Lincoln School News

Channel NJ12 features a segment, Education Matters, and highlighted Lincoln on this segment today.  A camera crew visited Lincoln yesterday to see what was happening for the Great Kindness Challenge.  Students were making crafts, thank you cards and paper flowers to give to special people as a way of being kind.  Students were Crazy for Kindness yesterday and wore crazy hairstyles.  We wanted the children to see being kind is fun and makes our school a better place to be. Take a moment to view this adorable clip and feel your heart get a little bigger! [Read more...] about Lincoln’s Great Kindness Challenge Makes NJ12 News

Parents play a critical role in developing children who are life-long readers.  Mr. Faigenbaum, a reading specialist at Lincoln and Washington, conducted a workshop for parents on how to promote literacy at home. Mr. Faigenbaum provided parents with a plethora of fun-filled strategies and activities to promote literacy.  Parents were able to ask questions about reading and writing. This workshop is part of The Parent Academy workshop series. … [Read more...] about Promoting Literacy at Home

Ms. Clossey, art teacher, and the Lincoln PTA held a paint night.  Students followed Ms. Clossey's directions and made a winter snowman.  Of course, students personalized their portraits and added some glitter for a little snow magic,  … [Read more...] about PTA Hosts Paint Night

Ms. Campo and Ms. Smith’s classes had a writing celebration this week. First and second graders shared small seed stories and then provided the student authors compliments on these stories.  Multi-grade interactions creates a school community and allows more students to get to know one another. … [Read more...] about Celebrating Writing Across the Grades

Lincoln students had a busy week.  The first graders culminated their Around the World unit by making a quilt about holidays and all students shopped for loved ones at the PTA Holiday Boutique.  Mrs. Cioffi, Mrs. Monochello, and Mrs. Risoli's first and second grade classes finished their Gingerbread Man unit of study.  Students used a Venn Diagram as well as other graphic organizers, to compare and contrast the different versions of the Gingerbread Man.  As a culminating project, Mrs. Cioffi showed the students how to make Gingerbread Playdough.  Students had fun playing with the play dough … [Read more...] about Recognizing the Holidays