The Master’s School will be hosting an Open House on Thursday, September 29th from 6:00 p.m. until 7:30 p.m.  This will be a come and go event allowing our families, friends, and those interested in The Master’s School an opportunity to meet teachers and view classrooms.

April 4, 2011

April 7-8                     4^th grade field trip to Space Center Houston
April 7                        PTC Meeting – 1:30 p.m. in the school library
April 8                        3^rd grade Texas Day
April 8                        2^nd grade – Snake Farm
April 8                        ACSI Art Festival – Vanguard Christian Institute in Boerne
April 11                       Kindergarten – San Marcos Nature Center
April 12                       School Board Meeting
April 14                       The Master’s School 101 – 7:30 a.m.
April 14                       Faculty Lunch hosted by Kindergarten Parents
April 15                       5^th – Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center
April 21                       Kindergarten – Stations of the Cross
April 22                      Good Friday – NO SCHOOL
April 25                      Easter Monday – NO SCHOOL
April 26-29                 1^st – 7^th – CTP IV Testing

For the Lord gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.  He holds victory in store for the upright; he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless, for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones.  Proverbs 2:7-8

Praise the Lord for the beautiful growth of green grass on the school grounds.  Praise Him for continuing to bless the school.

Prayer Please pray for Robert Longoria’s grandfather, Bob Owens, will be leaving for MD Anderson tomorrow given he has the strength to travel.  Please pray that the cancer has not spread and that it will be treatable.

ACSI Speech Meet Congratulations to all of the students who represented The Master’s School in the 2011 ACSI Speech Meet last Saturday.  Please see the attached list of Speech Meet results.

ACSI Art Festival – 5^th, 6^th and 7^th grade students who are participating in the ACSI Art Festival will attend the event this Friday.  Parents should look for an e-mail with details from Mrs. Wheaton.

Kindergarten Applications are currently being accepted for the 2011-2012 school year.

Scholarship Applications are available in the school office.  In order to receive a scholarship application, tuition accounts must be in good standing.  Please note that the deadline for submission of scholarship applications is April 18, 2011. In order to receive a scholarship award, the student must be enrolled for the 2011-2012 school year.  Please see Mrs. Blue for further information.

Garage Sale A garage sale to benefit the school is being organized on Saturday, May 7^th,  at Old Mill Business Park (101 Uhland Road).  See attachments for details and volunteer sign up times

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Thank you to all who were able to attend the Spring Social last Friday evening on the school campus.  Fun was had by all!

PTC Meeting – Thursday, April 7^th, 1:30 p.m. in the school library

Prayer Requests The PTC has set up an e-mail just for prayer requests.  The PTC Prayer Chairman, Jason Bollinger, would be honored to pray for you if you have any specific requests.  The e-mail address isprayer@mastersschool.org.

PTC will be providing hot dogs, Frito pies & drinks. We will be playing games and having a great time visiting with each other.

Please bring your chairs and if you have a game you would like to share bring it along also!! Hope to see everyone on Friday!

Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.      Psalm 25:5

Praise the Lord for the beautiful weather. Praise Him for a safe field trip to Enchanted Rock enjoyed by the 4^th grade students last week.

Prayer Please pray for the upcoming fundraising breakfast, for those involved in the planning, and for those who will attend.  Please pray for God’s continued provision for The Master’s School and that our words and actions are pleasing to Him.

Kindergarten and 7^th grade students will be helping at the fundraising breakfast on Thursday, March 3^rd.  These students must be dropped off at Dick’s Classic Car Garage between 7:45 and 8:00 a.m. that morning.  The address is 120 Stagecoach Trail, San Marcos.

Hope and Jars Fundraising Breakfast, Thursday, March 3, 2011, 8:00 – 9:00 a.m., Dick’s Classic Car Garage

This event is a one hour breakfast presentation for adults.  Guests will be inspired about the school’s mission and asked to support it financially.  All school families are welcome.  Please invite any guests who may be interested in supporting the mission of The Master’s School.  RSVP by calling or e-mailing the office.

Invitations to Apply for 1^st grade were mailed to all current kindergarten students on February 3^rd.  In order to guarantee availability of a place in the class for your child, his or her application and fee must be received by March 4, 2011.After March 4^th, available spaces will be filled by students new to the school.

Mr. Crabill’s third grade students will participate in the 12:15 p.m. presentation of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas 175th-anniversary celebration of the signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence on Wednesday, March 2^nd at the San Marcos Public Library.  Download the flyer for details.

Honor Roll Congratulations to students in grades 3-7 who made the 2^nd trimester Honor Roll.  Honor Roll certificates will be presented to these students in chapel this Friday.  Honor Roll List.

Kindergarten Applications are currently being accepted for the 2011-2012 school year.

Youth Art Month- The Master’s School has 10 works of art which will be on exhibit at the San Marcos Activity Center Walker’s Gallery during the month of March. Come see The Master’s School students’ artwork as well as artwork from K-12 students from throughout San Marcos.

Campus Expansion The Master’s School has access to four buildings that need to be moved.  The buildings are wood framed, with metal siding and roofs, and some with shingled roofs.  Two of them are 24’x64’ and two are 24’x32’.  They are clear span, so the interior walls could be arranged to any specifications.  If you are interested in purchasing one of these buildings, please contact Tim Kardosz at 512.627.3220.  The sale of these buildings will fund the opportunity to acquire and move two more buildings to our campus for our middle school.

Extracurricular Activities Flyers offering extracurricular activities available to students during spring break  are available in the school office.

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Prayer Requests The PTC has set up an e-mail just for prayer requests.  The PTC Prayer Chairman, Jason Bollinger, would be honored to pray for you if you have any specific requests.  The e-mail address is prayer@mastersschool.org

Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.  Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.  Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.     Romans 12:10-12

Praise the Lord!

Prayer Please continue to pray for Laurie Bankston. She is home recovering from surgery and starting chemotherapy.

Invitations to Apply for 1^st grade were mailed to all current kindergarten students on February 3^rd.  In order to guarantee availability of a place in the class for your child, his or her application and fee must be received by March 4, 2011.After March 4^th, available spaces will be filled by students new to the school.

Hope and Jars Fundraising Breakfast, Thursday, March 3, 2011, 8:00 – 9:00 a.m., Dick’s Classic Car Garage This event is a one hour breakfast presentation for adults.  Guests will be inspired about the school’s mission and asked to support it financially.  All school families are welcome.  Please invite any guests who may be interested in supporting the mission of The Master’s School.  RSVP by calling or e-mailing the office by Wednesday, February 23, 2011.

Kindergarten students will be reciting at the fundraising breakfast on Thursday, March 3^rd.  Students must be dropped off at Dick’s Classic Car Garage between 7:45 and 8:00 a.m. that morning.  The address is 120 Stagecoach Trail, San Marcos.

Mr. Crabill’s third grade students will participate in the 12:15 p.m. presentation of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas 175th-anniversary celebration of the signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence on March 2, 2011, at the San Marcos Public Library.  Details are given in this flyer.

Kindergarten Applications are currently being accepted for the 2011-2012 school year.

Campus Expansion The Master’s School has access to four buildings that need to be moved.  The buildings are wood framed, with metal siding and roofs, and some with shingled roofs.  Two of them are 24’x64’ and two are 24’x32’.  They are clear span, so the interior walls could be arranged to any specifications.  If you are interested in purchasing one of these buildings, please contact Tim Kardosz at 512.627.3220.  The sale of these buildings will fund the opportunity to acquire and move two more buildings to our campus for our middle school.

Extracurricular Activities Flyers offering extracurricular activities available to students during spring break  are available in the school office.

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Prayer Requests The PTC has set up an e-mail just for prayer requests.  The PTC Prayer Chairman, Jason Bollinger, would be honored to pray for you if you have any specific requests.  The e-mail address is prayer@mastersschool.org

Love is patient, love is kind.  It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.  Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with truth. It always protects, always trust, always hopes, always perseveres.         1 Corinthians 13:4-7

“By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”  John 13:35

Praise Praise God for the love that He shows us through Jesus.

Prayer Please continue to pray for Laurie Bankston as she has been diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer.

Kindergarten Applications are currently being accepted for the 2011-2012 school year.

2011-2012 Tuition Schedule is available here as a reminder about changes in tuition for the upcoming school year.

Important Drop-off and Pick-up Information Please remember that the drop off/pick up line is a school zone. Do not talk on your cell phone during drop off or pick up.  Drivers are no longer allowed to drop off students in the teacher parking lot. This has caused unsafe congestion.  Please use the drop off drive through or park in the visitor parking lot and walk your child across the drive way to the attending teachers.  Students may be dropped off no earlier than 7:45 am.  Students arriving at 8:00 am or later MUST be signed in by a parent/guardian in the front office.

Campus Expansion The Master’s School has access to four buildings that need to be moved.  The buildings are wood framed, with metal siding and roofs, and some with shingled roofs.  Two of them are 24’x64’ and two are 24’x32’.  They are clear span, so the interior walls could be arranged to any specifications.  If you are interested in purchasing one of these buildings, please contact Tim Kardosz at 512.627.3220.  The sale of these buildings will fund the opportunity to acquire and move two more buildings to our campus for our middle school.

Extracurricular Activities Flyers from various organizations offering extracurricular activities for students will be made available in the school office as they are received.
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BoxTops for Education Submission Deadline The PTC collects BoxTops that are redeemed for money that enhances PTC funds.  If you have been collecting BoxTops it is time to turn them in to the school office.  Please send them with your child by February 18^th so the next submission deadline can be met.  For more information on BoxTops and to get valuable coupons for BoxTop items, go to www.boxtops4-education.com

Prayer Requests The PTC has set up an e-mail just for prayer requests.  The PTC Prayer Chairman, Jason Bollinger, would be honored to pray for you if you have any specific requests.  The e-mail address is prayer@mastersschool.org

Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker; for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care. Psalm 95:6-7

Praise Praise God for Tim Kardosz and his crew who made the necessary water repairs to the campus this weekend.

Prayer Continue to pray for Laurie Bankston who with her husband Daniel operates River City Cleaning which serves our school’s janitorial needs.  Mrs. Bankston is scheduled to undergo cancer surgery today. If you would like to help the Bankston’s with medical expenses, donations can be sent to:

Ozona National Bank
Care of:  Laurie Bankston Acct. @40005209
P. O. Box 728
San Marcos, Texas  78667

Chapel this Friday, Feb. 11^th, will be at 2:00 – 2:45 pm.  (Chapel will NOT be held in the morning) Brenda Lange (Bush Bunny Brenda) from Orphans Unlimited who founded and works in a mission in Mozambique will speak at Chapel.  She will also speak that evening at 7:00 pm in our Multipurpose Building.  Click here to download her flyer.

Invitations to Apply for 1^st grade were mailed to all kindergarten students on February 3^rd.  In order to guarantee availability of a place in the class for your child, his or her application and fee must be received by March 4, 2011.

Kindergarten Applications are currently being accepted for the 2011-2012 school year.

Important Drop-off and Pick-up Information Please remember that the drop off/pick up line is a school zone. Do not talk on your cell phone during drop off or pick up.  Drivers are no longer allowed to drop off students in the teacher parking lot. This has caused unsafe congestion.  Please use the drop off drive through or park in the visitor parking lot and walk your child across the drive way to the attending teachers.  Students may be dropped off no earlier than 7:45 am.  Students arriving at 8:00 am or later MUST be signed in by a parent/guardian in the front office.

ACSI Speech Meet Tryouts for grades 4 and 5 will be held on Wednesday, February 9^th, beginning at 3:00 p.m.  Students participating in tryouts must be picked up from school at regular dismissal time and supervised by an adult until it is their turn to recite. 4^th and 5^th grade students will be informed at the end of tryouts who will be attending the Speech Meet.

ACSI Speech Meet tryout results for students in grades 1-3 were sent home with students today.

ACSI Speech Meet mandatory meeting for those who were selected to participate and at least one of their parents this Thursday, February 10^th, from 3:00 to 3:30 p.m.

The ACSI Art Festival  Participation Form is here for students in grades 3-7. The 2011 ACSI Art Festival will take place Friday, April 8th, at Vanguard Christian in Boerne.  If your child is interested in trying out to participate in the Art Festival, please complete and return the bottom portion of the form to their classroom teacher by next Wednesday, February 9^th.

Campus Expansion The Master’s School has access to four buildings that need to be moved.  The buildings are wood framed, with metal siding and roofs, and some with shingled roofs.  Two of them are 24’x64’ and two are 24’x32’.  They are clear span, so the interior walls could be arranged to any specifications.  If you are interested in purchasing one of these buildings, please contact Tim Kardosz at 512.627.3220.  The sale of these buildings will fund the opportunity to acquire and move two more buildings to our campus for our middle school.

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Chick-fil-A Hot Lunch Order envelopes were sent home with students today and must be returned with payment by Wednesday, February 9^th. Only advance orders will be filled.  There will not be extra meals available that day. Contact Stephanie Ramirez with any questions.  512-573-1614 or sramirez@mastersschool.org.

BoxTops for Education Submission Deadline The PTC collects BoxTops that are redeemed for money that enhances PTC funds.  If you have been collecting BoxTops it is time to turn them in to the school office.  Please send them with your child by February 18^th so the next submission deadline can be met.  For more information on BoxTops and to get valuable coupons for BoxTop items, go to www.boxtops4-education.com

Prayer Requests The PTC has set up an e-mail just for prayer requests.  The PTC Prayer Chairman, Jason Bollinger, would be honored to pray for you if you have any specific requests.  The e-mail address is prayer@mastersschool.org