Tuesday, November 18, 2014 CALENDAR REMINDERS Wednesday, November 26 Wednesday, November 26 Thursday, November 27 Friday, November 28 Wednesday, December 3 Battle of the Books ~ 7:30am (Conference Room) 11:10am Dismissal & NO Bus service (at any time) NO School ~ Have a blessed Thanksgiving NO School Picture retake day ~ 9:30am – 1:15pm (Conference Room) LUNCH SCHEDULE 2014-2015 Hot Lunch Prices: Full meal $3.50; Main entrée only $2.00; Extra entrée w/full meal $1.00; Salad only $1.50; Fruit, dessert, chips, tator tots, water, 100% juice and/or snack cart (All available daily) .50/item. Wednesday, 11/19: Kim Johnson Friday, 11/21: Christa Adam & Dee Rivas Thursday, 11/20: Kim Johnson & Julie Hammer Monday, 11/24: Sarah Michor D.C. PIZZA will be available, every Tuesday. Tony’s pizza, of Beecher, will supply the pizza and orders will be taken (and paid for), on Tuesday mornings, for $2.50 per slice. Choices include sausage, pepperoni or cheese. Snacks and/or water will be available for 50¢ each. P.T.L. lunch money may NOT be used to purchase pizza! Hot lunch information (including menu and account balance) is available on Fast Direct! Hot Lunch Assistance Needed! If you are available to help with this program from 10:30am -1:00pm on any Monday, Wednesday or Friday, please contact Mrs. Rhonda Stadt (946-9017). PRAYER REQUESTS: Please pray for Annette (friend of the Muehlberg family) was diagnosed with liver cancer and is undergoing treatment; Mrs. Nancy Heldt (grandma of Nathan & Kendall Heldt) is recovering from surgery; Mr. Victor Latino (grandpa of Elizabeth Latino) has health concerns; Mr. Scot Latino (Elizabeth’s dad) has continuing health concerns. Please call Ms. Lucy (946-2272) with prayer requests. NOVEMBER CHAPEL OFFERINGS are designated to Lutheran Church Charities. Please prayerfully consider generous giving. HEALTH REMINDER: Parents ~ Please be aware of the policy stated in the handbook regarding student illness. Students are not permitted to attend school until they are fever free (without the use of medication) as well as symptom free ~ for 24 hours. Thank you! THANK YOU to all parents who donated items toward the Classroom Baskets for Zion’s 5 th Dinner Auction. With direction from the teachers and the participation of the parents, the classroom baskets were phenomenal and added much interest to the silent auction. Your support of the Dinner Auction is greatly appreciated and helped us raise additional funds for Zion Lutheran Church and School. Zion Dinner Auction Committee 2014-2015 HEARTWARMERS permission slips were sent home with students in grades one through eight. The first meeting (for those that returned permission slips) was yesterday. Heartwarmers will continue to meet every Monday that school is in session. This program is a magnificent blessing to the residents of Beecher Manor and also to our students that are showing God’s love with their actions! PICK UP TIME FOR HEARTWARMERS WILL NOW BE 4:30pm (due to current dismissal time for our school and district). Parents, please modify your schedule to adjust to this time change. As always, we appreciate your cooperation!! BOYS’ BASKETBALL & GIRLS’ CHEERLEADING GAME: Friday, November 21st AWAY vs. St. John, Country Club Hills, 6:30pm game with 5:15pm bus. Directions to St. John, Country Club Hills: Head toward W Indiana Ave. (CR-24) on Oak Park Ave. 272 feet; Turn right onto W Indiana Ave. (CR-24) 4.0 miles; Continue on W Beecher Road (CR-24) 0.8 miles; Turn right onto S Will Center Road (CR-10) 5.5 miles; Turn left onto W Court Street (CR-21) 1.0 miles; Turn right onto S Egyptian Trail 0.4 miles; Turn left onto W Monee Manhattan Road (CR-6) 0.5 miles; Turn right and take ramp onto I-57 N toward Chicago 6.8 miles; Take exit #342/Vollmer Road 0.3 miles; Take right ramp 0.1 miles; Take ramp onto Vollmer Road 0.3 miles; Turn left onto Cicero Ave. (IL-50) 2.0 miles; Turn right onto 183rd Street 0.7 miles. Your destination 4231 183rd Street, Country Club Hills, IL 60478 is on the right. The trip takes 22.4 miles and 31 minutes. GAME: Monday, December 1st HOME (at Beecher High School) vs. St. Paul, Oak Lawn, 6:30pm. CHEERLEADING PRACTICES: Practices will be held every Tuesday, from 3:00-4:30pm. Athletic physicals must be on file in order to participate. Questions may be directed to Coach Rhonda Stadt or Coach Kim Sparenberg. Basketball questions may be directed to Coach and Athletic Director, Mr. Jordan Hopman. Cheerleading questions may be directed to Coach Rhonda Stadt or Coach Kim Sparenberg. THANK YOU to everyone that bought and/or sold pies, for our November Pie Order campaign, through Market Day. 320 pies were sold and we are very appreciative of your efforts! Great job! THANK YOU to ALL of the participants of our recent fundraising opportunity with Carson’s Community Days. To date, Zion collected $1,190.00 and we could not have done it without you!! These proceeds will be used toward the water filtration project, for the benefit of our students. Thank you for your efforts. We appreciate you! ART CLASS OF THE WEEK is Second Grade and their work is featured in the north hallway. LIBRARY VOLUNTEERS: November 20: Mrs. Cindy Hoekstra, Thursday, November 27: NO School, (Thanksgiving), Thursday, December 4: Mrs. Sarah Macari. NO BUS TRANSPORTATION SERVICE (at any time) on Wednesday, November 26th. School will NOT be in attendance on Thursday, November 27th and Friday, November 28th ~ Have a blessed Thanksgiving! AUNT MILLIE’S BAKERIES wants packages of 50 labels! On October 31st, PTL sent out 100 Aunt Millie’s School Spirit labels for this .10 special! Good news ~ PTL has 20 prepared for the next special mailing! This is a very simple fundraiser. We all make sandwiches for our family lunches. When you purchase Aunt Millie’s bread and cut out the School Spirit Label, please send the labels (to school) with your children. Pass the word along to grandmas, aunts, neighbors, fellow church members, co-workers. Every little bit can add up to a lot at the end. Thank you everyone! PICTURE RETAKE DAY ~ is scheduled for Wednesday, December 3rd, from 9:30am – 1:15pm, in the Conference Room. Although we have not received our photo packets yet, we want you to have the retake information, for planning purposes. Once you receive your child’s photos, if you wish to have a retake, please return the complete packet and write re-take on the photo packet. Original photos must be returned in order to have retake photos. SUGAR PLUM FAIRY & HER FRIENDS PARTY: Saturday, December 6, 2014 ~ 10:00am – 12:00pm at Beecher Community Center (673 Penfield Street, Beecher) Pre-register: $10.00 or at the door: $15.00. Arts & crafts, Dress-up play and games, mini dance class, sweets and meet Sugar Plum Fairy & Friends! Tickets at Lynn Marie’s School of Dance (981 Dixie Hwy, Beecher) or contact Ana at ana@anatristan.com or call (708) 231-6267. LET YOUR CONVERSATION BE ALWAYS FULL OF GRACE, SEASONED WITH SALT, SO THAT YOU MAY KNOW HOW TO ANSWER EVERYONE. COLOSSIANS 4:6