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Greetings Lion Cub Families,

We wrapped up last week celebrating our accomplishments from quarter 2 and meeting our positive behavior goals. We will be sending out a special "Quarter 2 Report" newsletter later on this week highlighting our Lion Cub Leaders and their accomplishments so stay tuned.

As Quarter 3 is in full swing, let's keep our motivation for growth and progress going! We have come so far this year and will keep moving forward because we can't stop and we won't stop in our pursuit of learning, leadership, and success. LET'S GO LION CUB LEADERS!

Let's get excited for our 20th week of learning, leading, and loving it!

#ReflectConnectAffect

#LionCubsLeadTheWay

January is School Board Appreciation Month!

Monday, January 29, 2024

-ABSS Family University 5:30-7:30 at Cummings High School

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

-Last day to bring in items for Compass Health Care (see the reminder below)

-PERMISSION SLIPS ARE DUE for 4th and 5th Graders attending Elon Education Day

Thursday, February 1, 2024

-First Day of Black History Month

Friday, February 2, 2024

-House Friday, wear your House Colors!

Looking Ahead:

-January 22nd: February 1st- Parent/Teacher Conference Window for Quarter 2 (more info to come from your child's teacher)

-February 5th-9th: National Counseling Week

-February 8th- Kindergarten Field Trip

-February 9th- 5th Grade Field Trip

-February 14th- Valentines Day

-February 16th- 100th Day of School

-February 22nd- School Bus Driver Appreciation Day

Our 5th grade students have assessed the needs of a local nursing home in our community. During the month of January, they will be collecting items to deliver to the nursing home during the field trip in February for our "Operation Love our Community" Service Learning Project for the 23-24 school year.

Compass Health Care & Rehab of Mebane, NC makes the health and happiness of their residents a top priority. They provide both short-term and long-term residents with the absolute best in skilled nursing services. Their team of highly skilled and professional nursing staff administers care with the utmost compassion. They pay close attention to the changing needs of residents and continue to adjust treatment plans in order to achieve optimal results that will help them enjoy better physical and mental health.

As a part of our service learning, this will also be a House Challenge. Items can be brought in and placed in the collection bins that will be in the cafeteria starting this week. The following items are needed for Compass Health Care & Rehab:

🧡House Intellectus & Mrs. Oliver's Pre-K Class: lotion, combs, deodorant, & sweet snacks.

💙House Magisterium & Mrs. Hodge & Mrs. Royster's Pre-K Classes: kleenex (tissues), body wash, coloring books, & salty snacks.

💚House Excelsior & Mrs. Smith & Ms. Mendoza's Pre-K Classes: shampoo (non scented), bar soap, word search books, & sweet snacks.

❤️House Empatia & Mrs. McCormick's Pre-K Class: hair conditioner (non scented), toothpaste, crossword puzzle books, & salty snacks.

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!

Our district's number one goal is to operate schools as safely and effectively as possible, following the published annual school calendar schedule as closely as possible. When there is inclement weather forecast for Alamance County, ABSS is prepared to make adjustments to schedules as needed which may include announcing a later arrival time, an early dismissal time, possible school closure or a remote learning day.

Three Options:

● Closed for all students & staff

● Closed for all students, staff workday

● Delayed Opening/Early Dismissal

Making decisions about closing or delaying school and bus transportation schedules when inclement weather is imminent for our community are among the most challenging ones every school district makes. But, we don't make these important safety decisions alone.

ABSS is in close contact with the National Weather Service about their forecast predictions and with local emergency management officials who also monitor the national weather information and North Carolina Office of Emergency Management forecasts about impending weather conditions.

In addition to consulting with weather and emergency management experts, ABSS performs late night and/or early morning visual inspections and assessments of actual road and weather conditions. We gather input from experienced staff with Alamance County Emergency Management, local law enforcement agencies, North Carolina Department of Transportation and Duke Energy. Our experienced ABSS Facilities and Maintenance staff members and our Transportation experts have years of experience and knowledge in identifying potential issues and potential trouble spots.

Assessments are made on road and bridge conditions in addition to inspecting our multiple campus parking lots, sidewalks and steps to determine if we can operate safely and effectively on a regular or modified schedule.

When a schedule change is needed, notifications to families and staff are made as quickly as possible and include automated messaging notifications via phone, email, and text messaging, the ABSS website, and social media posts and alerts shared with multiple TV and radio stations across the region.

How to find out if we have a weather-related delay/closing:

If at all possible, a decision to close or delay school is made no later than 5:00 a.m., and the notification process begins, within minutes, in the following order:

● An email is sent to all ABSS email accounts

● Announcement is posted on the district website and all school websites

● Announcements are posted to Facebook, Instagram and Twitter

● The following TV and radio stations are contacted:

• Radio Stations: WKRR 92.3, WPAW 99.1, WQDR 94.7, WSML 95.1, WQMG 97.1, WSMW 98.7, WMAG 99.5, WMKS 100.3, WYMY 101.1, WJMH 102.1, WTQR 104.1, WBAG 105.9, WKZL 107.5
• TV Stations: WFMY 2 (CBS), WRAL 5 (NBC), WGHP 9 (FOX), WXII 12 (NBC), NEWS 14 CAROLINA, WTVD 11 (ABC), WXLV 45 (ABC)
• Websites: WFMY News 2, WRAL, Fox 8, News 12, Spectrum News, ABC 11, ABC 45, The Times News, Mebane Enterprise, Alamance News

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

Reading:

With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.

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:

Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information.

Sight Words: big, made, who, these, time, call

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.

Social Studies:

Explain how the experiences and achievements of people throughout history have helped contribute to the changes in various local communities and communities around the world over time.

Use primary and secondary sources to compare multiple perspectives of various events

Reading:

Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in a technical text.

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:

Summarize contributions of women, indigenous, religious, racial and other minority groups have impacted American history.

Reading:

Describe characters in a story and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.

Math:

Solve problems involving perimeters of polygons, including finding the perimeter given the side lengths, and finding an unknown side length.

Science:

Understand the structure and properties of matter before and after they undergo a change.

Compare solids, liquids, and gases based on their basic properties.

Reading:

Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.

Math:

Find all factor pairs for whole numbers up to and including 50 to:

• Recognize that a whole number is a multiple of each of its factors.

• Determine whether a given whole number is a multiple of a given one-digit number.

Determine if the number is prime or composite.

Generate and analyze a number or shape pattern that follows a given rule.

Social Studies:

Differentiate between rights and responsibilities reflected in the North Carolina Constitution.

Reading:

Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text e.g., how characters interact).

Math:

Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication to multiply a fraction or whole number by a fraction, including mixed numbers. • Use area and length models to multiply two fractions, with the denominators 2, 3, 4. • Explain why multiplying a given number by a fraction greater than 1 results in a product greater than the given number and when multiplying a given number by a fraction less than 1 results in a product smaller than the given number. • Solve one-step word problems involving multiplication of fractions using models to develop the algorithm.

Science:

Illustrate the motion of an object using a graph to show a change in position over a period of time.

You have a young and growing “emotions expert” in your home! We are learning about our emotions and how we can get better at managing them. We would love for you to join in the learning! Each week your young emotions-expert will be bringing home a family activity with curious questions. Explore and learn together how to acknowledge the wide spectrum of emotions we all have and find ways to bring our brains back to calm.

We would also like to encourage you to find a space to build an “emotions center.” This is simply a fun space in your home where you can display your weekly work. If it’s in a fairly central location, you’ll all share the benefit of referring to it often—especially in those moments when it may be most helpful!

Thank you so much for joining us on this emotions adventure!

CALMING STRATEGY: TAKE A BREAK

It can be hard to see your child feeling sad. When we see our children having big emotions, we want to help. Sometimes, we try to help them by pointing their attention away from the sadness. Sometimes we try to help them by making their big emotions seem smaller, and we tell them that what they’re feeling isn’t as big as they’re making it out to be. When we do these things, our children don’t learn how to self-manage their emotions.

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

Genuinely acknowledge your child’s feelings: “I see you are sad.” This lets your child feel their real emotions. It makes space for them to begin to learn how to manage their own emotions, even when you’re not around to help. This is an important life skill!

CURIOUS QUESTIONS

1. What is your favorite way to take a break when you’re feeling sad?

Share your favorite way with each other. Look at the activity sheet and Take a Break cards for ideas.

2. Ask your child to tell you how they take a break for different emotions,

like feeling mad or disappointed. Share how you would take a break for those emotions.

Continue building your emotions center display by adding this week’s Take a Break activity sheet and Take a Break cards.

In first place is House Magisterium with 14424 points! The points leader for House Magisterium is Kamora M., in first grade with 369 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: For the month of January, students who are present and on time every day will receive 5 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!

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.

Before Winter Break, students in grades K-5 received a form about a potential dental clinic at our school! Please return that completed form as soon as possible. Students can receive 5 house points for returning the completed form! If you need another form, let us know as soon as possible.

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.

For more information, click the link.

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