Thank you, parents, for all of your support and kindnesses this past year! It has been a true privilege to work alongside my fourth grade students, learning and growing as individuals and as a team! Some days may have seemed long, but the months flew by quickly! We have matured in our academics and in our stature, but even more so in our ability to show Christian love and compassion, respect and patience, kindness and forgiveness. Our prayer continues to be Luther’s morning/evening prayer “We thank You, our heavenly Father through Jesus Christ, Your dear Son….Let Your holy angel be with us that the evil foe may have no power over us. Amen.” God bless our summer with much family and friends, great celebrations, great trips and excurtions, great health, and great peace and joy! Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. Hebrews 12 :1-3.
Student of the Week – V.I.P’s
We enjoyed our visit with Owen’s V.I.P.’s on Friday: Owen’s mom, Lindsay is a radiologist and has done numerous MRI’s for injured or ill patients. Owen’s dad, Joe, works construction and remodeling jobs and keeps his family running whenever Lindsay is at work. They spend lots of family time supporting Owen by attending lots of soccer practices and games and by attending school events for Owen and his little siste, Josie. Linday and Joe shared photos and stories about Owen and their family. We were treated with some of Owen’s favorites: chips, Smarties, and salted chocolate-covered caramels.
We also had a great time meeting Bennett’s dad, Adam on Wednesday. Adam works for Mastor Halo traveling and visiting with clients; he also has his own business, Deck N’ Outdoor where he designs and builds decks and other outdoor recreation/grilling space. We enjoyed looking at Bennett’s photos as he grew up, and we learned about his family- Adam, Jill, Bennette, Brielle, and Brennan. Bennett has always liked to know how things work and has a great mind for engineering, mechanics, tecnology, and construction. Bennett’s dad gave us lots of S.W.A.G. from his work and treated us with donuts and sports drinks.
Summer Reading– Be sure to help your child choose two books from the required Summer Reading List and encourage reading throughout the summer! (See full list for 5th graders below.)
Fine Arts Night: Students in grades 3-7 should wear black pants/skirts with white tops. Students need to meet in their classrooms at 5:45 pm. After the performance, parents will pick up their students in their classrooms. A cookie reception will follow.
Field Day (Monday): Students should wear their PE shirt and PE shorts for the day. Lunch will be hot dogs, chips, popsicles, and fruit.
Picnic Day (Tuesday): Students will wear a Hope T-shirt and appropriate-length shorts. Students will bring their own sack lunches, and will need the permission slip signed by the parent to walk to the park. Students will have an opportunity to sign yearbooks at 2:00 pm.
Closing Day (Wednesday): Students will wear the school uniform. Chapel begins at 8:40 am. We will celebrate June and July birthdays, present awards, and close our school year. Students will bid our 8th graders farewell. All activities will wrap up around 10:30 am, and students will be dismissed from classrooms through our usual pick-up procedure.
Coming up:
May 15 Fine Arts Night 6 pm
May 15 Serve-a-thon Award Non-uniform day, Last breakfast day
May 16 Teacher Inservice Day – No School
May 19 Field Day, Last day for school lunch
May 20 Class Picnic Day – (bring sack lunch), Yearbook signing
May 21 Last Day of School – 10:30 Dismissal /No Extended Care
May 21 Kindergarten Graduation – 6 pm
May 22 8th Grade Graduation – 7 pm
Summer Reading List 2025-2026
At Hope Lutheran School, we value reading, and reading every day during the summer is important. Students at each grade level (1st – 8th grade) are REQUIRED to read books by August 15, 2024.
GOING INTO Fifth Grade
Write a three-paragraph summary of each book you read. (12 font, double spaced or in your best handwriting.)
REQUIRED Reading:
Read two books from the following list.
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
Lawn Boy Returns by Gary Paulsen
Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
Voyage of the Dawntredder by C.S Lewis
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM Robert C. O’Brian
The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel in Words and Pictures by Brian Selznick
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
The Magician’s Elephant by Kate DiCamillo
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite Di Angeli
Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins
11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass
Half Magic by Edward Eager
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Gentle Ben by Walt Morey
