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1: $1 Free Dress Day
1: Parent Council Meeting; 8:15 am
7: Restaurant Fundraiser Night
10: School Geography Bee; 9:30 am
13-17: Christmas Grams for sale
14: Jr. High Christmas Band concert; 7 pm
15: Last day of Labels for Education collection
15: Jr. High Christmas Choir concert; 7 pm
21: Last day of school for 2010; out at noon |
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FROM MR. HUNT
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Parents- Thank you for everything you do. We are able to offer so much more to your students because of your help. I have just a few informational items for you.
LINCOLN MALL
We have several parents who have been generous enough to donate money back to the school on product sales. If you normally purchase items from vendors like Alison's Pantry, Scentsy, Mary Kay, and Pampered Chef, check out our Lincoln Mall link under the parent and student info section on the school website. We have these vendors and others listed. Each will donate a percentage of their sales back to Lincoln Academy.
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Restaurant Fundraiser
Thanks to everyone who came out to our first Lincoln Restaurant Night Fundraiser. It was so fun to see Lincoln friends! The Pizza Pie Cafe gave us $520 - 25% of the sales. Thanks to all of you! Our Restaurant Night Fundraisers will always be on the first Tuesday of each month. Our next one is Tuesday, December 7th. We're going to the new Chick-Fil-A in American Fork this time (near Kohl's). We'll get 20% of sales from 5pm until close that day for anyone who brings in the flyer, or even mentions Lincoln Academy. We're having a competition between classes; the class with the most attending the fundraiser gets a free dress day! So mark your calendars now and look for the Chick-Fil-A cow at school!
Winter
Please remember to send your students with appropriate clothing so they can go out to recess. Also remind your students that washing their hands frequently will help prevent illness and that throwing snowballs is prohibited at school. We will continue to try and remind your students as well.
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FROM THE ENROLLMENT COMMITTEE
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Open enrollment for the 2011-2012 school year will begin December 1st and run through January 28th of 2011. Tours of the school will be conducted each Wednesday at 9:30 am from December 1st - January 26th. If you know of anyone interested in our school, please inform them of open enrollment and they can go to the Lincoln website and apply online under the Enrollment link.
Re-enrollment will be held January 12th and 13th. ALL LINCOLN FAMILIES MUST RE-ENROLL AT THE SCHOOL DURING THIS TIME. We request that 25 of your volunteer hours be completed by that date. Continued sibling preference is dependent upon completion of all volunteer hours.
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FAMILY PHOTO FUNDRAISER
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Family Photo Fundraiser--November 30th between 4 and 8 pm at the school. You get a 10 x 13 family portrait for only $10. Additional sheets are available. If you are interested, please call Gail Robley at 801-785-5178 to schedule an appointment.
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GEOGRAPHY BEE
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The Lincoln Academy Geography Bee will be held on Friday, December 10th for 4th through 8th graders. Here is some information to help your student prepare for the Geography Bee:
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Preparation for the Geography Bee
- Get the Necessary Tools: A good, up-to-date world map, atlas, and geography reference book are your best study tools, along with blank outline maps (http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas/) with which to practice locating places.
- Learn Map Terminology: Understanding what you're looking at and correctly reading labels and coordinates on a map are essential.
- Understand the Interconnectedness of Geography: Subdivisions of geography, such as physical features, climate, and culture, are all influenced by each other. Once you understand this, it will be easier to categorize and remember information about countries and regions.
- Follow Current Events: News items regarding political upheavals, international agreements, and discoveries are fair game for Bee questions, so make sure you are an informed citizen of the world. See the National Geographic News (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/) site for recent stories.
- Analyze the Questions: Visit the National Geographic Sample Questions (http://www.nationalgeographic.com/sample_questions/) page to see the types of questions asked in the Bee and to learn how you can look for clues within the questions to help you figure out the right answers.
- Keep Geography Fun: There are many games you can play to help study for the Bee. Check out the GeoBee Challenge (http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geobee/today.html#/start) , with ten new questions each day, and GeoSpy (http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/games/geographygames/geospy/) , to test your map skills.
Other Fun Learning and Geography Quiz Sites:
http://www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq
http://www.triviaplaza.com/geography-world-quizzes/
http://geography.about.com/
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LABELS FOR EDUCATION COLLECTION
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Don’t forget our Labels for Education Contest that ends on Dec. 15th! A complete list of which products have labels and what you need to clip (mostly UPC labels) can be found at: http://www.labelsforeducation.com/earn/participating-products.aspx . Products vary in point numbers - anywhere from 1 to 10 points. Points can then be exchanged for equipment and products for our school! The class with the most points will receive a pizza party!!! So keep clipping and sending those labels in!
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CHRISTMAS-GRAMS SALE
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The Student Council will be selling Christmas-grams during lunch from December 13 to 17. They are for Elementary and Junior High students.
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LINCOLN JACKETS/T-SHIRTS
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Remember to write your child's name in your student's jacket! It has a chance of being returned if it has a name in it. Please call Carol Bailey if you need a Lincoln Academy t-shirt. 801-756-2830
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HALLOWEEN COSTUME COLLECTION
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Thank you to everyone who donated costumes. We should have a pretty good costume sale at the Fall Festival next year.
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2010-2011 INSPIRATIONS ART CONTEST
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Just a reminder that the Inspirations Art Contest due date is January 11, 2011 and January 14th is the Inspirations Award Assembly. This contest is open to children from K-9th grades, and winners from our school will go on to compete at the district and state levels. The theme is “If Only…”
The art categories this year to include the following:
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Theater - Storytelling of Original Story, Mime, Original Monologue, Original One Act Play (up to 3 people)
Choreography/Dance - Originally choreographed dance composition
Film/Video - Narrative, animation, documentary, experimental, music, media presentations using computers.
Photography - A photography entry must be an original black-and-white or color image, or a group of images, produced by a photographic process.
Literature - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Drama, Prose
Digital Art - Digitally alter photos, 3-d images created through the use of a computer program such as photoshop, carerra, DAZ Studio, or other 3-d program. It also includes any form of computer manipulated imagery.
3D Art - Sculpture, Jewelry, mobiles, wind chimes, kites, collages, dioramas, ceramics
2D Art - Pencil, charcoal, ink, colored pencil, pastels, chalk, crayon, serigraphs, linoleum cuts, woodcuts, computer-generated art (no clip art), vegetable prints, tempera, oil, acrylic, watercolor, paint a T-shirt or other fabric, make a collage of photographs, metal etching or punch work, and sand painting.
Musical Composition - A musical composition entry may be for voice, instruments, or a combination of both.
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BUSINESS SPONSOR SPOTLIGHTS
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From Mr. Goodey, Mrs. Cheney and their great 5th graders:
Our sponsors this year are Beverly and Muriel Petermann and Mike and Laura Rowbury of R & R Realty.
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We are so appreciative of their generosity. So far, we have used the money to pay our share of the fee for the Shakespeare production, bought ice cream on the BYU field trip, purchased some needed shelves for storage in the room and also some science equipment. We will be going on a "space mission" also thanks to our sponsors.
The sponsors make possible some great things for kids that would not be possible in these days when budget cuts are the norm. Thanks a gazillion.
From Mrs. Taylor, Reading Specialist:
I can't begin to say how thankful I am for Gary at Sizzler's and Mike and Laura Rowbury of R & R Realty. for donating to the reading program at Lincoln. I have been able to purchase beginning readers from Scholastic Readers and a Complete Fundamental Program with the right to copy the little books and send home. It is so wonderful to know that my students can build their own library and read their books over and over again. One of my students said, "Wow, I'm going to have the biggest library ever!"
Thank you so much!
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