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Our Lion Cub Leaders have been busy rocking their school spirit and excitement for learning! Students were engaged in learning about the importance of positive communication and problem-solving through tough situations. Our students have been excited to demonstrate their learning in all subject areas and have been stepping up as leaders in their classrooms. We were able to begin our PALs partnership with the Alamance-Burlington Early College. To see that in action, check out the ABSS Difference Makers segment on the ABSS Facebook page. Way to go, Lion Cub Leaders!

Moving into Week 4, we look forward to seeing our Lion Cub Leaders continue to grow as learners and leaders by being proactive and putting first things first with their academics. Let's prepare for another outstanding week of Learning, Leading, and Loving it!

Below, check out the slideshow from our third week of school!

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This Week:

Lion Cub Leaders will ROAR against breast cancer by rocking pink every Wednesday during the month of October!

Looking Forward:

Monday, 10/9

-Fall Picture Day

Monday, 10/16

-ABSS Family University

Tuesday, 10/17

-Family Skate Night at Roll-A-Bout Skating Center 5:00-7:00pm

Wednesday, 10/18

-We will have a full day of school. There will no longer be an early dismissal on this day.

October 23-27th

-Red Ribbon Week: more information to come!

Thursday, 10/26

-We will have Parent/Teacher Conferences with Curriculum Night fun from 4:30-6:30

Tuesday, 10/31

-Book Character Dress Up & Parade

We are always looking for volunteers to support our teachers and students in different ways. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Ms. Mendoza in the front office!

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.
• 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!

We are celebrating our very own teachers and staff for Hispanic Heritage Month! Let's celebrate Mrs. Mendoza, one of our Pre-K Teachers!

Mrs. Mendoza received her Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education from Greensboro College. Her home country is Mexico. The village that she is from is isolated in the middle of a mountainous area that is home to farmers. In her village, you wake up to the sound of a rooster and the view of the prettiest sunrise you could ever imagine. You are able to drink coffee with your loved ones and spend hours just talking. Walking is a common form of transportation, but you leave super early so you are able to stop to greet and talk with everyone. Everyone knows you by name and by your great-grandparents' legacy. You have no phone signal, and it you are lucky, you have five channels on the TV to choose from. You travel about twenty minutes to the nearest town to buy food, fill up on gas, and call and text. Water is pumped to your house every other day, and you wash your clothes by hand, but yet, it gets harder and harder every time you leave.

Mrs. Mendoza loves the quality time she spends with family and friends. Time seems to go by much slower, which makes her feel so peaceful. She loves the food and how fresh everything tastes. Going to the markets and smelling everything fresh is a highlight. Seeing all the handmade crafts that she loves and spending quality time with family and friends is what she loves most. She tries to travel to her home country at least every other year.

When asked what she loves most about her culture, she says that family is a huge part of their culture; everything that they celebrate revolves around family. Food and traditions are what make Mexico so vibrant.

Mrs. Mendoza and her family celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by showing their younger generations the importance of embracing their culture. She suggests that people celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by taking this opportunity to learn, appreciate, and celebrate our Hispanic and Latino communities.

We are so excited to celebrate Mrs. Mendoza today and every day!

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

Reading:

With prompting and support, define the role of the author and illustrator in telling the story.

With prompting and support, describe how the words and illustrations work together to tell a story

Math:

Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0 to 20, with 0 representing a count of no objects.

Science:

Compare the observable physical properties of different kinds of materials (clay, wood, cloth, paper, etc) from which objects are made and how they are used.

Reading:

Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text.

Math:

Count to 150, starting at any number less than 150

Read and write numerals, and represent a number of objects with a written numeral, to 100.

Social Studies:

Use maps, globes, and/or digital representations to identify various types of landforms of places around the world.

Exemplify how geographic features are represented by symbols on maps or digital representations.

Reading:

Ask and answer questions such as who, what, when, where, why and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in fiction and informational text.

Math:

Understand, Identify, Explain, and demonstrate knowledge of place value.

Science:

Summarize weather conditions using qualitative and quantitative measures to describe:

• Temperature

• Wind direction

• Wind speed

• Precipitation

Compare weather patterns that occur over time and relatable observable patterns to time of day and time of year

Reading:

Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

Math:

Add and subtract whole numbers up to and including 1,000.

• Use estimation strategies to assess reasonableness of answers.

• Model and explain how the relationship between addition and subtraction can be applied to solve addition and subtraction problems.

• Use expanded form to decompose numbers and then find sums and differences.

Science:

Recognize that the earth is part of a system called the solar system that includes the sun (a star), planets, and many moons and the earth is the third planet from the sun in our solar system.

Reading:

Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

Math:

Explain that in a multi-digit whole number, a digit in one place represents 10 times as much as it represents in the place to its right, up to 100,000.

Read and write multi-digit whole numbers up to and including 100,000 using numerals, number names, and expanded form.

Science:

Explain the causes of day and night and phases of the moon.

Reading:

Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing.

Math:

Relate volume to the operations of multiplication and addition.

• Find the volume of a rectangular prism with whole-number side lengths by packing it with unit cubes and show that the volume is the same as would be found by multiplying the edge lengths.

• Build understanding of the volume formula for rectangular prisms with whole-number edge lengths in the context of solving problems.

• Find volume of solid figures with one-digit dimensions composed of two non-overlapping rectangular prisms.

Science:

Explain how the sun’s energy impacts the processes of the water cycle (including evaporation, transpiration, condensation, precipitation and runoff).

Compare the weight of an object to the sum of the weight of its parts before and after an interaction.

When we are proactive, we are responsible for our own life and the choices we make. We understand that we have the freedom to choose based on principles rather than on moods or conditions.

To Be Proactive:

1. Pause and respond based on principles and desired results.

2. Use proactive language.

3. Focus on your Circle of Influence.

4. Model positive behaviors and pass on effective habits to build others.

1. Pause and Respond Based on Principles and Desired Results

In any situation you face, you can choose to Be Proactive.

Tap into the space between stimulus and response and ask yourself:

• What effect would reactive behavior have on me, my relationships, and my capacity to get results?

• What effect do I want to have on myself, my relationships, and my results?

• What is a better, more appropriate response?

• What do I choose to say or do that focuses on solutions?

2. Use Proactive Language

3. Focus on Your Circle of Influence

When you’re facing a problem or an opportunity, ask yourself:

• What’s in my Circle of Concern®?

• What’s in my Circle of Influence®?

• What actions will I take that will make a difference?

4. Model Positive Behaviors and Pass On Effective Habits

A Transition Person breaks unhealthy, harmful, abusive, or ineffective learned behaviors and replaces them with proactive, helpful, and effective behaviors.

• Who has been a Transition Person for you? What effective habits did they pass on to you?

• Who can you be a Transition Person for? What proactive behaviors or habits do you want to pass on to them?

In first place is House Intellectus with 1146 pts! The points leader for House Intellectus is Amina R., in 1st grade with 29 points!

The Little Portion Food Pantry will have their next Food Distribution at 408 W Davis Street from 11:00am to 5:00pm on Monday, October 2nd. They look forward to supporting our community!

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

• Review the HRE student/parent handbook.

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Mission:

We learn, we lead, and we succeed!

Vision:

Haw River Elementary is a community of empowered leaders who own our learning and work as a team.

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Website: abss.k12.nc.us/o/hres
Location: Haw River Elementary School, 701 East Main Street, Haw River, NC, USA
Phone: (336) 578-0177
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