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Mrs. Tamburro’s students had fun drawing Leprechauns on Saint Patrick’s Day, March 17th. They combined this activity with the SEL concept of improving their active listening skills.

The third annual International SEL Day was on Friday, March 11, 2022 and the  theme this year was Finding Common Ground, Pursuing Common Good.  All of the classes at Lincoln were paired up so that the younger students shared the experience with older students. There were multiple activities to help the students grow in their development in social emotional learning.

Brycen Scott and Samantha Brown represented Lincoln at the 2022 WFMJ Spelling Bee on March 12, 2022 at Stambaugh Auditorium in Youngstown. Scott and Samantha participated in this event because they were the winners of the Lincoln 2022 Spelling Bee in the 3-5 (Brycen) and 6-8 (Samantha) POD spelling Bee’s. While they didn’t place, they said the experience was awesome!

The 3rd grade students worked with Ozobots in their Technology class. Ozobot’s are little robots that blend the physical and digital worlds — and teaches students programming. The students draw lines that the Ozobot will follow and create lines using a combination of 3 different colors that program the Ozobot to do different things like spin around or change speed.

The 3rd-5th grade team and 6th-8th grade  team  both won first place at the  Destination Imagination Regional Tournament that took place at Beachwood High School on Saturday march 5th. The teams competed against other grade level teams in their region in an improv challenge. The teams also had to do an instant challenge that applies their problem solving skills. Both teams advanced to state! OUTSTANDING!!!!!

3rd-5th team: Grace Arambasick, Conhen Herchler, Anthony Laprocina, Serenity Smith with their coach Ms. Venetti

6th-8th team:  Alaina Wagner, Dana Wagner, Nataleigh Wittman-DeRose, Brenna Macaualay, and Gianna Clune with their coach Ms. Gazso.

On “Twos”day, 2/22/22, the Lincoln administrative team organized a building-wide Reading Buddies activity for all of our students! Beginning at 9:30 AM and concluding at 10:00 AM, the classroom teachers worked together to have the older students read to the younger students.  It was a great experience for all of our students.

The answer is yes! Mrs. Collier had her 6th grade students on Gimkit a very cool website. Her students were on the Fishtopia mode on this fun site. They practiced state test questions in an engaging setting, earned bait to go fishing, caught rare fish and sold their fish while exploring the Fishtopia world. How did Ms. Collier know her students loved the site? Well, when they kept asking her for just 10 more minutes she concluded that they were having fun?

Mrs. Richardson had a SEL activity in her 4th grade classroom where students were paired with partners to find their similarities and differences. The students recorded their discoveries and shared their observations. The conclusion was simple: They found that they are more the same than different! They also concluded that they MUST respect the differences! Awesome!

STEM is an acronym for the fields of science, technology, engineering and math. Students were tasked with becomming Civil Engineers by building bridges in Mrs. Selak’s STEM class. The bridges had to be 14cm long. They were able to use marshmallows, toothpicks, heart and gummy candies. Mmmmm tasty! The students researched different types of bridges and shapes that would make the most sturdy structures.

The winning bridge was built by Ethan Johnson and Julius Walker who are working on it in the picture below.

There was partying going on in K-2 POD on Valentines day! The students made really cool Valentine boxes and brought Valentines and goodies to share with all of their classmates. They also enjoyed dancing and making fun Valentines crafts, and of course having cupcakes and candy! Below are pictures of some of the second graders having a good time.