News and events
Hello Lincoln Families,
Welcome to the new school year! It has been so much fun welcoming our students back into the building. We have had a great start to the school year, filled with learning, new friendships, and positive energy in our classrooms and hallways.
A huge thank you to everyone who supported our recent PTO-sponsored Fun Run! It was a fun and successful event. The funds our students raised directly help our PTO support Lincoln with programs, resources, and events. We are so grateful to our PTO leaders, volunteers, and families for making this fundraiser such a success.
At Lincoln Elementary, creating a safe, positive, and welcoming environment for everyone is our top priority. Our school wide expectations- Be Safe, Be Respectful, and Be Responsible- are the foundation of how our students and staff show their Lions Pride each day. We encourage you to ask your child how they demonstrate these values in their classroom, on the playground, and throughout the school day.
Looking ahead, please mark your calendars for Fall Conferences on Monday, October 26th, and Thursday, October 29th. These meetings are a wonderful opportunity to partner with your child's teacher to set your children up for a successful school year. Please watch for conference sign-up reminders and instructions coming out soon.
Thank you again for your incredible partnership and support as we kicked off this new school year together. We are looking forward to a fantastic year ahead!
Michelle Zimmerman
Principal
REMINDER!! All families should complete back-to-school forms online:
Visit ahschools.us
Select “login” from the menu.
Select “family login.”
Proceed to complete back-to-school forms for the 2026-27 school year.
Why it matters: It’s important that each family completes the verification process and the online back-to-school forms before the first day of school. Verification ensures that each student’s school has confirmed emergency contact information and releases for the safety of each student.
What’s in it for you: Even if families’ contact information has not changed, it’s important to log in to access a variety of other student information in the coming weeks, including:
Class schedules and teacher assignments.
Transportation information, if relevant.
Receive additional educational benefits, discounts and reduced fees.
High school students will not be able to enroll in fall activities until the back to school verification process is complete.
Anywhere, on-the-go: Families may complete the verification on their own time, whenever it’s convenient. If you prefer to utilize the ParentVUE mobile app to access your student’s information, please note that the app has been updated. Read more about downloading the updated version of ParentVUE.
Kindergarteners are adjusting to school, learning the routines and making new friends! We had so much fun working on our fine motor and literacy skills while learning about colors!
This month in CKLA, we are exploring our first unit, Star Light, Star Bright: Nursery Rhymes and Fables which is helping the students learn vocabulary and build phonemic awareness.Toward the end of October, we will move on to a unit all about the five senses. We will have so much fun using our senses to explore apples and pumpkins! During our Bridge2Read time, we will focus on phonemic awareness, letter sound correspondence and letter formation.
In math, students will learn to quickly recognize how many objects are in a collection (up to 5) without counting, compare sets using the words more and less, develop number sense with combinations that make 5 and 10, count objects and match the quantity to the written numeral and build with 2-dimensional shapes.
We are looking forward to meeting with our kindergarten families during fall conferences!
Ms. Costello, Ms. Johnson, Mrs. Ovitt and Mrs. Peterson
Hello 1st Grade Families!
We are so happy to be back with your students! During this month we are working really hard at learning new routines, learning new classroom rules, and just learning how to be a 1st grader. So far your students are rocking 1st grade! Hopefully we can keep the ball rolling.
In math this month we are working on identifying and creating numbers, skip counting, and building numbers on our bead rack. We will continue our work with our bead racks all school year!
In ELA we are learning about fables from around the world and working on identifying items on our story map, such as characters, setting, beginning, middle, and end. We will continue story mapping different ways throughout the school year. Keep an eye open for different types of story maps coming home. In Bridge2Read we are working on word families, so far we have focused on… -ad,-an, it-in, -at. We will continue word families for this month! Your students are becoming very good with our routines and getting more and more confident!
A quick reminder… students should bring a snack everyday for themselves, as the weather gets cooler- please send the correct apparel to go outside. PLEASE send a water bottle, and their take home folder to school everyday!
Thanks for working with us as a team! Please reach out with any questions!
Greetings Fourthling Families,
We are off to a great start in fourth grade. We have started our second year of Functional Morphology and CKLA. For Functional Morphology, we are studying how words are put together using morphemes. We have started by adding prefixes to base and root words, and will continue with prefixes for a few more weeks. In CKLA, we are finishing up Unit 1. This unit examines the genre of personal narratives, which consists of nonfiction works written by a first-person narrator who was involved in the events being described. Students read five personal narratives and identify the elements of the genre. These elements include events proceeding in a logical sequence, dialogue that shows character, vivid descriptive language, characters with defining traits, sensory details, figurative language, and strong introductions and conclusions. Please have your student read 20-30 minutes or more each night.
In math, we are also finishing up Unit 1. We have been reviewing single digit multiplication strategies, as well as models for solving multiplication problems. We will be creating our very first math arts integrated project- Multiplication Wheel of Design. Students will combine the products that they find on their own wheel with repeated design to create a beautiful work of art. In the coming weeks, we will move on to Unit 2 in math.
We look forward to partnering with all of our families as we move through this year!
Ms. Carlson, Mrs. Gaspar and Ms. Halverson
