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Greetings Lion Cub Families,

Our Lion Cub Leaders have been working hard to finish out the second nine weeks by demonstrating mastery and implementing skills and strategies they have learned. This means we are halfway through the 23-24 school year! Everyday of the school year is important, but now students are preparing for their next grade level. Attendance, engagement, and student ownership are critical now, more than ever.

Parents, you can help your students build ownership of their learning by shifting the conversation at home. Check out the question stems you can use with your children to spark conversation and shift their thinking with student ownership!

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 approach the end of quarter 2, 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!

Let's get excited for our 18th week of learning, leading, and loving it!

#ReflectConnectAffect

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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.

Before Winter Break, students in grades K-5 received a form about a potential FREE 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.

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.

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!

Be on the lookout, we will be sending home family connection letters this week with directions on how to connect and celebrate your students accomplishments.

• 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!

January is School Board Appreciation Month!

Monday, January 15, 2024

-Martin Luther King Jr. Day- NO SCHOOL for students or staff.

Friday, January 19, 2024

-End of the 2nd Nine Weeks

Looking Ahead:

-January 22nd: Teacher Workday- NO SCHOOL for Students

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

-January 23rd: Teacher Workday- NO SCHOOL for Students

-January 26th: Clubs, Q2 Awards Assembly (more info to come), Report Cards

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!

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.

Letters of the week: q, z

Sight Words: a, and, for, he, in, is, it, of, that, the, to, was, you

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:

Determine and/or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 1 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies: context clues, word parts, and word relationships.

Sight Words: how, as, now, way, find

Math:

Distinguish between defining and non-defining attributes and create shapes with defining attributes by:

• Building cubes, right rectangular prisms, right circular cones, spheres, and right circular cylinders.

Create composite shapes by:

• Making a two-dimensional composite shape using rectangles, squares, trapezoids, triangles, and half-circles naming the components of the new shape.

Partition circles and rectangles into two and four equal shares.

• Describe the shares as halves and fourths, as half of and fourth of.

• Describe the whole as two of, or four of the shares.

• Explain that decomposing into more equal shares creates smaller shares.

Science:

Recognize differences in the features of the day and night sky and apparent movement of objects across the sky as observed from Earth.

Reading:

Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.

Math:

Fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or relationship between addition and subtraction.

Science:

Give examples of matter that change from a solid to a liquid and from a liquid to a solid by heating and cooling.

Compare the amount (volume and weight) of water in a container before and after freezing.

Reading:

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

Math:

Find the area of a rectangle with whole-number side lengths by tiling without gaps or overlaps and counting unit squares.

Relate area to the operations of multiplication and addition.

• Find the area of a rectangle with whole-number side lengths by tiling it, and show that the area is the same as would be found by multiplying the side lengths.

• Multiply side lengths to find areas of rectangles with whole-number side lengths in the context of solving problems, and represent whole-number products as rectangular areas in mathematical reasoning.

• Use tiles and/or arrays to illustrate and explain that the area of a rectangle can be found by partitioning it into two smaller rectangles, and that the area of the large rectangle is the sum of the two smaller rectangles.

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:

Describe the overall structure of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of 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.

Multiply a whole number of up to three digits by a one-digit whole number, and multiply up to two two-digit numbers with place value understanding using area models, partial products, and the properties of operations. Use models to make connections and develop the algorithm.

Social Studies:

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

Reading:

Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.

Compare and contrast the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more texts.

Math:

Add and subtract fractions, including mixed numbers with unlike denominators using related fractions: halves, fourths, and eighths; thirds, sixths, and twelfths; fifths, tenths, and hundredths.

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!

CURIOUS QUESTIONS:

We all feel emotions!

1. As your child is completing each emotion face, ask them about a time they recently felt that emotion. Then share about a time you felt that emotion.

2. Share with each other which emotions are your favorite to feel and what kinds of activities help you feel that way.

OUR EMOTION CENTER

Start an “emotions center” in a central location in your home to display what you are learning. Make sure there’s enough space to add the work and discussions of the coming weeks! Hang the Emotions Faces activity sheet in your new emotions center!

In first place is House Magisterium with 1280 points! The points leader for House Magisterium is Kamora M., in first grade with 306 points!

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

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