March is National Reading Month and Trinity Lutheran School is celebrating! Dr. Seuss’s birthday, a Book Fair and a Golden Ticket Celebration kicked off the month of guest readers, author talks, and novel studies.
Ms. Beltz’s class read The Keeping Quilt, an award winning book by Patricia Polacco. After sharing time with their reading buddies in our VPK, the 2nd and 3rd grade children met with Trinity’s Lutheran Women in Mission group and learned all about the quilts that are made and sent to Lutheran World Relief. It was a terrific inter-generational experience for everyone. Great questions and good answers resulted in fun interaction.
The students learned step by step how quilts are hand made by Trinity’s quilting group members, and were able to try their hand at fabric and thread choices. Then they saw how layers were tied together and finished up before being packaged and shipped. They also learned about “mites” — loose change we can all give that is donated to missions. The LWML quilting group has assembled and sent thousands of quilts for use in disasters, poverty areas, and for mission outreach all over the world.
Thank you to our Trinity Lutheran Church LWML women in mission sharing their passion with TLS students. Thanks also to Ms. Beltz for helping our Trinity Lutheran School students learn and grow together by connecting classroom curriculum with the mission work of the church. We are all blessed by the ministries of Trinity Downtown!