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

12.16 - Challenge to Change Yoga

12.23-1.3 - Winter break, no school!

1.4 - Students return from winter break

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

1.12 - 3rd Grade concert in the Gym at 7 PM

1.16 - MLK, Jr. Day, No school PK-12

1.20 - Challenge to Change Yoga

1.26 -  Cedar Valley Band Festival

1.26 - 2nd grade concert in the Gym at 7 PM

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.

We Are Supporting The Northeast Iowa Food Bank With A Canned Food Drive! From Monday, December 12th through Friday, December 16th! Students may bring in a canned food item or cash. Each item is worth 1 meal and $1 equals 4 meals! Items that are most needed include stuffing, canned fruit, vegetables, gravy mix, pudding, pie filling, dessert, pasta and rice. Other accepted items include canned food, meat, broth, cereal and personal care items (toothpaste, soap and shampoo). In addition, families can choose to donate online using these directions. For more information about how to support the Food Bank, please visit https://www.neifb.org/ 

Holiday Dress Up Days - we will enjoy these optional holiday dress up days the week of December 19th.

Celebration of Learning - we will celebrate an excellent fall by watching a movie with our buddy classes on Thursday, December 22nd. In the morning, we will enjoy The Polar Express (Rated G) with our Preschool, 1st, 2nd and 4th grade students. In the afternoon, our Kindergarten, 3rd, 5th and 6th grade students will enjoy Minions: The Rise of Gru (Rated PG). If you do not wish for your child to participate, please email Mr. Bryant and we will find an alternate activity for them. 

PALS (Parent and Lincoln School) Meeting Notes - our team met on Tuesday, December 13th. Please review our notes and join us in our work to support our students, staff and school!

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