Upcoming Events
*December
4- Decorating Gingerbread Houses
*December
5- Late Start
*December
5- School Store
*December
10- 15 Book Fair
*December
12- Late Start
*December
13 – Ice Skating
*December
15- Lincoln Pancake Breakfast
*December
21 – Holiday Party and Elf Day
Cold Weather
Clothing
The weather has started turning
colder and snowier, especially in the morning.
Please make sure your child is dressed appropriately for the conditions.
Practice zipping coats,
putting on snow pants, hats, and mittens, and tying shoes at home.
The children are required to wear
boots and snow pants in order to play in the snow at recess. Please remember, we expect the children to be
able to dress themselves in their outerwear.
When your child wears boots to
school, you need to put a pair of inside shoes (that they can get on and off
themselves) in their
backpack. They will leave boots in the hall and change
to their other shoes at the beginning of the day. I will be happy to help with shoe tying and
zipping until the Winter break. After
that, they are expected to take care of these things on their own. Of course we will still untie knots and
unstick stuck zippers! Thank you for
your help and support at home.
This Cycle
Our
language arts strategy focused on sequencing as we read “The Life Cycle of a
Frog”. We talked about the stages in a
frog’s life by using signal words like, first, next, and last. In writing we have been working on pattern
books. These have similar sentences on each page with a surprise ending.
In
math and social studies we are practicing position words like over, under, between,
below, above, in, out, etc.. In social studies we are also learning about maps
and how we can be in our classroom, in our school, in our community, in our
state and in our country all at the same time!! In science we are learning
about how machines help us do work
Gingerbread
Houses
We will be decorating our gingerbread houses on Tuesday,
December 4th from about
8:30- 10:00 am. Thank
you to everyone who helped prepare the houses and materials! Thank you to
everyone who helped us decorate too! You can come pick up your child’s house on
Friday!
Ice Skating
Thanks to our PTO, our Lincoln
School students will be able to ice skate for free at the Howard Ice Arena on Thursday,
December 13.
Our students will walk with
their buddies and teachers to and from the ice rink.
The ice-skating and skate
rental is FREE for our students and any parents that can come and help. The more adults we can have helping students
with skates, the better! Students are encouraged to bring their own ice
skates. The number of skates per size is
limited. If your child has their own
skates, label with their name and allow them to bring them that day. Skates brought to and/or from school on the
bus must be in a duffle bag or a brown paper bag. Safety/protective helmets are also
encouraged & welcomed. This is our
schedule for skating that day:
We will leave Lincoln at 8:45am.
We will skate from 9:00- 9:45 and return to Lincoln around 10:00am.
Christmas Trees
Thank
you to all of those that have sent in their decorated Christmas trees! They
look wonderful in our hallway! Stop by and see how creative all of our families
are!
Holiday Party
Our party will be on Friday,
December 21st at 12:45- 2:15.
The parent in charge will be in contact with the volunteers soon! There is NOT
going to be a gift exchange for the students.
