Week of 9/26-9/30/2022

• Monday – Day 5

• Tuesday – Day 1
  

• Wednesday – Day 2

• Thursday – Day 3

• Friday – Day 4

Week of 10/3-10/7/2022

• Monday – Day 5

• Tuesday – Day 1
  

• Wednesday – NO SCHOOL

• Thursday – Day 2

• Friday – Day 3

Students are responsible for ensuring they bring required items to school each day. Some forgotten items, such as instruments and lunches, are clearly needed at specific times. Other items, such as library books or water bottles, may instead be an opportunity for your child to learn to do without the item for the day, and hopefully remember it in the future.

If you are bringing a forgotten item, please use our Drop Off Table just inside Door A1. Note your child's name, teacher, and item on the sign-in sheet. The office will contact teachers periodically throughout the day, to send students to pick up those items at a time that does not interfere with their teaching schedules.

• Mix and Match by Wearing Mismatched Clothes

Tuesday, 9/27 - Upstander Tuesday!

• Wear your favorite outfit

Wednesday, 9/28 - Wear Blue Wednesday!

• Wear LEBO blue

Thursday, 9/29 - Thank You Thursday!

• Wear LINCOLN green

Friday, 9/30 - Feel Seen Fri-Yay!

• Wear your brightest or most colorful clothes

The is no school for students on Wednesday, October 5, 2022. School will resume on Thursday, October 6th. Please make note of this day off for the students.

• Students in Grades 1 – 5 will have an early dismissal at Noon on Friday, October 7, 2022. Students will not eat lunch in the school this date.
• Both sessions of kindergarten will attend school on this date.
• Students will be able to order and take home a school lunch this date. Students will order their lunches just like they do on other school days.

School will not be in session for students on Monday, October 10, 2022. School resumes on Tuesday, October 11, 2022. Please make note of this day off for the students.

October 14–24, 2022, will be our annual Lincoln Read-a-Thon. This is the ninth year for the Read-a-Thon! We want to encourage the love of reading for our students, while at the same time, help raise money in support of the Lincoln PTA and the many wonderful programs, activities and field trips it sponsors. This is the Lincoln PTA’s main fundraiser each year. Please support the Read-a-Thon (and the Lincoln PTA) by sponsoring our students during this exciting event. More details will be shared in the coming weeks!

Please make sure that the students have submitted the appropriate permission forms to the classroom teachers in advance of the trip. Chaperones MUST have all three (3) clearances on file to serve as a program volunteer for all of these field trips. Feel free to contact the school office with questions. Thanks to the Lincoln PTA for its financial support for many of the Lincoln Elementary School field trips.

Kindergarten

• Simmons Farm
• Monday, October 17, 2022
  
• 8:45 - 11:30 am

Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated from September 15th to October 15th each year in the United States. This celebration honors numerous people from Spanish-speaking backgrounds who have come to the United States. We celebrate their cultures and traditions during this month. September 15th was chosen as the starting point for the celebration because it is the anniversary of independence of five Latin American countries: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. Also, Mexico celebrates its independence day on September 16th and Chile celebrates its independence day on September 18th.

Check out these websites for more information about Hispanic Heritage Month and how you can celebrate!

• Celebrate Hispanic Heritage
• National Hispanic Heritage Month
• September: Civics: Hispanic Heritage Month
• Hispanic Heritage Month - Teaching Tolerance
• Hispanic Heritage Month - NEA
• A Comprehensive List of the Essential Latin Music Genres
• 23 Books By Latinos That Might Just Change Your Life

On Monday, October 31st, we will host the annual Halloween parade and parties at Lincoln.

• K(AM) students will have their party at 10:30 AM
• K(PM) and Grade 1-5 students will parade and party from 2:30-3:30 PM.

PTA homeroom coordinators will organize the party events with the teachers. A maximum of three (3) party volunteers and one (1) volunteer photographer can be present for each classroom party. Please remember that we do not serve food during our classroom parties. More details will be sent out in a separate notice about our upcoming Halloween festivities.

Schoology, the Mt. Lebanon School District's official Learning Management System (LMS) provides families with a deeper look into their student's classwork and learning progress. As of the Fall of 2022, all online assignments will be collected through Schoology.

Calendars in Schoology will have school events listed as well as course events and assignments. Beginning in 2022-2023, the Schoology calendar will replace Dashboard/PowerSchool as the primary calendar for classroom activity. Classroom assignments, due dates, reminders and other events will be posted by teachers in the Schoology calendar.

If you have questions or need support with Schoology, please email us at SchoologySupport@mtlsd.net

For Families

• Families can sign into Schoology by going to app.schoology.com and signing in using the email address registered through PowerSchool.
• Once signed in, parents can follow these directions to join a course.
• The access code for Lincoln families to join MTLSD's Family Guide to Schoology is NTSQ-D33Z-MCD3R.Families with more than one student only need to join one course, though it is suggested to join a secondary course if the oldest student in that family is enrolled in one of our secondary schools.
• If you have not received initial communication from Schoology about your account, email us at schoologysupport@mtlsd.net.

• Students sign into Schoology using Clever, or at mtlsd.schoology.com with their Google account.

Grades 1-5

• 8:30 am to 12:00 Noon

• 1:00 to 3:30 pm

• Late bells ring at 8:35 AM and 1:00 PM
  

Kindergarten (AM)

• 8:30 to 11:20 am
• Late bell rings at 8:35 AM
  

Kindergarten (PM)

• 12:40 to 3:30 pm
• late bell rings at 12:45 PM

Arrival and Dismissal Times

• AM Arrival - 8:25 to 8:35 AM
• Late bell rings at 8:35 AM
• K(AM) dismissal - 11:20 AM
• K(PM) arrival - 12:40 to 12:45 PM
• Late bell for K(PM) rings at 12:45 PM

• PM Dismissal - 3:30 PM

We are asking students to use the following doors for arrival and dismissal:

• Kindergarten - Door C13 - K(AM) arrival and K(PM) dismissal
• Grade 1 - Door D16
• Grade 2 - Door C15
• Grade 3 - Door C14
• Grade 4- Door C10
• Grade 5 - Door A2
  
• GO ZONE - Door A1 - also used for K(AM) dismissal and K(PM) arrival

Entering and exiting through these doors will allow the students to enter and leave the building in a less congested manner. You can view a map here of the arrival and dismissal locations. We will have adults at each door to welcome and guide the students to their homerooms.

Lunch

• Grade 3 (Ms. Roehrig), Grade 4 & Grade 5

Recess

• Grade 1, Grade 2 & Grade 3 (Mrs. Crouthamel and Mrs. Flinter)

12:30 - 1:00 pm

Lunch

• Grade 1, Grade 2 & Grade 3 (Mrs. Crouthamel and Mrs. Flinter)

Recess

• Grade 3 (Ms. Roehrig), Grade 4 & Grade 5
  

12:55 pm

• Line up bell

12:58 pm

• Return to class bell

Click here for the MTLSD Elementary Lunch Menu for August/September 2022

Children need healthy meals to learn, so the Mt. Lebanon School District is committed to offer healthy meals every school day for our students. Your children may qualify for free meals or for reduced price meals. Reduced price is $.40 for lunch. Click the link below for free or reduced price meal benefits, and a set of detailed instructions to help you apply.

• 2022-2023 Free/Reduced Meal Application

You can also apply for free and reduced meals online via the state's COMPASS portal. Please follow the link below to begin the online application.

• COMPASS Website

Payschoolscentral.com is an online lunch money accounting system where you easily monitor and deposit money into student lunch accounts.

By logging onto www.payschoolscentral.com, you can easily:

• Set up an account

• Deposit money at your convenience using a credit card

• Set e-mail reminders to notify you when your child's account has a low balance

• Set up recurring payments

• Check your child's account balance (no fee charged)

• Request an activity report to check account activity for the previous 30 days (no fee charged)

To set up an account, all you will need is:

• A valid email address
• A credit card
• Your child's student identification number, school and grade

There will be a 3.9% per transaction fee. Each child in your family can be set up on the same account therefore you can add money to each child's account during the same transaction. Transactions processed by pay are safe and secure using Secure Socket Link. With this technology, schools can be assured that all student information, credit card and all other student data will be highly encrypted and secure. Once the money is put on the account, it typically appears on the account in about 30 minutes.

Please follow the link below to a video that will walk you through how to add funds to your student's account.

• NEW - PaySchools Central User Guide
• NEW - PaySchools Central Walkthrough Videos

If you choose not to use pay for credit card transactions, the District will continue to accept cash and checks. Click here for more information.

Interested in helping with the Lincoln yearbook? If so, please email erindawndavies@gmail.com. We will be assigning volunteers in the next few weeks.

Job descriptions are below...

Yearbook PHOTOGRAPHER:

• Photographers will be contacted throughout the school year by their yearbook coordinator or the yearbook chair people to see if they are available to take pictures at a class party &/or other events/activities at the school.
• Smartphone cameras take great pictures for the yearbook, no fancy cameras are needed.
• Photographers submit their pictures to their assigned yearbook coordinators. When sending, please select "actual size" if given a choice. If sent smaller, they are too blurry to use.
• It is preferable to have several photographers per class to make sure there is proper coverage of all parties. There will only be one photographer assigned to each party. If you are already volunteering to help lead a class party, it is preferable that you do not volunteer to be a photographer for the same party. Also, there is not a separate photographer assigned to field trips.
• You can be a photographer for more than one class or grade. Photographers do go to the school, therefore, clearances or a signed casual volunteer form is needed.

Yearbook COORDINATOR:

We need at least one coordinator per grade. If more than one person volunteers to coordinate a grade, we can split the job up by classes. A coordinator is in charge of:

• reaching out to their assigned grade(s)/class(es)'s photographers to see who is available to take pictures
• calling the front office to let the school know who will be photographing which class(es)
• collecting all photos from their assigned class(es)/grade(s)
• making sure there are at least TWO candids of each child in their assigned grade(s)/class(es)
• sifting through pictures - eliminating anything too blurry and, for example, if someone sends 5 photos of the same three kids on the same day, selecting the best one to be used (PHOTOGRAPHERS, please avoid doing this)
• uploading and TAGGING all your pictures to the yearbook website (further instructions &/or training sessions will be given on how to upload & tag photos)
• if interested, coordinators can also put pictures on their grade/class pages of the yearbook - training sessions will be available for those interested!

Coordinators can also be photographers, in which case they would also need the clearances or a casual volunteer form.

Also, if you have not been asked to take pictures, but you think the yearbook should include a picture of a school event we may not know about, take the pictures and send them to us as FULL SIZE images (at our new yearbook gmail account - LeboLincolnYearbook@gmail.com) noting the event & class/grade if applicable.

Please share this info with anyone you think might be interested in helping out with the yearbook. Thank you!

Erin Davies & Maggie Shiels

erindawndavies@gmail.com

412-657-5152

The MTLSD Board of School Directors has approved the 2022-23 Health & Safety Plan. Key highlights include the following:

• Continue optional masking in accordance with CDC guidance

• Permit full utilization of instructional and cafeteria spaces.

• Continue established cleaning and ventilation protocols

• Continue symptomatic testing program as testing supplies remain available to schools from the Commonwealth

• Discontinue optional pool testing program

If your child is experiencing any symptoms of COVID-19, please contact your child's school nurse immediately. The direct contact for any illness/COVID-19 or injury related questions or reporting of symptoms should be your child's school nurse.

If your student is COVID positive, please complete the COVID Student Notification Form in addition to notifying the school nurse.

Attendance

• Attendance will be taken in every class and will be recorded into our student accounting system around 8:35 am and 1:00 pm daily.

When Can Parents Meet or Speak with the Teacher

• Teachers typically schedule parent meetings from 8:00-8:30 am or 3:30-4:00 pm. If you would like to schedule a meeting, please email the teacher directly.

The school building will be locked down all day except during the AM arrival and PM dismissal times. All visitors/parents that want to access the school must enter through the main entrance (Door A1) and be buzzed into the school office. Visitors should be prepared to identify themselves when asked by the school office staff. All visitors MUST have a photo ID handy when the office staff asks for identification. While in the school, visitors must wear a visitor’s pass (in a clearly visible manner). Visitors need to check out in the school office before leaving the school. Please remember that these measures are in place to protect the students and staff.

Please be aware that we are coming up on the 5-year mark from when many past volunteers have submitted their clearances. Clearances for volunteering within the district will expire after 5 years and will need to be renewed. If you have any questions or need to know the date(s) your clearance(s) expires please email Mrs. Sharp at lsharp@mtlsd.net.

Show your Mt. Lebanon and Lincoln school spirit by shopping at the spirit wear website. Any items purchased through the online store will raise funds for the Lincoln 5th Grade Farewell! A $4.49 flat rate shipping is applied to all online orders. Items should be delivered to your home within two weeks of ordering. Please visit the store by clicking on the link below.

• Lincoln School Fundraiser store link

Any questions, please contact Kim Kappeler at n2ladybugs@hotmail.com.

Thank you!

Please support the Lincoln Elementary 5th Grade Farewell with an order from the Philly Pretzel Factory! Pretzels are being sold for $2.00/pretzel and will be distributed after school from the cafeteria door, door C-15, on Friday 09/30/22.

Orders must be placed by Wednesday 09/28/22 and payment received by 09/29/22. Payments may be made via Venmo @lebolincolnpta-2022, a check made out to the Lincoln Elementary School PTA, or cash submitted to your homeroom teacher.

Thank you in advance for supporting our 5th graders in their fundraising efforts. If you have any questions or are unable to collect your pretzel order after dismissal on 09/30/22 please contact Joanna Whitlock Streets at jwhitlockstreets@gmail.com