CSA Lincoln Newsletter
November 6, 2015
Principal's Notes and Highlights
One of the things I love about working in an elementary school is seeing the pure joy and enthusiasm your children have in learning. Yesterday morning, I was greeted at my office door by a first grade student in Mrs. Newton's class. She had given him a choice to pick one person to read his first book too. He chose me. So we sat in my office as this young man proudly read his book. He informed me at the end that he thought it was a funny book. I told him he should be proud of himself for such a great accomplishment and thanked him for sharing the moment with me. Mrs. Newton told me later that he returned to class with a big smile and fist pumps. Simply put: Awesome!
Speaking of fist pumps of celebration, our boys basketball team picked up their first win of the season Wednesday night against Taylorsville! The girls are still winless, but are definitely improving. I have added a "Sports Report" section of our daily announcements and have been highlighting a few students after each game for hustle, passing, rebounding and defense. I'm sticking with the fundamentals!
Have a great weekend!
Volcano, Tsunami, & Earthquakes
Box Tops Winners!
Small Groups
Miss Cook's class travels back in time!
Upgrades in K-1
Simmons Schoolhouse
Veterans Day Presentation-Wednesday, November 11th
2015 ISTEP+ Rescore Letters
Acuity B Testing
3rd Grade is testing 11/10 & 11/11
4th Grade is testing 11/12 & 11/13
5th Grade is testing 11/10 & 11/11
6th Grade is testing 11/10 & 11/11
Lunch Time!
United Way Campaign
It's that time of year again where 3rd grade hosts the United Way coin drive! Third grade has the coin tubes set up and ready to go. They run from upstairs to downstairs in the 4th grade corner of the school. Students should only drop coins before and after school as they make quite a bit of noise. Grade levels will be fighting to be the United Way Coin Drive Champion! The grade level that brings in the most coins will win a Breakfast party including donuts, orange juice, and milk! The coin drive ends at the end of the day on Monday, November 16th.
Note from the Nurse
Thanks,
Leesa Koopman LPN
Makeup, Perfume and Cologne
Project Update
Our Kindergarten classes finished up their community helpers project and are creating a Veterans Day video to present next week.
First grade students are teaming up with the Fireman's Cheer Fund to spread cheer this holiday season during their current project. Please have your children bring in any new or gently used toys by November 20th.
Second graders will be working on a "Genius Hour" project all year- currently they are learning how because of "geniuses" we have improved many different aspects of our daily lives.
Third graders are currently working hard on their Rube Goldberg Projects. They will be presenting their machines at the Commons on November 16th.
Fourth grade are learning Indiana History and will be inviting Indiana "Living Legends" to come speak on how they have and are continuing to make a positive impact in the state and the world. Their most recent guests have included Elizabeth Choi-a Wish TV Reporter and Tom Rust- a sportscaster.
From the PTO
Dear CSA-Lincoln Families,
For those of you whose children attended, thank you for your participation in Fall Festival! The good news is that 214 kids were able to have fun with their CSA friends, teachers and administrators during non-school hours and strengthen the CSA community! Unfortunately not all of our efforts were as successful as the event itself.
PTO is made up of dedicated parent volunteers and as parents of CSA students ourselves, we try to make decisions that we feel will be beneficial to all parents. Most of the time these decisions help to make school experiences better, but sometimes they just don't work out the way we planned. Despite our best efforts to put a dismissal procedure in place for this event that would improve safety and streamline the dismissal process, the execution of this idea missed the mark. We sincerely apologize to parents and pick up people who were inconvenienced by these efforts. Please know that we will be reviewing the Fall Festival issues to improve dismissal procedures for future events. We welcome all feedback and suggestions from you as a parent going through the dismissal process at ptocaslincoln@gmail.com to help guide these improvements.
Thank you again and we look forward to hearing from you!
Sincerely,
CSA PTO
Calendar
Monday
Cheer practice 3-3:45, Choir 3:15-4:15
Tuesday
Cheer practice 3-3:45, Lego Club 2:45-4:00
Wednesday
Veterans Day Program 8-8:30, Basketball CSA Lincoln vs, Rockcreek 5:30 start @ Central
Thursday)
Cheer practice 3-3:45, Lego Club 2:45-4:00
Friday
Cheer practice 3-3:45
Saturday
CSA Lincoln vs. Smith 9:00 start @ Smith, Lego Competition @ FFY 9:00 a.m.Husky Gram Drawing Winners
Aldrich-Jason Jones
Newton-Dalton Jones
Kean-Ethan Michaels
Wright-Briceon Ernest
Cook-Dominic Allman
Sterling-Sydney Ingram
Pickup-Sam Perez
JA Biztown
JA Biztown
JA Biztown
Brett Findley
Email: findleyb@bcsc.k12.in.us
Website: http://www.bcsc.k12.in.us/site/default.aspx?DomainID=788
Location: Columbus Signature Academy Lincoln Campus, 5th Street, Columbus, IN, United States
Phone: 812-376-4447
Twitter: @csaprincipal