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PIB Weekly News A P R I L 1 3 , 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:
April 14 and 17:
No School
April 18: Robinson
Battle of the Books
April 18: Il Vicino
Night (Douglas)
April 19: Track at
Wilbur
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
There is no school
tomorrow, Friday,
April 14
(conference
release day), or
Monday, April 17 (inservice). This
weekend would be a great time to
make sure there are no missing
assignments!
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.
Yeah, we have completed our state
assessments! If any student was
absent during our testing days, they
will be pulled from class to make up
the sections they missed.
We have noticed that lots of students
are low on school supplies (paper,
pencils, pens). Please ask your
student if they need any supplies.
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 ([email protected]), 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 receiving a field
trip form next week. Please return
the form and money by Monday,
April 24.
The Robinson PTSO is having their
annual BINGO
night on Friday,
April 21 from
6:00-8:00. See
the flyers on
Page 6 and 7! Thank you to those
who donated to our baskets! We
hope you’ll all come out and join
the fun.
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 students have just completed our statistics unit, and we’ll be starting a challenge activity that will
require them to utilize all the math skills they’ve acquired this year. Prepare to crash land on a deserted
island!
We will take a test over Univariate Statistics this
week. Students will spend the remaining time
tabulating, organizing, and working on a presenta-
tion for the data that they collected in the team
survey.
Students are preparing for and taking a perfor-
mance assessment over the Weather Unit this
week. We are ready to start our Space Explora-
tion.
We are now in the middle of Conrad Richter’s exciting
historical novel The Light in the Forest. Students are
doing an outstanding job finding textual evidence to
support their analysis of the text as we read daily. Our
grammar lessons will turn to adverbs next week, and in
the Wordly Wise program please expect the Lesson 12
quiz to be on Friday, April 21.
Kids are now focused on the rules for accenting diphthongs,
the dieresis, and the rules of syllabication. We are fortunate
that the North High Spanish Department shared a wonderful
resource for use with native Spanish speakers: “Manual de
Gramática y Ortografía Para Hispanos.” Next week we will
also practice translation skills that incorporate the grammar
and spelling topics at hand.
Due to state assessments this week, the vocabu-
lary recognition quiz over Chapter 2A in the Reali-
dades textbook that students were going to take
on Thursday, April 13th has been moved to
Wednesday, April 19th. Please make sure that
your student reviews vocabulary over the four-day
weekend to be well-prepared.
We will finish the DBQ’s, work on the Rome chap-
ter of the Build-A-Book and learn about the Byzan-
tine Empire.
We’ve had to do some schedule shuffling due to
state assessments. 6th grade Spanish students
will take a vocabulary recognition quiz on Wednes-
day (practicing on www.quizlet.com/lmarsh1 will
help them to prepare). Thursday and Friday will be
spent mastering spelling.
Next week we will be focusing on the poetry and
art of the holocaust children. Students will also
be creating a poem as well. My classes will con-
tinue reading their self-selected novels and filling
out their daily logs.
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 begin 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.
On Thursday, April 20th, students will take a quiz
that will require them to know how to correctly
spell all of the vocabulary words from Chapter 4A
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 4A.
Seventh graders will be studying body systems
next week, after their Wednesday quiz over pho-
tosynthesis
We are nearing the completion of The Little
Prince, noting themes, character analyses and im-
agery. The following week begins Shakespeare’s
A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Make sure you
have one of the following editions: Dover, No Fear
Shakespeare or Shakespeare Made Easy.
Students should now be brainstorming what they
would like to do for their final project in Spanish
class. Projects will be due on May 15th but there
will not be much in-class work time for students to
take advantage of. Next week we will practice
spelling and take a vocabulary production quiz on
Thursday over Cap. 4A.
We completed most of the DBQ last week; stu-
dents will be turning in their “closing statement”
writing on Tuesday. We will be learning about the
difficulties of Kansas writing a Constitution and
getting it approved by Congress. By the end of
the week, we will be learning about what the Kan-
sas Constitution actually does say.
Math 7+ students will take a test over Transfor-
mations on Tuesday, and we’ll be starting our unit
on Pythagorean Theorem on Wednesday.
Math 7+ students will finish the unit on transfor-
mations . Students will develop coordinate rules
for dilations. The test will be Friday.
The seventh graders will our unit on Shake-
speare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This
week, we will focus on character and plot devel-
opment.
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
Kids are now focused on the rules for accenting diph-
thongs, the dieresis, and the rules of syllabication. We
are fortunate that the North High Spanish Department
shared a wonderful resource for use with native Span-
ish speakers: “Manual de Gramática y Ortografía Para
Hispanos.” Next week we will also practice translation
skills that incorporate the grammar and spelling top-
ics at hand.
My student teacher, Sydney Roy, is teaching the
8th grade Pre-IB Spanish classes through the end
of this month. She asked me to tell you that she
really enjoyed taking students through the first
chapter of the novel El Viaje de su Vida this week.
Students will read through chapter two next week
and learn about Sr. and Sra. Mendoza, the owners
of the stolen necklace!
Eighth graders will be studying asexual and sexual
reproduction next week.
Four week novel project ends this week. We will
begin Much Ado About Nothing next week and will
continue to the end of the quarter. Make sure
you have one of the following editions: Dover, No
Fear Shakespeare or Shakespeare Made Easy.
This coming week, the 8th graders will continue
our unit on Much Ado About Nothing. This week,
we will focus on character and plot development.
Geometry students will start the unit on circles.
Students will use tangent lines, secant lines,
chords, and radii to find angle measures and seg-
ment lengths.
Algebra students will solve quadratic equations by
factoring and graphing.
We are continuing deeper into the Civil War. Stu-
dents have a battle chart and a glossary that they
must keep up with for the entire unit, as well as
weekly video at-home assignments to complete.
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: [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
Email: [email protected]
Lavacek, Molly 7th and 8th Grade Language Arts
Email: [email protected]
Mandelbaum, Susan 6th Gr. Language Arts & Social Studies
Email: [email protected]
Marsh, Elizabeth 6th, 7th, 8th Grade Spanish Email: [email protected]
Rowley, Michele 7th and 8th Grade Social Studies
Email: [email protected]
Sims, Katherine 7th and 8th Grade Language Arts
Email: [email protected]
Sinsel, Jennifer 6th and 7th Grade Math
Email: [email protected]
Stroot, Mary 7th and 8th Grade Math
Email: [email protected]
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.
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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