As we count down to the 2021-2022 school year, we are bringing back our Meet Us Monday Blog series to introduce you to the outstanding new teachers joining our ILS faculty this year. Check in each week to meet or better get to know one of the new members of our team.
Today, we are introducing you to Miss Katherine Dubke. Miss Dubke joins the Immanuel faculty as our Kindergarten Teacher.
As we count down to the 2021-2022 school year, we are bringing back our Meet Us Monday Blog series to introduce you to the outstanding new teachers joining our ILS faculty this year. Check in each week to meet or better get to know one of the new members of our team.
Today, we are introducing you to Mr. Josef Hageman. Mr. Hageman will be teaching 5th-8th grade Latin and History this year.
Happy August! We’re counting the days until our classrooms and hallways are once again filled with the joyful and delightful sounds of of our students and teachers learning, singing, praying together. It has been a blessing to see many of you over the summer, especially at some of the class gatherings on the playground. We give thanks for these opportunities to reconnect with old friends and welcome the new students and families who will be joining us in the upcoming year.
At the end of this month, our teachers will gather together for faculty meetings to plan and prepare for the new year. Follow the ILS blog as we introduce some of the new teachers we are excited to have joining our team in the new year. Together we look forward to opportunities to work alongside our families in the all important work of educating and nurturing our children.
As we engage with one another in conversations about how we can together shape our culture at school and at home, check out our "What we're reading..." blog post each month for a variety of articles that we have found to be inspiring, thought-provoking, or intriguing. Families are also invited to join us for our “First Friday Coffees” each month where we gather to engage in meaningful dialogue about topics related to education, culture, faith, and raising children.
Thank you for your continued partnership, and for engaging with us! Please feel free to share a link in the comments to email us any time!
Happy Summer, Immanuel families! While we miss the joyful sounds of your children filling our classrooms and hallways, we pray that you are enjoying a restful and relaxing summer. We’re looking forward to seeing new and returning faces starting this week as we host summer gatherings on the ILS playground to meet new friends and reconnect with old ones before the new school year begins!
As part of our efforts to encourage and shape ongoing conversations with families, each month, we share a new "What we're reading..." blog post. This includes a variety of articles that we have found to be inspiring, thought-provoking, or intriguing, and that we think you might enjoy reading also. We would love to hear your thoughts in the comments below as you read these!
Thank you for your continued partnership, and for engaging with us! Please feel free to share a link in the comments to email us any time!
How can it already be May?! It seems like just yesterday we were all eagerly welcoming the new school year, and now we are just a month away from the end of the year. We hope you are enjoying reading our 8th Grade “Meet Us Monday” interviews as they reflect on their time at ILS as well as look ahead to high school. Check back each week as we share more of these and celebrate our ILS Class of 2021!
As we count down to the end of the year, we are looking forward to the return of many ILS favorite traditions. We join with our Upper School students in their excitement to be returning to camps this year! Jr. Kindergarten will be enjoying their Medieval Feast, while Upper School students will be competing in their annual Oration Showcase. We will all be enjoying the return of Field Day and to celebrating our graduating class with their Graduation Vespers Service.
Please enjoy the May edition of our "What we're reading..." Blog. As always, we hope that you enjoy this variety of articles that we have found to be inspiring, thought-provoking or intriguing, and that these pieces continue to help to shape ongoing conversations. We would love to hear your thoughts in the comments below as you read these!
Thank you for your continued partnership, and for engaging with us! Please feel free to share a link in the comments to email us any time!
We have made it though a snowy February, and marked the beginning of Lent. It was a joy to have the opportunity to meet so many prospective ILS families during the admissions process, which included parent meetings and student assessments throughout the month. As parents ask about the nature of the ILS community, it has been a joy to share with them the numerous blessings of our life together. We are reminded daily of your strong commitment to our mission in the ways you help your children with their homework, engage and encourage teachers, and participate in the daily rhythms of the school, even if remotely. You pray for one another. You show love to your child's classmates and ask how to best care for staff and fellow families. You model Christian friendship and forgiveness. We are excited to welcome new families to our ILS community for the 2021-22 school year!
In February, we also enjoyed welcoming Lower School families virtually for our 2nd Trimester Lower School Showcase. As we kick off March, we look forward to meeting with parents for our Parent Teacher Conferences and beginning our final trimester of the school year. It is hard to believe we’re already at this point in the year! We are also all looking forward to Spring Break in just a few weeks, and some time to rest and recharge for the final months of the school year.
Please enjoy the March edition of our "What we're reading..." Blog. As always, we hope that you enjoy this variety of articles that we have found to be inspiring, thought-provoking or intriguing, and that these pieces continue to help to shape ongoing conversations. We would love to hear your thoughts in the comments below as you read these!
Thank you for your continued partnership, and for engaging with us! Please feel free to share a link in the comments to email us any time!
January saw the return of some favorite ILS annual traditions as we concluded the month with our celebration of National Lutheran Schools Week alongside more than 1900 other LCMS schools from across the country. We loved seeing students and teaches participating in fun competitions, practicing recitations, decorating, sharing fun costumes, and more.
It was a delight to end the week with our 7th Annual ILS Talent Show! Held virtually for the first time, we enjoyed being able to welcome grandparents and friends from across the country to join us for a fun and engaging evening celebrating the many talents within our ILS community.
We were also honored to participate in an all-day virtual hymn sing organized by Our Savior Lutheran School in Grand Rapids, Michigan. As part of their effort to sing a stanza from each of the 635 hymns in the Lutheran Service Book, Our Savior Lutheran School invited musical Lutherans from around the country, including Immanuel, to participate. ILS Music Teacher, Mrs. Marie Greenway, directed our 4th grade students in beautifully singing two hymns.
As we kick off February with a snowy start, please enjoy the latest edition of our "What we're reading..." Blog. As always, we hope that you enjoy this variety of articles that we have found to be inspiring, thought-provoking or intriguing, and that these pieces continue to help to shape ongoing conversations. We would love to hear your thoughts in the comments below as you read these!
Thank you for your continued partnership, and for engaging with us! Please feel free to share a link in the comments to email us any time!
Happy New Year!
As we kick off the new year, we have compiled a new edition of our "What we're reading..." Blog. As always, we hope that you enjoy this variety of articles that we have found to be inspiring, thought-provoking or intriguing, and that these pieces continue to help to shape ongoing conversations. We would love to hear your thoughts in the comments below as you read these!
Thank you for your continued partnership, and for engaging with us! Please feel free to share a link in the comments to email us any time!
Classical education is often described from its ends. Many proponents of classical education discuss these goals in terms of the "transcendentals": truth, goodness, and beauty. While these discussions, because they are often attended by certain Aristolelian notions about existence and knowledge, are frequently problematic from the point of view of Lutheran theology, I would like to set these aside for now (although this is a subject worthy of future discussion) and discuss classical education from another perspective: its means. For all of the West's recorded history, the means of education in the liberal arts, with the exception of music and gymnastics which require the practice of non-discursive skills, has been orality and literacy. That is to say that students have learned via talking, listening, reading, and writing; not all that different from our three R's: reading, writing, and arithmetic. What makes education "classical" is its relationship to the Classics, those written works deemed worthy of handing over from generation to generation. Reading, therefore, is a most indispensable means, a sine qua non, for a classical education. A classical education is by definition a literary education.
