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

12.6 - Team Lincoln Night, 5:30-6:30 (options for learning below)

12.13 - PALS (Parents and Lincoln School) Meeting in the Media Center at 7 PM

12.15 - 6th grade Band concert at Hansen at 7 PM

12.16 - Challenge to Change Yoga

12.23-1.2 - Winter break, no school!

New Items:

Families - we need your help with student safety each morning. Students who arrive early are not supervised by school staff. We ask them not to arrive until 8:30 to be sure our staff are available to help everyone start their day positively. As a reminder, Safety Patrol students should not arrive before 8:20.

Supporting Our Mitten Tree! Each year we host a Mitten Tree to support Lincoln families for the holidays. This is coordinated by our amazing counselor, Mrs. Jacobsen. Sidecar Coffee has agreed to help with this tradition by donating 5% of their sales on Friday, December 2nd between 7 and 10 AM. Thank you for supporting our families during the holidays!

Team Lincoln NIght - We would like to invite our families to join us at school on Tuesday, December 6th from 5:30-6:30 PM. We will have an open house format to allow families to visit the classrooms for each of their students to learn about reading services available at Lincoln as well as our classroom work in reading and math! Here are the learning opportunities available:

Preschool: Rhyming stations

Kindergarten: Letter name and letter sound fluency games to support learning at home

1st: Making words and Math games

2nd: Goose Chase highlighting 2nd grade learning

3rd: Math games

4th: Comprehension questions for before, during and after reading, Fraction games for home and Leader In Me bingo

5th: Social Emotional Learning activities

6th: Home Alone Math and Word Wall

Media Center: Book Swap

Music: Literacy Jamming! (Reading lyrics, drum beats and chords - oh my!)

Art: Art Supports Literacy (stations for ages 0-4, grades K-2nd and 3rd-6th grades)

Information To Remember:

Arrival And Dismissal - we are working to help our students safely enter and leave the building. In the morning, students can 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