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Greetings Lion Cub Families,

Week 21 was so much fun but let's stay focused because in Week 22, we have much more to do! This week we will celebrate Valentine's Day and the 100th Day of School! Reaching the 100th Day of School means that we are more than halfway finished with the school year and are preparing to move into the next grade level. That is so exciting! Let's remember to stay focused, put first things first, arrive on time and stay all day, and ALWAYS do our best in ALL that we do! We are the Lion Cub Leaders so watch us as we LEAD THE WAY!

Let's get excited for our 22nd week of learning, leading, and loving it!

#ReflectConnectAffect

#LionCubsLeadTheWay

February is Black History Month! Check out the video below to learn more about Black History Month!

Monday, February 12, 2024

-Good News Club will meet after school in the cafeteria until 3:45. You must turn in your permission slip to participate. If you need another copy, click here.

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

-Valentine's Day

Friday, February 16, 2024

-House Friday, wear your House Colors!

-100th Day of School!

Looking Ahead:

-February 22nd- School Bus Driver Appreciation Day

-March 1st- First Day of Women's History Month

-March 4th-8th- National School Social Worker Week, Read Across America Week, NC Check-Ins Testing for Grades 3-5.

-March 5th- NO SCHOOL for Students, Teacher Workday

-March 8th- Colgate Dental Van

-March 9th- Kindergarten Fair at Holly Hill Mall

We need volunteers! If you are interested in volunteering to cover lunches or help out in our school we would love to have you. If you are interested, please reach out to Ms. Mendoza at karina_mendoza@abss.k12.nc.us or Mrs. Hamilton at bethany_hamilton@abss.k12.nc.us

Please ensure you have completed the required background check. We appreciate your support!

Background Check: https://securevolunteer.com/alamance-burlington.../home

Reminders:

• School begins at 7:50 a.m. for ALL students Pre-K-5. If you arrive after 7:50, you must park in the Pre-K parking lot and walk in with your students to sign them in before they can go to class.
• Breakfast will stop being served at 9:00 am.
• If you need to change your child's afternoon transportation, please call the front office at (336) 578-0177 before 2:00 p.m. Teachers cannot check and respond to messages and emails throughout the day when they are teaching. Please do not expect an immediate response from your child's teacher during instructional hours. Office hours for teachers begin after 3:00 p.m.
• Families may come to eat lunch with your students. Please reach out to your child's teacher 24 hours in advance to let them know you are coming so they can plan for seating. Remember: NO OUTSIDE FOOD OR DRINK MAY BE BROUGHT IN. Upon arrival, please sign in at the front office and get a visitor's tag.
• Just a quick safety reminder: If you are signing your students out early (before 2:20 p.m.), you must go inside the front office and check them out. If you arrive early, after 2:20 p.m., to sign your child out, you must wait until the dismissal announcements are made at 2:25 p.m. We appreciate your cooperation with this matter!

K-5 Lion Cub Families, did you know that you can sign up to receive notifications when your children earn House Points? All you have to do is download the free Ron Clark House Points App and sign up with the letter that was sent home with your student before break. This will allow you to see every time your child has been recognized for something positive!

Family Connection letters have been sent home with every student that explain how to join the app so you can celebrate your students accomplishments daily!

• Students whose families connect to the House Points App will receive 5 pts!
• Homerooms with 100% of their class that have a family connection on the RCA House Points App will receive a popcorn party and 5 extra points for each member of their class!
• The House with 100% of their members that have family connections on the RCA House Points App will receive and additional 25 points for the entire House!

Our district's number one goal is to operate schools as safely and effectively as possible, following the published annual school calendar schedule as closely as possible. When there is inclement weather forecast for Alamance County, ABSS is prepared to make adjustments to schedules as needed which may include announcing a later arrival time, an early dismissal time, possible school closure or a remote learning day.

Three Options:

● Closed for all students & staff

● Closed for all students, staff workday

● Delayed Opening/Early Dismissal

Making decisions about closing or delaying school and bus transportation schedules when inclement weather is imminent for our community are among the most challenging ones every school district makes. But, we don't make these important safety decisions alone.

ABSS is in close contact with the National Weather Service about their forecast predictions and with local emergency management officials who also monitor the national weather information and North Carolina Office of Emergency Management forecasts about impending weather conditions.

In addition to consulting with weather and emergency management experts, ABSS performs late night and/or early morning visual inspections and assessments of actual road and weather conditions. We gather input from experienced staff with Alamance County Emergency Management, local law enforcement agencies, North Carolina Department of Transportation and Duke Energy. Our experienced ABSS Facilities and Maintenance staff members and our Transportation experts have years of experience and knowledge in identifying potential issues and potential trouble spots.

Assessments are made on road and bridge conditions in addition to inspecting our multiple campus parking lots, sidewalks and steps to determine if we can operate safely and effectively on a regular or modified schedule.

When a schedule change is needed, notifications to families and staff are made as quickly as possible and include automated messaging notifications via phone, email, and text messaging, the ABSS website, and social media posts and alerts shared with multiple TV and radio stations across the region.

How to find out if we have a weather-related delay/closing:

If at all possible, a decision to close or delay school is made no later than 5:00 a.m., and the notification process begins, within minutes, in the following order:

● An email is sent to all ABSS email accounts

● Announcement is posted on the district website and all school websites

● Announcements are posted to Facebook, Instagram and Twitter

● The following TV and radio stations are contacted:

• Radio Stations: WKRR 92.3, WPAW 99.1, WQDR 94.7, WSML 95.1, WQMG 97.1, WSMW 98.7, WMAG 99.5, WMKS 100.3, WYMY 101.1, WJMH 102.1, WTQR 104.1, WBAG 105.9, WKZL 107.5
• TV Stations: WFMY 2 (CBS), WRAL 5 (NBC), WGHP 9 (FOX), WXII 12 (NBC), NEWS 14 CAROLINA, WTVD 11 (ABC), WXLV 45 (ABC)
• Websites: WFMY News 2, WRAL, Fox 8, News 12, Spectrum News, ABC 11, ABC 45, The Times News, Mebane Enterprise, Alamance News

Let's take a look at what our students will be learning this week!

Reading:

With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, & major events in a story.

Math:

Represent addition and subtraction, within 10:

• Use a variety of representations such as objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds, acting out situations, verbal explanations, or expressions.

• Demonstrate understanding of addition and subtraction by making connections among representations.

Solve addition and subtraction word problems, within 10, using objects or drawings to represent the problem, when solving:

• Add to/Take From-Result Unknown

• Put Together/ Take Apart (Total Unknown and Two Addends Unknown)

Recognize and combine groups with totals up to 5 (conceptual subitizing).

Science:

Understand change and observable patterns of weather that occur from day to day throughout the year.

• Summarize daily weather conditions noting changes that occur from day to day and throughout the year.

Reading:

Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.

Sight Words: work, know, place, years, name, good

Math:

Represent and solve addition and subtraction word problems, within 20, with unknowns, by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem, when solving:

• Add to/Take from-Change Unknown
• Put together/Take Apart-Addend Unknown
• Compare-Difference Unknown

Represent and solve word problems that call for addition of three whole numbers whose sum is less than or equal to 20, by using objects, drawings, and equations.

Social Studies:

Explain how the experiences and achievements of people throughout history have helped contribute to the changes in various local communities and communities around the world over time.

Use primary and secondary sources to compare multiple perspectives of various events

Reading:

Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in a technical text.

Math:

Fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or relationship between addition and subtraction.

Science:

Summarize the life cycles of animals: birth, developing into an adult, reproducing, aging and death.

Reading:

Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.

Math:

Interpret unit fractions with denominators of 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8 as quantities formed when a whole is partitioned into equal parts;

• Explain that a unit fraction is one of those parts.

• Represent and identify unit fractions using area and length models.

Interpret fractions with denominators of 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8 using area and length models.

• Using an area model, explain that the numerator of a fraction represents the number of equal parts of the unit fraction.

• Using a number line, explain that the numerator of a fraction represents the number of lengths of the unit fraction from 0.

Social Studies:

Understand how various people and historical events have shaped local communities.

• Explain the lasting impact historical events have had on local communities.
  

Reading:

Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.

Math:

Use the four operations with whole numbers to solve problems.

Solve two-step word problems involving the four operations with whole numbers.

• Use estimation strategies to assess the reasonableness of answers.

• Interpret remainders in word problems.

• Represent problems using equations with a letter standing for the unknown quantity.

Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic.

Find whole-number quotients and remainders with up to three-digit dividends and one-digit divisors with place value understanding using rectangular arrays, area models, repeated subtraction, partial quotients, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division.

Social Studies:

Differentiate between rights and responsibilities reflected in the North Carolina Constitution.

Reading:

Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text.

Math:

Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication to multiply a fraction or whole number by a fraction, including mixed numbers.

• Use area and length models to multiply two fractions, with the denominators 2, 3, 4.
• Explain why multiplying a given number by a fraction greater than 1 results in a product greater than the given number and when multiplying a given number by a fraction less than 1 results in a product smaller than the given number.
• Solve one-step word problems involving multiplication of fractions using models to develop the algorithm.

Science:

Illustrate the motion of an object using a graph to show a change in position over a period of time.

Explain why organisms differ from or are similar to their parents based on the characteristics of the organism.

Give examples of likenesses that are inherited and some that are not.

“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.’” —Stephen R. Covey

WHY IS LISTENING ESSENTIAL TO A FAMILY?

List as many words as you can in 30 seconds related to the word “family.” The goal is for everyone in your family to list as many of the same words as possible. You get one point for each word every member of your family has in common, but you can’t discuss the word or share your answers until time is up. If there are family members who can’t write, have them team up with a parent.

STEPS

1. I listen to others without interrupting.

2. I listen to other people's ideas and feelings.

3. I look other people in the eye when listening and talking.

4. I try to see things from other people’s viewpoint.

COMMON LANGUAGE

• Point of view
• Attitude
• Reflective listening

How many points did you get? Why do you think you got the score you did? Repeat the activity using the word “love.”

• How many points did you get this round?
• Was your score higher?
• Why is it difficult to get a high score?

We all see the world differently. The problem is, we think we see things the same way others do. Communication is important to achieve understanding because no two people see, think, or experience the world the same way. Therefore, there is a great need, especially in families, to seek first to understand and talk second so we understand one another’s point of view.

REFLECTIVE LISTENING AND “LISTEN FIRST, TALK SECOND”

Family Activity: When someone is speaking, the listener can use reflective listening to let the speaker know they are really listening to what is being said. Here are some simple examples of reflective listening:

Speaker: “I love you.”

Listener: “You seem to feel love about me.”

Yes, that is a very simplified example; however, reflective listening can be that easy! Now, take turns making statements and practicing reflective listening. Here are a few more examples to help you get started:

Speaker: “I don’t want to talk about it. It seems like the only thing we do around here is argue.”

Listener: “You seem to feel (feeling) about (subject) .

Speaker: “I don’t want to play with her. She is mean to me.”

Listener: “You seem to feel (feeling) about (subject) .

In some situations, discerning a feeling and a subject may be more complicated. Here are some simple phrases and questions you can use to keep the door open for understanding:

• Tell me more about that.
• Can you give me an example?
• You’re saying…
• I am hearing that… Is that what you are telling me?
• How does that make you feel?

In first place is House Magisterium with 16623 points! The points leader for House Magisterium is Kamora M., in first grade with 420 points!

Our Student Support Services Team is here to support our families. Please reach out to them if you have any needs of concerns.

Haw River Elementary Career Week

March 18-22, 2024

We would love to have you talk with our students about your career. All careers are important to help our community thrive! (like food servers, mechanics, retail, postal carriers, nail technicians, military, and many, many more!) It would be awesome to have at least one parent from every class help participate in this special day! Call or email Elizabeth Tricomi, our School Counselor to let her know you are interested.

(336) 578-0177

elizabeth_tricomi@abss.k12.nc.us

While we know many viruses and germs going around, we want to take a moment to stress the importance of being at school every day. Missing school equals missing out and we do not want any of our students to miss out on the awesome learning and leadership opportunities that are accessible to every child, every day. Take a look at some of the attendance statistics below.

As we begin Quarter 3, let's challenge ourselves to be on time, present, and engaged in learning every day. Let's look at some of the incentives we will be introducing to help our students become excited about prioritizing attendance.

House Points: For the month of January, students who are present and on time every day will receive 5 House Points each day!

Traveling Trophy: The homeroom class with the highest attendance percentage for the week will get to keep the House Points Trophy for the following week!

Lion Cub Leader Luncheon: Lion Cubs with perfect attendance for the nine weeks will be invited to a special luncheon with administrators and front office staff!

Purpose: Through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was tasked to develop and maintain the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) – a federal program that offers eligible households a discount on their monthly internet bill and a one-time discount off the purchase of a laptop, desktop or tablet computer. Since launching in December 2021, the ACP has helped over 22 million eligible households gain access to online internet service, allowing subscribers to take advantage of educational and career building resources, telehealth services and more. However, the of $14.2 billion Congress initially appropriated for the ACP is approaching depletion. Without additional funding, the Commission must begin a wind-down process for the ACP.

For more information, click this link.

Flu and cold season are here. It is important that we all do our best to stay healthy by washing our hands, covering our cough, and staying home when sick.

Students should stay home if

• If the student has any of the following symptoms they should stay home:

• Fever (temperature of 99.6 degrees Fahrenheit or higher),

• Diarrhea or vomiting

• Constant cough and sore throat

A student who has a fever of 99.6 or above or any student that has thrown up will be sent home. Therefore, you will need to come for him/her immediately when the school contacts you. It is extremely important that you provide your child’s teacher with several emergency contact numbers so that someone can be reached if your child gets sick or injured. We cannot allow students with these symptoms to ride home on the bus or daycare vans.

• Students need to be fever-free for 24 hours before returning to school.
• Anyone throwing up at night or in the morning should not attend school.

The Alamance County Dental Clinic will be at Haw River Elementary on Wednesday, February 14th at 9:00am. The clinic will reach out to all families who have requested services.

Every U.S. household may place an order to receive four free COVID-⁠19 rapid tests delivered directly to your home.

Order Free At-Home Tests

Need help placing an order for your at-⁠home tests?
Call 1-800-232-0233 (TTY 1-888-720-7489).

The U.S. government will continue to make COVID-⁠19 tests available to uninsured individuals and underserved communities through existing outreach programs. Please contact a HRSA health center, Test to Treat site, or ICATT location near you to learn how to access low- or no-cost COVID-⁠19 tests provided by the federal government.

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Hey, Lion Cubs fan!

Coming off the sidelines is BSN SPORTS Fleece Collection! From hoodies and quarter zips to the crew necks, shorts and joggers, this soft and comfortable collection has it all—so head over to your Lion Cubs Sideline Store now and get after it.

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Go Lion Cubs!

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