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Greetings Lion Cub Families,

Last week was amazing! Our students showcased their many talents at the 5th grade Honors Chorus performance on Sunday and our school dances later in the week. Our 4th and 5th-grade students traveled to Williams High School to see the NC Symphony play and were complemented on being the best-behaved students in the building! It is evident we are growing talented, responsible, and caring leaders and learners here at Haw River, every day!

Second grade families, please see the letter linked here, in regards to a test ALL 2nd grade students will be taking upon return from spring break. If you have any questions, please reach out to our AIG Teacher, Ms. Houston at stephanie_houston@abss.k12.nc.us.

Let's get excited for our 27th week of learning, leading, and loving it!

#ReflectConnectAffect

#LionCubsLeadTheWay

March is Women's History Month! This week is Career Week!

Monday, March 18, 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.

-Career Week: “I am crazy about graduating high school!” Wear your craziest, mismatched outfit!

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

-Career Week: “I am geared up for college!” Wear your favorite college gear!

-Walking Tour Field Trips for Kindergarten, 1st, and 4th grades.

-PTO Planning Meeting at Impact Alamance in Burlington at 6:00pm. Please reach out to the front office if you are interest in helping start up our Parent Teacher Organization here at Haw River Elementary!

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

-Career Week: “A success is what I’m going to be!” Dress up as your future career!

-Walking Tour Field Trips for 2nd, 3rd, and 5th grades.

Thursday, March 21, 2024

-Career Week: “We’ve got BIG dreams!” Wear your school-appropriate pajamas!

-5th Grade D.A.R.E Graduation

Friday, March 22, 2024

-Career Week: “I am a Leader!” Wear your House Colors!

Looking Ahead:

-March 29th- April 5th- SPRING BREAK

-April 8th-12th- Autism Awareness Week, National Assistant Principal Week

-April 8th-19th- Q3 Parent/Teacher Conference Window: Please reach out to your child's teacher if you would like a conference

-April 10th- Teacher Assistant Appreciation Day, Report Cards go Home

-April 11th- School Librarian Appreciation Day

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, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.

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:

Use words and phrases learned through conversations, reading, and being read to, including common conjunctions.

Sight Words: went, men, read, need, change, off

Math:

Given a two-digit number, mentally find 10 more or 10 less than the number, without having to count; explain the reasoning used.

Subtract multiples of 10 in the range 10-90 from multiples of 10 in the range 10-90, explaining the reasoning, using:

• Concrete models and drawings

• Number lines

• Strategies based on place value

• Properties of operations

• The relationship between addition and subtraction

Science:

Recognize that plants and animals need air, water, light (plants only), space, food and shelter and that these may be found in their environment.

Reading:

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

Know and use various text features to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.

Math:

Solve word problems involving:

• Quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies within 99¢, using ¢ symbols appropriately.

• Whole dollar amounts, using the $ symbol appropriately.

Social Studies:

Explain how scarcity affects economic decisions

Science:

Identify ways in which many plants and animals closely resemble their parents in observed appearance and ways they are different.

Reading:

Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.

Math:

Represent equivalent fractions with area and length models by:

• Composing and decomposing fractions into equivalent fractions using related fractions: halves, fourths and eighths; thirds and sixths.
• Explaining that a fraction with the same numerator and denominator equals one whole.
• Expressing whole numbers as fractions, and recognize fractions that are equivalent to whole number

Comparing Fractions

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:

Compare and contrast a firsthand and secondhand account of the same event or topic; describe the differences in focus and the information provided.

Math:

Build fractions from unit fractions by applying and extending previous understandings of operations on whole numbers.

Understand and justify decompositions of fractions with denominators of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 100.

• Understand addition and subtraction of fractions as joining and separating parts referring to the same whole.

• Decompose a fraction into a sum of unit fractions and a sum of fractions with the same denominator in more than one way using area models, length models, and equations.

• Add and subtract fractions, including mixed numbers with like denominators, by replacing each mixed number with an equivalent fraction, and/or by using properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction.

• Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions, including mixed numbers by writing equations from a visual representation of the problem.

Social Studies:

Explain the ways in which revolution, reform, and resistance have shaped North Carolina.

Reading:

Determine and/or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 5 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies: context clues, word parts, word relationships, and reference materials.

Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships and nuances in word meanings.

1. Interpret figurative language, including similes and metaphors, in context.

2. Recognize and explain the meaning of common idioms, adages, and proverbs.

Math:

Represent and interpret data.

• Collect data by asking a question that yields data that changes over time.

• Make and interpret a representation of data using a line graph.

• Determine whether a survey question will yield categorical or numerical data, or data that changes over time.

Science:

Compare the major systems of the human body (digestive, respiratory, circulatory, muscular, skeletal, and cardiovascular) in terms of their functions necessary for life.

Recharge @ Home

Hello Parents and Caregivers!

Over the next several weeks your little leader will be exploring leadership habits that will help them practice wellness.

While children ages 3-5 years need about 10-13 hours of sleep, and ages 5-12 need 8-10 hours of sleep over a 24-hour period, it can often be difficult for them to fall or stay asleep. Sleep is an essential time for mental and physical restoration and growth. Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw teaches us to prioritize activities that help us care for our whole selves, including our body and brain.

RECHARGE WITH DEEP BREATHING

Breathing exercises are a fun and relaxing way to teach self regulation when we feel big emotions and to help our body and brain relax before bedtime. Consider integrating a breathing exercise of your child’s choice into bedtime routines to help them wind down or fall asleep faster.

CURIOUS QUESTIONS

1. (After breathing exercise) How does your mind feel right now? How does your body feel right now?

2. How does relaxation and sleep help us recharge our body and brain?

3. How might this healthy habit help our family?

In first place is House Empatia with 20244 points! The points leader for House Empatia is Owen T., in first grade with 468 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: Students who are present and on time every day will receive a 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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