Lines from Lincoln - Morton District 709 Schools

Lines from Lincoln
http://lincoln.morton709.org
Dates to Remember:
Apr 2 - Good Friday: No School
Apr 5 - 9 - Spring Break; No School
Apr 19 - PTO Meeting; 7:00 pm
Apr 23 - 4th Quarter Midterm
April Issue 2010
From the President's Desk:
MUCHAS GRACIAS to our amazing carnival coordinators, Stacy
Carter, Jan Hohulin, Stephanie Heinold, Joyce Kaiser, and Janice
Schick. You did an absolutely incredible job with this year’s “Fiesta!”
The students seemed to have a blast, and it was fun seeing all of
those painted faces parade down the hallway! Thanks also to all of
the parents who volunteered to set up, work games, work cash boxes,
and clean up. The carnival could not happen without the support of
each of you.
The students had a great time and were eager to participate in the
Spirit Committee’s themed attire days during carnival week. It was fun
to see so many students sporting pajamas and sombreros that week!
A special thank you to Jeanette Corum and her team of volunteers
for organizing this fun week.
Amber Pulcher and the basket committee did an outstanding job of
putting together the seemingly endless baskets that were raffled off at
the carnival. It’s definitely a highlight of the week to check out these
baskets and eagerly await the announcement of the winners! A
special thank you as well to the teachers, parents, and students for
donating and collecting items for the baskets.
I would also like to take this opportunity to thank a few of our committee chairs for all of their hard work this year. Abby Ely and Dana
Weber stepped up to take over Afternoon Adventures and have done
a remarkable job of coming up with fun classes for the students.
Thanks so much for your time and energy, ladies! Additionally, Stacie
Pilcher and Janelle Sauder have snipped, clipped, and shipped all of
the box tops, soup labels, and Tyson labels that are sent in. We
appreciate the time you spend helping earn money for our students.
INKJET AND TONER CARTRIDGES
Lincoln School will still be collecting
empty inkjet and toner cartridges for recycling.
A collection container is located in the
office. This is an easy way to earn a few
extra dollars for our school.
If you have any questions, please contact
Sheila Scheck at 266-5228.
Once again, Ms. Shields’ and Miss Cox’s AM classes tied for the
PTO treat for having the most parents in attendance. It’s phenomenal
that we have so many kindergarten parents involved in the PTO, but
those of you with older children should take this as a challenge to
come to the April 19 meeting at 7 PM to earn treats for your child!
These classes have tied for the last three months! Amazing!
Have a Happy Easter and a relaxing Spring Break!
Andrea Knepp
263-9109
SPIRIT COMMITTEE
Thank you to all the students and teachers who participated in Spirit Week. We hope you enjoyed
dressing up each day to celebrate this year’s Mexican Fiesta theme. For the first time ever, we had
a tie for both first and second place.
Congratulations to Mrs. Roth and Mrs. Lehnen’s classes who had 100% participation for the week!
Both classes earned a pizza party for their first place finishes. Mrs. Mills and Miss Garretson’s
classes were close behind and tied for 2nd place, earning both of their classes popcorn parties.
A special thank you to volunteers Lisa Feather, Dannette Rusmey, and Mary Oswald for their help.
Jeanette Corum
Lincoln Spirit Committee
Box Tops, Campbell’s Labels & Tyson Project A+ Products for Education
Turn In Date: April 20th
Give us label counters something to do! We are ready to trim and ready to count! Collect Box Tops, Campbell’s UPC
Labels for Education and Tyson Project A+ Products. They can all be turned in to the basket in the main office.
Join us for label clipping Wednesday, April 21st at 9:00 AM in the teacher’s lounge.
What it takes to run a successful carnival
A committee dedicated to giving their time and creativity!!! A huge thank you to Jody
Myers, Jan Hohulin and Mary Oswald for all of their help planning this year’s carnival!
Delicious food!!! Thank you to Stephanie Heinold, Joyce Kaiser and all of the kitchen volunteers for providing a wonderful, inexpensive meal.
Fun Games!!! Thanks to each of our classes and their teachers for sponsoring a game at this
year’s carnival. We were able to have 15 fun games this year. Also, thank you to the room
parents for all of their help coordinating each game.
A wonderful Basket Raffle! Thank you to Amber Pulcher and her volunteers for offering an
awesome selection of baskets. There was definitely something for everyone!
Great custodians and school staff! Thank you to Dwight Hamilton, Linda Hamilton and the
custodial staff for their help setting up all of our games and cleaning up after our fiesta!
Also, thank you to Sueann Spinder and the office staff for all of their help.
Balloon Animals!!! Thank you to Miss Garretson for providing this carnival must-have!
Volunteer, Volunteers and more volunteers!!! We had 164 volunteers to help with our 190
carnival game shifts, 29 volunteers to help in the kitchen, 13 volunteers helped with baskets, 100 volunteers brought in cakes and many of the teachers and staff signed up to sell
wristbands. I especially want to thank the countless people that volunteered for multiple
jobs and also those that just stepped in and offered their time and help wherever it was
needed often times without being asked! Without ALL of these people there would not be
a school carnival.
A HUGE thank you to all of you!
How did we do? We would like to hear your thoughts abut this year’s carnival. Watch for a
carnival survey to come home with your student after break. Please fill it out and return it
to help the carnival committee with next year's carnival.
Stacy Carter
Carnival Committee Chair
Basket Committee
Fantastic, Fantastic, Fantastic!!! That is all the basket committee can say about this
years basket raffle!!! We cannot express our thanks enough for all the support of volunteers, students, families, and area business's. The basket raffle was a success because
of all of you!
I would like to thank my wonderful basket committee! All of you did an outstanding job
from collecting donations, wrapping baskets, putting baskets together, making basket list
cards, setting up, cleaning up, and all the small details that go into baskets! I thank
Peggy Smock, Amber & Jason Roberts, Mindy Alexander, Beth Shook, Laura Hartrich,
Dawn Schick, Leah Collins, Mary Beth Garza, Kathy Craven, Jennifer Kumar, Jamie
Troyer, Traci Sullivan, and Diane Majors. I would love to work with all of you again next
year.
The Basket Committee would like to thank our generous Lincoln Parents who donated baskets to the raffle:
- The VanEtten Family for the Chicago Cubs Bean Bag Game.
- The Wonderful Anonymous Lincoln Family who donated the American Girl.
- All of the anonymous Lincoln families who donated items to some of this year's baskets.
I would like to send out a personal thank you to Dwight Hamilton for making table space
not an issue! To Linda Hamilton for her help with clean up. Sheila Taylor for sending out
all my e-mails. Sueann Spinder for selling tickets! And a thank you to the teachers for
supporting the baskets.
We would like to thank the generous business's in Morton and surrounding communities
who sponsored this event. When out shopping please remember these business's that so
graciously support our school.
Last but not least our sombrero's go off to Stacy Carter!!! We love our new location in
the Music Room. It was a pleasure working with you on this years Mexican Fiesta! Job
Well Done!!
Thank you again to everyone involved in this event!!!
Amber Pulcher
Basket Committee Coordinator