The author Gennifer Choldenko visited Lincoln School this week! On Monday, she presented to P1, G1, & G2 about her writing process. Gennifer spoke about how she gets ideas, where she writes, the research she does, how her books are made, and answered student questions. She...
Our Snow Leopard club swimmers had another awesome experience with Lysi Halkides - a Greek Olympic swimmer - conducting a stroke, turn, dive and tactics clinic at our school pool. Lysi, once ranked in the world's top 20 in the 400 IM, and a participant...
After the resounding success of our first season of SAISA sports, our Snow Leopards were back in training this week with badminton, boys' football, girls' basketball, swim club, tennis and youth football practices underway. Badminton has proven to be especially popular with more than 30 student-athletes trying...
This week in reading, students learned to stop and chat and remember what they learned to get smarter when reading a nonfiction text. In writing, students thought of a reader's possible questions about their topic and added detail to their book to answer those questions. In math,...
This week we kicked off our science unit about patterns on Earth and in space. Students became meteorologists, observing the weather outside and recording their observations on Monday. [envira-gallery id="409"] On Tuesday, students used a thermometer to measure and record the temperature of the air outside. [envira-gallery id="420"] Students began...
Good afternoon, This week was filled with fun and exciting learning and activities. Literacy week was a big success. The kids looked fabulous dressed up in their costumes. Reading The kids have been focused on choosing good fit books, reading the words, paying attention to punctuation, and understanding...
Elementary Health and Physical Education teacher Jake Craig is the first at Lincoln to use our new Google Jamboard. The Jamboard is an interactive whiteboard that multiple users around the world can collaborate on. Earlier in the day, Jake prepared his Jamboard presentation on reading nutritional labels: [google-drive-embed url="https://drive.google.com/a/lsnepal.com/file/d/1lbziLmNtVlnxVVcgWjnSFD92VpRYvotG/preview?usp=drivesdk"...
Students took turns exploring at 2 centers during math today. At the first center, students constructed buildings using base 10 blocks. Then they counted and recorded the number of flats (100s), longs (10s), and cubes (1s) used. Students could record with numerals or tally marks. At the...
Our Second Season of After-School Activities contains a fun collaboration between the Elementary and Secondary students. Today, almost 50 children gathered on the rooftop to meet their "big brothers" and "big sisters" in the High School. Students engaged in conversations and activities to get to...
What a fun Literacy Week! Check out the Class News page for photos of Book Character Dress Up Day, the visiting author, reading with our Grade 5 Buddies, and our door decorations. On Wednesday, G1 celebrated learning in reading, writing, and social studies! Thank you to everyone who...
