Memorial Lutheran School

News and Updates
 April 27, 2012 

Welcome to Everyone

Memorial Lutheran is hosting a book fair at Barnes & Noble this weekend - April 28 and 29.  You can visit the store itself this Saturday or Sunday, and you can also order online at BN.COM/bookfairs - you need to enter the Bookfair ID 10730885 at checkout. The Barnes & Noble store is at Voss and Westheimer, 7626 Westheimer. 

Summer Reading Books: Want to get the summer reading books without running all over town? We gave Barnes & Noble a list of the books we want for the kids, and they set them aside for us. They are arranged by grade. A list of the summer books will be available at the book fair.

Poetry Contest: We will also be giving out the prizes for our poetry contest, which includes a $25.00 gift certificate to Barnes & Noble for the grand-prize winner.

Guest Readers: We will have guest readers coming in to read books throughout the day, including Mrs. Bohot  from Kindergarten, and Frau Angelika, our MLS German teacher.

Can't be in town? Even those family members who live far away can purchase books on-line and the proceeds will go to the school (see the above information for online ordering).

Proceeds from this book fair will help the Malaria Initiative. Thank you so much for your support and we look forward to seeing you there.

We would like to thank the Stoneburner Family and Ms. Lea Zimmerman for their donations of books to the library. All of the donations received this year are much appreciated! 

We would like to thank all of our golfers for attending the tournament and our faculty who came out to help for the day.  We would like to especially thank our many donors, especially Global Paragon, the Solomon Family, Amegy Bank, RigNet, Inc., the McDermott Family, Parker School Uniforms, Carl Pollex and 5-2-1 Compressor Saver for all being tournament and hole sponsors. The tournament and raffle raised over $10,000 which will be added to the playground fund.    

Two of our MLS students will be competing at the state competition of PSIA on Saturday, May 5, at TCU in Ft. Worth.  Jose Cordero, 6th grader, is making his third straight trip to the state finals. Peter Dragomirov, 2nd grader,  will be representing MLS also. We wish them safe travels and we hope that they do well against other students from Texas. PSIA, Private Schools Interscholastic Association, is an academic competition for students in private school. Reverend Obersat oversees our school's involvement in PSIA.

The 5th grade class and the Schola Cantorum will sing in church on Sunday, May 6 in the 8:15 a.m. service. This will be the last Sunday of our school year where classes sing in the church service!  Thank you too all students who sang with their classes this school year.

There will be two music concerts in May. On Tuesday, May 8,  the 5th through 8th grades will perform and on Tuesday, May 15, the 1st -4th grades will have their concert.  Concerts are at 7 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall.

The band, orchestras, chimes and choirs will perform. We hope to see you there! 

Congratulations to these recent Students of the Week:

The end of the school year is approaching! That brings class parties, programs and graduations. The 8th grade class graduates on Tuesday, May 22 at 7 p.m. in the church and Fellowship Hall; the Early Childhood Program (ES1 to Pre-K 4) has their closing program on Wednesday, May 23, at 2 p.m. in the gym, and the Kindergarten class has their graduation program on Wednesday, May 23, at 7 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall. 

The private lessons music recitals will be held on Thursday, May 24, after school in the Fellowship Hall, beginning at 3:45 p.m.

Check with your child's teacher regarding any additional class trips or parties.

The last official day of this school year is Friday, May 25. There is noon dismissal for everyone - Infants through the 8th grade.  There is no childcare available that afternoon. Teachers will be in end-of-year meetings and they will need to clean rooms and get ready for summer time.  Monday, May 28, is Memorial Day, which is a national holiday. Childcare is closed on that day as well.  Summer begins on Tuesday, May 29.