Lincoln Academy: School Newsletter from the Parent Council

School Newsletter
from the Parent Council

CALENDAR

March

Mar. 16-20 – Teacher Appreciation Week

Mar. 16 – Super Hero T-Shirt Day

Mar. 17 – St. Patrick’s Day; Students May Wear a Green Shirt Today

Mar. 18 – Junior High Music Concert

Mar. 20 – End of Third Term

Mar. 25 – Restaurant Fundraiser @ Chick-Fil-A

April

Apr. 1 – Dollar Dress Day

Apr. 3 – Junior High Super I-Excel Activity; 11:30-2:30

Apr. 6-10 – Spring Break NO SCHOOL

Apr. 17 – Health Week Elementary Assembly

Apr. 20-24 – Health Week

FROM MR. HUNT

Dear Parents:

Thank you for your support. This has been a very busy time of year. We have had the Spelling Bee, Maturation Program, Lincoln Birthday Celebration, Parent Teacher Conference, Jazz Reading and Inspirations. We have had great support at each of these events and activities.

Basketball

We'd like to recognize our basketball teams. Our Girls Basketball team won the charter school state championship and our Boys Basketball team took 3rd place. It was a great year with great athletes.

St. Patrick's Day - March 17th

Students will be allowed to wear green shirts on March 17th. They must be in uniform pants, but can wear a green shirt that day.

-Jake Hunt

PARENT COUNCIL UPDATE

Dear Parents,

January and February were very busy months, and I am so grateful for those who helped with all of our programs! Thank you to everyone who helped provide dinner for Parent/Teacher Conferences and all those who helped with Jazz Reading, Inspirations, Super I-Excel, Box Tops and the Lincoln Birthday Celebration. All the programs were a great success! Thank you so much to everyone who helped make them so successful.

Teacher Appreciation Week will be March 16-20. We have such wonderful teachers here at Lincoln, and we are so grateful for all the time and effort they put in to educating our children! Please be sure to let them know how much they are appreciated.

Jennifer Wilson

Parent Council President 2014-2015

Jenniferwilson77@yahoo.com

TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK

Teacher Appreciation is coming up next week, March 16-20! The room moms will be collecting for gift baskets for the elementary teachers, but please don't forget about the junior high teachers! If you would like to donate any amount of money to our wonderful junior high teachers, we will be collecting money in the front office to go towards gifts for them. Thank you for your help in showing our teachers how much we appreciate all they do!!

Our teachers are SUPER HEROS, and on Monday, March 16^th, all Lincoln Academy Students are invited to wear super hero t-shirts to kick off the week of celebration. Uniform pants are still expected, NO CAPES and NO MASKS.

Thank you Lincoln Academy Teachers!!!

MARCH RESTAURANT FUNDRAISER

The March restaurant fundraiser is at Chick-fil-A in American Fork.

Wednesday, March 25^th, 3:00-10:00 p.m.

Lincoln Academy receives 20% of all vouchered revenue.

Watch for fundraiser information to come home with your student.

Yogurt Bliss: (also in Macey's parking lot) gives money back to Lincoln Academy all year long! Just mention Lincoln, and they'll give us a percentage of sales.

SUPER I-EXCEL

Super I-Excel is coming up on April 3^rd. The Students will be going to Jack and Jill bowling in Lehi. This is an activity for our junior high students who achieved high marks on their report cards. As always, drivers will be needed. If you can drive, please contact Sabrina Hennen. 5littlemonkeys@gmail.com

2015 BOX TOPS DRIVE

And, the elementary school winners are...

Ms. Bowler's class won a $150 gift card with 686 box tops and labels.

Mrs. Cluff's class won a $100 gift card for a close second place with 619 box tops and labels.

Mrs. Lewis' class won a $50 gift card for 3rd place with 440 box tops and labels.

Because 4th place was so close...

Mrs. D'Haenens' class won Chick-Fil-A coupons for each student to get a free cookie with 439 box tops and labels.

We'd love to hear what the teachers were able to purchase for their classrooms with their winnings :)

Junior High Teachers...

The Royal house beat out all the other houses with a grand total of 2249 box tops and labels!

The cow came to deliver a delicious Chick-Fil-A lunch to the winning house. We would like to SINCERELY THANK Chick-Fil-A for their kind contributions to Lincoln Academy. They have donated thousands of dollars worth of food to our winners this year. Please thank them when you stop by for lunch or dinner!

Together our school earned more than 8339 box tops and labels! WAY TO GO!! We realize this is an effort made by parents, teachers, and students, so thank you!

Prizes were delivered to the winning teachers today, and Ms. Bowler's students were so excited to win!! We will have another contest at the beginning of the next school year, so start saving :)

Thank you so much for your hard work and dedication to Lincoln Academy!

Sincerely,

The box tops team ;)

Tobie Baxter-Spears

INSPIRATIONS

The following students are the Regional Winners from Lincoln Academy for the 2015 Inspirations Art Program. These students will go on to represent Lincoln Academy at the State Level.

The State Awards Night will be held Friday, March 27th at UCAS located at 940 West 800 South Orem, Utah 84058.

Congratulations to the following winners:

Film/Video

6-8

*Charlee Lisonbee -first place

Theater

3-5

*Moriah Anderson -first place

Choreography/Dance

3-5

*Emma Jo Harmer -first place

*Melia Anderson -first Place

6-8

*Bethany Simko -first place

*Mykalyn Mendenhall -second place

3D Art

K-2

*Maxsuel De Oliveira -second place

3-5

*Addison Branham -second place

6-8

*Madelyn Fairbanks -first place

*Jeremiah Dobesh -second place

9-12

*Jaiden Rhoton -first place

Photography

K-2

*Lincoln DeVincent -first place

3-5

*Evan Stufflebeam -first place

6-8

*Aubrey Lawrence -first place tie

*Channah Crapo -first place tie

Visual Art

K-2

*Avery DeVincent -second place

3-5

*Melia Anderson -first place

*Jennly Belnap -second place

6-8

*Angel Christiansen -first place tie

*Stephen Myers -first place tie

Music/Composition

K-2

*Dallin Boyd -first place

3-5

*Moriah Anderson -first place

*Emily Harrison -second place

6-8

*Bethany Simko -first place tie

Graphic/Digital Art

6-8

*Bethany Simko -first place

*Emile Cooke -second place

9-12

*Thomas Despain -second place

Literature

K-2

*Mailey Gillen -first place

3-5

*Marley Weeks -first place

*Emma Bylund -second place

6-8

*Katie Bylund -first place

*Kate Barker -second place

RETAIL FUNDRAISING

Thank you so much to everyone who has linked their grocery cards, Target cards, and Amazon account to Lincoln Academy! To date we have received over $500 from Smiths, almost $400 from Target, $185 from Amazon and $41 from Ridley's! That's a lot of money coming to our school just from linking our shopping cards! If you haven't done so, please go online and link your Smith's card, Target Red Card, Ridley's card, Macey's card, and Amazon account with Lincoln Academy. Remember...you have to link your Smith's card every year, so if you haven't done that in a while, please do it again. This is an easy way to bring in money to the school!

Before you shop, be sure to visit the school website and click on the Amazon link. By doing this a percentage of your purchase comes back to the school!

FIND US ON FACEBOOK

Lincoln Academy’s Official Facebook Page:

https://www.facebook.com/LincolnAcademySchool

VOLUNTEERING AT LINCOLN

Here are some of the volunteer opportunities that we need to fill right now:

1. Looking for a T-Shirt Designer:

Carol Bailey is looking for someone who has Photo Illustrator and would like to put together some t-shirt designs to be used in future years at Lincoln. If you are interested, please contact her at 801-636-4623

2. Drivers for Super I-Excel, April 3 from 11:30-2:30

Please contact Sabrina Hennen if you can drive. 5littlemonkeys@gmail.com

Parent volunteers are an important part of the success of Lincoln Academy and are very much appreciated!

- To find volunteer opportunities, please visit Lincoln Academy's website, click on the tab at the top of the home page that says "Volunteer", and then click the "I Can Help!" button associated with the position(s) you would like to volunteer for. An email will be sent to Mrs. Kinkade who will either contact you or the person who is in charge of the volunteer need will contact you.

It's really important to our opportunities for grants and other funds that we record our volunteer hours.

- To record your volunteer hours, click the [Log On] on the opportunities page in the upper right corner. Click "Register" to set up your account. Complete the account information and click "Register".

You will receive an email that your account has been registered. Once the email is received by you, you may go back to the [Log On] and proceed to log your volunteer hours.

DOLLAR DRESS DAYS

The Parent Council hosts Dollar Dress Days on the first Wednesday of each month. Students bring a dollar for the option to wear free dress. (Appropriate free dress can be found at the end of the uniform policy on the school website.) This free dress day is optional. Students are encouraged to earn their own dollar to pay for their free dress option.

LINCOLN SPIRIT WEAR

If you are in need of Lincoln T-shirts or hoodies, please contact Carol Bailey at 801-636-4623 or casbailey@msn.com. She has a limited number of shirts and hoodies left over. FYI - The T-shirts can be worn every Friday and navy hoodies are allowed to be worn in class every day.