Catching Up With Friends

Welcome to Lincoln at a Glance! As quickly as it came, fall break is almost over. Tomorrow, school is back in session, and we can’t wait to see you there! With time flying by, it’s essential to stay on top of everything. In this regard, the Google calendar is your best friend. Like any good friend, it’s important to check in regularly, or you might find yourself catching up months later and realizing you’ve missed out on all kinds of exciting events!

As a reminder, you can click the big “+ Google Calendar” at the bottom right of the Calendar bellow to add it to your account!

Read on to learn more about what’s happening this week!

Lincoln at a Glance

Events

• First Day Back (Oct. 22nd)
• Date of Board Meeting Changed (Oct. 23rd, 6:30pm)
• Parent Council Meeting (Oct. 24th, 4pm)
• The Great Pumpkin Contest (Oct. 30th)
• JH Halloween Dance (Oct. 30th, 1:30-3:30pm)
• Elementary Halloween Parade (Oct. 31st)

Fieldtrips and Class Events

• 3rd Grade Museum of Curiosity (Oct. 23rd, 8:30 – 11:00am)

Announcements

• Food & Nutrition Worker Position Open HERE!
• Math Volunteers Needed! See details below.
• 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

The state of Utah has a parent portal for all parents of students in Utah Schools.  They have put together resources to help support your role in the educational process.  You can view this portal at: https://schools.utah.gov/parent/

Monthly Calendar

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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!!!!

Elementary Halloween Activities – October 31st

The Elementary students kindergarten-6^th grade, will participate in a Halloween Parade.  

The parade will start promptly at 2:00pm on Thursday, October 31st. 

Parents are invited to view the parade outside, please dress accordingly. All families attending will enter the back of the school through the gates on either side of the school.   In the case of bad weather, the parade will be held in the J.H. gym.

Parents helping with class parties, please remember to sign in at the front office and get your “visitor badge”.  This will take extra time with the number of visitors coming so please plan your time accordingly.

JH Halloween Dance – October 30th, 1:30-3:30pm

All Jr. High students are invited to a Halloween dance on Thursday, October 30th from 1:30-3:30 pm.  It will be for all junior high students and will be held in the Elementary gym at Lincoln Academy. 

The theme of the dance will be Haunted Forest Dance. Costumes are approved to wear at the dance and during class time. No weapons (look alike weapons), masks or “blood” of any kind will be allowed.  

The costumes must also be modest and not offend any group of people. Staff members need to be able to identify students in costume.  Jr. High students WILL NOT be participating in the elementary parade.

The Great Pumpkin Contest – Oct. 30th

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 23rd 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

• JH Basketball Game – Oct. 28th, 4-6:30pm
• JH Halloween Dance – Oct. 30th, 1:30pm
• JH Basketball Game – Oct. 30th, 4-6:30pm