Lincoln Elementary School

Ms. Brownell teaches science in 3rd grade. This week they are focusing on the life cycles of animals. Did you know that bats live for an average of 20 years?! #celebrate379

Parent/Teacher Conferences are this week! #celebrate379

BIG NEWS FROM LINCOLN ELEMENTARY!
Today, Mr. Nelson, Mrs. Lane, and Ms. Coughlin surprised special education teacher Marcy Schooley with the announcement that she was named the USD 379 Elementary (grades Pre-K-5) Teacher of the Year! She will now have the opportunity to compete for the Kansas Teacher of the Year award.

Mrs. Schooley has been in education for 43 years and has impacted literally thousands of students over her teaching career. Congratulations from Lincoln Elementary and USD 379! #celebrate379

Mrs. Weller's second graders were working hard this morning on finding the central idea of a story. They had read a story in its entirety yesterday and now had to decide what it was all about. #celebrate379

The October LES BOE Report can be viewed here: #celebrate379

Mrs. Knitter has made the move from Pre-K to 2nd grade this year. Today, her students were learning all about identifying the point of view of a text. And they were having a little fun as well! #celebrate379

Pre-K was learning all about the outdoors and the fire department today! It ended with a visit from the CCFD themselves, which is always a big hit! #celebrate379

Every morning, Mrs. Siebold's kindergartners go through writing stations. These include small groups working on different writing standards, with one station being the Lexia iPad app. The students rotate through stations each day, ensuring they visit all of them throughout the week. They were working hard this morning! #celebrate379

Today, we thank our dedicated custodial staff across USD 379! #celebrate379

Fall Child Check is coming soon! #celebrate379

Today was a beautiful day for the annual kindergarten ABC Bootcamp! All K's created their own outfit based on the letters of the alphabet and presented them in front of their classmates and families at Dexter Park! A special thanks to the CCCHS band for making the trip to help us celebrate! #celebrate379

The Vv is for Vegetables Food Drive, and the amazing Cubs at LES did not disappoint. Thank you, LES, for your help with Mrs. Shannon's service project! The shelves at the Lighthouse will be full, but their hearts will be even fuller! #celebrate379

2025-25 USD 379 Teachers of the Year Leah Knitter and Alisha Brownell attended the Kansas TOY banquet last weekend. Besides being recognized as the elementary and secondary TOY representatives from Clay County, they also got put into teams and made plans to attend each other's schools during the school year. It's a great way to bond and gain insight and ideas from others! Congrats to both on their recognition! #celebrate379

Interested in being part of a focus group that will give input on the upcoming bond issue? We want your feedback! #celebrate379

Former students giving back!
Ella was a student in Mrs. Peterson's 3rd grade classroom back in the day. Now, as a sophomore, she is job shadowing Mrs. Peterson and working with her current group of third graders! #celebrate379

Mrs. Payne's 2nd graders were hard at work today creating math equations based on data from story problems. Along with math fluency (learning basic math facts), students are also encouraged to sort necessary data from a paragraph and use that data to find a solution. #celebrate379

Small group centers are scheduled into every day of a Lincoln kindergarten classroom. What might look like regular old play time to you actually involves...
- Creativity
- Working Together
- Conflict Management
- Project Completion (Grit)
It is the initial step towards getting our kids college and career ready! #celebrate379

At the end of last week, Mrs. Koppe's 2nd graders put their vocabulary skills to the test with one of their favorite games — Swat the Word! Mrs. Koppes shares a definition or example, and students race to "swat" the correct vocab word on the board.

It’s fast, fun, and full of teamwork — plus a great way to review all the words they have learned through the week! #celebrate379

The Excellence Foundation says THANK YOU to our USD 379 employees who have been with us for 5 years! #celebrate379

🎪✨ Step right up to the science circus! ✨🎪
Ms. Brownell’s science students traded lab coats for acrobat hats as they explored the patterns of motion of a trapeze. 🪢🤸‍♂️

By experimenting with different heights and lengths, they gathered data to make predictions about how a real trapeze would swing. #celebrate379