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On February 1st our Kindergarten and 1st Grade celebrated World Read Aloud Day by dressing up as a favorite book character and participating in a number of special classroom activities. Classrooms were set up with stations in which students made bookmarks and crowns, wrote a story as a group, shared reading with a buddy (we […]

On February 1st, students of all grade levels attended a special virtual Morning Circle to begin Black History Month (BHM).  During the circle students learned the history of the Black National Anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing, and watched a video of it being sung by the HBCU Concert Choir, consisting of members from various […]

During National School Choice Week, scholars in Kindergarten and Grade 1 showed their appreciation for their school – Link – during special activities including making posters and creating individual worksheets on what they love about Link. Some of the student responses on their worksheets: “I love my school because …we have fun and we learn […]

Congratulations to Ms. Marlene Wilson on the 30th anniversary of her employment at Link! Students and staff celebrated with her – with cake, flowers, and cards. Marlene started in the cafeteria at Link on January 3, 1973 when the school was located on Irvine Tuner Boulevard. Ever popular with students and remembered fondly by alumni, […]

To practice their reading fluency skills, a group of Link’s 7th and 8th-grade scholars had an opportunity to bring their reading skills and strategies from the upper house at Link to young readers in the lower grades. 7th graders who recently completed their study of The Lightning Thief, shared interesting Greek mythologies with the younger […]

Link’s first Family Write Night, for grades K, 1 and 5, was a great evening! Families were treated to a delicious dinner of baked ziti and salad and circulated through the room taking part in many literacy – reading and writing – related activities. Thanks to Mighty Writers, a Newark non-profit that promotes literacy, for […]

Link’s Kindergarten teams took walking field trips across Lincoln Park to the Mighty Writers, a non-profit that teaches young people “how to think clearly and write with clarity.” Our friends at Mighty Writers took some time teaching mindfulness and giving. Scholars read a book, drew on a chalk wall, and spent time expressing themselves.Each student […]

Students in grades 5 through 8 prepared 125 lunches that were delivered to Apostle’s House. They decorated the lunch bags and made cards to go in each bag. They also created placemats and wrote letters for veterans and seniors. We are proud of our scholars for giving back to their community!

Twelve Link students accompanied twelve students from Pingry School in Martinsville, NJ to Newark Science and Sustainability, Inc., an urban garden a residential neighborhood in the city of Newark.  These 24 scholars have been partnering together in our joint “Peer-To-Peer Pingry and Link Program,” in which the students have been meeting via Zoom regularly since […]

What an exciting day!  Students and staff dressed in costumes they devised to represent a vocabulary word…and how clever the costumes were!  Our smallest scholars paraded through the building showing off their costumes to the older students.  Later in the day, everyone participated in a school-wide parade on the street in front of the school […]