Digital Dolphin - January, 2023
Happy New Year, Lincoln Families!
We hope you had a wonderful, relaxing break and are as excited as we are to be back to school and starting a brand new year!
One exciting thing coming up this month is our annual Winter Fest that will be held Thursday night, January 26 from 5:30 to 7:30. It will be held here at Lincoln Elementary in the gym. Students will get to make snowflakes, penguins, do sewing, and have a lot of fun!
Principal, Dr. Sarah Flynn
Important Dates
- Monday, January 16 - Martin Luther King Day - No School
- January 17 - January 30 - MAPS Testing (Reading & Math)
- Tuesday, January 24 - School Board Meeting
- Wednesday, January 25 - Middle School Band visit 5th graders
- Wednesday , January 25 - Winter Fest - 5:30 - 7:30 pm
- Friday, February 3 - Teacher Work Day - No School for Students
- Monday, February 20 - President's Day - No School
Winter Fest 2023!
Rosa Roque and Andrea Arellano - Nutritional Services
Rosa Roque and Andrea Arellano joined our cafeteria staff at the beginning of this school year. They both started working in the Woodburn School District in 2011. Rosa started at French Prairie Middle School, then was at the High School and Washington Elementary before coming to Lincoln. Andrea started at Washington Elementary where she worked until coming to Lincoln this year.
Andrea likes to walk, dance, exercise, and spend time with her two grandsons, one 5 years old and the other 11 months old. Rosa loves to walk with her Labrador Retriever. Andrea and Rosa love to cook and work with fresh fruits and vegetables and to serve our students.
SMART Reading is an Oregon based program that promotes a love of reading and builds relationships between adults and children. Nancy Russell, who taught for 30 years at Lincoln Elementary, now volunteers weekly with her husband, Jim, and another SMART Reading volunteer, Terry Pitzer. The programs continues all school year long each Thursday for first and second grade students. Volunteers read one-on-one with students prior to the Covid pandemic; afterwards, it changed to a volunteer reading aloud to whole classrooms. For the next school year, 2023-2024, the plan is to return to a one-on-one model.