Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Lincoln Elementary School Newsletter - January 2016

Lincoln School won the Grand Prize award in 

Kingsburg Festival of Lights Parade!!!


At Kingsburg’s Festival of Lights Parade, Lincoln School took home the Grand Prize! Congratulations Lincoln Eagles!!! I would like to thank the Lincoln Parent Club for coming up with the Lego theme, and the countless hours of preparation that went into the design and preparation of the float. 

Also, I want to thank all the students, parents, and Lincoln staff for all your hard work that you put into our float. A special thank you goes to our music teacher, Mr. Jason Awbrey, and our custodian, Mr. Jerry Perez, for playing the live music for the students on the float. 

I personally want to thank Kingsburg’s Wildwood Trucking for not only providing the truck, but also the driver for the parade! I believe it takes a TEAM to be successful, and I believe we have an AWESOME team at Lincoln!  Congratulations to everyone!

2nd Grade Spotlight - Mrs. Rogers' Class

In Mrs. Rogers’ room we have had a month full of hard work and excitement. We have started writing opinion paragraphs, and boy do second graders have some amazing opinions. We have also had lots of fun journaling about our Elf on the Shelf and making predictions about what crazy things he will do next. The highlight of our month started with reading A Trip to the Firehouse. After reading this nonfiction text we were fortunate enough to have the Kingsburg Fire Department come out to our school with a fire truck and a fire engine. We got to watch a firefighter dress in his gear and see him climb a 55 foot ladder. Most importantly the fire fighters told us what to do in case of a fire in our own homes. We learned how important it is to talk with our families and have a safe meeting spot outside our homes in case of a fire. Has your family talked about a safe meeting place? Thank you Kingsburg Fire Department for helping us connect our learning to our own lives.

3rd Grade Spotlight - Mrs. Rosales' Class


Studio 12 is rocking the Hollywood theme showing our Super Star behavior wherever we go! Each month, we learn a new performance based on the character trait of the month and/or the unit of study. Recently, we have finished our study of the Yokut Indians in which we created a slide show with bullet points to highlight main ideas and details and then moved into an expository essay. You can catch our performance entitled “Walk Lightly” on our classroom web page. We are now working on 3 paragraph opinion papers. Who do you think works harder, the reindeer or the elves? It is exciting to watch the students use their creativity to express themselves and their opinions.