“Securing Each Child’s Future – Equipped based on II Timothy 3:16-17

From the Principal’s Desk
Greetings in the name of our Risen Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! Easter is a time to celebrate new life. It was great to worship on Easter Sunday as we celebrated Christ’s resurrection from the dead. We no longer need to fear sin, death, and the devil because Christ won the victory for us. Through faith in Christ, we can have eternal life in heaven!

The school year is rapidly coming to a close with just five weeks to go! I wanted to thank the congregations of Immanuel and Trinity for their continual support of Christian education. Danville Lutheran School is a mission to share the Gospel message with our students and their families. It is through the Gospel that enables them to learn about their Savior, Jesus Christ. Please continue to support DLS especially through your prayers.

April has been a busy month for us. We have had our annual Race For Education fundraiser, our Spring Open House, our Scholastic Book Fair and our school registration. During the month of May, we will have a spring musical, spring music concert, field trips, and eighth grade graduation. You are invited to attend these events. More details will be on the monthly church calendar, in the church bulletins, and in the weekly school newsletter.

Preschool 3 – Connie Marxman
This year is quickly coming to an end. I have been blessed to be your child’s first teacher. We had a lot of first’s this year; first time being away from home, first time trying new foods, first time making good friends, first time hearing about Jesus, first time for Friday Guest Readers, and learning our names by sight, and many other new firsts. Even Mrs. Eisenbraun/Marxman had a few firsts too. First time to teach at DLS, first time to have an aide in her classroom (Wonderful Mrs. Timm), first time to get married too. God has been good to us all and we bless His name, alone!

Pre-Kindergarten 4 – Jo Robinson & Susan Meyer
The Pre-K students are having “Oceans of Fun” in class. We are finishing up learning each letter of the alphabet with “O” is for Oceans. Jelly fish were made out of baggies filled with hair gel and streamers for tentacles. Ordering fish from largest to smallest and smallest to largest was an activity enjoyed in math. How many Pre-K friends does it take to measure 100 feet – the length of a whale? Up, Up, Up, He Arose is a favorite song that our boys and girls sing with joy.

Kindergarten – Cathy Huff
There are still lots of things to learn! This last month of kindergarten will be a busy one as we finish Saxon math and phonics lessons. We are becoming great readers and writers. Our science lessons will take us around the globe as we learn about the rainforest, the arctic, the desert and the oceans. We will also read about the early Christians and how they spread the love of Jesus to places all around the world. We too have the job of spreading the Good News of Jesus’ death and resurrection to friends, family and even the world! And wait, we still have a field trip to take! We will visit Forest Glen one last time to see the spring season in bloom. It has been so much fun to watch God’s world change with the seasons. And the pictures show that we have grown and changed too.

Grade 1 – Linda Boyer
It’s amazing to get to the end of a school year and think back to the beginning. The progress that students make from August to May is quite astounding. First graders love to be read to, but now they can curl up with a book on their own. In math they can work with “comparison signs” and all the math facts to 18. Handwriting is much more legible and they are even writing paragraphs in English. Thank God for Danville Lutheran where our students not only receive a quality education, but they experience the Gospel each and every day! Thank you for your continued prayers and support of DLS!

Grade 2 – Miranda Miller
Throughout the school year the second graders have had many things to be proud of. They are now all in the John Hancock Club (a club for cursive hand writers only). Many of them have earned pizza with the principal for having so many Scholastic Reading Counts points. They have all mastered their addition and subtraction facts and are now working on multiplication already. Their next accomplishment will be to show me all of the continents and oceans on a map.

Grades 3 & 4 – Diana Pratt
Students are excited about the last month of school which is both busy and fun. Classroom work finds us doing long division, Mad Minutes, state projects, and reading a novel. Out of the classroom learning will include grade 4 spending a week at Kennekuk for Outdoor School, students attending the symphony, and a Field Day at St. John, Champaign. Thank you to our classroom volunteers, Mr. Ken Kuhn and Mrs. Mary Powell, for helping us with learning activities each week. We especially thank God for the blessing of Danville Lutheran School where we learn each day of our Heavenly Father’s love and mercy for each of us.

Grade 5 – Penny Tibben
Every class has a Bible verse that stays with them for the entire nine years they attend Danville Lutheran School. Our class verse is this “…we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.” (Rom. 5:11). This year, the fifth graders have worked on a project that spells out how that ‘peace with God’ is ours. Our “block of faith” project reminds us of how Jesus came to us, still comes to us, and will come again one day to take us to heaven. We look forward to continuing to share those words with our families at home. Have a great summer!

Grade 6 – Rachael Kretschmar
In the sixth grade class we have just finished going through the Easter story (it is a bit late, but they had a lot of questions so we got into a few discussions!) Religion class has been a blast all year! There have been a few crazy discussions, and some discussions that brought out really great questions.
The students are getting excited to go on their day long field trip. We are heading up to Chicago to see the Museum of Science and Industry. We will tour a coal mine, a U-505 Submarine, and do a few experiments!

Grades 7 & 8 – Shane Boyer
7th and 8th Grade US History
The 7th and 8th grade students have started the US Constitution. They are learning how and why our country was started. They are also looking into the process of how a President is selected, laws made, jobs of our representatives and courts, and interpretation of the Constitution. It has been especially exciting with the primaries taking place now, the students can apply the knowledge they have learned. After we have mastered the knowledge about being a good citizen, citizen obligations, and politics; we will finish the unit with a 100 question test over the Constitution.
The 8th grade class is getting ready for the end of one chapter and the beginning of another, with a class trip to Cincinnati, graduation, confirmation, and high school in the fall.