September 24-28, 2007 Knowing Jesus, Growing in Faith, Serving God’s Children
Dear preschool parents (Tues./Thurs.),

Can you believe that our first month of school is almost over? Be looking for the October snack and show & tell calendar in the folders on Thursday.

This week in Jesus Time we learn about when Abraham is blessed, found in Genesis 1:14-19 and 15:1-6. We learn that God gives us nighttime to enjoy and to rest. Because God has shown us how much He loves us in Jesus, we can also be sure of His love and care for us through the night. This is also a great time to begin a simple bedtime prayer if you don’t already do one as part of your bedtime routine. “Now I lay me down to sleep” is a great one! We will be having some fun this week with teddy bears. We will be making some fuzzy-looking teddy bears and be putting our teddy bears in places around the room based on colors and positional words, such as beside and under. COULD YOU PLEASE HELP YOUR CHILD BRING A TEDDY BEAR TO SCHOOL ON THURSDAY? We will be using them for our teddies for some comparing and contrasting. Thanks! We will be sorting our bears by various requirements this week-size, shape, color. We will also be making teddy bear biscuits on Thursday.
We will have Library on Tuesday. Please help your child remember to bring their book back to school in order to check out another.

If your child is in daycare, we will have Chapel with Mr. Sagissor, our 5th grade teacher, and helped out by Miss Nora and her puppets. Our Chapel offering this month goes to one of our young church families, the Pounds. Baby Noah was born with a cleft lip and palate and some serious heart defects. Our offering is going to help defray some of Baby Noah’s medical bills. Use the little envelopes for offering, if you want. Baby Noah has surgery scheduled on Sept. 25 for his cleft lip and palate. I’m sure the family could use prayers, too.
We are practicing a medley of songs for Zion School’s 50th anniversary celebration. We will sing as a school at the 10:45AM worship service on Sept. 30. If you don’t have a church home, I invite you to come and worship with us and help us celebrate the blessings that God has given us these past 50 years! Your child sits with you during the service and then comes up to sing. They then go back to sit with you. We will have a potluck meal after the service and then the classrooms will be open for everyone to visit.

The lunch menu orders are in the folders of the daycare kids. If your child is going to eat hot lunch next week, please indicate which days and return to me by Thursday. Thanks!

REMINDER: Cookie dough orders are due on Monday, Oct. 1. The pick-up date for the dough is Friday, Oct. 12 in the gym. If you cannot pickup your dough, please make arrangements with a friend or something. We don’t have enough extra freezer space to store dough. Thanks for helping us out with this first fundraiser!

THIS HAPPENS NEXT WEEK! There will be no preschool classes on Thursday and Friday, October 4 & 5. We will have daycare on Thursday, Oct. 4 from 7AM UNTIL 11:15AM. The rest of the school dismisses at 11:15AM and so will daycare. There will be no lunch served. We will have 10 spots available, so if your child is one of our daycare kids and you need this service for those hours, let me know ASAP. The spots are first come, first serve.

I pray that you have a great week! Please feel free to call me anytime with questions or concerns. Check out the new school website at www.zioncrusaders.org
Zion 342-5749; home 716-7689 cell 391-9046 Hope Genzlinger