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Greetings Lion Cub Families,

Last week held many exciting learning experiences for our Lion Cub Leaders during Career Week! Students took a walking tour to explore the jobs and history of our community. Lion Cub Leaders also heard from special guests in our community as they shared their careers and how they positively contribute to our community and the communities around us.

As we sail into Spring Break, we want to recognize our Lion Cub Leaders for March, Nurse Matkins and Amelia Mason. These ladies approach each day with a positive and helpful spirit and demonstrate leadership in everything they do!

Don't forget this Friday is Good Friday, and we will begin our Spring Break. Students will return on Monday, April 8th! Let's prepare for our 28th week of Learning, Leading, and Loving it!

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

March 29th- April 5th- SPRING BREAK

Looking Ahead:

-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, Clubs, Q3 Awards Assemblies

-April 12th- 2nd Grade Field Trip

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

-April 15th- 19th- National Volunteer Recognition Week, Spring Fling School Musical 5:30 pm

-April 19th- Field Day

-April 22nd- 4th/5th Grade Junior Achievement, Earth Day/Campus Beautification Day

-April 24th- 3rd Grade Field Trip, National Administrative Professionals' Day, Elementary Battle of the Books Competition

-April 25th- Level Up Night/Kindergarten Open House/PTO Interest Meeting 4:00-6:30

-April 26th- 1st Grade Field Trip

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

-May 1st- School Principals' Day

-May 3rd- School Lunch Hero 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, identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic.

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.

Science:

Compare different types of the same animal (i.e. different types of dogs, different types of cats, etc.) to determine individual differences within a particular type of animal.

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.

Tell and write time from analog and digital clocks to the nearest five minutes, using a.m. and p.m.

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:

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:

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 two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.

Math:

Explain the patterns in the place value system from one million to the thousandths place.

• Explain that in a multi-digit number, a digit in one place represents 10 times as much as it represents in the place to its right and 1/10 of what it represents in the place to its left.

• Explain patterns in products and quotients when numbers are multiplied by 1,000, 100, 10, 0.1, and 0.01 and/or divided by 10 and 100.

Science:

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

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Hello Parents and Caregivers!

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

Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw® helps us to remember to renew our minds, bodies, hearts, and spirits. One powerful way to take care of ourselves and our relationships is to focus on fun and laughter. Shared, positive laughter can “sharpen our hearts” by strengthening relationships, whereas unshared laughter, teasing, or sarcasm can have the opposite effect on relationships. Bring even more laughter and love with this fun family game!

MAKE ME LAUGH GAME

1. Choose one family member to sit facing a group of family members or friends.

2. Each family member or friend takes turns trying to make the seated participant laugh. Use the Make Me Laugh Choice Board for ideas. Remind all participants to keep hands to themselves and use only kind words and actions.

3. Optionally, keep track of how long it takes for each person to laugh or the person who makes others laugh the most.

CURIOUS QUESTIONS

Discuss as a family:

1. What makes you laugh?

2. If you could spend a whole day having fun with our family, what would you choose for us to do?

3. What cheers you up when you are having a bad day?

4. How might having fun and laughing together help our family relationships?

In first place is House Empatia with 20708 points! The points leader for House Empatia is Owen T., in first grade with 478 points!

Our Student Support Services Team is here to support our families. Please reach out to them if you have any needs of concerns.

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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