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Greetings Lion Cub Families,

Wow, what an amazing week we had with our 4th and 5th Grade Musical "A Journey Through the Decades" and Field Day. Students, staff, and families had a great time a both events and we are so proud of the ability and growth that our students have worked towards this year. Lion Cub Leaders are phenomenal! Check out some of the highlights below.

This week we have more opportunities to lead and learn as we prepare for end of year testing. Thursday from 4-6, students and families have an opportunity to come and check out their next grade level at Level Up Night. Sunset Slush will be on campus to share their sweet treats with us!

Let's get excited for our 31st week of learning, leading, and loving it!

#ReflectConnectAffect

#LionCubsLeadTheWay

Monday, April 22, 2024

-Earth Day: Let's work together to keep our campus clean and beautiful!

-4th and 5th Grade Classes will participate in Junior Achievement

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

-3rd Grade Field Trip

-Elementary Battle of the Books Competition

-National Administrative Professional's Day: Let's show Mrs. Mendoza, Ms. Carter, and Mrs. Pacheco how much we appreciate them!

Thursday, April 25, 2024

-Level-Up Night/Kindergarten Open House from 4:00-6:00: Come and check out your grade level for next year and get a cool swag bag with materials and resources to help you prepare for next year!!!

Friday, April 26, 2024

-1st Grade Field Trip

Looking Ahead:

-April 15th-26th- Naglieri General Abilities Test for 2nd Graders

-April 29th- May 3rd- NC Check-Ins testing for grades 3rd-5th

-May 1st- School Principals' Day

-May 3rd- School Lunch Hero Day

-May 6th-10th- Teacher Appreciation Week

-May 8th- School Nurse Day

-May 12th- Mother's Day

-May 13th- Family Skate Night 6-8pm @ Roll-A-Bout Skating Center

-May 24th- June 7th- EOG/NCEXTEND 1 Testing Window

-May 24th- 3rd Grade Reading EOG, 5th Grade Science EOG

-May 27th- Memorial Day Holiday- NO SCHOOL

-May 28th- EOG Make-Ups

-May 29th- 3rd and 5th Grade Math EOGs

-May 30th- 3rd Grade Read to Achieve Testing

-May 31st- 4th and 5th Grade Reading EOGs

-June 3rd-7th- EOG Make-Ups

-June 7th- Last Day of School

The week of May 6th- 10th is Teacher Appreciation Week, and we need your help! We are asking families to donate snacks for our teachers to have during that week. Please have these sent in by Friday, May 3rd. Please see the details below:

Pre-K, Kindergarten, & 1st Grade Families: Please send in store-bought sweet treats (cookies, candy, snack cakes, etc.)

2nd & 3rd Grade Families: Please send in store-bought savory treats (chips, popcorn, pretzels, etc.)

4th & 5th Grade Families: Please send in store bought cans or bottle drinks (sprint, coke, dr. pepper, mountain dew, diet coke, sweet tea, water, juice, etc.)

We appreciate your support!

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:

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.

Compose and decompose numbers from 11 to 19 into ten ones and some further ones by:

• Using objects or drawings.

• Recording each composition or decomposition by a drawing or expression.

• Understanding that these numbers are composed of ten ones and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones.

Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes, and describe the relative positions of objects using positional terms.

Correctly name squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, hexagons, cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres regardless of their orientations or overall size.

Identify squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, hexagons, cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres as two-dimensional or three-dimensional.

Science:

Compare characteristics of living and nonliving things in terms of their:

• Structure

• Growth

• Changes

• Movement

• Basic Needs

Reading:

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

Sight Words: before, line, right, too, means, old

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

Science:

Summarize ways that humans protect their environment and/or improve conditions for the growth of the plants and animals that live there. (e.g., reuse or recycle products to avoid littering.)

Reading:

Identify the author’s main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, describe or explain.

Math:

Add and subtract, within 1,000, relating the strategy to a written method, using:

• Concrete models or drawings

• Strategies based on place value

• Properties of operations

• Relationship between addition and subtraction

Mentally add 10 or 100 to a given number 100 –900, and mentally subtract 10 or 100 from a given number 100 –900.

Science:

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

Reading:

Math:

Demonstrate fluency with multiplication and division with factors, quotients and divisors up to and including 10.

• Know from memory all products with factors up to and including 10.
• Illustrate and explain using the relationship between multiplication and division.
• Determine the unknown whole number in a multiplication or division equation relating three whole numbers.

Science:

Remember the function of the following plant structures as it relates to the survival of plants in their environments:

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:

Use decimal notation to represent fractions.

• Express, model and explain the equivalence between fractions with denominators of 10 and 100.

• Use equivalent fractions to add two fractions with denominators of 10 or 100.

• Represent tenths and hundredths with models, making connections between fractions and decimals.

Social Studies:

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

Reading:

Review and practice Literature standards to prepare for check ins

RL.5.1, RL.5.2, RL.5.3, RL.5.4, RL.5.6

Math:

Perform operations with multi-digit whole numbers

Compute and solve real-world problems with multi-digit whole numbers and decimal numbers

• Add and subtract decimals to thousandths using models, drawings or strategies based on place value.

• Multiply decimals with a product to thousandths using models, drawings, or strategies based on place value.

• Divide a whole number by a decimal and divide a decimal by a whole number, using repeated subtraction or area models. Decimals should be limited to hundredths.

• Use estimation strategies to assess reasonableness of answers.

Science:

Classify the organisms within an ecosystem according to the function they serve: producers, consumers, and decomposers (biotic factors).

This year we have learned about 8 Habits of Successful Children when it comes to Leadership and Learning through out Leader In Me Curriculum. It's time to reflect and this week will ask questions to think about and reflect on our Leadership. Read the questions below with your student(s) and discuss their thoughts and knowledge on these leadership questions.

• Why do we come to school?
• What is leadership?
• How could we learn about leadership?
• How could we teach our families about leadership?
• How could we teach our community about leadership?

In first place is House Magisterium with 22633 points! The points leader for House Magisterium is Kamora M., in first grade with 590 points!

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.

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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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