We tried to share some tools that can help your students in the future. If you have a junior high student, please take a minute and ask them about this. It would be a great subject to talk about with your student.

Minimal Day – February 7th
Our second Minimal Day for this school year is on February 7th. School will be let out at 12:30 pm. Teachers will hold professional development after that. We will run a modified junior high schedule. Please plan on picking your students up at 12:30 pm on the 7th.

Parent/Teacher Conferences- Feb 15th-16th
Please mark your calendars for Parent Teacher Conferences. I would like to remind you that parent/teacher conference is a great time to get an update about how your student is doing and is not the ideal time to have a long conversation about your student. We have times scheduled every 15 minutes for
the elementary teachers, and we expect conversations with the Junior High teachers to last about 5 minutes. If you feel your visit is going to take longer or your visit at parent/teacher conference is going long, please make an appointment with the teacher at a different time so they will have more time to meet with you. This will help the teachers stay on time with appointments and cut down on the lines outside of their classes.

Elementary teachers will be in their classroom and all junior high teachers will be in the gym. Hours will be from 3:00-8:00 on Tuesday, February 15th, and from 3:00-6:00 on Wednesday, February 16th. There will be a sign-up sheet starting the week of Feb 6th at the front desk for all elementary students.

Thank you,

Mr. Hunt

The last scheduled school tour with the principal will be held Wednesday, the 26th at 9:30 am. Other times will need to be scheduled through the front office for a member of the administration to conduct those tours.

K-1st graders – 4 hours each student a week
2nd-3rd graders –  6 1/2 hours each student a week
4th-6th graders – 9 hours each student a week

We are doing many fun things to help encourage your student to read, read, read. Weekly, top classes with the most reading minutes will receive a treat and their teachers will get to wear a Jazz jersey for a day. Twice during the contest the top reading student from each grade will have the opportunity to be in a pie throwing contest during a few school assemblies. February 9th is our after school reading party from 2:30 until 4:00 pm. The winning class overall gets a free dress day. If we are in the top 10 schools participating in Utah (we were #14 last year), we will get the opportunity to have a Jazz player come for an ice cream party with our students.

Please remember that you CAN read out loud to your student(s) but books on tape, cereal boxes, movie subtitles and signs on the road do not count towards their totals. Only reading done out of school should be recorded and signed by you. Reading minutes are due to your child's teacher every Monday.

Besides the fun and challenge for the students, we wanted to let the parents know this period of reading has shown great results in raising reading and other subjects’ scores – as reading is involved in most of them. We hope each family will encourage and help their children get involved in this event.

9th Grade
1st Place - "Hair and Houses" Jessica Gurney
2nd Place - "More Light? More Eggs?" Becca Buhler
3rd Place - "Running With Music" Alex Mickelson
Honorable Mention - "Alternative Energy Cars" Christian Fugal

7th-8th Grade
1st Place - "Expired or Not" Brandon Wright
2nd Place - "What Shoots the Farthest?" Cami Thomas
3rd Place - "Kool-Aid Chromatography" Amelia and Jacob Smith
Honorable Mention - "Avalanche" Spencer Cahoon
Honorable Mention - "What are the Dangers and Effects of Smoking?" Alia Rhoton
Honorable Mention - "Color Changing Milk" Emily Jardine

5th-6th Grade
1st Place - "Burr!! My Hands Are Cold!" Noah Cahoon
2nd Place - "How Quickly Do Household Foods Spoil" Trey Beal

3rd Place - "Leopard Gecko Hatching" James Johnson
Honorable Mention - "What Type of Food Wrapping Keeps Food Hot The Longest?" Allyson Carlisle, Stephanie Anderson
Honorable Mention - "Oxy Clean" Sarah Lawrence
Honorable Mention - "The Taste Test" Shannon Brown
Honorable Mention -"Temperature and Gusts" Isaac Wright
Honorable Mention - "Are We Sacrificing Lumination With Fluorescent Bulbs?" Skylar Bayack
Honorable Mention - "Is An Electromagnet Stronger Than A Magnet?" Preston Bailey, Tomas Richardson
Honorable Mention - "How Does Different Music Affect your Ability To Memorize?" Jesse Chou

Kindergarten-4th Grade
Winner - Anna Lovelady
Winner - Isabel Smith
Winner - Jacob Cahoon
Honorable Mention - Danny Buhler
Honorable Mention -Liberty Garrity
Honorable Mention - Devin Johannesmeyer

5th - Tyson Knight
6th - Chris Crump
6th - Spencer Hart
6th - Ben Crapo
6th - Isaac Wright
6th - Averee Childs
6th - Kendrik Martinez
6th - Adam Rowbury
7th - Brayden Roberts
7th - Eli Andreason

Spencer Hart won the school competition with Chris Crump and Kendrik Martinez coming in respectively at second and third place. Congratulations to everyone who participated! Spencer will now take a qualifying exam for a chance to participate in the state geography bee this spring. Thank you to all who participated and helped with judging.

Students can do a 10-question daily geography quiz to prepare for next year’s bee at http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geobee/.

Mrs. Mellor is looking for two volunteers for 7:40 – 8:10 am on the 15th and one volunteer for that same time on the 16th. Please contact her at mellor@lincoln-academy.org if you are interested in helping at the book fair.

On Monday, January 31, students will receive the Pizza Pie Café fundraiser card. To receive the 25% restaurant donation to our school, you must use the fundraiser card when paying your bill. You can get more cards at the school’s front desk if you’d like them for family or friends. In November, the Pizza Pie Café fundraiser brought in $520 for our school. So, plan a family outing for some yummy pizza and pasta! If you have questions, please contact Jeanne Mather at matherbunch@aol.com.

(Note: No other specials or coupons will be honored as part of the fundraiser.)

28 January - Super I-excel Activity –Movie “Megamind” at Water Gardens theater 12:00-2:30p.m.

Need drivers for 40 more students. Parents can stay to watch the movie for free.
Contact Aimee Lewis - aimeebel@gmail.com

2 February - $1 dress day
7:30a.m.- 8:05a.m.
Need volunteers to collect money and stamp hands at each entry door.
Contact Shamae Mickelson 1spinach1@gmail.com

9 February - Jazz Read-a-thon After School Party 2:45-5:00 p.m.
Need 5-8 volunteers to read to students
Contact Rebecca Swindle rebeccaswindle@hotmail.com

Other volunteer needs:

We are trying to improve the coordination between parent volunteers and the school’s needs by moving these efforts to electronic communication.

Please click here to see the current volunteer needs.

If you wish to volunteer for one of these needs click to fill out this form. You will be contacted by the school to confirm your willingness and arrange times if necessary or be told that the need has already been filled. We will do our best to keep the volunteer needs chart up to date.

would like to thank Susan and Brent Hirschi for their generous donation to help improve the experience for all 7th grade students. We were able to take a field trip on January 10th to the Dinosaur exhibit at Thanksgiving Point. This trip would not have been possible without the contribution from the Hirschi family. I haven’t seen the students more excited than they were when I told them about the field trip. I’m excited for the future possibilities for using the remaining donation. The students and I would like to extend our sincere gratitude to our sponsor, Mr. and Mrs. Brent and Susan Hirschi.

Mrs. Hiatt’s class sponsor is Mark and Denise Anderson.  Mrs. Hiatt says, “I am so grateful for the Andersons’ support of our class.  Having taught for many years without a sponsor, I especially appreciate this program.  Because of the Andersons, we are able to do so many things that make Kindergarten fun. Some of the things we have planned for this year are field trips to the SCERA theater to see a play and to Thanksgiving Point to see the animals. We are also looking forward to Daddies and Doughnuts and our Mother's Tea. Kindergarten is very "hands on" and all those "hands on" materials can add up to a substantial amount.  Thank you!”

Mrs. Roberts’ class has benefited in a variety of ways from our classroom sponsor, Larry and Deanne Lindstrom of Leisure Villas Active Retirement. Thanks to the Lindstroms, we have been able to beef up our classroom library with bookshelves and books. Guided reading is a very important part of our second grade class, and the students are ready to start choosing books on their own. With our classroom funds we have been able to buy some books which have excited the children to read. One of their favorites is the A to Z Mysteries series by Ron Roy. There are 26 chapter books in this series that are just right for many of the second graders. Many of the children have set a goal to read all 26 this year. The Lindstroms are also always willing to do unique things to make our celebrations special, from bringing a real turkey for the children to pet and play with, to making delicious "dead bread" for our Day of the Dead celebration. Our class is very grateful for the educational opportunities the sponsor funds have provided our class.