Dear Lincoln School Families,
I am truly excited to announce that our school will be opening its doors on Monday, October 5th for our pre-school, PALS and students who attend our MD program. On the following day, all students will begin to attend in-person according to your child’s assigned cohort unless you chose for your child to learn remotely at this time. Since October 6th is a Tuesday, students in Cohort A will attend school and the following day students in Cohort B will attend school as students in Cohort A attend school on Tuesdays and Thursdays and students in Cohort B attend school on Wednesdays and Fridays. We cannot wait to see your children! The building looks absolutely beautiful on the inside due to the referendum work and the addition is moving along nicely.
Due to the addition being built as well as the district’s reopening plan which stipulates that certain grade levels be assigned specific doorways for both arrival and dismissal, our arrival and dismissal procedures have changed significantly. The procedures have been shared with Chief Pepperman. I am asking if you have not done so already to please read the procedures and should you have any questions please contact me. If for some reason you did not receive the new procedures, you can access them by visiting our homepage. When you are on the page go to the left and scroll down to the section, Arrival and Departure procedures and just click on it.
Also, it is very important that your child arrives at school on time. Our day will begin promptly at 8:30 a.m. for both in person instruction as well as students learning remotely. It is also extremely important that when your child is attending in-person that your child is picked up on time. Dismissal is at 1:00 p.m. It will be important for your child to go home on time so they can eat lunch and then be ready to participate remotely for the remainder of the school day.
With keeping health and safety in mind at all times, this school year we are limiting the number of visitors so should you need to see a teacher or perhaps myself, you will need to schedule an appointment. Should your child arrive late or need to be picked up early, you will no longer be going to the main office. We have set up a very small table on the bottom of the landing on the inside of the main entrance doors. Someone will meet you at the door and ask you to sign-in or sign-out your child at that location. Also, if your child forgets something and you need to drop it off, you will be allowed to place the item on the same table and a staff member will then bring the item to your child’s teacher.
If your child is participating remotely only at this time the staff has prepared bags for your child containing consumables and other supplies. The only grade levels who are not sending anything home at this time are pre-school, PALS, and Kindergarten.
The distribution time is from 2:00-2:45 on the dates listed below. Weather permitting we are putting tables outside in front of the school and staff will be there to hand you your child’s bag. If the weather doesn't cooperate the table will be inside. We ask that you stand in line on the font path leading up to the steps. Thank you!
The distribution dates/corresponding grade levels are as follows:
October 7th 1st grade
October 8th 2nd grade
October 9th 3rd grade
As always stay safe and healthy!
Regards,
Milissa Dachisen
