The Panda Press

December 1, 2023

The Panda Press: March 1, 2025

Important Dates

March

12- FTP meeting at 6:15 at the Lincoln Library- Referendum Presentation

18- Culvers' Night 4-7:30pm

22 to 30- Spring Break- No school for students or staff

Reading Comes Alive

To celebrate Read Across America Week below are some dress-up days (optional) to participate in and have some fun! In the classroom they will be having some read alouds throughout the week

Monday: Hats off to Reading- Wear any hat!

Tuesday: Panda Day- Wear your favorite Lincoln shirt or Blue shirt.

Wednesday: Books can take you places! Dress up as a tourist.

Thursday: One word can change someone's day. Dress up like a vocabulary word. Will you learn a new word or represent your favorite word?

Friday: Curl up with a good book. Dress up in your pajamas and be ready to read a good book.

Attendance Matters

In February our student attendance rate was 93.07%. This is down from 93.92% in February 2024. We know that illnesses have gone through many classrooms. Remember to keep healthy habits and stay home with symptoms of excessive fever (over 100.4), vomiting or diarrhea. Students can come back to school once they are symptom free for 24 hours. Thank you for your support in making school a priority and having your student ready to learn!

Related Arts Feature of the Month: Art

2025 has been off to a busy start in the art room! We started the year off with our amazing visiting artist Mrs. Jeanne to create 2 awesome pieces of art that are up in the halls of Lincoln.

K-5 students wrapped up some fun winter art projects before moving on to Fine Arts Night preparations! This years' Fine Arts Night will feature a theme tying the art and music of the evening together. Our students are all working on their first art projects with our Ocean theme. Fine Arts Night is Tuesday, April 29th.

Donations welcome! We are looking for the following items; 2 liter soda bottles, water bottles, cereal boxes or other light cardboard, cardboard boxes of any size, bottle caps, egg cartons, juice or milk cartons.

4th and 5th grade after school Art Club will be starting up soon. Applications are due by Tuesday and 20 students will be accepted. Students will find out if they were selected by March 6th.

Classroom Spotlight: Kindergarten

Kindergarten had a great February. Our multilingual teacher, Ms. Molina, is a published author and read her book to Mrs. Frye’s students. Students had so much fun playing in the snow. On the 100th day of school the students had a celebration and special snack. Mrs. Herman visited the students with her pet snake. Some students loved it and others were not as excited.

2025 STEAM Night

7 Mindsets

Live to Give:

The Live to Give Mindset teaches students about finding purpose and meaning in life by helping others. It encourages students to make a difference, no matter how small, because even small acts of kindness can have a big impact.

Live to Give - English

Live to Give - Spanish

Battle of the Books Competition

On Feb 13th, some 4th and 5th graders and a staff team participated in a live competition for Battle of the books. Congratulations to, The Spicy Chickens, who will be competing in the state competition in a few weeks. They fought hard for the win!

Thank you to all that participated. It takes a big commitment to read 20 books as a team.

Read-A-Thon Door Decoration Contest

All of Lincoln's classrooms participated in the door decorating contest to highlight the Read-A-Thon. The Lincoln Family Teacher Partnership sponsored the Read-A-Thon and door decorating contest. Through these events students earned money to spend at the book fair, teachers earned class funds to purchase classroom books and classes were able to complete for lunch with Mr. Gefvert.

Congratulations to our door decoration contest winners!!

K-2nd
1st Place - Mrs. Callahan's 1st Grade Class

2nd Place - Mrs. Genung's Kindergarten Class

3rd Place - Mrs. Schimming's Kindergarten Class

3rd-5th

1st Place - Miss Wegner's 3rd Grade Class

2nd Place - Mrs. Lippen's 5th Grade Class

3rd Place - Mrs. Wojtkunski's 4th Grade Class

Related Arts/Spec Ed/Intervention/OT/PT

1st Place - Intervention Team
2nd Place - Special Education 4th/5th Grade Room 123

3rd Place - Special Education/OT/PT/Speech

Global Day of Play

Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood) said that “Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play IS serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.” 4K, Kindergarten and first grade students at Lincoln Elementary joined over 2.1 million students from over 81 nations in a day of play for the 10th annual Global School Play Day.

Morning Drop Off Procedures

For the safety of our students and staff please only drop off your student in the drop off circle to the south of Lincoln, or park in the north parking lot and have your student walk to door number 7 (a.k.a. the turtle doors) to enter the building. Students should not be dropped off at the main entrance before 8:00am. If you need to come to the main office in the morning, please park in the north parking lot and enter through door number 1.

Morning Procedures

Starting this week our student lead announcements will begin at 7:55. This will ensure that teachers have time to start their day , uninterrupted, at 8am with all of their students. As a reminder:

7:30-7:58- Free breakfast is served for all student (4k-5th grade)

7:30- door #7 opens for student that are having breakfast

7:45- Parent drop-off begins in the drop off/ pick up line (K-5)

7:50- Bell rings for students to be dismissed from the cafeteria and main hall to go to their classrooms

7:55- Morning Announcements

8:00- All students need to be in the classroom