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Lincoln Options Opus

A community dedicated to learning, kindness, and celebration since 1984!

In this Issue:

Upcoming Events
Dad's Night Out
Spring Fling
Vaccines are for Movers and Shakers
Garden News
Library News
Camp Elderberry
Yellow for Bowden

Upcoming Events:

Dad's Night Out: 3/21, 6:30 PM
Spring Fling: 3/23, 5:00 PM
Conference Week: 3/26-3/29, 11:45 AM Dismissal
Options Community Council Meeting: 3/26, 6:30 PM
2019/20 Enrollment Lottery Held: 3/31
Spring Break: 4/1-4/5
Options Community Council Meeting: 4/9, 6:30 PM
Volunteer Appreciation Week: 4/16-4/19
Early Release: 34/19, 12:25 PM Dismissal
Options Community Council Meeting: 4/23, 6:30 PM
Lincoln Options Presents My Neighbor Totoro at OFS: 4/28, 2:00 PM

Additional Important Dates can be found at: lincolnoptions.org/school-calendar
(tip: this is a google calendar, so if you also use google calendar, you can copy events right into yours!)

Spring Fling

By Mike Santana

There's still time to get your tickets for the annual Spring Fling fundraiser on March 23!

Here are five important reasons for you to join us:

Support Lincoln’s unique approach to child-centered education. The Spring Fling is our largest fundraiser supporting Spanish classes, Camp Elderberry, field trips, the gardens, classroom books and supplies, and teacher development.
Celebrate this year’s school theme “Community.” Spend time with Lincoln parents, teachers and staff, and our many community supporters including grandparents, friends, sponsors, and neighbors.
Enjoy an evening of delicious food, great drinks, and scrumptious dessert.
Shop for fun and intriguing items and know that 100% of the the money you spend benefits Lincoln Options. Items include lodging in Sayulita Mexico, Disney hopper passes, summer camps, getaways and staycations, Sounders tickets, and so much more! The more you bid, the more Lincoln benefits.
Make a long-lasting investment in a child’s education. The proof that it's worth it is right before your eyes!

Get your tickets now at lincolnoptions.org/springfling/ - you can also register for childcare and/or sponsor a staff ticket while you're at it!

The Spring Fling is open to the greater community, so please invite your friends.

Sincerely,

The Fundraising Committee

Vaccines are for Movers and Shakers
By Addie Spencer

“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

I think it is safe to say that no likes getting shots. There is certain to be pain and tears. And there is a very, very small chance of something going wrong. It is a medical fact that one or two out of a million children getting vaccinated will have a serious adverse medical event. With this in mind, when offered vaccines, we as parents and caregivers might feel that protecting our children means saying “no.”

But before you decline the MMR vaccine, please consider the scientific fact that one or two of every 1,000 children who get sick with the measles will suffer brain damage or death. There is no treatment for measles other than supportive care. The risk of severe complications from this preventable disease is 100 times greater than the risk of vaccine complications.

Together, we can protect not only our own children but also the babies and medically fragile individuals in the community from this highly contagious illnesses. If everyone in the Lincoln Options Community who can be vaccinated gets two doses of MMR vaccine, we can successfully protect the most vulnerable amongst us.

At Lincoln we celebrate the movers and shakers who took risks as they stood up for the vulnerable. When we vaccinate our children we teach the valuable lesson that sometimes it is important to rise above small, individual concerns for the greater good of the whole community.

Please call your child’s medical provider today to schedule a visit to discuss vaccines.

And check out a reliable evidence based website: https://www.immunizeusa.org/blog/2017/february/09/5-facts-about-measles-and-5-about-the-measles-vaccine/

Addie Spencer is a family physician and parent of two Lincoln grads. Addie can be reached at 360-705-0879.

Plantapalooza!

By Paul Rocks

Plantapalooza is coming!! The Lincoln Garden Annual Plant Sale is now Plantapalooza 2019 and is growing into a festival! We are excited to cultivate the Plant Sale into a new event that will break the routine and breathe new life into an age old tradition. Let’s celebrate our garden with our entire community.

Save the Date
Plantapalooza - May 11, 2019
10 AM- 2 PM

With a new event comes new opportunities to volunteer. Here’s what we need:

Do you have a place to grow some plants? A greenhouse? Some grow lights? A place to host some plants? If you have some space, we have some seeds that you could grow for us. Let us know and we can provide you with a flat or two.
Or maybe you over-planted and have an extra 6-pack (or 10) of plants that you could donate.
Are you dividing your perennials, like daisies or sedums or mint? If so, you can pot them up and bring them to the plant sale.
Pots! Pots! Pots! We need pots! Please leave pots in the greenhouse if possible, or outside the garden gate. We can take any size from 6 packs to larger pots and everything in between.

If you can grow plants for us, or have plants to donate, please talk to Parker down in Paul’s room (or in the garden) and he will take your info and give you seeds if you need them.

Watch the OPUS for more exciting details and volunteer opportunities!

What’s happening in the garden?
Our garden is place where all kids can have the opportunity to explore how food is grown and communities are built. Regardless of age or class, they work together to create a fruitful garden and provide access to fresh, organic food for all!!

If you’ve had a chance to wander the garden lately, you may notice that things are starting to wake up despite the snow and cold weather. The fava bean cover
crop is stretching from the cold soil, the garlic is poking its head out from the straw, the chickens are starting to lay again and there are beds of peas and greens growing in the greenhouse.

We have lots of projects happening right now to get ready for the spring! If you would like to donate your time, contact your class garden rep or come to one of our upcoming work parties:

Saturday, March 23 rd 10 AM- 12PM
Saturday, April 13 th 10 AM-12PM
Sunday, April 14 th 10 AM- 12PM

You can also support our garden by buying plants and veggies from the garden, even before the official Plantapalooza event! Look for before and after school plant and veggie start sales to get your garden going. We offer our plants and veggies on a sliding scale donation, so everyone can have some! Thank you for your generous donations that help to keep our garden growing all year long.

The garden could use the following tools:

Weed block
Gravel
Branch loppers
Clippers/pruners
Cardboard (please break boxes down, remove plastic tape and leave in the greenhouse. Please don’t leave it outside the garden gate).

Also, look for the new garden map soon with the class crops for 2019 and we hope to see you out there!

Library News
By Kari Rigg, Teacher-Librarian

IT’S TIME FOR RESEARCH!

Spring at Lincoln brings with it exploration and RESEARCH for those Community theme projects. Students in the 2/3 and 4/5 classes are being introduced to a fabulous digital resource, MyTRL (see more below). While younger students haven’t used MyTRL in library class, it has many developmentally appropriate databases and other resources your student and family may enjoy.

Why databases and NOT Google? I explain it to the kids as being the difference between going into the Lincoln garden for food versus foraging in the Lincoln wetland. Everything in the databases has been planted there (curated and vetted) on purpose because it’s accurate, safe and age appropriate. A database is like A GARDEN OF INFORMATION!!! Google, on the other hand, may lead to inaccurate information, unexpected search results and resources that are difficult to understand. So… use those databases.

Another resource is Kiddle, a kid friendly search engine. And, of course don’t forget to try good, old fashioned books. Books are often a little trickier to find on specific topics, though, since we live in a time when information changes quickly and books are much more expensive to produce than a website. Questions? I’d love to help. Just swing by the library or email me at krigg@osd.wednet.edu.

Happy researching!

The following information is provided by the OSD. Check it out!

MyTRL is a partnership between the Olympia School District and the Timberland Regional Library. MyTRL provides digital access to ebooks, databases, and other online resources at the public library. All students in Kindergarten through 12th grade are automatically given MyTRL access unless a parent or guardian opts out of the program in Skyward Family Access.

How to Log in to MyTRL

Student logins follow a pattern to make access easier:

Login:	OSD+student username
PIN:	4-digit birth month and day

Here is an example:

Login:	OSDsmithbr
PIN:	0307

Here is what it looks like on the TRL website:

TRL database login prompt, which shows an example the fields for patron to enter library card number and PIN.

Students may need to log in to more than one place in the TRL system for different resources.

Database Access for Research

Students may access databases by going to http://www.trl.org/Kids and choosing Homework Help for Kids

http://www.trl.org/Teens and choosing Homework Help for Teens

Once an individual database is selected, the student will be prompted to log in.

Overdrive Access for Ebooks

Students may check out Ebooks by going to http://www.trl.org/Kids and choosing Books to Read then Overdrive for Kids

https://timberland.overdrive.com/library/kids

https://timberland.overdrive.com/library/teens

Once a title is selected, the student will be prompted to log in to check out the Ebook.

Ebooks may be downloaded to another device (Kindle, etc.) or read on the computer browser.

Ebooks are checked out for 21 days and automatically returned at the end of the time period. No overdue fines are possible. Ebook titles may be renewed three days before the end of the check-out period unless someone else has placed a hold, in which case the student may request the title again.

TRL Account Settings

Students may log in to their TRL Account to change settings or reset the PIN. If a PIN is forgotten, it can be recovered only if an email address has been added to the account. OSD does not provide student email addresses to TRL. Students may also call the Timberland Library to have the PIN reset. The phone number is 360-704-INFO.

Other Digital Resources

Other digital services on the Timberland site include Universal Class (free online courses on a variety of topics), Ask-a-Librarian (phone or chat with a reference librarian, 6 days a week) and RBDigital (emagazines). These services are available through MyTRL but will not typically be used at school.

More Information

http://osd.wednet.edu/departments/instructional_technology/mytrl_library_card_partnership

Dear Lincoln Community,

As Marcela shared with us yesterday, one of our beautiful families is in need of the loving energy that is so much a part of our school. Wendy's grandson, Bowden, younger sibling of Lincoln students Tia, Tye, and Nova, experienced a sudden, serious, and unexpected illness and his family is in the process of saying their goodbyes.

Wendy, Caitlin, Jeff, and the rest of the family are grateful for the constant stream of love and healing energy sent their way from our Lincoln community and around the world.

Bowden's favorite color was "lello," so Wendy asks us to please notice the bright, happy, hopeful, healing yellow in our world and think of Bowden. ⭐️☀️💛

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The following people have been designated to handle inquiries regarding the nondiscrimination policies, reports of alleged sexual harassment, concerns about compliance, and/or grievance procedures: Jeff Carpenter, Title IX Officer, (360) 596-8544; Ken Turcotte, Section 504 and ADA Coordinator, (360) 596-7542; and Scott Niemann, Affirmative Action Officer and Civil Rights Compliance Coordinator, (360) 596-6193. All three individuals may also be contacted at 1113 Legion Way S.E., Olympia, WA, 98501.