A few important dates:

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

1.30 - Parent Scheduling Meetings for current 6th graders at Holmes Junior High at 7:00 PM

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

2.4 - Parent Scheduling Meetings for current 6th graders at Holmes Junior High at 7:00 PM

Please help us plan ahead for Kindergarten! We will send home this letter (https://tinyurl.com/5znntfbb)  with our youngest students to help us begin planning for our Kindergarten class of 2025-2026! You are welcome to complete the hard copy and return to our office or complete this Google form (https://tinyurl.com/4tmv6mmd). If you have a student who will be in Kindergarten next year, our Kindergarten Parent Information Night will be Tuesday, March 25th at 6:30 PM. Thank you for your help!

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.

PALS Movie Night Is Scheduled For Friday, January 24th! PALS (Parents and Lincoln School) is hosting a movie night in our cafeteria on Friday, January 24th. We will enjoy the movie Inside Out 2! We will open the doors at approximately 5:30 and plan to begin the movie at 5:45. We will provide popcorn, families are welcome to bring food or snacks, blankets or lawn chairs. This is a family event, please plan to enjoy the movie with your children. See you there!

Wacky Winterfest will be on Saturday, March 1st! (https://tinyurl.com/5dx8vkyk)  Our annual school carnival is a family friendly event that is scheduled for Saturday, March 1st from 11 AM to 2 PM. Our students can enjoy carnival games, food, student bands and prizes! This event requires many helping hands. If you would like to consider a donation, please read the attached letter. Thank you for considering!

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!

Lincoln Family Directory (https://tinyurl.com/yx4jx6zc) - Parents and Lincoln School (PALS) is sponsoring a directory to help our families connect! This is an opt in directory and it will be shared only with those families who choose to share their information. We will not share this link on social media. Please reach out to Mr. Bryant with questions!

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/yc38vj57) 

3rd Grade Unit 5 (https://tinyurl.com/mwhw6s2j) 

4th Grade Unit 4 (https://tinyurl.com/yfa94x6b) 

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

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

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 4 (https://tinyurl.com/j8cptfh2) 

1st Grade Unit 4 (https://tinyurl.com/4pnb4xzm) 

2nd Grade Unit 5 (https://tinyurl.com/39c37ph6) 

3rd Grade Unit 4 (https://tinyurl.com/2zbmyxs3) 

4th Grade Unit 4 (https://tinyurl.com/ymz9tr3a) 

5th Grade Unit 4 (https://tinyurl.com/mdb9ra6r) 

6th Grade Unit 4 (https://tinyurl.com/bdt5m3rz) 

Thank you for your support! 

Respectfully,

Ralph Bryant

Lincoln Elementary Principal

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