Lincoln Public Schools students enjoyed a crowning end to a special classroom unit about kings, queens and royal subjects this winter.
 
Dozens of Rousseau and Humann kindergarteners held starring roles in knightly news stories at their elementary schools. Rousseau students took part in a royal ball during the morning, while Humann students walked in a morning parade and ate a royal feast in the afternoon.
 
Rousseau kindergartener Dax said he enjoyed dancing at the royal ball.
 
Humann kindergarteners Lyanna and Andrew both enjoyed their grand adventures during the day. Andrew said he liked walking in the schoolwide parade.
 
“Because I liked seeing all of the kids waving at me,” Andrew said.
 
LPS teachers use the Amplify CKLA curriculum to focus on reading comprehension, phonics and vocabularies. For the kings and queens unit, students learned new words such as treasure, kingdom, dainty, fairest and palace.
 
Humann kindergarten teacher Kelsey Kreiling and Rousseau kindergarten teacher Katherine Anderson said their classes had been looking forward to experiencing the lives of emperors and empresses.
 
“They’ve asked every day, multiple times a day, ‘When is the royal celebration?’” Kreiling said.
 
Kreiling said kindergarten teachers wanted to create a memorable day for students based on the CKLA curriculum.
 
“I think they had a blast,” Kreiling said. “It was really good.”
 
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