Lincoln School News for February 8-12, 2021

 

News for the Week of February 8, 2021

 

We are a committed to being a community of lifelong learners. Our staff greatly appreciates and values the opportunity to learn and grow together every late start Wednesday, in addition to this Friday. We know that in order to live out our school mission to "Inspire. Innovate. Achieve." we have to continually sharpen our skills through professional development and dialog, affording us the opportunity to modeling our growth mindset for our students. Thank you for this time & enjoy your mid-winter break together.

PTO NEWS

The PTO wants to thank all of the parents that made last month’s staff appreciation breakfast so successful!  The staff loved it so much that we are doing it again.  Click on the link below to get more details and sign up:

https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/5080a4fafaf29a6fd0-feed

This Week at Lincoln School

2/8     No School for UPTON MIDDLE SCHOOL ONLY 

          P2 Character Strength of the Week:  LOVE

          Wear your P2 t-shirt today!

          Board Of Education Meeting @ 6pm (virtual) 

2/10   Late Start Day  (arrival at 9:45am)

          Count Day

2/12   Mid-Winter Break: No School Y5-12th grade

Coming Up...

2/15   Mid-Winter Break: No School Y5-12th grade

2/16   Half-Day of School - Educator Vaccination Clinic 

2/17   Late Start Day (arrival at 9:45am)

2/25   Y5/Kindergarten Round-Up Event - register to attend at sjschools.org/sjps-parents/enrollment

Teacher Blogs

Ms. McElroy	https://macsyoungfives2020.blogspot.com/
Mrs. Confer	https://conferk20.blogspot.com/
Mrs. Bartz	https://bartzkblog2020.blogspot.com/
Mrs. Mutschler	https://mutschlerschool20-21.blogspot.com/
Mrs. Jun	https://jun2020-21.blogspot.com/
Ms. Reimers	https://reimers2020-2021.blogspot.com/2020/10/week-6-reimers-room.html
Mrs. Fiesbeck	https://fiesbeck20-21.blogspot.com/
Mrs. Laukus	https://laukus20-21.blogspot.com/
Mrs. Starks	https://starks2020-2021.blogspot.com/
Mrs. Peek	https://peek20202021.blogspot.com/
Mrs. Ettinger	https://ettinger20202021.blogspot.com/
Mrs. Goniwiecha	agoniwiecha.blogspot.com
Mr. Persenaire	https://persenaire4thgrade.blogspot.com/
Mrs. Abbott	https://abbott2020.blogspot.com/
Mrs. Briney-Kelm	https://bk20-21.blogspot.com/
Mrs. Schermerhorn	https://schermschool20-21.blogspot.com/

Thank you for your continued adherence to our daily screening guide posted on our district's website before sending your child to school. If he/she is exhibiting any symptoms consistent with COVID-19, they must stay home. It is imperative that we work together to safe safe so that we can stay together. 

 

Calling All Bear Cubs! 

Young Five & Kindergarten Registration (pandemic style) is coming on February 25th! Visit sjschools.org to register for this drive-thru event at SJHS. Current Y5 & ECDD students do not need to attend. 

Please spread the word to family, friends, and neighbors who have a child that will be five years of age by September 1, 2021. We can't wait to welcome our new little bears!

 

Count Day

Wednesday is count day! This is an important day for our school in regards to funding. Please do everything you can to limit non-urgent appointments on this day. Of course, if your child is ill or exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19, please keep him/her safe at home. 

Social-Emotional Check-ins

Ensuring our students feel supported and are ready to learn is essential. That is why our classes practice a social-emotional morning check-in daily. This quick survey provides the classroom teacher insight into his/her students needs so that we can respond accordingly.  

Valentine's Day 

February 14th is quickly approaching and of course, things this year will be a little different.  It just so happens that the 14th is on a Sunday this year and students do not have school on Friday the 12th or on Monday the 15th.  So, hold off on the candy and packaged valentines, here is the plan...

During the week of February 8 - 11, our Positivity Project (P2) activities will be focused on "Love."  Their definition of love is that you value close relationships with others and being close to people. The character strength of love represents the way we think, feel, and behave towards the people with whom we have close relationships. 

Classes will have activities and lessons throughout the week that will take the place of the traditional card exchange.  No need to send anything in from home, we will handle it all in-house.

If you want to look ahead at family activities and connections for that week, remember you can access the P2 for Families at https://posproject.org/p2-for-families/  The password is P2.

SJVS BLOG LINK Click HERE	DISTRICT TECHNOLOGY WEBSITE Click HERE to access our fantastic resource site put together FOR YOU to help navigate district technology! Having trouble with your district device, email - support@sjschools.org	MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES Click HERE to access a wealth of resources put together by our SJ counselors and social workers!

Check out the positive messages and celebration of our community on the St. Joseph Public Schools Foundation blog.

 Click here to enjoy!  

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Community Corkboard.

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