Salem Lutheran School News

On Monday April 1st Salem students will  begin tracking their vegetables  and fruit on their Try for 5 chart at school.   They will fill out their chart for three weeks.  Please encourage  your child to make fruits and vegetables  part of their food choices daily.

School News Family Academic Night - Science Thank you to everyone who helped on our Family Science Academic Night. We had many great presentations and demonstrations that the students and their families enjoyed. We look forward to next year’s Family Academic Night. Lent/Easter Services Lent Services continue in the month of April. We have two services at 4pm and 7pm with a dinner in between. Easter week starts with Palm Sunday on April 14th. Maundy Thursday will be April 18th and Good Friday will be on April 19th. Finally, Easter will be on April 21st. Look for a blog and other notification about service times for those days. Easter Egg Hunt We invite children ages 2-7 and their parents (siblings are welcome) to an Easter egg hunt on Saturday, April 6 from 10:00 am - 11:30 am in the school gym. Activities will include games, arts & crafts, face painting, and refreshments. Easter Break Salem will have its Easter Break from April 18-22. Tuition Assistance Endowmen

We are quickly approaching the end of the school year! If you have auto withdrawal set up through TADS to fund your lunch account, we can adjust the amount through April and May if needed to keep from over funding your account. Please note any positive balances in your account as of May 31 can be rolled over to the new school year. If your account is negative, a final withdrawal will be scheduled in June to pay for any lunch fees not paid by the end of the school year. Please contact the school office if you have any concerns with your lunch balance. Here are the awesome meals planned for April: April Lunch Menu

SCRIP  Orders Due April 8  & April 22 Bowling Practices Tuesdays and Thursdays 4 - 5:15 pm Wednesday, April 3  - Lenten Services 4 & 7 pm Saturday, April 6  - Salem Egg Hunt 10:00 - 11:30 am Sunday, April 7 - Jubilate Sings @ 10:30 am  Worship Service Monday, April 8  - Messy Monday 6 - 7 pm Tuesday, April 9 - School Board Meeting & Tech Committee Meeting Wednesday, April 10 - Lenten Services 4 & 7 pm, Band plays for 4:00 pm Service Sunday, April 14 - Palm Sunday Services 8 & 10:30 am Thursday- Monday, April 18-22  - No School (Easter Break)           Maundy Thursday Service 7 pm with Communion           Good Friday Services 10 am & 7 pm           Easter Sunday Services 6:30 am, 9:00 am, Path of Peace 11:00 am Tuesday - Friday, April 23-26 - Spring MAP Testing Thursday, April 25  - SPTO Meeting 6:30 pm

This festival will be held at St Croix Lutheran Academy this Saturday, March 29. All participants should have received their schedules. Please contact the school office if you do not have this yet. A concert is scheduled for all who wish to attend at 1:30 pm that day. God's blessings to all who are participating in this fun event!

This event, scheduled at our school from 6:30pm - 9:00pm, is intended as a night out for adults with proceeds to benefit the Salem Tuition Endowment Fund (cash or checks only please). Tickets are $5 in advance in the school office or in the church entrance before and after services and will also be sold for $7 at the event. Please note the event will accept only cash or checks for the raffle and any other items purchased that evening. The evening fun will include: Appetizers and Drinks Cookie Baking Contest - Bring a dozen of your favorite homemade cookies to the event! Winner gets a prize!!!! Wine Pull Card Tournament Bingo Board Games Raffles - Here are some great prizes at the event... MN Zoo Tickets MN Twins Tickets Phil's Tara Hideaway Gift Certificate Acapulco Gift Cards Pizza Ranch Gift Cards Golf Certificate for Eagle Valley Personal Training Session at River Valley Athletic Club Chanhassen dinner  & Show Tickets And Much More... Buy your ticket

The 834 school district added this Friday as a school day to their schedule. Because of this, we will have busing on March 29.

WHEN: Saturday, April 6th  10:00  - 11:30 am WHERE: Salem Gym WHO: Kids ages 2 - 7. Siblings are welcome also. Games & Prizes! Arts & Crafts! Refreshments! Face Painting!                         Please plan to come with your child for a morning of Easter fun!

The School Board approved changing the format for the Spring Play for this school year. Preschool will be on its normal night on May 9th at 6:00 pm K-8 will be doing skits at Salem on May 22nd at 7:00 pm Both of these events will be held in the gym at Salem (not at the Phipps). This will just be for this year since there were so many cancelled school days due to weather. Next year the play schedules and location will hopefully go back to normal. Thank you to everyone who gave your opinions in the survey. The School Board greatly appreciated getting your feedback. Please don't forget to make this change on your family calendars!

Salem Lutheran bowling practice begins on Tuesday, March 26th from 3:45pm-5:00pm at Stillwater Bowl.  Practices are on Tuesdays and Thursdays.  Please remember to transport your child to Stillwater Bowl after school or make arrangements for them.  Please pick up your child at 5:00pm from Stillwater Bowl.  Thank you.

Reminder! No School Next Week . School will resume with busing on March 25. May you all have a blessed and safe week!

Please take note that the Piano Heroes Spring Recital has been rescheduled from April 11 to May 16 at 6:30 pm .  Piano students will receive more information from Mrs. Ronning in the coming weeks.

Please come join our Salem Parent Teacher Organization at their monthly meeting tomorrow at 6:30 pm in the school lunchroom. We would appreciate your help planning future events for our school!

This event, scheduled at our school from 6:30pm - 9:00pm, is intended as a night out for adults with proceeds to benefit the Salem Tuition Endowment Fund. Tickets are $5 in advance in the school office or in the church entrance before and after services and will also be sold for $7 at the event. The event will include: Appetizers and Drinks Cookie Baking Contest - Bring a dozen of your favorite homemade cookies to the event! Winner gets a prize!!!! Wine Pull Card Tournament Bingo Board Games Raffles - Here are some great prizes at the event... MN Zoo Tickets MN Twins Tickets Phil's Tara Hideaway Gift Certificate Acapulco Gift Cards Pizza Ranch Gift Cards Golf Certificate for Eagle Valley Personal Training Session at River Valley Athletic Club Chanhassen dinner  & Show Tickets And Much More... Buy your tickets now and plan for a fun evening!

Join us this weekend for Path of Peace. This weekend we'll explore forgiveness from Jesus' perspective and from the experience of a man who was paralyzed. The songs Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) - Chris Tomlin;  No Longer Slaves - Bethel;  10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord) - Matt Redman will help us celebrate the forgiveness Jesus promises. Also, childcare will be available this weekend (every 3rd Saturday). Please join us--we'd love to share a little bit of Jesus' peace with you!

Box Tops Our school participates in the General Mills Box Tops for Education Program. Please consider saving these logos from many products you may already be buying or already have in your pantry and place them in the collection box at our school entrance.  Please make sure the Box Top date has not expired. To make collection easier for families, Preschool - 4th grade will have collection sheets available in the child's classroom to help with collecting these. You can, however, just put them in a plastic bag and drop them in the bin at the school entrance. Here is a list of the products that you can clip this logo from. 2018-2019 Box Top for Education Products Aluminum Can Collection Our School Athletic Fund is benefitted by every aluminum can that you save for us. There is a can collection bin (it is a wooden bin with lid) on the side of the garage next to the beige house on our school property. Please drop off any aluminum cans in this bin (bagged in plastic bags is hel

Another Messy Monday will be held tonight from 6-7 pm at Salem. All families with children ages 2-5 are welcome to attend. Families will be charged $5 per child that attends and an activity or craft will be planned for the event. If you know of someone who is looking for a preschool or kindergarten for next year, please invite them. This is a wonderful opportunity to have them see our school and meet our awesome teachers. Here are the dates of our next Messy Mondays: April 8 May 13

Join us Thursday night at 6:30 in the Salem Fellowship Hall for the March SPTO meeting! Find out about the upcoming Parents Night Out and the Spring Event for children.  Only three meetings left this school year, so join us now!

Please find alternative transportation for your child next week. There is no bus service for Salem students. Bus service will resume 3/25/19.

Dear Salem members-- Due to the winter storm warning and the threat of heavy snow Saturday afternoon and evening, we have canceled our Saturday service. We plan to have services on Sunday morning, but please watch your email for an announcement if we need to cancel them too. We will also post the announcement on Facebook, the church website (www.salemlutheran.org), and on the local television stations. We pray everyone stays safe this weekend!

Salem will once again offer bowling this spring for boys and girls in grades 5th-8th. There is a fee of $60 to participate. (This fee is what Stillwater bowl charges each student for the rental of the shoes and balls for all of the practices.) Students that want to participate will need to purchase a bowling T-shirt that will have their last name on the back and their number.  If they participated last year and their T-shirt still fits they may use that. Just be sure to indicate on the bottom of this form what your number is so that number isn’t used by another teammate. Practices will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:45-5:00 at Stillwater Bowl.  The students will need a ride to the bowling alley. So if you can help carpool that would be great. The first practice will be on March 26th.  The first bowling match will be April 12th.  A complete schedule will be available at the beginning of the season. Please hand in this note by March 13th. Student Name_ ___________

See you at 6:00 PM!

Please remember that we do not have bus service next week but we  are in session March 11 - 15 . Please make arrangements for drop-off and pick-up for your children. The following week is our spring break so there is no school March 18 - March 22 . Busing will resume on March 25.

Midweek Lenten Worship begins Ash Wednesday, March 6. We will have services at 4 pm and 7 pm for six Wednesdays during Lent. Our theme for this year is Three Words of Truth. Meals will be served between services and tomorrow's meal will be hosted by our Salem Parent/Teacher Organization.

Please come this Thursday to our annual Family Academic Night. This year we will focus on Science! Come to the school gym to start the event promptly at 6:00 PM. The rest of the evening will be at your leisure to wander through the classrooms to enjoy displays and presentations some of which are hosted by our very own Salem parents! Enjoy displays on NICU-premature babies, learn about our body's bones, meteorology, slime science and much more. There will be special presentations about cardiac pacemakers, athletic training, robotics, as well as straw rockets. Bring your whole family for this fun night of learning!

Here is a digital version of what you are signed up for: All Band members are signed up for the Salem Saints Band and you will play "Cumberland Overture" by James Carrow directed by Mrs. Balk Band Solos : Reese, Sophia, Zander, and Alexis Band Duet : Griffin and John                     Band Trio : Isaac, Eli, and Isaiah All Jubilate members are signed up to sing the following: TCFAF Selection: What Wonderous Love Is This arr. by Trevor Manor Our Selection: All the Sins of the World by Mary Dorn Lippert Ladies Ensemble : Sophie, Alexis, Kaitlyn, Tessa, Ellie, Kayden, Erica, and Morgan "Father Forgive" Piano Solos : Sophia, Kaitlyn, Serenna, and Isaac Piano Duet : Ellie and Tessa Art Project (Please have your projects to school by March 27th and have them matted or framed) Isaac, Eli, and Kaitlyn If you have any questions please email Ms. Gosch at agosch@salemlutheran.org or call 651-764-3041

Reminder Jubilate Choir sings at the 4pm Ash Wednesday Service.  Please meet at 3:50 in the Conference Room to warm up before the service.  I have plans to be back, however Mrs. Klatt will be there to direct for you in case I am absent.   Any questions please contact Ms. Gosch at 651-764-3041. 

Mrs. Ronning is not giving lessons next week. Please note lessons will resume the week of March 11.

Ash Wednesday is March 6th, marking the beginning of the Lenten Season. Salem offers services each Wednesday during Lent at 4 & 7 pm. Different organizations within Salem service Lenten Suppers each week - the free will offering collected from these meals is used to help that organizations activities or they designate towards a need within Salem. This year’s meals so far, are being served by the following… March 6 - SPTO will be serving Soup March 13 - The Youth Group will be serving Pizza March 20 - Fellowship or Council (menu to be determined) March 27 - Caring Committee will serve Sloppy Joes (all proceeds from this will benefit                    Pastor Schram) April 3 - 8th Graders for their Class Trip (menu to be determined) April 10 - Fellowship or the Council (menu to be determined)