Wacky Winterfest will be on Saturday, March 1st!  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. Please check below for opportunities to support the event:

Winterfest Volunteers: If you would like to volunteer on the day of the event, please click on this link! (https://tinyurl.com/msnw5rhr) 

Bake Sale: If you like to bake, please click this link! (https://tinyurl.com/4vj3sb8p) 

Spring Conferences - We are excited to welcome our families and students for conferences on March 11th (4:15-8:15) and 13th (1:00-8:00). We ask our students to attend conferences with our families as we work to involve them in sharing their learning. Please use these directions to sign up beginning February 14th and will close on February 28th (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 student and family!

After School Playground Use - as our weather improves, students frequently want to stay at school to use our playgrounds. Unless their parent or guardian is standing with them directly supervising, our elementary handbook requires them to go home to check in with family and not return until after 4:15 PM. Thank you for ensuring our playgrounds remain positive following dismissal and reinforcing this message with your students.

After School Pick Up - we have had concerns shared from our neighbors that their driveways are being blocked. If you choose to pick up your child after school, please utilize a parking space if you need to leave your car. Many families choose to park away from the school and walk to their meeting spot with their students. Thank you for being respectful of our neighbors!

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!

Kindergarten Prep - please see the attached letter about our Kindergarten Prep program as well as registration details. Please note the parent information and classroom visit opportunities.

If you are seeking support with dental care for your students, please check out this opportunity! (https://tinyurl.com/2u8a5333) 

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 8 (https://tinyurl.com/2kznwmbx) 

1st Grade Unit 8 (https://tinyurl.com/2uvb8vaj) 

2nd Grade Unit 8 (https://tinyurl.com/u6t4mk57) 

3rd Grade Unit 7 (https://tinyurl.com/4eudycrm) 

4th Grade Unit 6 (https://tinyurl.com/29jsz9f9) 

5th Grade Unit 6 (https://tinyurl.com/mwrc98eh) 

6th Grade Unit 4 (https://tinyurl.com/3b5ycw6n) 

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 5 (https://tinyurl.com/mrxnjax3)  

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

2nd Grade Unit 6 (https://tinyurl.com/53dhy3wf) 

3rd Grade Unit 5 (https://tinyurl.com/26ftw5zt) 

4th Grade Unit 6 (https://tinyurl.com/m4fu9erf) 

5th Grade Unit 6 (https://tinyurl.com/ywjd62p8) 

6th Grade Unit 6 (https://tinyurl.com/68xa32x8) 

Thank you for your support! 

Respectfully,

Ralph Bryant

Lincoln Elementary Principal

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