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January 12, 2007


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January 12, 2007

PRINCIPALLY SPEAKING: The new year is upon us and many people are busy making their New Year’s resolutions or breaking them. I guess I have never done a whole lot with that sort of stuff. Maybe it is because I need improvement year around or maybe because the new year is a great time to recount all the blessings God has given us over the part years. “75 years of God’s grace among us.”
     Thanks to the PTL for hosting trivia night at Concordia. It was a great way to keep families together and it was free! It was done very well.
     Progress reports will be sent home on January 17 because the quarter ended this Friday. Take time to talk to your child about it, sign it, and send it back promptly. Some students are not returning them on a timely basis.
     God bless you all and stay warm as the weather turns colder.
Dan Henschen 

SPELLING BEE: The 3rd through 8th grade teams chosen at our Concordia Spelling Bee last October competed at Lutheran High School in the area wide Lutheran Grade School Spelling Bee on Saturday, January 6. Special thanks and congratulations to all those who participated and represented their Lord and Concordia as well. Those participating were from Grade 3, Adam and Sam (tied for 4th place); from Grade 4, Hanna and Mary; from Grade 5, Kyle and Jordan (4th place); from Grade 6 Aaron and Tina (first place); from Grade 7, Olivia and Seth(first place); and from Grade 8, Ashley and Jeremiah (3rd place).

THANK YOU: Thank you for the new Junior Varsity basketball uniforms that were donated anonymously. These are greatly appreciated. 

KINDERGARTEN ROUND-UP: Mark your calendars for Tuesday, January 30. We will be having an open house for all prospective kindergarten students and their parents on January 30 from 4:30 until 6:30 PM. If you have a kindergartener or know of someone who does, please plan to come. Our purpose it to provide a Christ-centered learning environment for our children of all ages. How important it is to begin their formal education having the opportunity to grow not only in a solid academic manner, but also with Christ as the center of that experience growing in faith and understanding of the Christian life.

REPORT CARDS: The second quarter ends today Friday, January 12. Your child will be bringing home the second quarter report card next Wednesday, January 17. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact your child’s teacher.

CROP AND CRAFT NIGHT: - will be on Friday, January 26th, starting at 5:00pm. In church basement. Join us and get caught up on scrapping your Christ pictures or work on your current craft projects (or just come and enjoy the fellowship!) Bring your own drinks and a snack to share if you would like. Need more info? Call Sue Elmore at 971-1410.

SCHOOL CLOSING REMINDER: When District #186 closes, so does Concordia. 

SPORTS REMINDERS: During the ball games we are allowing drinks with caps and popcorn to be taken into the gym. We are, however, limiting the food and drink to those two items. Candy, nachos, and all other food and drinks are to remain in the concession stand area. Food items are not to be carried down the hallways to the bathrooms, etc. This is for clean up purposes. The more places we allow food and drink, the more places we have to clean after the games are finished. Trips to the bathroom are certainly permissible, but children are not to be playing in the hallways, bathroom, going in and out of classrooms, or roaming outside. Children should be seated in the gym unless eating in the concession stand area or using the restroom. The children are strongly encouraged to remain in the gym and watch the game. Besides the obvious problem of fingers being stepped on and shoulders bumped, the constant coming and going up and down the bleachers during the games is disruptive to those who are watching the game. The games are to be enjoyed as a family activity. The volunteers ,who generously give of their time to do the many needed procedures to make the games work, are not able to supervise the children and provide for their safety. 


Calendar

1/12 End of 2nd Quarter
     1:00 Workshop—Early dismissal
     6:00 G (JV) & B (V) vs. Lutheran School Assoc. at Decatur
     7:00 G (V) & B (JV) vs. Lutheran School Assoc. at Decatur
1/15 NO SCHOOL—Martin Luther King Day
1/16 6:00 G (JV & V) vs. Trinity, Springfield at Trinity
1/17 8:45 Chapel with Pastor Cross
1/17 Report Cards go home
1/17 6:00 B (JV & V) vs. Trinity, Springfield at Concordia
1/19 TBA B (V) St. John’s Shootout at Champaign
1/20 10:00 G (V), B (JV & V) vs. Good Shepherd, Pekin at Pekin
1/23 6:00 G (JV & V) vs. New Berlin at Concordia
1/24 8:45 Chapel with Pastor Hennig
1/25 6:00 G (JV) vs. Trinity, Arenzville at Arenzville
1/26-27 TBA B (JV) Trinity, Bloomington Tourney at Bloomington
1/30 4:30—6:30 Kindergarten Round-up
     6:00 G (JV & V) vs. Salem, Jacksonville at Concordia

QUOTABLE QUOTES: 

If you ever fell stupid, then just read on. If you’ve learned to speak fluent English, you must be a genius! This little treatise on the lovely language we share is only for the brave. Pursue at your leisure, English lovers. Reasons why the English language is so hard to learn:

The bandage was wound around the wound.
The farm was used to produce produce.
The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
We must polish the Polish furniture.
He could lead if he would get the lead out.
The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
I did not object to the object.
The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
There was a row among the oarmen about how to row.
They were too close to the door to close it.
The buck does funny things when the does are present.
A seamstress and a sewer fell down in to a sewer line.
To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
After a number of injections, my jaw got number.
Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren’t invented in England or French fries in France (Surprise!). Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat. Quicksand works slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea or is it a pig. And why is it that writers wrie but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham.

If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn’t the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? Doesn’t it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend. If you have bunch of odds and ends and get of all but one of them, what do you call it? Is it an odd, or an end?

If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out, and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
P.S. — Why doesn’t “Buick” rhyme with “quick”?

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