Lincoln Weekly Family Announcements 2025-10-17

Hello Lincoln Families - Thanks for another excellent week!

Here are a few upcoming dates for our calendars:

10.13-10.17 - 6th Grade to School Of The Wild Field Trip

10.24 - Noon Dismissal

10.28 - Fall Conferences from 4:00-8:15 

10.30 - Noon Dimissal, Fall Conferences from 1:00-8:15

10.31 - No school for Preschool through 12th grade

Lincoln Families - in an effort to shorten our weekly family email, we will begin to keep recurring informational items here for your reference (https://tinyurl.com/yr2j2nd7) 

Fall Conferences - We are excited to welcome our families and students for conferences on October 28th (4:15-8:15 PM) and 30th (1:00-8:00 PM). We are moving to Family/Teacher conferences to allow families more time to speak with our staff. We hope to have volunteers available in each hallway to allow for private conversations, if needed. We will plan to meet face to face with families, if you would like to meet virtually, please communicate with our teaching staff. Please use these directions to sign up beginning October 9th and will close on October 23rd (https://tinyurl.com/ynrbu5b8)!  If you need help scheduling, you can also call the school at 319.553.2950. It is our goal to meet with every family!

Teacher Conference Meal (https://tinyurl.com/rd4eza3v)  - Lincoln PALS (Parents and Lincoln School) is sponsoring a meal for our staff during conference week. If you would like to help with desserts or beverages, please check the link. Thank you for considering!

Safety Drills (https://tinyurl.com/3trdew5s) - Students and staff at all Cedar Falls schools participate in drills to continually improve our Safe School Plan. These drills help make sure everyone understands what to do in a crisis situation. Drills are practiced for fire, tornado, dangerous intruder, and off-site evacuation situations. Classroom teachers explain the purpose of the drill in age-appropriate discussions with students, and drills are clearly identified as only a drill. Attached is a letter describing our planned safety drills for the school year. If you wish to opt your child out of participating in these discussions or drills, please contact your building principal. 

Pack The Bus from October 20th to October 24th (https://tinyurl.com/37r8hfha) - Our Student Leadership Team is organizing a fundraiser to support The Russell and Ann Gerdin American Cancer Society Hope Lodge in Iowa City. This group is 100% donor funded. Supplies go directly towards providing a community pantry, on-site laundry, kitchen and free overnight accommodations to cancer patients receiving outpatient cancer treatment and their caregivers. In 2024, the Hope Lodge in Iowa City provided services to 49 patients and caregivers, totaling 465 nights provided for Black Hawk County residents! 

Halloween Plans for Thursday, October 30th - We will celebrate Halloween on Thursday, October 30th! We invite our Preschool, 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. All classrooms will celebrate Halloween with a classroom party. Due to the noon dismissal and conferences beginning at 1 PM, we will not hold a parade this school year. 

Treat or Treat at Bickford Assisted Living! (https://tinyurl.com/3dxdnbjx) This is a great opportunity to support Bickford residents and treat or treat!