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Great things are happening at Haw River Elementary!
Week 33: Lion Cubs are Ready to Spring into Growth!
Greeting Lion Cub Families!
Week 22 brought many celebrations as we celebrated Ms. Fonville for her birthday and School Principal's Day. We also celebrated our Teacher of the Year, Mrs. Gilliam, our Classified Employee of the Year, Ms. Horton, and our Beginning Teacher of the Year, Ms. White at the 2nd annual ABSS Evening of Excellence, and our Cafeteria Staff for School Lunch Hero's Day on Friday!
Our 5th graders were able to learn about the middle school band program, the instruments they can play, and what middle school band is all about. Our Lion Cubs, big and small, came dressed to impress on Tuesday for Spring Pictures and gave their best smiles.
In Week 33, we will continue celebrating all teachers and staff for Teacher Appreciation Week! On Tuesday, our 5th graders will visit the middle school they will attend next year. We are so excited for their next steps in education but will miss each of them dearly next school year! On Wednesday, we will let Nurse Matkins know how much we appreciate her for School Nurse's Day. On Friday our local Rotary Club will be bringing the Rotary Reads program to our school and gifting ALL students with a FREE book!
Let's get excited for our 33rd week of Learning, Leading, and Loving It!
#LionCubsLeadTheWay
#ReflectConnectAffect
📆Our Schedule This Week
This week is Teacher & Staff Appreciation Week!
Monday, May 6, 2024
-Have your student give a compliment to any teacher or staff member they see during their day!
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
-Have your student bring flowers or draw a picture for their teacher!
-5th Grade Field Trip to visit their Middle School
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
-Have your student write a note about how great their teacher is and give it to them today!
-School Nurses Day, let's show Nurse Matkins how much we appreciate her!
Thursday, May 9, 2024
-Have your student high five any teacher or staff member they see in the hallways all day long!
Friday, May 10, 2024
-Have your student bring their teacher a sweet piece of fruit, soda or other treat today!
-Rotary Reads will visit our campus today and gift ALL students with a free book!
Looking Ahead:
-May 12th- Mother's Day
-May 13th- Family Skate Night 6-8pm @ Roll-A-Bout Skating Center
-May 13th-17th- Spring Book Fair- Buy One Get One FREE Special!
-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
Teacher Appreciation Week Donations
The week 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 Thursday, May 9th. 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!
🍕 Weekly Lunch Menu 🥦
💡 Reminders 💡
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!
RCA House Points App
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!
📖 Curriculum Corner 📖
Let's take a look at what our students will be learning this week!
Kindergarten
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
1st Grade
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: does, another, well, large, must, done
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 animals (including air, water, and food) for energy and growth.
2nd Grade
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.
Identify the reasons an author gives to support ideas in a text.
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.
Social Studies:
Recognize that there is variation among individuals that are related.
3rd Grade
Reading:
Describe how the author connects ideas between sentences and paragraphs to support specific points in a text.
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.
4th Grade
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.
5th Grade
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:
Understand the interdependence of plants and animals with their ecosystem.
👑 Leader In Me At HRE
Let's Reflect
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 Culture and Leadership.
It's time to reflect and this week will ask questions to think about and reflect on our Academics. Read the questions below with your student(s) and discuss their thoughts and knowledge on these leadership questions.
Reflect on Our Academics
- What are our school’s Wildly Important Goals® (WIGs®)?
- How could we make sure everyone knows our school’s WIGs?
- How could we improve our Leadership Notebooks®?
- How do our students lead their own learning?
- What do our teachers do well?
- What could our teachers do better?
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?
💙❤️ House Points Update 🧡💚
FIRST PLACE: MAGISTERIUM: HOUSE OF LEADERSHIP
In first place is House Magisterium with 24356 points! The points leader for House Magisterium is Kamora M., in first grade with 636 points! The House Points Leaders for Magisterium K-5 are:
- Kindergarten- Azriel A. 302 points
- First Grade- Kamora M. 636 points
- Second Grade- Jameson H. 354 points
- Third Grade- Barbara R. 272 points
- Fourth Grade- Arian S. 360 points
- Fifth Grade- Giselle T. 319 points
SECOND PLACE: EMPATIA: HOUSE OF EMPATHY
In second place is House Empatia with 24314 points!. The points leader for House Empatia is Owen T., in first grade with 557 points! The House Points Leaders for Empatia K-5 are:
- Kindergarten- Zaylen W. 332 points
- First Grade- Owen T. 557 points
- Second Grade- Kingsley P. 434 points
- Third Grade- Chase B. 245 points
- Fourth Grade- Catheryne M. 349 points
- Fifth Grade- Lizbeth G. 325 points
THIRD PLACE: INTELLECTUS- HOUSE OF UNDERSTANDING
In third place is House Intellectus with 24013 points! The points leader for House Intellectus is Amina R., in 1st grade with 586 points! The House Point Leaders for Intellectus K-5 are:
- Kindergarten- Rosabella T. 340 points
- First Grade- Amina R. 586 points
- Second Grade- Veronica G. 438 points
- Third Grade- Kiara T. 265 points
- Fourth Grade- Lillyana S. 337 points
- Fifth Grade- Daleysa A. 311 points
FOURTH PLACE: EXCELIOR- HOUSE OF GROWTH
In fourth place is House Excelsior with 23739 points! The points leader for House Excelsior is Avery M., in 1st grade with 606 points! The House Points Leaders for Excelsior K-5 are:
- Kindergarten- Grayson C. 329 points
- First Grade- Avery M. 606 points
- Second Grade- Fernando M. 430 points
- Third Grade- Jalen T. 256 points
- Fourth Grade- Salvador L. 390 points
- Fifth Grade- Ka'Trale O. 251 points
📰 News from Student Support Services 📰
Mrs. Tricomi, School Counselor
Mrs. Tricomi is here to support our students with learning strategies, self-management, and social skills. She also serves as our 504 coordinator. To reach Mrs. Tricomi, please email elizabeth_tricomi@abss.k12.nc.us
Ms. Hill, School Social Worker
Ms. Hill is here to support our students and families with social services. She works to eliminate barriers to academic achievement by providing strategic services that identify and address the social emotional-environmental issues that interfere with the educational process. To reach Ms. Hill, please email casey_hill@abss.k12.nc.us
Mrs. Matkins, School Nurse
Mrs. Matkins is here to support the health and wellness of our Haw River Elementary Community. She works to support students and families with illnesses, referrals, and healthcare needs. To reach Mrs. Matkins, please email haley_matkins@abss.k12.nc.us
School Social Worker Updates
Summer Sports Camps
Rising 6th Grade Students
Rising Pre-K Students
Affordable Connectivity Program
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.
For more information, click this link.
Health-Related Updates
Important Reminder From Nurse Matkins
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.
FREE At-Home Covid Tests FREE AT-HOME COVID TESTS
Every U.S. household may place an order to receive four free COVID-19 rapid tests delivered directly to your home.
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.
May Health Fair
🙂 Community Assistance Resources 🙂
🖤💛Haw River Lion Cubs Spirit Store🖤💛
Hey, Lion Cubs fan!
Coming off the sidelines is BSN SPORTS Fleece Collection! From hoodies and quarter zips to the crew necks, shorts and joggers, this soft and comfortable collection has it all—so head over to your Lion Cubs Sideline Store now and get after it.
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Go Lion Cubs!
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- Review the HRE student/parent handbook.
- Meet our amazing staff.
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