CRUSADER CHRONICLE Volume 37, Issue 33 St. John’s Ev. Lutheran School – Wauwatosa August 24, 2017

St. John’s Mission Statement: We exist to prepare our children for a lifelong relationship with Christ, proclaim the gospel message, and provide excellence in education in order to equip students for life and eternity.

THIS WEEK AT ST. JOHN’S SCHOOL August 24-September 5, 2017

8/24 Th Handbells w/Mrs. Handeland 6:30pm Parent Orientation Night

8/25 Fri

8/26 Sat 5:30 Worship

7:00 Worship in Chinese

8/27 Sun 8 &10:30 Worship w/Communion

9:15 Sunday School & Bible Class

8/28 Mon Piano w/Mrs. Roska (ALL students bring books)

9:30 WLHS Band Recruitment

8/29 Tue Piano w/Mrs. Roska (ALL students bring books)

8/30 Wed 8:15am Children’s Chapel

Piano w/Mrs. Bortulin

Violin w/ Mrs. Buschkopf

8/31 Th Handbells w/ Mrs. Handeland

Piano w/ Mrs. Bortulin

Soccer Garden Homes @SJ

VB A/B St. Lucas @ SJ

9/1 Fri NO SCHOOL

Childcare is open bring bag lunch

9/2 Sat 5:30pm Worship w/Communion

7:00pm Worship in Chinese

9/3 Sun 8 &10:30 Worship w/Communion

9:15 Sunday School & Bible Class

9/4 Mon No School – Labor Day

Childcare closed

9/5 Tue School Resumes

Guitar w/Mr. Krellwitz

It is so nice to see all of the smiling faces back at St. John’s! We are looking forward to a wonderful new school year.

Parent Orientation Meeting Tonight 6:30PM in the gym!

From the Principal’s Desk

Greetings, Welcome to a new school year!

Tonight at 6:30, is our Parent Orientation Night so much of what is new will be included there. I do want to include a few basic

reminders for the year in this message. For the next few weeks the school office will be staffed by Dawn Lambrecht. Dawn is filling

in for JoAnn Schmidt for the immediate future. Also, Amy Stauffer will be filling in for Amanda Hansen in the lunch program. Tonight we will

meet the teacher who will replace Mrs. Wittig later in the year. She is Megan Leverence. The yellow striped area by the doors at

the mid-level parking lot is reserved for people dropping off or picking up students AND students who are old enough to get into the car

and put their own seatbelts on without parental aid. If you need to help your child put the belt on, please park and pick up your children.

The parking lot is a busy place when 200+ students enter/exit in the 15 minute period of

time that eighty cars drive in to pick them up. Please drive slowly. Also, students should not cross the street without teacher or parent

assistance. If you choose to park on Dewey Avenue and wait, please pull forward to the street sign to allow others to enter and exit

from our parking lot safely. In the morning before the students are allowed in the building, they cannot be dropped

off and left to play in the parking lot. This creates safety and supervision issues we are trying to avoid. Please keep your child in

the car until 7:40. If they come to the door and wait for a minute or two because your clock and the school bell system are not in sync, that

is not a problem. Some students walk or ride bikes at this time of the year and their arrival cannot be perfectly timed.

Finally, we have a number of new families and students. Please take the opportunity to introduce yourself to new people to make

new friends and help new people feel welcome. We’re off to a great start this year!!

~Mr. Uecker~

School Doors

A reminder that the school doors, both mid and lower level doors will be opened at 7:40am each morning. Children arriving prior to

7:40am should check in to Childcare. Please contact childcare@sjtosa.org for more

information.

Thank You Thank you to our school cleaning volunteers! We got so many things checked

off the list to get the school ready for the kids this week. As always, we could not do it without so many dedicated parents helping us get the

jobs done. Thank you also to our teen volunteers who helped with some heavy lifting

jobs. We appreciate all the help everybody took the time to give. ~Mrs. Leyrer

Usher Assistants Each week beginning on Unity Sunday students, in grades 5-8, whose families are

members of St. John’s Church are assigned to hand out “News and Notes” following the 8 AM

and 10:30 AM services. The children are to go to the rear of the church during the announcements and the ushers will give them

these handouts. The names will be printed each week here in the Chronicle. If you will not

be at church on your assigned Sunday or time, it is your responsibility to find a substitute.

UNITY SERVICE

9:00 AM September 10 (One service)

Tony Jones Caleb Pollesch

Quinn Taylor Alex Hernandez

SUNDAY SERVICES

8:00 AM 10:30 AM

September 17

Nora Gregory

Elsa Gregory

Chloe Campbell

Keegan Pagel

September 24

Emily Leyrer Eva Kuehn

Collin Doan Noah Fritz

Parents’ Preview The Parents’ Preview highlights an aspect of next week’s service: a liturgical song, a Psalm refrain, or a hymn stanza. Our hope and prayer is that parents will teach this portion of the service to their children at home during the week so that children can participate more fully in the worship service.

Parents’ Preview for September 3

“Thank the Lord”

In “Thank the Lord,” sung immediately after communion, the

congregation expresses thanks for

the forgiveness of sins imparted in Holy Communion. We

rejoice and sing the praises of our God.

Each week the Chronicle will

contain this “Preparing for Sunday” section. The passages listed will be the readings for the Saturday/Sunday

services. It is our hope that each of you will set aside time to read and prepare personally

or as a family for Sunday worship services.

Saturday/Sunday Scripture Readings

The scripture readings for this week’s services are:

The First Lesson: Exodus 14:10-31 Psalm 73

The Second Lesson: Romans 9:1-5

The Gospel Lesson: Matthew 14:22-33 Sermon theme: Rooted

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St. John’s News & Notes

Our first semester Mission project involves

helping three areas:

Food Pantry Illumine Lutheran Church

Abiding Grace- Georgia

The Food Pantry effort will run all school year. Collection will take place in the new big box in the Narthex as we enter church on the first

Sunday of the month (except September, which is Unity Sunday). Items needed are: Dry

cereal, rice, instant potatoes, pasta, canned vegetables and fruit, canned soup, canned tuna or stew, jello, and pudding. These items will

then be distributed on the second Saturday of the month at Christ Lutheran Church. When

you are out shopping, help your child select an item or two to share with those in need. Each classroom will “adopt” a month to make a

special effort to fill our box. Watch for details. Illumine Lutheran Church and Abiding

Grace —our Sunday collection envelopes for this semester will go to help these missions. This past summer forty teens and ten

chaperones went to these churches to help with the VBS science and technology camps. A

weekly reminder and update will be in the Crusader Chronicle. Watch for bulletin board display outside the gym to show progress.

May God bless our efforts to carry out our mission to “proclaim the gospel message.”

ST. JOHN’S SHOE DRIVEDID YOUR CHILDREN OUTGROW THEIR SHOES

THIS SUMMER? GYM SHOES NO LONGER FIT?

Your donated shoes will change lives in Africa! We will be collecting shoes for Soles for

Jesus (Milwaukee based non-profit) during October in the church narthex and at school. All sizes and types (men's, women's,

children's) accepted. Please contact Yvonne Quint at 262-790-5716 or Cindy Kuehn at 414-

534-1379 with questions.

Piano Lessons This year piano lessons at St. John’s will be taught by Mrs. Janeen Roska (Mondays &

Tuesdays) and Mrs. Sarah Bortulin (Wednesdays and Thursdays). Lessons will begin the week of August 28. Mrs. Roska will

not have lessons on Sept. 5th, lessons will resume on Sept. 11th & 12th.

Guitar Lessons Guitar lessons are being offered at St. John’s with instructor Chris Krellwitz. If you

are interested in registering your child, please contact Chris Krellwitz directly (ph: 262-617-8771, or email: chris.krellwitz@gmail.com)

Chris has more than 15 years of professional teaching experience and he is

excited to begin his 6th year of guitar lessons at St. John's. Sign up for lessons today!

Violin Lessons Ms. Megan Buschkopf will be offering violin

lessons on Wednesdays at St. John’s. Information packets are available on the table outside the school office, or you may contact

her directly at mbuschkopf@gmail.com.

State Fair Thank You A huge thank you to the many volunteers who helped out at State Fair this year in the chicken shack and concerts. We were able to

raise over $8800 for St. John’s. Watch your emails for our next big event the Snowmobile

show at State Fair Expo Oct. 13-15th.

Hot Lunch You can now access the school hot lunch page

on the website: www.sjtosa.org/HotLunch or through a link on the Parent Resource page.

In an effort to simplify the Lunch Ticket process at St. John’s, we have “Family Lunch

Account” rather than a per/student ticket count. Any payments to Hot Lunch will be

deposited into your family account and the cost of lunches consumed by all children in that family will be deducted from that same account

at the end of the week. WE ASK THAT ALL FAMILIES KEEP A POSITIVE BALANCE IN

THEIR LUNCH ACCOUNT. We will be working with a “total dollar amount” for each family. We believe this will be easier for everyone involved.

The cost of lunches remains the same at $3/lunch and $1/extra entrée.

All payments to hot lunch must be put in a “Hot Lunch Order Form” envelope and placed in the wooden box located in the

school office or Childcare Room. Please make checks payable to “St. John’s.” New this

year you can arrange for an EFT with Sharon Kieselhorst in the church office. If you purchased milk at registration, your

child will have the choice of white (1% or skim) or chocolate milk at lunch whether they eat hot

lunch or bring a lunch from home. If you purchased one milk for your child and they

decide that they would like two milks, the cost will be $15 for an additional milk for the entire school year (or 25 cents per carton.)

Babysitter Directory We are once again printing a Babysitting Directory for all St. John’s families who may be in need of babysitting services. Any students in 6th, 7th and 8th grade, who would like to be included in this directory and have not yet handed in the information form, please turn it into the school office. Extra copies of the form can be found on the table outside the school office.

It is a whirlwind of firsts for 22 new K3 students coming to preschool. They are very

excited about meeting new friends and are adjusting very well to our classroom routines

and rules. We are getting to know each other through play and our circle time activities. The children are actively exploring each

learning center in our classroom and the playground. The kitchen area, play dough

table, and construction site are favorites so far. The children also enjoyed identifying and saying the first letter of their name as the

word whammer sang a special song for their letter. They will practice finding their first

letter and putting it on our apple bulletin board. We enjoyed a book about treating books with care and one about starting school

for the first time. We learned about a circle and discovered a semi-circle, as well as the

colors red, purple, and blue. The children enjoyed sharing about their summer

activities.

Serving Jesus and His lambs,

Mrs. Henning

Childcare News Friday, September 1st, is an off day of

school. If you are in need of childcare that day please go

to: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BDS3FJW to fill out a reservation form. If this is a normal childcare day for you please still fill

out a form letting us know if you will or won’t be needing childcare.

Childcare will be closed September 4th in

Honor of Labor Day.

Is your child in volleyball, soccer, cross country???????

Please let us know of any changes to

your child’s after school childcare schedule!

Tosafest Chili and Cupcake Community Cookoff

St. John’s will be hosting the annual Chili and

Cupcake Community Cookoff as part of Tosafest on Saturday, September 9th. Not only is this

good community exposure for our church and school, but we also get to sell the leftover

cupcakes and chili. Proceeds will help fund our teen mission trip. We need chefs to enter cupcakes and chili (contact Jim Schneicker at

schneiks@gmail.com) and we need volunteers to run our booth and sell the extra chili and

cupcakes (contact Pastor Bitter at kyle.bitter@sjtosa.org). Hope to see you there!

Important Forms If you have not already done so, the following items need to be turned to the

school office immediately: Emergency Contact Card (white)

Social Media/Internet Acceptance Policy

Form (signed by students and parents.)

BOTH SIDES

Commitment to Handbook Policy Form

Background check forms

Updates for immunization records

K5 Eye Exam Form

Spiritwear Sale Want to show your St. John's spirit? The St. John's Spirit Wear Sale is up and running

through On-Time Tees. This sale is for all members and friends of St. John's school and

congregation. Order your gear online by clicking here through Sunday, September

17th. Items will be delivered to school within 2-3 weeks after the close of the sale. Samples and flyers will be available at the

parent orientation meeting on Thursday, August 24th. For questions, please contact

Tracey Lampe at traceylampe93@gmail.com.