Your Creative Advantage
...focus on the Perfect Artist!
Shows like Fixer Upper, Property Brothers, and Love it or List it have taken our society by storm. Transforming ugly and undesirable houses into beautiful places can be very rewarding. We spend much of our time—as kids and adults—trying to design great works of art. Whether it is a colorful picture, making that perfect Easter dinner, coming up with a home interior or landscape design, or—like at Lakeside—designing things in our STEM, art, or welding classes. We also know and believe in the greatest designer ever: God. He created our world. He created all living things. He created us. We were perfect without any faults. But sin quickly changed that and we were reduced to a crumbling mess destined to be bulldozed into eternal death. However, God’s greatest design was when he sent his son Jesus to “fix” us after sin had ruined the human race. Through his perfect life and death on the cross we were made holy, blameless, and perfect again. At Lakeside Lutheran we have the wonderful opportunity every day to share the truth about God’s power, his might, and, above all, his love for us. In a world that many times focuses on this earth and what it may have, we know we have a great designer that will eventually give us the crown of life in our perfect home—heaven.
Steve Lauber, Admissions Director In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1
Displays at 2020 LES Visual Arts Fair
mission
Motivated by the love of Jesus, Lakeside Lutheran High School partners with families to educate, encourage, and equip students for life and for eternity. about our federation
The Lakeside Federation includes 32 congregations in southcentral Wisconsin extending north to south from Beaver Dam to Janesville and east to west from Okauchee to Middleton. The Lakeside Lutheran Advantage is published 3x year, distributed free of charge to students, families, future families and friends. Please pass on this copy to benefit others. Direct correspondence to: 231 Woodland Beach Rd. Lake Mills WI 53551 info@llhs.org • 920.648.2321 Principal: James Grasby | Executive Director: Kirk DeNoyer | Asst. Principal: Don Schultz | A.D.: Todd Jahns | Regents, Chair: Brian Ertman Photo credit: LLHS staff unless otherwise noted. page 2 • The Lakeside Advantage • 2020 Issue 1
Your Federated Advantage ...focus on St. Paul, Lake Mills
PARTNERS IN CHRISTIAN EDUCATION St. Paul was one of the nine charter congregations that comprised the Lakeside Lutheran Federation in 1962. We are thankful for all 32 churches and 21 schools that join together to support Christian secondary education at Lakeside. That’s why this page is here, to introduce you to our Federation schools.
St. Paul, Lake Mills Colors: Red & White Mascot: Cardinal Enrollment PK–8: 229 Alum at LLHS: 60 Principal: Steve Gartner
FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S PEN: “I believe our strongest partnership bond comes from the fact that we are able to promote Preschool-12th grade Christian education,” says Principal Gartner. “Being just down the road from Lakeside makes for an easy connection between the schools for both new and long-standing families. The students look forward to all the opportunities Lakeside offers to get them on the campus of their future school.” Another blessing of the partnership is that students are able to grow in faith for four more critical teen years. “Lakeside teachers, through the various classes they teach, are able to give the students the tools they need to be Christian servant leaders as they continue in whatever path they may choose in their future,” he says.
WHY LL ALUM SEND THEIR CHILDREN: “Alongside Christian education, we like that Lakeside draws kids from all over. [Our senior and sophomore] love meeting new friends. Great college prep. Kids are well-rounded, good human beings. We need more of that in this world.” - Brad ‘93 and Cheryl (Nemcek ‘96) Koenig “Our four boys have and will get a great Lutheran education that prepares them to be valuable members of society as well as God-fearing ones. They go out into this world prepared both mentally and spiritually, strong in faith and educationally ready for the next challenge in front of them.” - Brian and Rebecca (Zastrow ‘95) Neumann
I’M EXCITED TO GO TO LLHS BECAUSE... “they have some classes I don’t see other places. They also have good cookies and donuts.” - Heidi H “I love theater and golf and I want an opportunity to do those things. I also get to grow my faith.” - Ruby L. “of the fun classes like metals and woodworking.” - Nolan “of the outreach opportunities, and their videography and science classes. I really like the ability to be in God’s Word in all the classes and sports offered by the school.” -Joah R. “of their FFA program!” - Natalie
(7th grade thoughts)
L-R: St. Paul dance team at LL; 7th grade Warriors for a Day in STEM; Kinderfest “Bubbles & (dry) Ice” station; 4th graders learn teamwork skills issue 21 • llhs.org/K-8 • page 3
Warrior Basketball Contest They shot.They scored! As our Warrior basketball players took their best shots on the court this season, our grade school friends took their best shot on guessing how many total points both varsity teams would score combined throughout all their games. They also broke it down for us—girls v. boys—so we could break a tie. Total points scored: 2588 (Girls: 1201 and Boys: 1387)
Congrats to our Gold winner who guessed the EXACT number of combined points. (Almost spot on for each team too!)
Will Hirschfeld St. Paul, Lake Mills • 5th grade Total: 2588 (Girls: 1200 Boys: 1388)
Silver: William Hemling St. Stephen, Beaver Dam • 7th grade
Total: 2568 (Girls: 1181 Boys: 1387 exactly!)
Bronze: Kayla Hirschfeld St. Paul, Lake Mills • 7th grade Total: 2557 (Girls: 1187 Boys: 1370) Green runner-up: Kammeron Magritz St. John, Jefferson • 7th grade Total: 2548 (Girls: 1224 Boys: 1324)
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Learning from home this spring? Include Lakeside in your day & win! Your friends at Lakeside Lutheran are working hard at teaching and studying online as we all watch out for each others’ health. We’d love to see your Warrior spirit as you’re staying at and studying from home too. We’ll publish your pics this summer. Three entries will win tuition credit and others will win some awesome Warrior swag!
“Learning at Home like a Warrior” Photo Contest What do you have to do?
Take a photo of you in your learning environment at home that includes you and some reference to Lakeside—maybe it’s a Lakeside t-shirt or hoodie, maybe it’s a copy of the Advantage magazine, maybe it’s a homemade sign, maybe it’s making the LL with your fingers . . . it’s up to you! The photo can also include your family and friends if you’d like; we’d just like to know who the student entering the contest.
How do you enter the contest?
Go to llhs.org/advantagecontest to upload your photo and enter your contact information online, or e-mail info@llhs.org with your name, school, grade, and parent’s information. You may also mail the photo and identifying personal info to: LLHS, 231 Woodland Beach Rd. Lake Mills, WI 53551. (Photos will not be returned.)
What else do you need to know?
Contest open to students in 2019-20 grades K–8. Children of LLHS employees are ineligible for prizes. One entry per person. Winners will be chosen from all accepted entries based on photo quality, creativity and extent of inclusion of reference to Lakeside. Three winners each receive $200 tuition credit applicable toward first semester of attendance at Lakeside. Prizes are not transferable. Deadline to enter is May 25, 2020; winners’ parents will be notified by phone or email and recognized in the next edition of the magazine. Lakeside is not responsible for misdirected or lost entries. Acceptability of photos will be at the sole discretion of judges..
We need this info along with your photo: Student Name: __________________________ Grade in 2019-20: ____ Parent Name: ___________________________ Parent email: __________________________ School/City: ___________________________ Parent Phone: __________________________
Even easier! Enter online at
llhs.org/advantagecontest
Your SWELL Advantage
...corny nickname, empowering agenda
...a totally SWELL STEM workshop The Society of Women Engineers (at) Lakeside Lutheran—aka SWE-LL— is a branch of the national SWENext outreach program and part of the international Society of Women Engineers, which calls iteself the “world’s largest advocate and catalyst for change for women in engineering and technology.” Lakeside is one of only two high school branches in the state. Because numbers of females in engineering careers are still low, SWE-LL members want to pass along STEM excitement to the next generation too. Our Warriors got their start with a STEM workshop for K-8 girls held on March 7, with 33 participants. “An all-girls STEM day is important because it gives them an opportunity to learn about things they aren’t going to get exposure to every day, Elementary scientists debate the and to do so in an environment with only likelihood of space travel using pasta. girls,” said SWE-LL president Ella Butzine, a junior. “This event—beneficial because it shows them that women can be great engineers and scientists—opened up their eyes to a future they maybe never knew they could have.” After beginning with devotion, girls rotated through four hands-on stations: • elephant’s toothpaste (i.e., exothermic reaction) • pasta rockets (propulsion/thrust) • making sorbet without a freezer (chemistry/freezing point depression) • building marshmallow-toothpick towers (structural stability) Disclaimer: the pasta rocket wasn’t actually hands-on . . . because it was on fire. To round out the 3-hour workship, all the girls engineered paper airplanes and took home a Mega Construx kit for future building efforts. As fun as the day was, all the SWE-LL members knew there was another mission: sharing more about God’s creation. Senior secretary Lauren Thiele summed it up, “The best part about the day was the opportunity to reach out to girls from all over—not just from our grade schools. We got the chance to share God’s Word with them, be role models for them, learn about them, and teach them about how exciting STEM is!”
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Your Sprouting Advantage ...LLHS learning at home this spring
Planting seeds of knowledge For seven years, Admissions Director Steve Lauber has hosted second graders to campus during March and April to show them a day in the life of a high schooler, familiarize them with the halls of Lakeside (after all, they’ll be here for Fine Arts Fest, tournaments, concerts, math meets, spelling bees and camps for years to come!) and give them lessons in high school subjects that have included band, videography, physics, biology, phy ed and more. This year’s early March brought some “dirty” fun as Warrior teens in our Earth Science class taught federation lambs about soil, seeds and hydroponics. Unfortunately, only six of the expected 14 classrooms were able to visit before schools closed this spring. We thought it might be homebound fun to explore some of the concepts we covered. (Maybe you could even enter the contest on p. 5 using some aspect of your distance learning?) LLHS teens taught 1st-2nd graders about: 1. The 3 Fs of Agriculture see llhs.org/apps/pages/advantagemag for #1-2 and online links for all 2. What do we grow in Wisconsin? 3. How do plants grow? Try: kidsgardening.org/lesson-plans-germination-exploration (Mr. Lauber has lots of seed packets left—email slauber@llhs.org and he’ll get some to you for this!) 4. What do plants need in order to grow? Watch this 25-sec video! bit.ly/LLSeedGrowVid 5. Is it possible to grow plants without dirt? Watch the at bit.ly/LLhydroponics 6. What are the different levels of soil? Check out this vid: bit.ly/LLSoilLayersVid 7. Of course, then you’ll need to make dirt cups! Recipe at bit.ly/LLdirtcups
What could you try at home this spring? We’d love to see what you experiment with, whether it be on a sunny window ledge, in a garden, on the computer, or in the kitchen! Share with us so we can celebrate your home learning with you. Share via llhs.org/ advantagecontest or send to slauber@llhs.org Visiting Schools: Trnity-St. Luke, Wttn Crown of Life, Fort St. John, Watertown St. John, Jefferson St. Stephen, BDam Eastside, Madison
See/download pics of visiting schools at llhs.smugmug.com/LES-at-Lakeside/2nd-Grade-Field-Trips
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231 Woodland Beach Road Lake Mills, WI 53551 llhs.org Electronic Service Requested
upcoming events of interest at LLHS for grade school families With Governor Evers’ proclamation of an indefinite state school closure, we are reluctant to advertise any events for the upcoming several weeks, but we are hopeful that many of our events in spring and summer will continue as planned. We encourage families to look to llhs.org/apps/events for currrent info.
To that end, we encourage families to continue to register for summer camps and programs. All registrations will be refunded should the shutdown extend past these event dates.
see the K8 link at the top of llhs.org Warrior sports for elementary-aged boys & girls June–July 2020 New this year: B-ball for boys gr. 2–3 --------------------girls & boys basketball • co-ed soccer distance running • golf girls volleyball • boys football
register online
llhs.org/K8sports
STEM CAMP (Science-Technology-Engineering-Math) for gr 5–8 • July 20–23 | 8:30 AM-Noon begin at llhs.org/apps/pages/stem
warrior youth football
for boys, grades 6–8 • August 3–October 10 $115 if registered by April 1
warrior windmill softball
for girls, ages 5–high school runs May–July | register by March 22 Registration forms available at llhs.org/K8sports
prepside mustangs baseball
Registration open at llhs.org/apps/pages/summercamps Senior U18 - Pony U15 - U12 - 10U PeeWee