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PIB Weekly News M A R C H 1 0 , 2 0 1 7 W W W . U S D 2 5 9 . O R G / R O B I N S O N / P I B

Team News UPCOMING

EVENTS:

March 13: PTSO

Meeting

March 13: Dairy

Queen Fundraiser

(East Central)

March 14: Pi Day

March 14: Spring

Individual Pictures

March 15: Family

Night in gym

March 17-24:

Spring Break—No

School

March 21: Il Vicino

Night

March 28: 8th

grade Science State

Assessment

March 30: Fund-

raiser at Chick-Fil-A

March 31: Flip

Schedule

April 3: 7th and

8th ELA State As-

sessment

April 3: Founda-

tion Meeting

April 4: 6th ELA

State Assessment

PIB Family Night is THIS Wednesday, March

15 from 6:00-8:00 pm in the gym. We will

have 12 STEM Activity Stations. See page

6 for more information.

The Robinson Foundation is having their

annual BINGO night on Friday, April 21 from

6:00-8:00. Look for more information from

PTSO in the next couple of weeks. The Pre-

IB team decided to fill two baskets to be

auctioned off that night. Our baskets will

be:

“Treat Yourself” a gift card basket.

“Cozy Up to A Good Book” a basket with

reading supplies

We are looking for donations to fill our

basket (remember you get bonus fuel

points if you purchase gift cards at Dillons).

Donated items for the basket need to be

brought to Ms. Van Horn’s classroom (217)

by Friday, April 14. Thank you for all of your

support! We hope you’ll all come out and

join the fun.

The Mathcounts team (Vivian Lu, Alex

Mandanis, Mehala Muthukumar, and Aryan

Waghmode) participated in

state this past weekend. Vivian

placed tenth in the individual

competition. Vivian is the first

student from Robinson to place

in the individual competition at

state. Congratulations to

Vivian!

We have noticed that some of the students

are low on school supplies (paper, pencils,

pens). Please ask your student if they need

any supplies.

Spring Break is also a good time to get

caught up on community service. United

Way offers their Spring Break Volunteer

Week. Register online at: http://

www.unitedwayplains.org/youth-days-of-

caring

Christa McAuliffe Academy Carnival

Volunteers Needed for Saturday, April 8th

Carnival runs from 4:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

A brief meeting for ALL VOLUNTEERS will

be held in the theater at 3:30 p.m.

Cleanup will begin at 8:00 p.m. Please

sign up on the clipboard outside of Ms.

Rowley’s room. No email sign ups will be

allowed.

State Assessments

Here are the dates that we will be taking

the Kansas State Assessments. Please

make sure that the students are at

school on the days we are taking the

assessments.

6th Grade (1st and 2nd hours)

ELA: Tuesday, April 4

Math: Wednesday, April 12

7th Grade: (4th hour and 5th hour )

ELA: Monday, April 3

Math: Tuesday, April 11

8th Grade: (1st and 2nd hours)

Science: Tuesday, March 28

ELA: Monday, April 3

Math: Tuesday, April 11

Community Service

Community Service reminder: ALL

community service hours are due by the

first Friday of May.

6th Grade: 15 hours; turn into Ms.

Mandelbaum


Rowley


Rowley

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%.

Please contact us if you have any

questions or concerns. Thank you for

your support!

http://www.unitedwayplains.org/youth-days-of-caring



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 take their test over ratios, proportion, and percent on Tuesday. We’ll complete a

fun mini-project the final two days before Spring Break!

This week we will wrap up ratios with a test on Pi

Day. On Wednesday and Thursday, the plan is to

perform a slime experiment in math. Our focus

will be to explain the results of various ratios of

soap to glue. I may be asking for donations of

cash or supplies soon, so heads-up. :-)

This week we will study the Water Cycle. This set

of lessons are the first part of the weather unit

which will follow Spring Break. Thank you for all

your donations for the Maze Contest. Your chil-

dren really enjoyed the building, testing and com-

petition in the unit.

Wordly Wise Lesson 8 quiz will be on Thursday, March 9th. Stu-

dents are still reading Conrad Richter’s historical novel The Light in

the Forest. The discussion focus this week and next will be on

Conrad’s themes of contempt and man’s inhumanity to man. This

week, students also honed listening, speaking, and critical analysis

skills after hearing a National Public Radio discussion on the dehu-

manization of enemies and dehumanization’s relationship to geno-

cide, a theme that aligns with our novel. Enjoy spring break and

please take time to read for pleasure daily.

Students are nearly finished with our novel Las

Telarañas de Carlota. Our vocabulary this week

and next focuses on words related to the state

fair, agricultural, and carnival attractions.

This week students played a game in which they

were part of a moving school bus. This got them

up and moving and helped check their under-

standing of the first two chapters of their novel.

Students proved that they were definitely ready to

read a short book written entirely in Spanish!

Next week they will read through chapter five.

Next week we will be completing chapter 11. The

concepts we will be covering will be the end of

the Roman Republic and the beginning of the Ro-

man Empire. We will be introduced to Julius Cae-

sar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Augustus. There

will be a quiz over sections 11-3 and 11-4 before

Spring Break.

The 6th grade students are excelling with Pobre

Ana as they recognize new vocabulary and use a

variety of strategies to comprehend complex text.

Next week we will continue to practice these skills

as we read and discuss Capítulos 4 y 5.

Next week we will be finishing our novel and complet-

ing a writing assignment over it. On Tuesday, we will

be having our state assessment review test. The test

will focus on the vocabulary required for doing well on

our state assessment. The information is all in their

Interactive Notebooks which should be taken home to

review for the test.

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 celebrate “pi day” on 3/14. Students can bring circular foods to share with the class. The re-

maining of the week, we will cover Topic 15: Effects of Change. Remember all late work is due before

we take the test. Their textbook can be found online at: https://explore.agilemind.com/ and their

Username and Password are their 6 Digit ID number.

Students have been practicing since the begin-

ning of the school year to take the National Span-

ish Exam. On Tuesday and Wednesday of next

week they will finally get to take the exam and see

the results of their arduous preparation. Please

make sure your student is here and gets a good

night’s rest each evening before the “big days”!

Seventh graders will be studying photosynthesis

and respiration.

We will continue our journey through The Little

Prince.

The 7th grade students will spend Monday receiv-

ing their last testing instructions and relaxing.

Tuesday and Wednesday we will meet in the li-

brary to complete the 2017 National Spanish Ex-

am. On Thursday we will celebrate all of their hard

work to prepare for the test and will also do a pre-

Spring Break locker clean-out.

This will be our last week of geography before be-

ginning Kansas History after spring break. Asian

Culture Day will be on Thursday. Any missing or

absent work must be turned into the appropriate

basket by the end of school on Tuesday the 14th

to receive credit.

Math 7+ students will begin a unit on Transfor-

mations.

Math 7+ students will start the unit on transfor-

mations----translations, rotations, and reflections.

This coming week, the 7th graders will continue

our study of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-

Exupery. We continue focusing on character de-

velopment and how difference in perception

shapes people.

https://explore.agilemind.com/

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

Students are nearly finished with our novel Las

Telarañas de Carlota. Our vocabulary this week

and next focuses on words related to the state

fair, agricultural, and carnival attractions.

Students have been practicing since the begin-

ning of the school year to take the National Span-

ish Exam. On Tuesday and Wednesday of next

week they will finally get to take the exam and see

the results of their arduous preparation. Please

make sure your student is here and gets a good

night’s rest each evening before the “big days”!

Eighth graders will be studying biodiversity and

ecosystem services.

Students will continue to read, discuss, and docu-

ment in their Small Group Novel Study groups.

This coming week, the 8th graders will continue

their small group novel study. They will be read-

ing and discussing, as well as researching the his-

tory and literary criticism of the novel.

Geometry students will continue to work with sur-

face area and volume.

Algebra students will continue to work on model-

ing the quadratic function

Rough drafts of the DBQ essay were due today;

final drafts will be due on Wednesday. There will

be a turn in grade for the final essay on this nine

weeks, but the final grade for the essay will be on

next nine weeks grades. Any missing or absent

work must be turned into the appropriate basket

by the end of school on Tuesday the 14th to re-

ceive credit.

Van Horn—Math

We will celebrate “pi day” on 3/14. Students can

bring circular foods to share with the class. The

remaining of the week, we will finish the exploring

we have not covered from Topic 8. Their textbook

can be found online at:https://

wichita.agilemind.com/ and their Username and

Password are their district username and pass-

word.



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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: [email protected]

Callard, Tracy 6th and 8th Grade Language Arts

Email: [email protected]

Flores, Tara 6th, 7th, 8th Grade Spanish Email: [email protected]

Jenney, Charles 7th and 8th Grade Science


Lavacek, Molly 7th and 8th Grade Language Arts


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


Marsh, Elizabeth 6th, 7th, 8th Grade Spanish Email: [email protected]

Rowley, Michele 7th and 8th Grade Social Studies


Sims, Katherine 7th and 8th Grade Language Arts


Sinsel, Jennifer 6th and 7th Grade Math


Stroot, Mary 7th and 8th Grade Math


Van Horn. Denise Team Leader

7th and 8th Grade Math Email: [email protected]

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

The page gives team information. A Weekly Newsletter (published Friday afternoons) will be posted. The newsletter will give information about topics of study and events for the following week. To access classroom websites you will need to

use your Parent/Student Vue account.

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