PIB Weekly News
W W W . U S D 2 5 9 . O R G / R O B I N S O N / P I B
UPCOMING
EVENTS:
 April 21: PTSO
BINGO Night
 April 25: Track at
Brooks
 April 27: Fundraiser at Ziggy’s Pizza
 April 28: 6th
Grade Field Trip
 April 28: 8th
Grade Panoramic
Picture
 May 2: Track at
Wilbur
 May 2: Bond Celebration
 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
Team News
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
([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.
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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!
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Sixth Grade PIB
Berry—Math
Berry—Science
This week we will wrap up and share our data survey
projects. Students have put together some interesting 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.
Callard—-Language Arts
Callard—-Spanish
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 examples of palabras graves/llanas, agudas, y esdrújulas. We are also completing exercises in the “Manual
de Gramática y Ortografía Para Hispanos.”
Flores—Spanish
Mandelbaum—Language Arts
On Wednesday, April 26th, students will take a
quiz that will require them to know how to correctly 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.
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.
Mandelbaum—Social Studies
Marsh—Spanish
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.
Sinsel—Math
Math 6+ students will continue the Stranded! activity with new survival challenges next week!
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Seventh Grade PIB
Flores—Spanish
Jenney—Science
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 jcd0403 and jcd-0404.jcd-0604 and jcd-0605.
Seventh graders are studying body systems currently.
Lavacek—Language Arts
Marsh—Spanish
We will be traipsing through a Midsummer Night’s
Dream and following characters as they journey
away from the orderly and predictable city of Athens into the mysterious and magical realm of the
forest. Students will read, perform, and watch this
play of confused love, familial conflict, and theatrical 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.
Rowley—Social Studies
Sims—Language Arts
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 settling in Kansas.
This coming week, the seventh graders will continue reading and analyzing A Midsummer Night’s
Dream. We will continue to focus on character
and plot development.
Sinsel—Math
Stroot—Math
Math 7+ students will continue our student of Pythagorean Theorem this week. Watch for a test
toward the end of the week!
Math 7+ students will start the chapter on the Pythagorean Theorem.
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.
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Eighth Grade PIB
Callard—Spanish
Flores—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 exercises in the “Manual de Gramática y Ortografía Para Hispanos.”
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.
Jenney—Science
Lavacek—Language Arts
Eighth graders are studying traits and inheritance.
We will be making our way through Much Ado
About Nothing—Shakespeare’s comedy about rumors gone awry, friendships torn apart, love interests shattered then repaired and identities confused (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.
Rowley—Social Studies
Sims—Language Arts
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.).
The 8th graders will reading and analyzing Much
Ado About Nothing this coming week. We will continue to focus on character and plot development.
Stroot—Math
Van Horn—Math
Geometry students will continue to study chords,
arcs, and inscribed angles.
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.
Algebra students will continue to work on solving
quadratic equations. Students will practice the
factoring and completing the square methods.
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.
Marsh, Elizabeth
Berry, Kathleen
6th, 7th, 8th Grade Spanish
Email: [email protected]
Callard, Tracy
Rowley, Michele
6th and 8th Grade Language Arts
Email: [email protected]
7th and 8th Grade Social Studies
Email: [email protected]
Flores, Tara
Sims, Katherine
6th, 7th, 8th Grade Spanish
Email: [email protected]
7th and 8th Grade Language Arts
Email: [email protected]
Jenney, Charles
Sinsel, Jennifer
7th and 8th Grade Science
Email: [email protected]
6th and 7th Grade Math
Email: [email protected]
Lavacek, Molly
Stroot, Mary
7th and 8th Grade Language Arts
Email: [email protected]
7th and 8th Grade Math
Email: [email protected]
Mandelbaum, Susan
Van Horn. Denise
6th Gr. Language Arts & Social Studies
Email: [email protected]
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.
PIB Contact Information
6th Grade Math and Science
Email: [email protected]
THANK YOU TO THE MERCHANTS WHO HAVE DONATED PRIZES
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
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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 & Tournament
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
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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
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The Cleaning Authority
The Pioneer Woman
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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