What’s Better Than a Five Day School Week?

Welcome to Lincoln at a Glance! If this is the only part of the newsletter that you read, I want to clearly communicate that you should not bring your kids to school on Friday. It is a teacher workday, meaning your kids get a day off! If you bring them to school anyway, they will be sad and lonely for many hours.

What’s not sad and lonely is how awesome our school Book Fair turned out! A huge thanks to all of you who participated and supported this event. Be sure to check below for more opportunities to get involved. Right now, our volunteer opportunities range from the Choose Kindness activities to helping students with math, so there’s something for everyone!

Read on to hear more about this week!

Lincoln at a Glance

Events

• Dollar Dress Day (Oct. 2nd)
• XC State Race (Oct. 4th, Big Cottonwood Softball Park)
  • Boys: 5:30pm
  • Girls: 6:00pm
• Teacher work day, NO SCHOOL ON FRIDAY! (Oct. 4th)
• Parent Education Night (Oct. 8th, 6pm)

Fieldtrips and Class Events

• 9th Grade Top Golf Field Trip (Oct 3rd, 1:00pm – 3:00pm)
• 7th Grade Success Field Trip (Oct. 7th, 8:30am – 12:00pm at BYU)

Announcements

• Math Volunteers Needed! See details below.
• Big thanks to all who participated in the Book Fair!
• After School Art Classes, Sign up HERE
• Volunteers needed for JH Lunch time service activities, sign up HERE!
  • More information below
• JH Yearbook Available HERE
• Change In Finance Office Hours
• Potential New Books for the Curriculum (See below)
• Our Awesome Sponsors
• JH Events

Monthly Calendar

This calendar is interactable. On mobile, turn phone sideways for better view of events. Feel free to add this calendar to yours by clicking on the bottom right corner.

Book Fair – Thanks for the Support!

Thank you so much for supporting the book fair! I was able to replace damaged books and add many new books to our library collection. I appreciate the volunteers who helped run the fair as well as all of the families who supported the fair.

Math Volunteers Needed!

Was math ever your “thing”?  We are looking for some parents who would be willing to give us volunteer hours helping secondary students build their lower level math skill sets.  We find that at the secondary level, kids are missing skills that may have been instructed in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades, but for some reason, those skills never cemented. 

We are super flexible with time, but we need more hands than we currently have.  If you are at all interested, please reach out to Mrs. Ungerman, [email protected], and we’ll put you to work!!!!

Parent Night – October 8th, 6pm

On Tuesday evening, October 8th, we are holding our first parent night of the year.  We are excited to have many breakout sessions for you to attend.  We will start right at 6:00 pm with an update for all parents, and breakout sessions will be a half hour in length from there.

Online Safety and the Law:  Officer Chris Ruiz

How to understand my child’s math (Grades K – 3)  Kristine Kirk, Instructional Coach

How to understand my child’s math (Grades 4 – 6)  Stacey Shaw, 6th Math Teacher

How to help my Junior High Math Student (Grades 7 – 9) Deborah Ferla, Jr. High Math

Supporting Autism in the School Setting (for parents!)  Kristi Ungerman, Secondary Principal

How do I understand my student’s report card and test data? (Grades K-6) Jake Hunt, Director and Jodi Blackhurst, Elementary Principal

All about the ACT and what’s new this year! – Kristi Ungerman, Secondary Principal and Nicole Petersen, Secondary Instructional Coach

After School Art Classes

Does your student like art? Every Tuesday there will be art classes offered here at Lincoln Academy for all students who would like to join. Just fill out the form and come ready to have some fun! 

Sign up HERE!

Change in Finance Office Hours

A couple of years ago the state passed legislation requiring public schools to use a finance system that communicates with the Utah State Board of Education (USBE) finance system. The finance system we have used for many years (Quickbooks Online) is not on the list of systems that will communicate with the USBE system.

In September 2023 we started the process of reviewing financial systems that meet the criteria set out in state code. In Spring 2024 we obtained board approval to sign an agreement with Tyler Technologies to implement School ERP Pro as our new finance system. We started implementation on July 1 with a planned go-live date of October 1.

As we prepare for the Oct 1 go-live date the Finance Office will be closed most mornings between 9am – 12:30pm for implementation meetings. After go-live we expect the number of implementation meetings to decrease, however, we will continue to hold meetings many days from 9am – 12:30pm until about Thanksgiving, as we work on getting financial data from the first quarter into School ERP Pro.

If you have questions for the Finance Office please plan on calling or stopping by before 9am or after 12:30pm.

Thanks!
Lincoln Academy Finance Office

New Grading Procedure for Secondary

Dear Parents,

This year, the junior high (grades 7-9)  is going uniformly to a 4 point grading system that will better align with concept mastery.  We all know that grades can be subjective, but knowing that a student has mastered the required concepts and is at grade level is the most important focus we can have.  To support knowledge acquisition, we are using the following grading scales:

3+ – Proficient

2 – Approaching Proficiency

1 – No Grade (Needs to continue to work with teacher)

0 – Assignment is missing

These grades will look as follows by percentage:

Please help your student to understand that if they haven’t started to approach the standard, they need to get with their teacher to improve their grade.  

Athletes and students participating in the play may not be carrying any F’s in order to participate in games or the play.  We really want to help our students start to take ownership of their own academic progress.  If you do not have a CANVAS mirror account, please check the website for those instructions. We really appreciate your interest in helping your student stay academically eligible to participate in activities.

Potential New Books for the Curriculum

Lincoln Academy has received a request from teachers and our librarian to add books to our approved curriculum list. These books will be either used as classroom curriculum or part of our Battle of the Books program.

We value the input of our parents and have an established process that allows for parental input before curriculum is adopted. The book list attached to this email will be considered for approval at the Lincoln Academy October 24th Board meeting.

If you would like to review a copy you can do so in person at the Lincoln Academy Library.

Any concerns about books can be shared with Mrs. Ungerman- [email protected] and the board [email protected]

Our Awesome Lincoln Academy Sponsors

We are so thankful to those who donate to our school. Because of your donations, our students are able to learn and experience freely in ways they couldn’t without your help! We want to take a moment to appreciate the individuals below for their generous gifts to our school and our students:

• Reid Family
• Sleepy Gap Anesthesia
• The Newman Family
• The Hermanns
• Earle Family
• Sears Family
• Mr. Darcy
• Anne Proctor
• 2nd Chance Auto Glass
• Amber Pena
• Jordan and Sophie Davidson
• Julie Bylund
• Badger Family
• Anonymous
• Evans Family
• Willardson Family
• Papworth Family
• The Hardy Family
• The Hasler Family
• The Clark Family
• Tyler and Madlyn Gasser
• The Carson Family
• The Rich Family
• CIR Civil Engineering + Surveying
• The Davidson Family
• IIldy Cline

And a big thanks to all those who donated anonymosly!

Junior High Events

• Boys Soccer Game – Oct. 2nd, 4-5pm as Osier Park
• XC State Finals – Oct. 7th, Big Cottonwood Softball Park
  • Boys: 5:30pm
  • Girls: 6:00pm