketball Tournament Hotel Rooms Time to start planning for the New Ulm basketball tournament in mid-february! We have 25 rooms blocked at the Best Western in Mankato for Friday and Saturday, February 19-20. Call (507) 625-9333 to make your reservation. It is under the name: Resurrection Basketball. The block of rooms will be held until 1/11/2016 on a first-come basis. Each room has two beds, non-smoking, at $103.99 for four guests. There is an indoor pool and exercise room in the motel, and a microwave, refrigerator, and coffeemaker in all rooms plus free high-speed internet and complimentary continental breakfast. Pool-side rooms available, too. Check-in is 3:00pm and check-out is 11:00am. IMPORTANT UPDATE: The block of rooms and room rate will be held until Jan 11 (changed from 1/19). The hotel has received numerous requests from OTHER teams looking for lodging. Please make your reservation as soon as possible if you d like to stay where most RLS families/ team members will be staying. Contact Jodi Muenkel (287-9159 or j3muenkel@hotmail.com) or Holly Gronholz (535-1544 or hmgronholz@merchantsbank.com) for more information. Cheering All cheerleaders are welcome to come to the Tournament and cheer for the games. However, we do not expect cheer families to make a special trip to New Ulm. Our expectation for the cheerleaders is that any A-team cheerleaders attending the tournament would cheer for all boys' A-team games. The exception to this is if the boys play before the girls that day. We will take one day at a time and be clear in our communication while in New Ulm. All B-team cheerleaders attending the tournament are welcome to cheer for the boys' games as well (and possibly girls' games too!). Please let us know if your cheerleader will be attending the tournament. If your cheerleader really wants to attend, but your family isn't planning to, please send Miss Hagglund an email (ahagglund@resurrection-wels.org) or give her a call to discuss some possible options. St. Croix Lutheran H.S. Grade School Basketball Team Night Thursday, January 28 SCLHS Girls Varsity 5:30 SCLHS Boys Varsity 7:30 Free admission, coupon to the concession stand, team acknowledged during half-time, activities For more info, contact Ric Gibson Rgibson@StCroixLutheran.org 651-455-1521 Scrip News! Available: We now have Scrip available after service at Life and at Faith Night, too. Be sure to stop and pick up your cards and support RLS. 15 Minutes: That s how long it takes to sell scrip between services at Resurrection. Would you have time to help? Be a Good Sport: We d love to have you sell Scrip during volleyball and basketball home games; can you help? What s Involved? Add up the total on the buyer s order form (we have a little calculator), collect payment, count out the cards. Boom! That s it! Contacts: email scrip@resurrection-wels.org or talk to Chris or Krista.
PAGE 4 CLASSROOM NEWS Kindergarten Good News to share with you! Save the Date: January 24th K-Grade 2 will sing at Life Lutheran at 9:30 am. Kindergarten Round-Up, Saturday, January 30: We ll be hosting our annual round-up for prospective kindergarteners for next year. Check out our program of Bible-based Christian education. Meet our teacher and principal (we want to meet you, too!), get your questions answered and take a tour! Children have a chance for a kindergarten activity with our teacher in the classroom. We start at 9:30 and wrap up around 11:00. Contact the school office (secretary@resurrection-wels.org or 282-8280) or leave your name and contact info on the sign-up forms at church or preschool. Tell others, too! ~Mrs. Thompson Grade 1 Learning, Computing & Praising! Learning: It's amazing to think about the many things the 1st graders have learned so far. This week some special learning is taking place as the 1st graders work on reading, taking notes, writing, and editing for the Learning Fair. We Finally Used Them! Last week the 1st graders got to use the Chromebooks for the first time. Although it took some time for everyone to get logged in, all were able to do it and get to work practicing math facts. The students are looking forward to using the Chromebooks weekly from now on. Praise the Lord: A reminder that grades K-2 sing at Life Lutheran this Sunday, January 24th. We will meet at 9:15 to practice (before service). ~ Mrs. Broring Notes From Mr. Belter Quarter Ending: With end of the quarter coming up next week, I will be getting missing work out to the students so they can turn it in. Singing Dates: Coming up on February 10th the 7th and 8th graders will be singing for Ash Wednesday service at 3 pm. We will start working on that song next week so please let me know if your child will not be able to be there. Thank you for all your hard work this quarter. I hope and pray that the students keep it up in the last two quarters of the year. ~ Mr. Belter February is a busy month just look at this line-up! Feb 1 Report Cards Feb 2 Basketball v Redwing Feb 4 & 9 Parent-Teacher Conferences Feb 5 & 6 SEMLAC BB Tournament Feb 7 Pioneer Sunday Feb 10, 17, 24 Midweek Lent Services Feb 11 K Gr 4 Learning Fair Feb 12 LPS Visit Feb 12 & 13 RCLS Basketball Invitational Feb 15 & 19 No School Feb 16-18 Spirit Week Feb 19-20 New Ulm B-Ball Tourney Feb 24 K & 1st sing at Life Feb 25 Gr 5-8 Ski Day Feb 27 Pine Car Derby $avvy $hopping = $$ for RLS Whenever you shop online or in person at Office Depot or Office Max, you can send a few dollars our way and all it takes is two button clicks! Near the end of the online check-out procedure (as you re paying), there is an opportunity to give back to a school of your choice. The RLS code is 70054835. But even if you forget that, you can type in Rochester and then chose Resurrection.
Precious Lambs Preschool January 2016 Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! Happy 2016 everyone! The New Year has begun and we are ready and eager to get started! We have many new learning areas this month. During Bible time we will be talking about how baby Jesus grew up. We will see how Jesus obeyed his parents in all things and how Jesus ministry started. We also have dinosaurs in the room! Little tiny dinosaurs on Dinosaur Island and big dinosaurs in the blocks area. We have snow on our minds and have already been blessed with several wonderful sledding days and presently have three snowmen in the play area. In the preschool kitchen we have been making pizzas. We love adding pepperoni, mushrooms, green peppers, olives and mozzarella cheese. We have several new games to play like: Don t Spill the Beans, Elephant Masks, Light Bright and Robot Find. Song: I was baptized, happy day! All my sins were washed away. God looked down on me and smiled. I became His own dear child. Bible Passage: He will command his angels to guard you in all your ways. Ps 91:11 Bible Rhyme: Angels take good care of me, Rhyme: Care of me, care of me. Angels take good care of me, Even while I. (run, sleep, swim ) Hickory, dickory, dock, the mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck one, the mouse ran down, Hickory, dickory, dock! Preparing little minds for prayer: HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Hadley and Lydia Reminders: *No school January 18 and 29 God is great, God is good, let us thank Him for our food. By His hands we all are fed, give us Lord our daily bread. Amen * Parents, please bring in one of the items circled below. We are going to fill up the preschool snack pantry! (Your child will have a hard copy of this newsletter in his/her backpack so that you know what item to bring to school.) 2 (28-oz) 100% juice jugs 2 boxes Ritz crackers 2 jars apple sauce Joyfully serving, Mrs. Zahn Mrs. Lange and Miss Allison