{"id":32838,"date":"2024-09-29T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssbdwels.com\/school\/?p=32838"},"modified":"2024-09-26T10:25:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T15:25:58","slug":"weekly-update-9-29-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssbdwels.com\/school\/weekly-update-9-29-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly update 9\/29\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>God Word is impressed at the end of day.<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Be still, and know that I am God; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I will be exalted among the nations,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I will be exalted in the earth.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Psalm 46:10\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Encouragement Passage:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father\u2013<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I John 2:1<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forwardinchrist.net\/goal-as-parents\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parent conversations:\u00a0 What is our goal as parents?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Singing Schedule:<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thank you to the children\u2019s choir for singing at Good Shepherd this morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jr. and Sr. Choir will sing in our annual Mission Festival service on October 6 at the 10:00 service.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grade 2 will sing on Sunday, October 13 at the 8 am service at St. Stephen\u2019s.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Piano students in grades 5-8 will also be playing preservice music on the weekends of Oct 13 and Oct 20.\u00a0 Mrs. Estervig will be sending out information soon about this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Mission Collection:<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We collected $82.00 in our chapel service last week for Project Timothy. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0We set a goal of $500.00 for our first quarter and are at $298.50 of the goal.\u00a0 Our last collection for this mission will be October 21.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>2023-2024 Yearbooks:<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each student in the school from grade 1 to 8 should have received a yearbook from the last school year.\u00a0 If your child did not receive one, please let us know and we will be sure to send one home with them.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Community Impact Event hosted by Good Shepherd:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Come to Pizza Ranch <\/span><b>tomorrow, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Monday, September 30th from 4-8pm for Good Shepherd Preschool\u2019s Community Impact Fundraising Event. Eat supper, buy gift cards, and support the preschool as they raise funds for new playground equipment and protective rubber mulch for the playground area.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><b>NWEA Testing<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grades 3-8 will be participating in testing starting this week. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-Grades 5-8 will take care of this on Tuesday.\u00a0 Please be sure your students&#8217; chromebook is charged and ready to go for this.\u00a0 They should also have their charging cord along on Tuesday to use if their chromebook is dead or in the process of dying due to use that day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-Grades 3-4 will do this testing on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Please be sure your children are fueled up and ready to go for these days.\u00a0 A great breakfast and lunch will help them immensely.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>School payments<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Monthly school payment notifications will be sent home this week.\u00a0 Please stay current with your payments to school.\u00a0 Thank you.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><b>Mid-Term Reports:<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mid-Term reports were released last Friday.\u00a0 Please go to Fastdirect and view these reports with your children and discuss what has gone well and where they can improve.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Area Reformation Service:<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Sunday, October 20, 2024, at 4:00 p.m., there will be a Reformation Service held at St. Mark\u2019s in Watertown.\u00a0 What a great opportunity to gather with other Lutherans and celebrate the Reformation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>SCRIP News:<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are $25, $50 and $100 Walmart gift cards that are unfortunately non-reloadable because they have sat in the inventory too long. Come to the office to purchase and help SCRIP deplete the inventory so new reloadable cards can be on hand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Faculty\/Student Volleyball Game:<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The A-Team volleyball players will be taking on the Faculty in a volleyball game on Friday, October 4.\u00a0 This game will start at 2:30.\u00a0 If any parents or family members want to attend, we ask that you enter through door W3.\u00a0 This event was new last year, and everyone had a lot of fun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Sporting events<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are posted <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fssbdwels.com%2Fschool%2Fsports-calendar%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7C%7Cbf5cf7fa3a3641dcdf2308da89e0c960%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637973895783512032%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=52ZHaLcvVM2f2Zyh%2FjTNrik6dw3bzeM6jBZIdB%2F%2Bm9c%3D&amp;reserved=0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><b><br \/>\n<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/a><b>Lunch Menu<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is posted <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ssbdwels.com\/school\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2024-09-Sept.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blessings on your week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God Word is impressed at the end of day. Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth. Psalm 46:10\u00a0 Encouragement Passage: My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father\u2013 Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. I John 2:1 Parent conversations:\u00a0 What is our goal as parents? Singing Schedule: Thank you to the children\u2019s choir for singing at Good Shepherd this morning. 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