I hope everyone had a great Spring Break last week! What a crazy week of temperature extremes! It makes me appreciate spring and all the blessings of fresh, new life that comes with it!
Report Cards
3rd Quarter report cards are coming home in today’s Thursday envelope. Please sign and return the unsealed envelope to school, but keep the report card. We will use it one more time at the end of the school year. Thank you!
Holy Week
Next week, we will focus on Jesus’ journey to the cross, beginning with Palm Sunday. You are welcome to celebrate with Hope. Children will process, waving palm branches at the beginning of the service. (They will meet in the Memorial Lounge just outside the sanctuary to pick up the palm branches.) We will move our chapel service from Wednesday to Thursday next week as we focus on Maundy Thursday, the day on which Jesus instituted the Lord’s Supper. We do not have school on Good Friday. We set the day aside to remember Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross for the sins of all people.
Send Supplies Next Week!
My class has a tradition of making egg trees for Easter during Holy Week. Your child will need the following on Monday morning, March 30 :
- 1 – 6” clay pot (clean, with price tag completely removed) *Needed on Monday!
- 1 dozen blown out eggs (RINSED!) (or craft eggs, available at a number of different stores, but they cannot be dip dyed) *Needed on Tuesday!
- 1 tree branch (It should be about 18″-24″ tall with plenty of other little branches to hang our eggs on.) *Needed on Wednesday!
I will supply all the other materials needed. Please do not send these items (especially branches) into the classroom until Holy Week.
Hopefully, we will finish this project on Wednesday, and students will bring them home that day.
KAP (Kansas Assessment Program) testing schedule
We will be taking our Kansas state assessment tests between March 30 and April 10. KITE testing is required by the state of Kansas. It is our state assessment test. It begins in third grade, so this is the first time our class will experience this format. We will spread it over 4 different days. There are 2 sections of both English/Language Arts and Math. Please make sure your student arrives at school on time, has a good breakfast, and gets plenty of sleep while we are testing.
JOG-A-THON
We are looking forward to our Spring fundraiser: Jog-a-Thon “Running for Health and Safety. Strengthening Care. Supporting Every Student.” We will be having our running event on Tuesday, April 7th, which is our first day back after Easter weekend. You can refer to the flyer in today’s envelope for more information. Please sign and return the permission slip that is coming home today. Your child is asked to wear a shirt to match his/her chapel family color. Most students are with a teacher other than their classroom teacher. The Chapel Family Leaders and colors are as follows: Miss Haley- Blue, Mrs. Heis- Red, Miss Christian- Green, Mrs. Krzensinski- Yellow, Mrs. Begley- Purple, Mrs. McIntosh- Gray, Mrs. Schkade- Orange, Miss Mondary- Pink, Mrs. Maurice- White. Please ask your child which family he/she belongs to so you know which color t-shirt they should wear that day. Each student has a goal to raise $350. Please tell family and friends. Donations can be made at the following link: https://hopelutheran.dojiggy.io/2026-jog-a-thon/t/43e021.
Donations start on March 30, 2026, at 8:00 am CST and are available until April 10, 2026, at 6:00 pm CST.
Oxford Schoolhouse
The date is set for Friday, April 17th! We are looking forward to our trip to the historic Oxford schoolhouse, where we will experience a living history day as students in a rural one-room schoolhouse in 1909! This has been a favorite field trip in the past because we dress in period clothing for the day. (The standard outfit of the day for boys was bib overalls, blue jeans or dungarees made of sturdy fabric with cotton or flannel shirts. Any color shirt was appropriate, except white, as it was impossible to keep white clean on an active farm boy. Girls wore dresses that fell anywhere below the knee but above the ankle. She might wear a pinafore or apron to keep her dress clean. Large hair bows were popular at the time. She usually wore black tights or stockings. Both girls and boys wore leather shoes or ankle boots.) Permission slips are in this week’s Thursday envelope.
Art Camp
The Lutheran High School of Kansas City’s Summer Knights Camps offer an Art Camp this summer for 2nd-8th graders, June 8-12 (12-3PM). See the flyer at the bottom of this post if you are interested in finding out more information.
Spelling words for Thursday, April 2: (Little House 2)
| carve | panther | chores | quiet | catechism |
| faint | flounce | curried | delaine | quivered |
Sentence: Mary and Laura had a swing made of tough bark.
Memory for April 2: The Third Article: Sanctification
What does this mean? (Part 3)
On the Last Day He will raise me and all the dead, and give eternal life to me and all believers in Christ.
This is most certainly true.
Next week:
- Friday, 3/27
- Spelling Test
- Sunday, 3/29
- Palm Sunday
- Monday, 3/30
- Need to bring the pot for the Easter project
- Tuesday, 3/31
- Need to bring the blown-out eggs for the Easter project
- Wednesday, 4/1
- Memory
- Need to bring the pot for the Easter project
- Thursday, 4/2
- Chapel
- Maundy Thursday services @ 4:00 and 7:00 pm
- Friday, 4/3
- Good Friday – NO SCHOOL
- Good Friday services: 12:00-3:00 and 7:00 pm
- Saturday, 4/4
- Hope Youth Group is sponsoring an Easter Fair, 9:00 am
- Sunday, 4/5
- Easter Sunday!
- Monday, 4/7
- Easter Monday – NO SCHOOL
*Please note that we have multiple field trips in April! Watch for the permission slips, and consider if you might help with transportation.
Upcoming Dates:
- 4/7 – Jog-a-thon (no drivers needed)
- 4/9 – The Ugly Duckling (drivers still needed)
- 4/17 – Oxford Schoolhouse (drivers needed)
- 4/23 – LinkUp Concert (drivers needed)
- 4/26 – 3rd- 5th Grade Choir sings -10:30
- 4/27-5/1 – MAP testing
- 4/30 – Celebrate America – 250 Years in the Making!
- 5/14 – Fine Arts Night
