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Greetings Lion Cub Families,

Lion Cub Leaders had so much fun during Week 31. On Monday, each class took some time to beautify our campus by tidying up various areas around our school in celebration of Earth Day. Our 4th and 5th grade students were able to participate in Junior Achievement Programs sponsored by Junior Achievement and Bank of America. The students had so much fun learning about planning for the future and even practicing for job interviews!

We had a very special guest (Dr. Harrison, Interim Superintendent) stop by to see all of the wonderful things happening on our campus and he took some time to check-in with our students and staff. Dr. Harrison, you are welcome anytime! We also were able to celebrate Mrs. Mendoza, Ms. Carter and Mrs. Pacheco for National Administrative Professionals' Day. We love and appreciate them so much. Lastly, Level-Up Night was a HUGE Success. We are excited to see all of our students Level-Up to the next grade level for the 24-25 school year!

Week 32 will present opportunities for our students to lead and learn. Lion Cub Leaders in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade will be showing what they have learned during the last quarter on their NC Check-Ins testing. Let's not forget to celebrate our principal, Ms. Fonville on School Principal's Day this Wednesday. Also we will be celebrating our School Lunch Heroes in the cafeteria this Friday for School Lunch Hero Day. Let's make sure everyone knows how much we appreciate them!

P.S.- Don't forget, to send in snacks for Teacher Appreciation Week! We need them by this Friday so we can plan out our treats for next week. Thank you for your help with this!

Let's get ready for our 32nd week of Learning, Leading, and Loving it!

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Monday, April 29, 2024

-3rd Grade Reading Check-In

-5th Grade Science Check-In

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

-3rd & 5th Grade Math Check-Ins

-Spring Picture Day

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

-4th Grade Math Check-In

-Middle School Band Visit for 5th Grade
-School Principal's Day

Thursday, May 2nd, 2024

-4th & 5th Grade Reading Check-Ins

Friday, May 3, 2024

-School Lunch Hero Day

-Make-Ups for Check-In Testing

Looking Ahead:

-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:

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

Know and use various text features to locate key facts or information in a text.

Sight Words: any, same, tell, saw, put, end

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 the basic needs of a variety of different plants (including air, water, nutrients, and light) for energy and growth.

Reading:

Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story, the events unfold in the middle, and the ending concludes the action.

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:

Tell and write time to the nearest minute. Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of time intervals within the same hour.

Social Studies:

Understand how various people and historical events have shaped local communities.

Reading:

With some guidance and support from adults, use digital tools and resources to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others;

demonstrate sufficient command of word processing skills.

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.

Represent and interpret data using whole numbers.

• Collect data by asking a question that yields numerical data.

• Make a representation of data and interpret data in a frequency table, scaled bar graph, and/or line plot.

• Determine whether a survey question will yield categorical or numerical data.

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. Last week, we asked you to reflect on your Leadership.

It's time to reflect and this week will ask questions to think about and reflect on our Culture. Read the questions below with your student(s) and discuss their thoughts and knowledge on these leadership questions.

Reflect on Our Culture

• How do we feel when we come to school?
• What makes a classroom a leadership classroom?
• How could we make our school better?
• What are teachers leading that students could be leading?
• What types of leadership roles are we missing?
• How can we invite all students to share their ideas at school?
• How could we change our school events and traditions?

Reflect on Our Leadership

• 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 Empatia with 23764 points! The points leader for House Empatia is Owen T., in first grade with 540 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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