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Team News UPCOMING

EVENTS:

October 7: Vol-

leyball at CMA

October 7: Dairy

Queen Night (East

Central)

October 8: Cross

Country—All City

October 8: PTSO

and Foundation

Meeting

October 9: Fund-

raiser Packets Due

October 9: Vol-

leyball at Stucky

October 15: Il Vi-

cino Night

October 15: Fall

Choir Concert

October 16: Vol-

leyball at Wilbur

October 17: Kona

Ice at Lunch Recess

October 17: 6th

Grade Band Perfor-

mance

October 18: NO

SCHOOL; Last Day

of the First Nine

Weeks

Immunization exclusion day is

Thursday, October 17. Are your

student’s shots up to date? Contact

the school nurse, Krista Miller, if you

have questions.

The Robinson Achieve-A-Thon

Fundraiser last turn in day is

Wednesday, October 9. You can also

get information at:

https://www.usd259.org/robinson/pt

so/achieve-a-thon. Thank you for

your support of our schoolwide

fundraiser

The Safe and Civil Schools Survey is

open until November 1. Our school is

committed to providing a safe and

encouraging place for your child. You

can help us continue to make

improvements to our school by

completing a short online survey. We

want to know what you think, too. All

responses are anonymous. The

resulting data will allow us to see if

the three groups—parents/guardians,

students, and staff—agree or disagree

about important issues. We will be

able to identify what we are doing

well and what we need to work on,

such as safety in a particular location

of the school, students’

understanding of the expectations for

behavior, or communication with

families. It’s quick and easy, just visit

http://bit.ly/rmssafeandcivil2019.

Use the assigned ID: PARENT_RMS and passcode: Q2G3P3S2 Just one

parent or guardian from each

household should take it.

Have questions about homework?

The Homework Hotline is here to

help! Students at all grade levels

who have questions about their

assignments, as well as parents

and guardians who need support

while helping their child at home,

can call or email the Homework

Hotline. The Homework Hotline is

open Monday through Thursday

from 3:30 – 7:30 p.m. Call for

help: 973-4411. Please take

advantage of this support system to

make Every Student Future Ready!

ZAP on Tuesday and Thursday is not

just for students who have a D or F.

ANY PIB student can to come in at

lunch and/or recess on Monday

and Tuesday for additional

worktime for any class in Room

217. Students can get a pass from

any teacher and MUST have their

ID. Computers are available for

students to use during this time.

Make sure you in your community

service forms to your CHARGE

Teacher. If you have any questions

please see Ms. Mandelbaum (6th

Grade) and Ms. Rowley (7th and 8th

Grade). Log sheets are available on

our team page on the Robinson

Website. Sixth Graders need to

complete 15 hours, Seventh

Graders 20 hours, and Eighth

Graders 25 hours. Half of the hours

are due to their CHARGE teacher by

Friday, December 6. If the hours

are not completed Social Studies

grades will be lowered 10%.

P A G E 2

Volunteers Needed

Have you heard of Volunteer Kansas? It’s a website

(www.volunteerkansas.org) for people who want to find

exciting and useful ways to engage in their community.

Students can browse opportunities to volunteer by loca-

tion or by their interests.

United Way has a website that lists

volunteer opportunities for teens. For

more information, visit http://

www.unitedwayplains.org/teen-

volunteers/ .

Turn in hours to your CHARGE Teacher.

Check google classroom for the number of hours

you have turned in.

Pumpkins at the Park

Tanganyika puts on a family-friendly Halloween event, Pumpkins at the Park. Pumpkins at the Park is

by far the largest special event we put on each year. In fact, we need approximately 100 volunteers per

night for the event to work. All of the funds raised by this event go straight into our Winter Fund to help

feed the rare and endangered animals in our care over the winter! Dates Available: Friday 10/18,

Saturday 10/19, Sunday 10/20, Friday 10/25, Saturday 10/26, and Sunday 10/27. Age

Requirements: Volunteers must be 14 to attend without a parent/guardian. Volunteers 11 to 13 may

attend with a parent or guardian age 18 or older. Volunteers under 14 may be limited in what positions

they can fill. Times: 4:30 pm to 10:00 pm (must attend for the full shift). To sign up, visit

twpark.hauntscheduler.com

Woofstock—October 5, 2019

Come and help us out with Fall’s Fluffiest Festival! Woofstock is the Kansas Humane Society’s largest

fundraiser every year and we need lots of volunteer support to pull it off. There will be a Woof Walk, live

music, contests, a beer garden and food trucks as well as activities like Ruff Races, doggy agility course,

children's puppy clinic, water retrieval, a lure course, photo booth, live demos from the WPD's K-9 Unit

and McConnell's Military Dogs, and MORE! Volunteering for Woofstock is separate from signing up to be

a regular KHS volunteer and is a 1 day only commitment. Shifts available are 7am-10am for early setup

and walk, 8:30am-12pm for the morning shift, 11:30am-3pm for the afternoon shift, and teardown from

3pm-5pm. Sign up for one shift or stay and help all day. Volunteer jobs can include anything from greet-

ing guests as the enter the park to helping all of the planned activities run smoothly. Contact the volun-

teer department at KHS with any questions or click on the links below to sign up.If you are interested in

helping out, please fill out an application at https://www.volgistics.com/ex/portal.dll/ap?p=714857794

P A G E 3

Sixth Grade PIB Berry—Math Berry—Science

Callard—Language Arts Flores—Spanish

This week we will finish our work on Ratios. The

test is scheduled for Thursday, October 10. It will

be online, so use MATHIA to get used to answering

questions online and for practicing all the great

new strategies that have been introduced. Our

next Topic unit, beginning Friday, will be Percents.

Our week will be filled with activity. First, we will perform and

use data from a lab over speed and acceleration to help un-

derstand Newton’s Second and Third Laws. Next, each

group will design and build the Slowest Marble Maze. In

addition, we will observing and identifying Newton’s laws in a

review task card activity. This is all to prepare for the Marble

Challenge Contest and Physics Final during the week of Octo-

ber 14th. I encourage you to give advice and recycled materi-

als to build things at home to bring to school for the maze,

but please allow your child to do the work. I will be checking

pages 16-17 in the Science Spirals this week.

Mandelbaum—Language Arts Mandelbaum—Social Studies

Polson—Spanish Taylor—Math

We are reading, responding and reflecting on Ref-

ugee next week. We will be going over figurative

language and looking for examples in the text. We

will focus on hyperbole, personification and im-

agery.

We are continuing our study of Egypt. We will be

writing a fun journal about the life of an ancient

Egyptian told through the eyes of a Mesopotami-

an spy.

We have finished our novel Refugee, which the

kids have thoroughly enjoyed. Our wrap-up in-

cludes group presentations of character timelines

and activities to build skills in identifying and stat-

ing claims about literary conflict and theme. Next

week, we will finish Lesson 4 in our vocabulary

books. Please note that Scholastic Book orders

are due by the end of the day on Thursday, Octo-

ber 10th.

Students will present their projects for Hispanic

Heritage Month on either Monday, Tuesday or

Wednesday of next week. Regardless of the day

they present, all projects are due to me by Mon-

day. I am especially excited to learn about the fa-

mous people students chose to study and why

they found them so intriguing!

What a fun week we have ahead of us! Students

will be presenting their Hispanic Heritage Projects

Monday – Wednesday. Presentation days have

been assigned to each student and are posted on

Classroom. We will begin reading a 10 episode

silly story at the end of the week.

Understanding ratios: students engaged in high-

level representational and definitional thinking

about ratios. They have focused on reasoning

about ratios and laying a strong foundation, so

that they will be able to apply this reasoning in

future topics. Math Practices: Model Mathematics

& Utilize Patterns.

Flores—Spanish Jenney—Science

Lavacek—Language Arts Rowley—Social Studies

Sims—Language Arts Sinsel—Math

Van Horn—Math

We will continue working on Module 3 Topic 3: Multiple Representations of Equations. The test will be

on Tuesday, October 8. Remember that students are asked to complete 25% of the curriculum each

nine weeks. They will have time each week in class , but some time at home or during ZAP may be

needed to complete this goal. If you need additional help, ZAP is available on Tuesday and Thursday at

lunch in my classroom.

Students will continue through the SciFi galaxy

this week as we wrap up our study of “Harrison

Bergeron.” If there is time, we may also venture

to Mars with Bradbury’s “Dark They Were and

Golden Eyed.” Throughout the unit students have

examined SciFi’s ability to comment on social jus-

tice and the interaction of technology and human-

ity. Students have analyzed, evaluated, and even

performed some of the stories we have read so

far.

The seventh graders will continue the science fic-

tion as social commentary unit this coming week,

focusing on “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury.

7th Grade Math 7+: Math students have recently started a unit on

Probability, and we’ll continue this next week. We’ll also take one

more day for Mathia before the first 25% of the curriculum is due

on Oct. 14. Make sure you check your percentage completed so

you stay on track to finish! This will be a 25 point grade at the end

of the quarter.

7th Grade Algebra 1: Math students have recently begun a unit on

solving linear equations, which we’ll continue next week. We’ll also

take at least one more day for Mathia before the first 25% of the

curriculum is due on Oct. 14. Make sure you check your percent-

age completed so you stay on track to finish! This will be a 25

point grade at the end of the quarter.

We will be studying North America (Canada and

the U.S) for the remainder of the nine weeks. We

will have a physical map quiz over North America

on Monday. This does have a word bank. On Fri-

day of next week, we will have a states quiz. All

50 states of the U.S., no word bank and spelling

does count.

P A G E 4

Seventh Grade PIB

Next week students will begin reading the novel

Patricia va a California. I have a classroom set of

the novels, but recommend that each student

have their own personal copy that they can anno-

tate and use outside of the classroom. I have a

pdf copy of the novel on my Google Classroom

page that students can easily access. There is al-

so a link if you would like to purchase a hard

copy on Google Classroom.

Seventh grade student scientists will be continu-

ing their studies of earth systems and energy next

week.

P A G E 5

Eighth Grade PIB Flores—Spanish Jenney—Science

Lavacek—Language Arts Rowley—Social Studies

The action will pick up very quickly during next

week's reading of the novel, as students learn

about a new student who almost dies in

school! (Please don't worry, there is no violence or

mention of weapons!) There will be lots of activi-

ties to aid in comprehension and even some dra-

matic acting!

Eighth grade student scientists will be continuing

their studies of chemistry next week, presenting

their models of chemical reactions on Wednes-

day.

Sims—Language Arts Sinsel—Math

Taylor—Math Van Horn—Math

This coming week, the eighth graders will continue

our study of suspense fiction, focusing on “The

Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe. We’ll concen-

trate on how the author develops characterization

and plot through suspense.

Math students have recently begun a unit on solv-

ing linear equations, which we’ll continue next

week. We’ll also take at least one more day for

Mathia before the first 25% of the curriculum is

due on Oct. 14. Make sure you check your per-

centage completed so you stay on track to fin-

ish! This will be a 25 point grade at the end of

the quarter.

We will continue to look around corners and pre-

pare for surprise endings as we travel through the

world of Suspense. We will be moving on to Lucille

Fletcher’s “The Hitchhiker.” As with our other sto-

ries, we will read the original and examine the film

adaptation. Students have been working hard on

developing literary analysis paragraphs—

integrating direct quotes, elaborating on this evi-

dence, and developing transitions.

We will begin Chapter 6 on Monday, The Ameri-

can Revolution. Depending on your child’s fifth

grade teacher, this may seem like review or may

be brand new and everywhere in between. Re-

gardless, their 8th grade brains can comprehend

much more of the subtleties and complexities

than their 5th grade brain could. This chapter will

take us through the remainder of the 9 weeks.

Beginning this topic with significant knowledge

about geometric shapes and their relationships,

students build from their prior experiences with

opportunities to conjecture about relationships

they have recognized through investiga-

tion. Currently we have been using a compass,

straightedge, and protractor to examine these re-

lationships. Math Practices: Model Mathematics &

Strategically Use Tools.

We will finish working on Module 2 Topic 1, by

looking at linear functions. The test will be Tues-

day, October 8. We will then work on solving line-

ar equations. Remember that students are

asked to complete 25% of the curriculum each

nine weeks. If you need additional help, ZAP is

available on Tuesday and Thursday at lunch in my

classroom.

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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 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

Polson, Elizabeth 6th, 7th, 8th Grade Spanish

Email: epolson@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 7th and 8th Grade Math

Email: jsinsel@usd259.net

Taylor, Mike 6th and 8th Grade Math

Email: mtaylor4@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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