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Greetings Lion Cub Families,

Week 22 was full of celebrations and synergizing to ensure student success. We celebrated three big events as a school, Valentine's Day, School Resource Officer Appreciation Day, and the 100th Day of School! We are thankful to have SRO, Sgt. Ellis as a Lion Cub Leader! He works hard to build relationships with all students and families and support their success in school. Thank you for all you do Sgt. Ellis! To check out some of the 100th Day of School Highlights, see the short video below.

Moving into week 23, we will continue to be focused on learning and leadership and focusing more on how we can synergize, and come together as a team to ensure the success of our students. Students, Families, Caregivers, Community Partners, Haw River Citizens, Teachers, and Staff, ALL play a role in the success of our students when it comes to academics, attendance, and social-emotional learning. As we ALL take a moment to reflect, let's ask ourselves, what can we do to ensure our children are successful in all aspects of school? How can the school specifically support our children? How can our families, caregivers, Haw River citizens, and community partners specifically support our children? We ALL play a huge role in the success of our students and our students are our future. Let's come together to support our Lion Cub Leaders as they finish this school year. We are better together!

Let's get excited for our 23rd week of learning, leading, and loving it!

#ReflectConnectAffect

#LionCubsLeadTheWay

February is Black History Month!

Monday, February 19, 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 21, 2024

-CLUB DAY- this will be a regular school day and no longer a half day as advertised on the original ABSS calendar for the 23-24 school year.

Thursday, February 22, 2024

-School Bus Driver Appreciation Day, let's let our Bus Drivers know how much we appreciate them!

Looking Ahead:

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

-March 4th-8th- National School Social Worker Week, Read Across America Week

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

-March 6th- 12th- NC Check-Ins Testing for Grades 3-5

-March 8th- Colgate Dental Van

-March 9th- Kindergarten Fair at Holly Hill Mall

-March 13th- CLUB DAY

-March 14th- NC Symphony for 4th and 5th Grades, K-2 Spring Dance 3-4:30

-March 15th- 3-5 Spring Dance 3-4:30

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!

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

Reading:

With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.

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).

Social Studies:

Explain how various events have shaped history.

Compare life in the past to life today within the home, community, and around the world.

Reading:

Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.

Sight Words: water, man, think, say, great, where

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.

Science:

Explain the importance of a push or pull to changing the motion of an object.

Reading:

Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

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.
  

Science:

Infer changes in speed or direction resulting from forces acting on an object.

Compare the relative speeds (faster or slower) of objects that travel the same distance in different amounts of time.

Reading:

Explain major differences between poems, drama, and prose, and refer to the structural elements of poems and drama when writing or speaking about a 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:

Explain how the experiences and achievements of minorities, indigenous groups, and marginalized people have contributed to change and innovation in North Carolina.

Reading:

Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described.

Math:

Use fractions to model and solve division problems.

• Interpret a fraction as an equal sharing context, where a quantity is divided into equal parts.
• Model and interpret a fraction as the division of the numerator by the denominator.
• Solve one-step word problems involving division of whole numbers leading to answers in the form of fractions and mixed numbers, with denominators of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, and 12, using area, length, and set models or equations.

Solve one-step word problems involving division of unit fractions by non-zero whole numbers and division of whole numbers by unit fractions using area and length models and equations to represent the problem.

Science:

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

Resources: Blank sheets of paper (one per family member), crayons or markers, and one large poster-sized piece of paper.

Give each family member a blank piece of paper. Invite each person to draw a beautiful picture of a mountain scene. Have everyone hold up their finished pictures and show each other. Next, invite everyone to work together to draw a beautiful mountain scene on the large piece of paper. It’s okay for everyone to draw at once. Discuss what happens when working together as a team. Did everyone have different ways to contribute? Did individuals build on each other’s ideas? How did it feel to creatively cooperate? This is synergy!

2. Stronger Together

Materials: About 20 popsicle sticks, or other type of stick that is easily broken on its own.

Give each family member a popsicle stick. Ask them to each try to break their stick. Was it easy? Now give someone several popsicle sticks and ask them to try to break them all. Chances are they won’t be able to break the bundle. Ask why that is the case and have a discussion about how the family united together is stronger than one person alone.

3. Value One Another

Preparation: Write each family member’s name on a small piece of paper and put it in a jar/bowl. Write the following questions on individual pieces of paper and put them in a different jar/bowl:

• What I admire most about you is…

• One of my proudest memories of you is…

• What I have learned most from you is…

Invite each family member to draw one paper from the “name” jar and one from the “question” jar. Ask everyone to answer the question they drew about the person whose name they drew. Give everyone two minutes to think about their answer, then invite them to share their answer. Valuing one another helps create synergy in families.

4. Recognize Each Other’s Strengths

Gather the family around a table. Give each person a blank piece of paper and have them write their name at the top. Ask everyone to pass their papers clockwise to the family 62 © Franklin Covey Co. All rights reserved. member next to them. Invite everyone to write an attribute they like about the person whose name is at the top of the paper. Continue to pass around and repeat until everyone gets their own paper back. Complete the lists by having everyone add an attribute they like about themselves. Read the lists together and celebrate each other’s strengths!

5. Synergize as a Family

Synergy is a creative process. It unifies and unleashes the greatest powers within people and families. When you truly synergize, you create “our way,” or the “3rd Alternative,” which is the highest form of creative cooperation. Invite your family to think of a certain issue for which your family can come up with a 3rd Alternative that would help your family get the results you would love to get.

In first place is House Magisterium with 17526 points! The points leader for House Magisterium is Kamora M., in first grade with 443 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.

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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• Learn about the HRE House System for K-5 Students.

• Review the HRE student/parent handbook.

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