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Greetings Lion Cub Families,

Lion Cub Leaders have been diligently working to grow as leaders and learners every day. Week 25 will present itself full of more unique learning and leadership opportunities. This week we will be celebrating Read Across America Week and School Social Worker Week! We are very thankful to have our School Social Worker, Ms. Casey Hill, supporting the Haw River Community. She works hard to build relationships with families and community members and provides support to ensure our students have everything they need to be successful. Thank you so much for all you do Ms. Hill!

Don't forget, Tuesday, March 5th is a workday and an opportunity for everyone 18 and older to go out and vote!

Let's get excited for our 25th week of learning, leading, and loving it!

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Read Across America Week is celebrated from March 2 to 6 — it begins on the birthday of the beloved author, Dr. Seuss. The entire month of March, in fact, is dedicated to reading. The National Education Association (N.E.A.) aims to encourage reading and educate people about its benefits, especially among children and young adults. Events are organized across the nation by schools and organizations to promote the same.

Why We Love Read Across America Week

Reading is awesome

Reading is an activity that has something for everyone. Whether you’re looking for fiction or self-help, knowledge about a certain topic, or just a good time; there is a book for everything. Read Across America promotes reading to young children and helps in developing a good habit at an early stage.

Reading is healthy

Among reading’s many benefits are the innumerable health benefits provided by it. Reading improves brain activity, aids sleep readiness, and reduces stress. Reading can lower your blood pressure and heart rate, and can even fight symptoms of depression. Reading regularly slows down our cognition from aging.

Reading makes you smarter

Reading, of any kind, increases vocabulary and comprehension skills. It drastically increases our knowledge on various topics and makes us more intelligent. Reading stimulates the brain, improves our memory, and even makes us better writers. Read Across America Week is a great effort to promote reading.

Check out the awesome read aloud below to get this fantastic week of reading started! Below we have listed our activities for the week, check them out!

March is Women's History Month!

Monday, March 4, 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.

-Read About Athletes Day

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

-NO SCHOOL: Teacher Workday

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

-5th Grade Science Check-In

-4th Grade Math Check-In

-Read Across Cultures Day: Read a book about a different culture. Wear something to represent your family's culture or hometime.

-Read My Shirt Day: Wear a school appropriate shirt we can read.

Thursday, March 7, 2024

-3rd and 5th Grade Math Check-In

-Curl Up With a Good Book Day: Bring your favorite book and wear your comfy and school appropriate pajamas to curl up with a good book during our school wide "READ-IN".

Friday, March 8, 2024

-4th Grade Reading Check-In

-Colgate Dental Van: Parents please return your forms for your free check-up!

-Just the Fact Day: Read a non-fiction book and come "dressed to impress" to share just the facts about your book.

Looking Ahead:

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

-March 9th- Kindergarten Fair at Holly Hill Mall

-March 13th- CLUB DAY, K-2 Spring Dance 3-4:30

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

-March 18th-22nd- Career Week

-March 22nd- Leadership Day

-March 28th- 5th Grade DARE Graduation, End of the 3rd Nine Weeks

-March 29th- April 5th- SPRING BREAK

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, ask and answer questions about words in a text that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.

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 the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas.

Sight Words: show, also, around, form, three, small

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:

Predict the effect of a given force on the motion of an object, including balanced forces.

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.

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

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.

Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent.

Math:

Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions.

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.

Science:

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

Balance is Best!

Imagine going for a walk in the forest, when you come upon a man sawing down a tree.

• “What are you doing?” you ask. “I’m sawing down a tree,” he says.

• “How long have you been at it?”

• “Two or three hours so far,” he says, sweat dripping from his chin.

• “Your saw looks dull,” you say. “Why don’t you take a break and sharpen it?”

• “I can’t,” he replies. “I’m too busy sawing.”

Think about it. Do we ever do this to ourselves in other situations? How?

When we work to build family traditions together, we show we are valuing the needs of individuals and families. Renewing our family in each of these areas is where family bonding, identity, fulfillment, and happiness are found. Many of these renewal times come when we are giving time to the Big Rocks we learned about in Habit 3: regular one on one-time, regular meals together, regular family time, family rituals, and traditions.

Think back to Habit 2 when your family created your coat of arms. What did you put in each of the four quadrants? Think back to why you chose to add what you did. Was there at least one item that was something you could do with your physical body? One that was emotional or to do with love? Anything about learning? What about spiritual? These are the four basic needs families and individuals need.

“Neglect your body, and it will deteriorate. Neglect your car, and it will deteriorate. Watch TV every available hour, and your mind will deteriorate. Neglect your family, and it will deteriorate. Anything that is not consciously attended to and renewed will break down, become disordered, and deteriorate.” —Stephen R. Covey

Family Activity:

1. Take time to write down some activities your family can do to balance your lives. Is there something you would really like to do but haven’t or haven’t done in a long time? Choose one or two activities and make a plan to Sharpen the Saw together. Pick a date you will complete the activity by or the date you will discuss the activity details with your family. Write it down on your family calendar where everyone can see it.

2. Have each member of your family answer the following question by either writing or drawing their answer.

Parents: What would a “personal day” look like to your ten-year-old self? Kids: If you could have a day to do anything at or around your home, what would it look like?

In first place is House Empatia with 18793 points! The points leader for House Empatia is Owen T., in first grade with 431 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.

Last week, forms were sent home for the FREE Colgate Dental Van Clinic that will be at Haw River Elementary on March 8th. You must fill out the form completely to receive the free services. Please reach out to Nurse Matkins if you have any questions.

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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