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

1.20 - Challenge to Change Yoga

1.24 - Incoming 7th grade Parent and Student Scheduling Meeting in the Holmes Cafeteria at 7 PM

1.26 -  Cedar Valley Band Festival

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

1.27 - Preschool registration opens at noon

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. In addition, due to recent snow, we have snow piles on our grounds. We request help from our families in keeping our students off of the piles during arrival and dismissal. Thank you!

Wacky Winterfest is coming! Lincoln PALS (Parents and Lincoln School) is proud to present Wacky Winterfest on Saturday, February 25th from 11 AM to 2 PM. This family friendly event includes carnival games, student performances, lunch and so much more! This is an awesome opportunity to support our school and have fun during the winter months. We rely on your help to make this event a success. Would you please consider donating to this event?

6th Grade Families - it is time to begin thinking about 7th Grade! Holmes Junior High will host a scheduling meeting for parents and students on Tuesday, January 24th at 7:00 PM in the Holmes Cafeteria. Please mark your calendars! Holmes Counselors will visit our school on January 30th to begin scheduling for next year. In addition, here is a link to a letter sent by mail to our 6th grade parents from Holmes Junior High. Last, during visits to our school, the Holmes Counselors will watch this scheduling video with our students. 

Preschool Registration For 2023-2024 - Registration for 2023-2024 Preschool will be open and the link will be open at Noon (CST) on Friday, January 27, 2023. The CF Preschool Program is funded by the Statewide-Voluntary Preschool Grant and Head Start dollars. Children that live within the Cedar Falls Schools’ boundaries and will be age 4 by September 15 of that school year, are eligible to participate in the program. The tuition is free to all that participate. The district follows a "first come, first served" policy. Questions about the preschool program may be directed to the Administration Office at 319-553-2422.

Dressing For The Weather - colder weather has arrived! We do our best to be outside as much as possible. We will be outside if the temperature or wind chill is above zero. Please carefully watch the forecast and send students to school with clothing (coat, pants, boots, snow pants, hats, gloves) that will allow them to enjoy recess. In addition, we will also ask students to wear coats until the temperature is above 50 degrees (real feel). If your student needs help with winter gear, please contact their teacher and we will do our best to help. If a student is not dressed properly, we will lend them a coat for the recess to allow them to be outside.

Weather Delay Information - As a reminder if weather dictates a late start the district will utilize a 90-minute late start schedule. At Lincoln, this means our start time will be 10:15 AM. In addition, you can add 90 minutes to the scheduled bus pick up times. Also, if we have a late start, we do not serve breakfast and will follow our normal lunch schedule.

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