December Newsletter

Greetings from Lutheran Central!   This is an exciting time of year at LC as we look forward to the celebration of the birth of Jesus, our Savior! 

Our Washington D.C. trip went well and was a great experience for the eighth graders.   The students experienced the history of our country in a truly unique way and have grown in their understanding and appreciation because of it.   Thank you for supporting the students with their fund raising efforts and for including us in your prayers while we were gone.

Lutheran Central’s choir has finished its ‘fall tour’ of the three churches. They will sing again at each church later in the school year. The choir has also sung in chapel a few times this year. We appreciate Ms. Amanda Kaisler’s and Mrs. Nickie Isaacs work with those students in choir.

Adrienne Thompson, one of our middle school teachers, has just returned from the Indiana District Office from two days of English curriculum writing. The Indiana District brings interested teachers from around the state to write curriculum under the guidance of the District office each year. The group takes the newest Indiana State standards, inserts our LC-MS standards from Integrating the Faith and adds a philosophy statement based on our Lutheran perspective. Lutheran Schools from around the state, including LCS, can then adopt this curriculum as their own.   This process is followed each year on a rotating basis for all curricular areas and the rotation follows the state’s text book adoption cycle. Ms. Thompson will be attending a couple more meetings before the English curriculum is finalized early in 2008. We thank her for her willingness to assist at the District level.

ISTEP results are back and we are in the process of looking through all of the data. Individual results will be sent home in January. We will also have an evening or two in January when you will be able to talk to your child/children’s teacher(s) about the ISTEP results. Our goal is to help all our students learn and the ISTEP tests are one of those measuring tools that we have to learn from. 

Our fifth graders graduated from the DARE program on Tuesday, November 13 with fifth graders from the Brownstown, Crothersville, Medora, and Freetown schools. This program teaches the students about the evils of using illegal drugs, how to say “NO” to drugs when peers offer them and encourages them to never use tobacco products and to use alcohol in moderation only when they are old enough. They also learned about the negative affects that tobacco, alcohol and drugs have on the body. We thank Officer Bob Lucas, from the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department, for this important work.   

Art work done by Lutheran Central School students is being displayed at McDonald’s for two week periods in December and January. This is a new promotional activity by McDonald’s and we are happy to have our students’ work displayed there, especially since those involved will receive a coupon for a free ice cream cone. Art work for grades four and five will be on display starting December 12, grades six and seven starting January 10 and grade eight starting January 20. Kindergarten through third grade art work was displayed earlier in the school year.

Our library is in need of a volunteer or two that are willing to man the library for a morning or afternoon during the week. Training would be provided. We also need a person or two to help the teachers by running off worksheets, laminating material and the like.   Please call the school office if you can help with either one.

As we move closer to the end of the year, I would like to encourage you to make a tax deductible financial gift to Lutheran Central. Gifts like these can help make the financial future of the school secure, especially since we now have the Lutheran Education Association, Inc. Endowment Fund. The Endowment Fund guarantees that the principle of a donation will never be spent but only the income from it. When the fund gets larger, it will also help relieve some of the financial burden on the congregations. Other ways that you can help is by remembering us in your will and by making us the beneficiary of a life insurance plan. I strongly encourage those of you that love and support Lutheran Central to remember us in a similar way.

Upcoming Events

Monday, January 7- 8:30 Chapel- Pastor Kozisek

Friday, January 11- Early dismissal at 12:45

Monday, January 14- 8:30 Chapel- Pastor Ahlemeyer

Friday, January 18- Grade Review

Monday, January 21- 8:30 Chapel- Camp Lakeview

Monday, January 28- 8:30 Chapel- Pastor Kozisek