Book of the Year Announced
Our Savior Lutheran School is beginning a “Book of the Year” program for the 2025-2026 academic year. At OSLS, we delight in our “Verse of the Year”, a “Psalm of the Year”, a “Hymn of the Year”, and an “Artwork of the Year”, where our students and families—regardless of age—all learn and reflect on the same Scripture, hymnody, and beauty throughout the school year.
As a community, we value every opportunity to come together as members of the body of Christ around the same good things. Ultimately, this culminates in our gathering together around His Word and Sacraments each week.
Daily we share in the truth and beauty of God’s Word, in music and art, and now, in literature. This year, our students and their families will all read “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader,” the fifth book in C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia series.
The Chronicles of Narnia are universally hailed as a marvelous collection that appeals to children of all ages and adults alike. The stories awaken the imagination of young children and demand moral consideration from developing and mature minds.
As a classical Christian school supporting classical Christian homes we want stories that present foundational truths about what it means to be human to be our own, because these stories are about us as they address our circumstances. When we as a community read a story together, the story makes its mark on us. It deepens our understanding of ourselves and of one another, and draws us closer to our God who calls, gathers, enlightens, and sanctifies us as His Church.
Our younger students will rely on their parents and older siblings to read to them at home. Our older students will read for themselves, but we will provide them with opportunities and ideas to discuss what they’re reading with their classmates and with their families at home. We invite the members of our congregation, those who homeschool, and the wider community to participate in the program and offer opportunities to come together around the story through discussion and activities.
Won’t you read with us this year?