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Team News UPCOMING

EVENTS:

April 21: PTSO

BINGO Night

April 25: Track at

Brooks

April 27: Fundrais-

er at Ziggy’s Pizza

April 28: 6th

Grade Field Trip

April 28: 8th

Grade Panoramic

Picture

May 2: Track at

Wilbur

May 2: Bond Cele-

bration

May 4: 5th Grade

Open House

May 6: Fundraiser

at Watermark

May 8: 8th Grade

College Hill Park

May 8: Orchestra

Concert

May 9: Track at

Northwest

May 9: Foundation

Meeting

May 10: Band

Concert

We have seen an increase in “fidget toys”

(spinners, cubes, thinking putty)

being brought to school. Please

remind the students that these

items should not be

seen. They are causing a

distraction for other students.

On Thursday, April 27th from 1:05 to

1:55, Robinson will have the honor of

hosting a Holocaust Survivor to speak to

our students. Parents are welcome to

attend this event. The speaker survived

as a hidden child while the rest of her

family perished during the Holocaust. The

speaker’s name is Rachel Goldman

Miller. She is 84 years old and was sent

to a summer camp in France three days

before her family was taken to the

Concentration Camps. She will be telling

her story to the students. This is a

wonderful opportunity for our kids to

witness and learn directly from a primary

source.

Just a reminder, from our PIB Program

Agreement: “I will schedule medical

appointments outside the school day

when possible and trips for recreation

during school holidays, recognizing that

daily attendance is crucial to success.”

Thank you for your support.

We are in the process of enrollment for

next year. If you do not plan on returning

to Robinson next year, could you please

email Denise Van Horn

(dvanhorn@usd259.net), so that we know

how many spots we have available to

offer to those students who applied for

7th and 8th grade positions.

8th graders received a field trip form this

week for our annual trip to College Hill

Park. Please return the form and $5 by

Friday, April 28th.

6th graders will be received a field trip

form this week. Please return the form

and $8 by Monday, April 24.

It is once again time for the 2nd Annual

Spaghetti at St. Paul’s United Methodist

Church, 1356 N. Broadway (13th and

Broadway), Wichita, Kansas. The

Dinner is Saturday, April 29, 2017,

from 11am to 7pm. They will be

running two shifts for volunteers, 1st

shift from 10:30am to 3:00pm and the

2nd shift from 2:30 pm to 7:00

pm. They are looking for 8 to 10

volunteers per shift. If you are

interested in volunteering this year

please sign up

by Monday, April

24, 2017 on Ms.

Rowley’s door.

No email

requests will be

honored.

Community Service

Community Service reminder:

ALL community service hours

are due Friday, May 5! Log

sheets are available on our team

page on the Robinson Website.

If the hours are not completed

Social Studies grades will be

lowered 10%.

6th Grade: 15 hours; turn

into Ms. Mandelbaum

7th Grade: 20 hours; turn into Ms.

Rowley

8th Grade: 25 hours; turn into Ms.

Rowley

Please contact us if you have any

questions or concerns. Thank you for

your support!

P A G E 2

Sixth Grade PIB Berry—Math Berry—Science

Callard—-Language Arts Callard—-Spanish

Flores—Spanish Mandelbaum—Language Arts

Mandelbaum—Social Studies Marsh—Spanish

Sinsel—Math

Math 6+ students will continue the Stranded! activity with new survival challenges next week!

This week we will wrap up and share our data survey

projects. Students have put together some interest-

ing conclusions based upon their data! We will also

begin studying for our end-of-the-year final this

week. We will set the pace for our study on Monday

or Tuesday, so please check their deadlines to make

sure that they are keeping pace.

Classes will begin studying space. Please remind

your child to record his/her observations of the

moon each day on the observation chart provided

in class. Our first focus in this unit is to learn

what we experience on Earth due to the rotational

and revolutionary movements of the Earth, the

moon, and the sun.

Sixth graders are still reading our historical novel The Light in

the Forest, by Conrad Richter. We continue to take notes citing

textual evidence as we analyze the novel. Recent standards

include imagery, figurative language, conflict, and character

development in plot. Our grammar focus is on conjunctions

(correlative, coordinating, and subordinating) as we work to

craft sentences with structural variety. Wordly Wise Lesson 13

quiz will be on Thursday, April 27, since we will be gone for our

world religions field trip on Friday.

We continue to work on Spanish grammar and spelling

rules. This week we learned about sílabas tónicas and

are identifying when and where we need to use accent

marks in our writing. Students created charts with ex-

amples of palabras graves/llanas, agudas, y esdrúju-

las. We are also completing exercises in the “Manual

de Gramática y Ortografía Para Hispanos.”

On Wednesday, April 26th, students will take a

quiz that will require them to know how to correct-

ly spell all of the vocabulary words from Chapter

2A in their textbooks. A great tool for preparing

for this quiz is the quizlet.com website. In the

site’s search box, please type “tktflores” and look

for my link to Chapter 2A.

We will be learning about the Christian religion in

preparation for our field trip next week.

The 6th grade Spanish students are working hard

on mastering vocabulary related to school. On

Wednesday they will take a vocabulary production

quiz. Playing Gravity on quizlet.com or Splatman

on conjuguemos.com will help them to prepare.

Next week we will do our Spring Aimsweb testing.

We will be presenting our Butterfly projects and

then reading literature about rescuers who risked

their lives during the Holocaust.

P A G E 3

Seventh Grade PIB Flores—Spanish Jenney—Science

Lavacek—Language Arts Marsh—Spanish

Rowley—Social Studies Sims—Language Arts

Sinsel—Math Stroot—Math

Van Horn—Math We will continue working on Topic 4: Pythagorean Theorem. Their textbook can be found online at: https://

explore.agilemind.com/ and their Username and Password are their 6 Digit ID number.

Next week’s focus will be on grammar, specifically

on the verb “ir” and interrogatives. The quizzes over

both grammar points will be on Friday, April 28th.

Students can go online to www.phschool.com to

practice for the quizzes. The web codes that they

will need to access the practice activities are jcd-

0403 and jcd-0404.jcd-0604 and jcd-0605.

Seventh graders are studying body systems cur-

rently.

We will be traipsing through a Midsummer Night’s

Dream and following characters as they journey

away from the orderly and predictable city of Ath-

ens into the mysterious and magical realm of the

forest. Students will read, perform, and watch this

play of confused love, familial conflict, and theatri-

cal intrigue.

The 7th grade Spanish students will spend the

week learning how to conjugate and use the verb

ir in the present tense as well as how to form

questions in Spanish. There will be a grammar

quiz on Friday.

We have a quiz over the organization of the state

government on Monday. The remainder of the

week we will be learning a little about Quantrill’s

Raid of Lawrence, the Homestead Act, and set-

tling in Kansas.

Math 7+ students will continue our student of Py-

thagorean Theorem this week. Watch for a test

toward the end of the week!

Math 7+ students will start the chapter on the Py-

thagorean Theorem.

This coming week, the seventh graders will con-

tinue reading and analyzing A Midsummer Night’s

Dream. We will continue to focus on character

and plot development.

P A G E 4

Eighth Grade PIB Flores—Spanish

Jenney—Science Lavacek—Language Arts

Rowley—Social Studies Sims—Language Arts

Stroot—Math

Callard—Spanish

We continue to work on Spanish grammar and

spelling rules. This week we learned about sílabas

tónicas and are identifying when and where we need

to use accent marks in our writing. Students created

charts with examples of palabras graves/llanas,

agudas, y esdrújulas. We are also completing exercis-

es in the “Manual de Gramática y Ortografía Para His-

panos.”

Students are encouraged to bring wrapped candy

next week, as there will be a cultural day

(complete with a piñata!) on Thursday to celebrate

student achievement in Spanish class during the

year. This will also be Srta. Roy´s last week at

Robinson. There will be an open-book quiz over

chapters two and three of the novel El Viaje de su

Vida on Wednesday, April 26th.

Eighth graders are studying traits and inheritance. We will be making our way through Much Ado

About Nothing—Shakespeare’s comedy about ru-

mors gone awry, friendships torn apart, love inter-

ests shattered then repaired and identities con-

fused (yes, this does sound suspiciously like the

halls of Robinson Middle School ;) ). Students will

read, perform, and watch this play of confused

love, familial conflict, and theatrical intrigue.

The 8th graders will reading and analyzing Much

Ado About Nothing this coming week. We will con-

tinue to focus on character and plot develop-

ment.

Geometry students will continue to study chords,

arcs, and inscribed angles.

Algebra students will continue to work on solving

quadratic equations. Students will practice the

factoring and completing the square methods.

We will continue on with our Civil War unit. Monday

and Tuesday we will be watching select scenes from

“Glory” about African American troops in the Civil War.

Also each class will have a chance to take home to

read new books of slave narratives; Monday will be 4th

hour (due back on Wed.), Wednesday will be 5th hour

(due back on Fri.) and Friday will finally be 6th hour

(due back the following Mon.).

Van Horn—Math

We will continue working on Topic 19: Solving

Quadratic Equations. Their textbook can be found

online at:https://wichita.agilemind.com/ and their

Username and Password are their district

username and password.

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If you wish to contact any of the Pre-IB teachers with questions please note the following contact information. You can leave a message by

phone for any teacher at 973-8600.

Berry, Kathleen 6th Grade Math and Science Email: kberry@usd259.net

Callard, Tracy 6th and 8th Grade Language Arts

Email: tcallard@usd259.net

Flores, Tara 6th, 7th, 8th Grade Spanish Email: tflores@usd259.net

Jenney, Charles 7th and 8th Grade Science

Email: cjenney@usd259.net

Lavacek, Molly 7th and 8th Grade Language Arts

Email: mlavacek@usd259.net

Mandelbaum, Susan 6th Gr. Language Arts & Social Studies

Email: smandelbaum@usd259.net

Marsh, Elizabeth 6th, 7th, 8th Grade Spanish Email: emarsh@usd259.net

Rowley, Michele 7th and 8th Grade Social Studies

Email: mrowley@usd259.net

Sims, Katherine 7th and 8th Grade Language Arts

Email: ksims@usd259.net

Sinsel, Jennifer 6th and 7th Grade Math

Email: jsinsel@usd259.net

Stroot, Mary 7th and 8th Grade Math

Email: mstroot@usd259.net

Van Horn. Denise Team Leader

7th and 8th Grade Math Email: dvanhorn@usd259.net

Website http://www.usd259.org/robinson/pib

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use your Parent/Student Vue account.

American Girl

Applebee’s

Arabia Steamboat Museum

Attitudes Dance

Auto Zone

Barnes & Noble

Bearden’s Stained Glass

Beautiful Day Café

Big Tool Store

Bliss Boulder

Braum’s

Bug Stoppers of Derby

Capitol Federal

Casey’s General Store

Chicken Poop

Chick-fil-A

Coleman Co.

College Hill Creamery

Crave Beauty Academy

CVS

Doo-Dah Diner

Drury Hotel

Entrap Wichita

Exploration Place

Fort Hays State University

Frank Lloyd Wright House

Freebirds

Freddy’s

Georges French Bistro

Get Air

Green Lantern

Greene Vision Group

Hannah Banana

Hog Wild Pit BBQ

Il Vicino

Immediate Medical Clinic

Jimmy John’s

Kansas City Chiefs

Kansas City Royals

Kansas Cosmosphere

Kansas State University

Kauffman Center for Performing Arts

Kobe Steak House

KU School of Medicine

Logan’s Roadhouse

Love of Character

Margaret McHenry Maids

Medieval Times Dinner & Tourna-ment

Nebraska Furniture Mart

Oklahoma Aquarium

Oklahoma State University

On The Border

Otterbox

Paint the Towne

Panera

Pauly Dental

Philbrook Museum of Tulsa

Pie Five

Powell Jewelry

Prairie Fire Roasters

Quiescence

Sedgwick County Zoo

Signature Nail Spa

Silver Dollar City

Scholfield Honda

Snappy Chicks

Southwest National Bank

Spangles

Sunflower Bank

Sydney’s Pet Resort

Tanganyika Wildlife Park

Texas Roadhouse

The Cave House of Tulsa

The Cleaning Authority

The Pioneer Woman

The Violet Closet

Tulsa Zoo

Two Brothers BBQ

Two Olives

U.S. Marine Recruitment Center

Vornado

Wichita Art Museum

Wichita Ice Center

Wichita Parks & Recreation

Wichita Riding Academy

Wichita Sports Forum

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