A few important dates and announcements to begin the year for your planning:

10.14 - Professional Development, no school PK-12

10.14- Canyon Creek conference scheduler will be open to families for fall conferences

10.15 - Trash and Tailgate from 2:00-3:30 PM

10.27 - 6th grade concert in the Gym at 7 PM

10.28 - PK-6 Noon Dismissal

New Items:

Please remember we will open our doors at 8:30 each morning. In addition, if your student is involved in Safety Patrol, they should not arrive before 8:20. In addition, please use a parking space when picking up at dismissal. We cannot double park behind our parking spaces along 8th Street.

Fall Conferences - We are excited to welcome our families and students for student led conferences on November 8th (4:15-8:15) and 10th (1:00-8:00). We ask our students to attend conferences with our families as we work to involve them in sharing their learning. Please use these directions to sign up between October 14th and November 4th! If you need help scheduling, you can also call the school at 319.553.2950. It is our goal to meet with every student and family!

Please support our Read-A-Thon! Our students will bring home information on Thursday to allow our families to participate in our Fall fundraiser sponsored by Lincoln PALS (Parents and Lincoln School). This activity supports our school as we work to improve as readers and support the work of PALS to help our students and staff!

Trash and Tailgate - Lincoln PALS (Parents and Lincoln School) is planning an opportunity for families to socialize, play outdoor games and help with the clean up of our grounds on Saturday, October 15th from 2:00-3:30 PM! Bring the whole family, feel free to wear your work gloves and favorite sports team apparel! We encourage families to bring and share yard games as well as any Lincoln apparel they may want to swap with others! See you there! 

PALS Meeting Notes - PALS (Parents and Lincoln School) met last Tuesday. Here are our notes.

Safety Drills - throughout the year, we conduct drills to practice in the event of an emergency. Please carefully review the attached letter and reach out with any questions. 

Harvest Hullabaloo! Our neighbors and partners, First United Methodist Church, are offering this free activity on Wednesday, October 26th from 5:00-7:00 PM!

Halloween and Early Dismissal Plans for Friday, October 28th - We will celebrate Halloween on Friday, October 28th! We invite our Kinder, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Grade students to wear costumes to school. This is encouraged, but not required. Our 5th and 6th grade students will not dress in costumes. We ask our families to support all students by not including costumes that might scare others, including fake weapons or blood. We plan to do a very short parade inside the building that will begin at approximately 11:30. Parents may choose to join us in the Gym. Each grade level will have a short party during the morning and we will send home lunch with our students who order it as we dismiss at noon as well!

Information To Remember:

Arrival And Dismissal - we are working to help our students safely enter and leave the building. In the morning, we will ask students to arrive between 8:30 and 8:45. They will report to their classrooms. We do not provide supervision before 8:30 AM. At the end of the day, we will first dismiss students by grade who ride the bus. Following this, we will dismiss students who are picked up or walk home. Our staff will walk students to the door. Our Kindergarten and 1st grade students will dismiss at their outside classroom doors, second grade will dismiss onto the east playground, third grade will also dismiss onto the east playground, fourth grade will dismiss using our main entrance doors on 8th street and 5th and 6th grade will dismiss using our 7th street doors. We appreciate families making and following consistent after school plans, please do not ask your students to wait on our playgrounds until you are able to arrive.  Thank you for helping us support safe morning arrivals and afternoon dismissals!

Wednesday Early Dismissal - we dismiss every Wednesday at 1:50 PM. Please be sure to set a reminder to pick up students promptly. Our staff use this time to collaborate to support learning for our students.

Snacks and Birthday Treats - We are proud to be a Blue Zones school and encourage healthy choices when students bring food for their daily snack. In addition, to support safety this school year when celebrating birthdays, we will ask for families to bring prepackaged items to minimize handling. Thank you!

Have a great weekend!

Follow Lincoln On Social Media

We have many options for following our work with your students on social media:

Art: https://www.facebook.com/LincolnArtRoom/ 

Music: https://www.facebook.com/LincolnMusicCF/ 

Media Center: https://www.instagram.com/lincolnlibrarycf 

Physical Education: https://www.facebook.com/Lincolnphysicaleducation/ 

Lincoln Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CFLincolnElementary/ 

Lincoln Instagram: cflincoln

Lincoln Twitter: @CF_Lincoln