Lincoln Weekly Family Announcements 2025-01-10

Hello Lincoln Families - It’s great to be back!

A few important dates:

1.14 - PALS Meeting in the Media Center at 7 PM

1.20 - No School

1.23 - Cedar Valley Band Festival at Cedar Falls High School 7:30-9:00 AM 

1.24 - PALS Movie Night in the Cafeteria at 5:30 PM (Movie will begin at app. 5:45 PM)

1.28 - 2nd Grade Concert at 7 PM in the Gym

1.31 - Preschool registration link will be open at noon, link below!

Preschool Registration - Preschool Registration for 2025-2026 school year will open on Friday, January 31st. The link to register is here (https://tinyurl.com/2s3bm2ha) 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.

Lincoln PALS (Parents and Lincoln School) will meet on Tuesday, January 14th at 7 PM in the Media Center. We are working hard to plan for Winterfest! All are welcome to attend!

A note from the Health Office for our 2nd grade families: The Iowa Department of Public Health requires a vision screening for those entering into 3rd grade. If you have a well visit coming up, please ask for a vision check on your student and submit the results to the Health Office. Please see the form attached below.

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 6 (https://tinyurl.com/msumsdwk) 

1st Grade Unit 6 (https://tinyurl.com/yckb5j8f) 

2nd Grade Unit 6(https://tinyurl.com/vp9wvh96) 

3rd Grade Unit 5 (https://tinyurl.com/5yw5cayp) 

4th Grade Unit 4 (https://tinyurl.com/4zhxvyp4) 

5th Grade Unit 5 (https://tinyurl.com/yc34rayn) 

6th Grade Unit 2 (https://tinyurl.com/28jknbcm)