A few important dates:

11.27-11.29 - No School, Happy Thanksgiving

12.5 - 5th and 6th Grade Orchestra Concert at Cedar Falls High School at 7 PM

12.9 - Lincoln Night at the Cedar Falls Public Library 6:30-8:00 PM

12.10 - 6th Grade Band Concert at Hansen at 7:00 PM

12.10 - Lincoln PALS (Parents and Lincoln School) meeting at 7:00 PM in the Media Center

12.23-1.2 - Winter Break

1.3 - Students return to school!

Our weather has changed! We will be outside unless it is raining or below zero, please send students with coats, hats and gloves! If you are in need of Winter Gear this year (Coats, snow pants and/or boots), please fill out this Google Form (https://tinyurl.com/2zm2jnhs).  Lincoln is partnering with Koats 4 Kids and will do our best to match your student with needed items.  

Our Mitten Tree is coming! After our Thanksgiving break, please begin looking for our Mitten Tree in our office as well as SignUp Genius. For those new to Lincoln or our annual Mitten Tree tradition, our school community works to support families in need during the holidays. Each mitten represents a gift that can be purchased and wrapped for one one of our students or their family members. We are very proud and humbled by the support of the Team Lincoln community allowing this to be an amazing tradition!

Lincoln Night at the Cedar Falls Public Library! (https://tinyurl.com/ypu4e36n) The Cedar Falls Public Library will host Lincoln night on Monday, December 9th between 6:30 and 8:00 PM. This is a family friendly event, children must have an adult with them to attend. See you there!

Would you like to submit a name for a Cedar Falls snowplow? (https://tinyurl.com/3mwdz36a)  We are partnering with the city of Cedar Falls to name our snowplows! Students and families can submit suggestions and select Lincoln Elementary. One winner will be selected and will receive day passes to the Falls Aquatic Center and a picture with our plow!

Lincoln PALS will no longer collect Hy Vee receipts. We thank you for contributing for so many years!

Team Lincoln Families, we need your help at dismissal each day. Please ensure students are picked up promptly at 3:45 or 1:50 every Wednesday. If you cannot be on time, please communicate this to the school in advance. Our staff prepare for instruction each afternoon following dismissal, thank you for allowing us to be prepared for the following school day!

Attendance Updates (https://tinyurl.com/yc6z9kf9)  - please carefully review attendance updates for our district according to recent legislation at the state level. If you have any questions, please direct them to Mr. Bryant.

Arrival And Dismissal - we want to help our students safely enter and leave the building each day. In the morning, we will ask students to arrive between 8:30 and 8:45. They will report to their classrooms or to the cafeteria for breakfast, if needed. At the end of the day, we will dismiss students beginning with Kindergarten and ending with 6th grade. 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. We will not have supervision for students prior to 8:30 AM each morning, please do not send your students before this time. 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!

CKLA/Amplify Supports -  The English/Language Arts (ELA) resource we use in our district is called CKLA (Core Knowledge Language Arts) from grades Kindergarten through 5th and Amplify for 6th grade. We will send home paper copies of the “Caregiver Letter” each time we begin a new unit and want to share these with our families each week. We encourage you to use the conversation starters!

Kindergarten Unit 4 (https://tinyurl.com/3btmuvec) 

1st Grade Unit 5 (https://tinyurl.com/39szcpv2_ 

2nd Grade Unit 4 (https://tinyurl.com/3nvxas2w) 

3rd Grade Unit 3 (https://tinyurl.com/ypdbtkp4) 

4th Grade Unit 3 (https://tinyurl.com/3wx36crx) 

5th Grade Unit 3 (https://tinyurl.com/y4wuybe6) 

6th Grade Unit 2 (https://tinyurl.com/c6rvfk95) 

Illustrative Math - We are excited to continue to deliver Illustrative Math to our students this year! This is a problem-based curriculum where students spend most of their time in class working on problems. Teachers help students understand the problems, ask questions to push their thinking and facilitate discussions to help students. Our goal is to help students build understanding of mathematical concepts and procedures as well as to apply this knowledge to new situations. During Math, students will collaborate with their classmates to talk about math, listen to each other’s ideas, justify their thinking and discuss their thinking. They gain experience communicating their ideas both verbally and in writing. This kind of instruction may look different from what you experienced in your own math education. Current research says that students need to be able to think flexibly in order to use mathematical skills in their lives and also on the types of tests they will encounter. Flexible thinking relies on understanding concepts and making connections between them. We plan to share family support materials for each unit as we appreciate your support at home!

Kindergarten Unit 3 (https://tinyurl.com/5n6csw6c) 

1st Grade Unit 3 (https://tinyurl.com/musbd2ky) 

2nd Grade Unit 4 (https://tinyurl.com/59pm8rcz) 

3rd Grade Unit 3 (https://tinyurl.com/bdcv28v8) 

4th Grade Unit 3 (https://tinyurl.com/2w958z6c) 

5th Grade Unit 3 (https://tinyurl.com/55xkm4x2) 

6th Grade Unit 3 (https://tinyurl.com/3ahx5sfu) 

Thank you for your support! 

Respectfully,

Ralph Bryant

Lincoln Elementary Principal

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