March 11th, 2026
Principal Corner
Today I started showing a bible study to our 7th and 8th grade students, “Not a Fan” teen edition. Are you a fan of a team? Do you have season tickets for a certain team or do you faithfully watch every game you can on tv? Fans sit in the stands and cheer on their team. When things are going good, the fans turn out in large numbers. But if things are going bad, the team is having a losing season, or maybe a favorite player has been traded away, fans sometimes quit coming to games. Fans will leave a game before it is over, if they think there is no chance for their team to make a comeback. Other than the price of the ticket and maybe a little pride, fans do not have much invested in the game.
In Jesus time, he had many fans. People witnessed the food he provided for them from two fish and five small loaves and they followed him. They heard his teachings and saw his miracles and they followed him. He entered Jerusalem and they cheered him on shouting “Hosanna to the son of David, Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord, Hosanna to the highest”. Jesus had a lot of fans. But where were those fans 5 days later when Jesus was put on trial? Some of them may have been in the crowd now shouting to crucify him!
But his true followers, the 11 disciples that were left, stayed true to God and witnessed his resurrection and preached the good news of Jesus to everyone they met. They were the beginnings of our present day Christian church. They did as Jesus directed, they took up their cross and followed Jesus.
Are you ready to daily pick up your cross and be a follower of Jesus? Or do you just want to be a fan, sit in the stands and cheer on when things are going good and not show up when things are going bad? This is our free will. Be a follower or be just a fan. I pray that God gives me the strength to daily pick up my cross and follow him.
AR CHALLENGE RESULTS - CONGRATS 4th Grade for being the top class in our school.
THANK YOU BASEMENT LADIES
Big Thanks to the TLC’s Up From the Basement Ladies for raising over $1600 for the Secret Angel fund during their Hot Dish Hoedown last Sunday!
Information about how you can benefit from the Secret Angel fund will be released soo. The Secret Angel fund is used for financial assistance for tuition at Trinity and everyone is welcome to apply. Watch your emails soon for more information on how you can apply or check out the website.
CHAPEL OFFERING: March
March we are focusing on the World Visio: 1-2-3-4. Purchasing farm animals to change the lives and futures through their Animal & Agriculture Fund.
As we collect chapel money to try to earn enough to buy a family these farm animals, we learn more about country that these gifts get delivered to: Kenya! All the students are being taught and doing activities surrounding what they learn about the culture in Kenya through Gospel Adventures.org
We have raised $124 so far this month, which will pay for two sets of animals! Let’s try to get all 10!
Trinity Spelling Bee Contestants
Congratulations to Phoenix Lord for winning the TLS School Spelling Bee. Also congratulations to our 2nd Place - Ayda Schuft, and tied for 3rd Place - Calvin Roberts &
Now our top contestants will be preparing for the 50th Annual Spelling Contest for Lutheran Elementary schools on Saturday, April 25th.
ADD YOUR PHOTOS!
Share the photos you took at an event or of a class in the TLS Google Album for others to see! We might even use it for our yearbook!
BUNNY BOUTIQUE
March 26th & 27th
Click the photo to sign up to help!
The Bunny Boutique is a fundraiser held each year before Easter that benefits the Secret Angel Fund. It’s a wonderful time for kids to get to shop and think of their family and friend and buy them a little Easter Treat. Each class will get time to shop at the Bunny Boutique, please make sure to send money with your child so they can do so.
We are always looking for gift bag and tissue paper donations for Bunny Boutique. Each gift, hand picked by your child, gets wrapped with love by our wonderful volunteers. Click the image to help out at the Bunny Boutique this year.
PTL Family Movie Night - Friday March 20th
6:30 pm the Movie will start - this is FREE.
Zootopia 2 will be shown. Bring blankets, favorite stuffy or a pillow. Popcorn and drinks will be provided during the movie, you can also bring your own snack.
Pizza will also be served at 5:30 pm before the movie - please click the photo to sign up if you would like to be included in the pizza.
Limited Stock Custom TLS Shirts for Sale
Thanks to Personalized Printing out of Waseca, we have some limited stock shirts for sale at the school. There are kids sizes, small quantities of each. Click the image below to check out what we have! To reserve a shirt you can fill out the form on the page with the shirts or you can email Jacqie at tlsinfo@trinityjanesville.com. You’ll be emailed back with confirmation of your order and how to pick it up and pay for it. ALL proceeds go to the School as part of an extension of the Silent Auction.
THE NEXT BIG EVENT IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER!
Get your tickets and the school or the church! You can purchase individual tickets by clicking on the flier below, but then must send the school an email with each ticket holder’s choice of beef or tilapia, any dietary restrictions, and mailing address. Or just stop into the school or email Jacqie for ticket purchase or VIP Table. Ticket Sales Close March 25th.
Tuesday, March 24th @ 6:30 pm
Currently in Preschool and going to attend Kindergarten? Know someone outside of Trinity who will be ready for Kindergarten next year? Have them come visit! To attend Kindergarten at TLS you must be age 5 by Sept 1st.
PRESCHOOL OPEN HOUSE April 30th @ 5:30 pm
We are going to have our Preschool Open house on Thursday, April 30th for any potential Preschooler for Fall 2026.
Reminder - we have summer care, which is a great transition into Preschool during the school year. It would be a great way to get familiar with the school and the structure of a Preschool day before school starts in the fall.
Registration for Summer Care is Open!
Click the flier below to register. Note the deadline dates for registration. SAC deadline is May 1st, PK deadline is April 1st.
STILL TIME TO SPONSOR
There is still time to be a sponsor for our upcoming event! See below for sponsorship options or contact Addie Lehrke or Jacqie for more details. If a family has their business or place of work be a sponsor, we can count that as service hours.
Hello TLS! I wanted to officially invite you and your school to participate in the 2nd Annual MoonDogs Reading Program. The incentive-based program challenges students to read outside of the classroom and rewards them for their commitment to reading. The MoonDogs Annual Reading Program is open to ALL students in kindergarten through 6th grade and will start Monday, February 9, 2026 and run through Monday, May 4, 2026. Thanks again for being a part of this community initiative, and I look forward to working with you and your school this spring!
Gunner Stier Ticket Sales Coordinator, Mankato MoonDogs Baseball Club
This incentive-based program is super easy! Each week you track the minutes your child reads and turn in the slip to the school office! Each sheet turned in, the student reaches a base and earns a prize! The program started last week, so we get a free week and don’t need to write down the hours, but can continue all the way until May! (Past the AR competition) . Kids can pick up a form from their teacher and when they turn in the first form to the office, they automatically will get the 2nd form. Prizes will get distributed at school as they continue through the program. See a copy of the first sheet below. Because we got started late -you can cross out week one on your first form. Or if you know your minutes spent reading you can fill it in. But you get a free week because we joined the program late!
Per Base MoonDogs Prizes
1st Base Prize- AWESOME MoonDogs folder that students can use for class the rest of the spring.
2nd Base Prize- 2 FREE Habaneros tickets to be used at any 2026 regular season game.
3rd Base Prize- MoonDogs logo baseball.
Home Run- 2 FREE MoonDogs tickets to be used at one of the games provided.
*Earn FREE MoonDogs Tickets for you and your family After the 12 weeks of the program are completed, each student who met their reading goals and turned in their calendars for each of the four bases will earn two FREE tickets to a Mankato MoonDogs home game. The MoonDogs organization will deliver the ticket order forms to your school after we receive the final number from your school.
DOOR CODES
IF you are not picking your child up and someone else on your list is, please let us know ahead of time so we can get them a door code. If you did not get a code and your child is not a regular, please contact the office for a code BEFORE your child will be attending SAC.
Preschool Parents, PLEASE USE YOUR code before school (before 8:10 am) and after school (after 3:15 pm). The teachers should not and cannot leave the students they are in charge of to open the door.
SAC Parents, your door code is only useable during PM SAC hours. If you are coming to the school for any other reason at any other time, you will need to ring the doorbell. This is for your child’s safety.
COMING SOON: SAC will use the SIDE door, the old “SAC Door” - currently there is a key pad there but the door is waiting on a part for it to fully function. Please use the front door or gym door still until further notice. When that door is finished, you’ll have access to the SAC door and the Gym door only instead.
Love Kids? Love Jesus?
Trinity’s Summer Day Camp is hiring graduated high school seniors and college students who want to make a difference in the lives of children. Flexible scheduling and $15/hour pay. Contact us today! Email jwulf@trinityjanesvill.com
Yearbooks of the 2025-2026 School Year can already be purchased online!
Orders due by the last day of School, May 23rd, 2026.
Just click the image below! All current 8th Graders will receive a complimentary Yearbook from the TLS PTL!
MAJOR REMINDERS & Key Points
Please try to use Procare to send a message regarding students being absent. Remember when sending a message, to make sure it is clear when the student will be absent by using dates and times. Right now, we are waiting on some repairs of some of our technology so you cannot be let in unless someone is in the office. So in order to let you in properly, we need to know the date and time. This also helps reduce confusion as well. Your time is precious so we are trying to be as efficient as possible.
Our doors open at 8:10 am - 8:20 am. All K-8 students here before 8:10 am must enter via the gym door. Only if you need to speak to the office should you be ringing the doorbell and coming in the front before 8:10 am. The gym door is open, from 7:00 am - 8:20 am. You may have to tug a little harder but it should be open.
At the end of the day, doors open at 3:05 pm. We encourage you to wait outside for your child to ease congestion in our hallways.
If you come in the building during school hours, you must stop in at the office. This is a requirement, not a suggestion.
If children are being picked up during the day they MUST be signed out in the office. Please do not go searching the school for your child(ren).
Even if family members are “approved” for pick up, we still need to be notified when someone other than their parent/guardian is picking them up. Having them approved just means we have all the information we need from them ahead of time.
SAC and PK families: DO NOT share your door codes and please DO NOT use someone else’s door code. I will deactivate your code if I see they are being abused.
Even if you have a door code, it is only usable during those program hours i.e. SAC is from 3:15 pm - 5:30 pm.
We encourage you to share photos so others can enjoy them as well, during events and field trips! Plus, we can always use more for our yearbook. Add your photos to either place by clicking the corresponding button below.
LOOKING FORWARD
Choir Dates
The rest of the Choir Dates have been added to the Google Calendar for the individual choirs and the Lutheran Schools Week time that the entire school sings. All at 10:30 services.
March 15th: 6-8
April. 26th: K-2
EVENTS COMING SOON
Tribute to Trinity: Friday, March 27th - Live Auction, Entertainment and Dinner. Look forward to a “wild” good time.
EASTER Break: April 2-6th: No School for Easter Break
Washington DC Trip: April 7-10th - Jacqie & Mr. Stockman will be gone for this trip. Please be patient and plan ahead as much as possible to make it easier for the staff that will be around and anyone that will be filling in answering phones and trying to coordinate the chaos.
The public review and comment period is open for the Waseca County Hazard Mitigation Plan from 11/24-12/8. See the posting below for more information.
UPCOMING EVENTS!!! See Calendar below! You can also check out the Google Calendar under Parents > School Calendar to subscribe.
CROSSFIRE RESUMES Feb 8th!
Social time starts at 7:15pm and Crossfire begins at 7:30pm in the Trinity Discipling Center.
What to expect at Crossfire…
-Opportunities to sing contemporary Christian music with fellow youth believers in Jesus
-A short devotional led by one of the youth leaders followed up by break out discussion groups
-And a time for silent reflection and prayer
Come and see what it’s all about!
Parent Corner
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NEED PARENT SERVICE HOURS?
Trinity Lutheran School would not run or function without our families and all your hard work! We strive on showing our students a great work ethic and a drive to help and volunteer! Because of this, we ask that each family completes 10 hours of volunteer hours throughout the school year (if you only have a child in the Preschool, we only ask you complete 5 hours). Many events put on by PTL, Athletics and just helping around at the school provide plenty of opportunity to help out! Please don’t hesitate to check out the volunteer page on the website: https://seal-leopard-8yt2.squarespace.com/volunteer
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RAISE FUNDS FOR OUR SCHOOL WHILE SHOPPING
An easy way to help our school is through the Box Tops for Education program. If you have a smart phone, you can do the following to start helping our school earn money.
Download the Box Tops for Education App
Open the app and connect Trinity Lutheran School Janesville (School ID: 84936)
You can pick a class to associate with your earnings (optional)
Buy products on the list and scan your grocery store receipt.
Anyone can earn box tops for Trinity so you can send a referral to aunts, uncles, grandparents, friends and family. If you refer a friend and they download the app both you and the referred person can earn 25 bonus box tops. Box tops are worth 10 cents each. As a bonus, if you have a Walmart account, you can link your Box Tops to your Walmart account and any time you make a purchase at Walmart it automatically adds your box top points for you!
We get money for collected Hy-Vee Receipts!
This money goes directly to our school. For every $150 in Hy-Vee Receipts, the local Hy-Vee donates to schools enrolled in the Kash4Kids program.
They have a bonus competition this year and the school with the highest amount turned in for receipts also gets a bonus $100 given to them!
RECEIPT GUIDELINES:
Receipts can only be from 9/1/15-5/31/26 – anything from this past summer doesn’t count. Same for next year, don’t collect over the summer, they can only be collected during the months that school is in session.
ONLY Mankato Hy-Vee Locations
NO alcohol, prescription or gift card purchases count.
NO receipts that say “Cancelled” or “Duplicate”.
Hy-Vee gave over $5000 to local schools last year. We received $510.76!!! YAHOO.
TECH GUIDES
Need help setting some technology limits for your kids? We highly encourage it but sometimes its hard to know where to start. https://www.screenagersmovie.com/blog/4-essential-tech-guides Contains lots of information, even links to four other blogs about helping setting policies for your children on tech.
GOT PHOTOS?
Google Photo Album
We want to make photos that you’ve taken and others have taken shareable among families! Please share pictures you’ve taken at our events or with your child’s classroom to our yearly Google Photo Album. This album is only accessible if you have this link. Click the red button below to access the album.
COMMUNITY EVENTS
