Bear Bulletin

We are excited to host our second annual STEAM Night at Lincoln on Tuesday from 5:30-7:00 pm. This event is free for everyone. Our staff have created fun activities where students of all ages can learn about Science, Technlogy, Engineering, Art, and Math. All students who attend will be entered into drawings for door prizes that will be given out that night. Our goal is to have at least 40% of our students represented at this event.

Also, thanks to our PTO, students will also have the opportunity to take a free picture with a special visitor from the North Pole!

Our much-anticipated playground equipment is arriving and being installed ahead of schedule! We are expecting to have the equipment installation completed BEFORE the winter break! Once the installation is complete, we will have our 25 winners from our earlier drawing test it out and have a ribbon cutting. All students will have an extra recess the day the playground equipment is finally complete.

Thank you to Audrie Roche and Trudy Day for volunteering in the cafeteria this week. :) We appreciate your help and support.

We also appreciate our picture day volunteers: Audrie Roche and Dee Ballard

We want to thank the Jackson family for continuing to serve on our Campus Advisory Committee. At our meeting this week, we talked about our campus budget and our professional development plan. The Jacksons provided some great questions for us to consider.

A special shout out goes to the parents and grandparents who volunteered to be room parents, helper parents, or supply parents for our classroom parties! We're excited to grow this program and opportunity for parents to have a hands-on opportunity to support our classrooms.

One of our campus goals is to build more parent involvement on our campus. As parents, you know your child best. We want to partner with you to consistently make our school better. Below are several opportunities where you can be involved or provide feedback.

• Parent Organizers - We are in need of a couple of parents to help organize a large donation of shoes that we received. Contact Mrs. Peterson if you are able to help out.
• Donations of Milk Jugs - Mrs. Noble is collecting milk/water jugs (the plastic kind with 1 handle) for a project we're doing in the spring. She needs about 35 of them.
• Parent Lunch Volunteers - We are always looking for help in the cafeteria during lunches. If you are able to help, complete the volunteer form and then sign up here on the form organized by our PTO.
  
• WatchDOGS - Click this link for more information, the program presentation from the district, the background form, and the registration form.
• Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) - Join our PTO! The cost for an entire family is only $7. Our PTO is an organization of parents that works to support our students and staff in a variety of ways. They recently purchased some toys and games that students can play with at recess. They also bring in special programs and activities for our students and find ways to show appreciation to our staff. We encourage all families to join. For more information, you can contact our PTO at mylespto@gmail.com. You can also find them on Facebook (@myLESPTO).
  
• Parent Feedback Form - Any time you want to share your thoughts, you can email, call, or make an appointment to visit. Another way you can provide input is to simply complete our parent feedback form at any time. Your responses are anonymous unless you choose to include your name and/or contact information.

Each week, we want to provide you with an overview of our Lincoln statistics and where we are as a campus. We will share information about enrollment, student behaviors, and attendance. Additionally, as we have celebrations to share regarding our students' academic successes, we'll list them here too.

Enrollment

Current enrollment: 457

***Welcome new student, Jayden M. ***

Attendance

Our goal is to have 95% or better attendance each day. Good school attendance is a key indicator of future school success. Below is our average daily attendance for this month so far:

• Week of 11/3: 95.9%
• Week of 11/10: 96.9%
• Week of 11/17: 96.9%
• Week of 12/1: 97.3%

Classes with the Highest Attendance Rates Last Week:

• PERFECT ATTENDANCE (100%) - Mrs. Herzog, Mrs. Moore, & Mrs. Torman!
• 99.1% - Mrs. Spanjer
• 99% - Mrs. Bush & Mrs. Schaper
• 98.9% - Mrs. McCullough, Mrs. Robison, Mrs. Shaver, & Mrs. Veillon
• 98.8% - Mrs. Jorgensen
• 98.7% - Mrs. Thorp
• 98.6% - Mrs. Hochhauser
• 98.2% - Mrs. Perry
• 97.4% - Mrs. Lawson
• 97% - Mrs. Haralson
• 96.8% - Mrs. Forrer & Mrs. Treharne
• 96% - Mrs. Meadors
• 95.6% - Mrs. McClain
• 95% - Mrs. Holladay

A special shout out to our self-contained special education classes, our Pre-K, 1st grade, 2nd grade, and 5th grade for having your whole team meet our 95% attendance goal this week!

Another celebration: Our students had 565 book entries this week for our Bucks & Books for Bikes drawing! Third grade alone had 214 books read! Keep up the good work! I can't wait to see which students win the four bikes!

Just as our students work hard, so do our staff members. If you have a staff member who has gone above and beyond for your or your child, let us know about it! We love sharing your celebrations with our teachers, paraprofessionals, auxiliary and support staff. Your words mean more than you know for our staff. You can always email your feedback to kerri.ashlock@misd.org or complete this form.

You can also submit names straight to the district. Visit Montgomery ISD's Let's Talk tab on the district website https://bit.ly/3xad64c and use the "Share a Positive Story/MISD Shout Out" topic to share something great this educator has done to demonstrate a culture of respect.

There are a couple of important events to note from our Parent Teacher Organization.

• PTO will hold their December meeting next Friday, December 8th, at 9:00 AM.
• PTO is sponsoring free photos with Santa and hot chocolate at the STEAM ceramics night on Tuesday.

As a campus, we cannot say enough about how much we appreciate the donations brought in by our PTO to support the work of our staff for our students. If you haven't already joined the PTO, we encourage you to do so. If you aren't sure, come to the December meeting to see what it's all about!

Tuesday, 12/5

• Family STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) Night 5:30-7:00 pm
  

Wednesday, 12/6

• 4th Grade GT Field Trip
  

Friday, 12/8

• Wear your spirit wear!
• PTO Meeting 9:00 a.m.

Coming Soon:

• 12/14 - 3rd Grade Music Program 6:00 pm
  
• 12/20 - Early Release (Class Parties for PK, Kindergarten, 1st, & 2nd Grades)
• 12/21 - Early Release (Class Parties for 3rd, 4th, & 5th Grades)

The MISD transportation department is excited to announce the launch of the SMART tag parent app, the final component of the SMART tag system implemented this year to increase school bus safety and improve operations in the transportation department. This mobile app will allow parents to receive push notifications with school bus arrival times. It will also allow parents to view a map showing the bus as their student is being transported.

For more information about this technology, and steps on how to get started, click here: SMART Tag Info - Montgomery ISD (misd.org)

Data from the SMART tag system has already proven helpful to the MISD Transportation Department, ensuring students have boarded the correct bus and quickly addressing situations when a student has boarded an incorrect bus. Data from the SMART tag system has also been helpful in adjusting routes and making other modifications to benefit both our students and our bus drivers.

Please continue to assist your child with remembering their ID card each day, to help us avoid delays and keep our routes on schedule.

As we roll out this final component of SMART tag, the transportation department welcomes your feedback. They continually seek to make your student’s transportation a safe, secure, and friendly experience and appreciate you for working in partnership with us.

For questions related to SMART tag, please email: smart-tag@misd.org.

Lunch visitors who are on a child's emergency contact list are welcome to eat with that child on the stage during the student's lunch period starting on August 28. Visitors will need to check in at the front office with their ID and get a visitor badge. Please do not invite other students to join you or provide food or snacks for other students. When lunch is over, all students will line up with their class. Visitors will return to the front office to turn in their visitor badge.

A friendly reminder, we do not have an open lunch policy so please do not order food for your child from outside vendors to be delivered to the school during the school day (i.e. Uber Eats, Grub Hub, Door Dash, or any kind of delivery service). This becomes a safety concern when staff need to leave the front office to deliver food to students or take their focus off of families who have business in the office. Food deliveries also increase the number of unfamiliar people entering the building. Additionally, our lunch times are very tight and do not allow for late deliveries. We cannot allow for learning to be disrupted by early or late food deliveries. Thank you for understanding our focus on safety and uninterrupted instructional time.

Lunch TImes:

• Pre-K & ECSE (AM) - 11:30-12:00
• ECSE (PM) - 11:40-12:10
• Kindergarten - 12:20-12:50
• 1st Grade - 11:45-12:15
• 2nd Grade - 10:55-11:25
• 3rd Grade - 11:10-11:40
• 4th Grade - 12:05-12:35
• 5th Grade - 12:35-1:05

School Hours:

• Doors open at 7:50
• Tardy bell rings, and class begins at 8:15. (This is the time students are expected to be in their seats in the classroom.)
• School day ends at 3:40

We are working hard to maximize each and every minute our students are here. Students who arrive after 8:15 are considered tardy and will need to be walked into the front door of the building and signed in by a parent or guardian. If your child needs to leave early, they may be checked out through the front office by a parent or guardian no later than 3:15 pm.

Attendance is of critical importance to your child's academic success. Click here on a district update regarding attendance procedures for the 23-24 school year. Rather than sending a note to school with your child upon his/her return from an absence, parents will enter the absence information through Family Access in Skyward. Directions for entering the infomation is availble in the link above.

Changes in transportation need to be made prior to 2:00 in order to allow time for the messages to be communicated with the appropriate staff member. To request a change of transportation, either

1. Send a note with your child,
2. Email LincolnElementaryTransit@misd.org with the note and a copy of your driver's license, or
3. Come to the school with a copy of your driver's license.

Lincoln Elementary is a Pre-K through 5th grade campus in Montgomery ISD that opened in the fall of 2018. We are dedicated to collaboration that focuses on ensuring high levels of learning for every student, every day, in a safe and supportive environment.

Email: kerri.ashlock@misd.org
Website: https://lincolnes.misd.org/
Location: 700 Dr Martin Luther King Jr Dr, Montgomery, TX, USA
Phone: (936) 276-4700
Facebook: facebook.com/MISDLincoln
Twitter: @lincoln_MISD