October 28, 2024

Robinwood Families,

We are thrilled to have our school psychologist, Abigail (Abby) Koldeway, as a part of the learning community here at Robinwood. Some of our goals at Robinwood involve strengthening student social-emotional skills to help promote a safe and healthy classroom environment that in turn positively impacts our academic skills. Given this, we wanted to start a monthly social-emotional learning (SEL) corner so that families have the same access to some of the language and skills that we are working on as a school community.

This month’s social-emotional learning (SEL) topic is Self-Regulation.

Self-regulation is the ability to appropriately display our emotions through using our words and actions/behaviors while also being able to appropriately adjust our emotions to different situations. Students at Robinwood have been learning self-regulation skills through the ZONES of Regulation. You may hear your student say “I’m in the green zone” or “I’m in the red zone.” This is the language they are learning from this resource. Please help us reinforce this language by using it at home when talking with your student about how their day was. Ask them what zone they were in and why. As the year goes on, students will be learning strategies they can use to get their brain and body ready for “learning and working” at school when they may be experiencing strong emotions (e.g., feelings that are in the red, yellow, or blue zones).

Additional Parent Resources are below:

Zones Poster

Elementary Zones

Zones for Home

Zones Glossary

Looking forward to another great week!

Lydia Sesing

As a reminder, the 2024-25 District Calendar can be found in PDF format here and linked into our district calendars on our website here. All of our calendars are able to be subscribed to! Follow the steps at the top of the District Calendar webpage for how to subscribe.

Please join us for a fundraiser at Noodles and Company on Thursday Nov 7th from 4pm-8pm. Please see the flyer below for further details:

Monday, Nov 11 - Friday, Nov 15 - Please help us celebrate our Veteran's!

Our Family Information Series continues this year in November with a session that focuses on understanding the digital world that children are growing up in. These sessions are not only open to FPS families, but to neighboring communities as well so please share where appropriate.

• How to Reach, Teach, & Support iGeneration Students: This session will be led by Katey McPherson, Child Advocate & Education Consultant and take place Forest Park Middle School in the Commons (map here) on Tuesday, November 12th @ 6pm.

In addition, this same session is also running in the Pewaukee Schools the day after ours. See their current flyer here for more details.

Our Parent/Teacher Conferences will be held on Thursday, November 14th and Thursday, November 21st from 4:30-8:00 p.m. Please click here to sign up.

Robinwood will be celebrating Veterans Day with a bulletin board by the office. If you have a picture of a family member in uniform that we could have please send it to Debra.Niestrom@franklin.k12.wi.us by Thursday, October 31st. We'll need the following information to be displayed with the photo:

Information:

Name of student related to veteran:

How are they related to student:

Name of veteran:

Branch of the military:

If served in a war time, name of war:

Or if they are currently serving

Together we can make Veteran’s day a remembered and valued holiday for our younger generations!

Please click here to see Robinwood Pictures

Please click here to see pictures of the items in our lost and found. We will be purging lost and found items more often so it’s important for children to keep close tabs on their belongings. It is also suggested that if possible, student items be labeled with the first and last name on it so that we can get it back to the student if it becomes lost. All items not picked up after 2 weeks will be donated.

On Wednesday, October 16th, we held our 2nd of 3 Community Referendum Information Sessions being offered in October. TMJ4 s Mariam Mackar interviewed FPS District Administrator Annalee Bennin about the projects at FHS that the referendum would address. They held a live shot on the 6pm news and featured Franklin Public Schools in a 2-minute story on the 10pm news -- the 10pm news story is on their website here, but both the 6pm & 10pm clips are included in this video below.

Provided below is information, deadlines and important dates related to voting in the general election.

If you are not registered to vote and you are eligible, there is still time!

• Register In-person at voting location on Election Day: Tues, November 5th

Absentee ballot deadlines

• Request ballot (received by): Fri, October 31st by 5pm CDT

• Return ballot by mail (received by): Tues, November 5th by 8pm CST

• Return ballot in person: Tues, November 5th by 8pm CST
  
  

• From the City of Franklin website (here): Absentee voting in the City Clerk's office is restricted to the 2 weeks before an Election and ends at the close of business the Friday before an Election. In-person absentee voting at the City Clerk's Office for the November 5, 2024 Fall General Election will be available weekdays Tuesday, October 22, 2024, through Thursday, October 31, 2024, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Friday, November 1, 2024, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. No in-person absentee voting may occur on the day before the election.

Our VOTING page has more voter information details

VIRTUALLY SEE THE SPACES OF NEED

Can't make it to the final Community Information Session? Check out our "virtual tour" of the FHS spaces by clicking on the map below! Short videos and 360 videos are clickable at each location right from your phone and will better explain the areas we hope to address through the referendum.

CLICK ON THE MAP BELOW TO LOOK AROUND!

Popcorn Fridays - Volunteers Needed!

The first Friday of each month (Nov-May), PTO and parent volunteers will make popcorn at Robinwood! Popcorn will cost $0.25 for each Popcorn Friday and there are TWO ways to pay:

1. Bring a quarter to school each Popcorn Friday; OR

2. Pay the full year ($1.75) in advance through Zeffy. Click here to pay now!

Help us make popcorn! Sign up for November 1st here.

Next PTO Meeting is October 30!

Join us for our monthly PTO meeting to share your feedback, learn about upcoming events, and get involved at Robinwood! See flier below for agenda.

Mark your calendar

October 30- PTO Meeting 6:30pm

November 1 - Popcorn Friday

November 14 & 21- Book Fair and Parent/Teacher Conferences

Fill the Fridge- 4th Grade Families

Let’s show the Robinwood Staff how much we appreciate them all year long! During the month of November, we are asking 4th grade families to help stock the staff lounge with snacks and drinks. Donations can be dropped off in the school office all month long. Some popular favorites are: Diet Coke, sparkling water, ready to drink coffee, popcorn and any sweet treat.

Ask your teacher what their favorite is!

Thank you to all our 5th grade families for your donations in October!

Website: https://robinwood.ptboard.com/

Facebook: www.facebook.com/RobinwoodPTO

Email: RobinwoodJaguarsPTO@gmail.com

See the infographic for this month's Box Tops updates. For more Box Tops information, click here.

The Franklin High School Child Development II students will be sponsoring “Saber Pre-school” for children ages 3 to 5 on various days in December.

Saber Pre-school is designed for children ages 3 to 5 who are toilet trained and ready to experience a supportive and enriching pre-school environment. The student teachers prepare daily lesson plans that not only provide opportunities for the Little Sabers to develop socially, but also to enhance their kindergarten readiness skills. The Saber Pre-school program offers a truly excellent experience for both our big and small students.

Class time will be from 9:00 to 10:15 am and tuition is $20 to cover the cost of materials and snacks for the entire 3 weeks. Saber Pre-school will include story time, large and small group activities, free time, songs and other fun activities. Pre-registration is required. Registration closes when we hit 25 participants or by Friday, November 15th at the latest. If you know someone who has a child ages 3-5, please help us by sharing this message to them!

CLICK HERE for the Informational Flyer | CLICK HERE to register

The FHS Fall Play is fast approaching with shows taking place Thurs 11/14 through Sun 11/17. For tickets and show information, please visit the Saber Center website here.

Show Description: Welcome to Almost, Maine, a place that’s so far north, it’s almost not in the United States. It’s almost in Canada. And it’s not quite a town, because its residents never got around to getting organized. So it almost doesn’t exist. One cold, clear, winter night, as the northern lights hover in the star-filled sky above, the residents of Almost, Maine, find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and hilarious ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken. But the bruises heal, and the hearts mend—almost—in this delightful midwinter night’s dream.

While our Community Ed & Rec Winter/Spring Guide isn’t out yet (and won’t be for a little bit) we do have an early offering we want to share with families for youth (K-5th) Chess sessions that will be starting mid-December. CLICK HERE for the chess page with all the details.

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Email: Debra.Niestrom@franklin.k12.wi.us
Website: https://www.franklin.k12.wi.us/robinwood-elementary-school
Location: 10705 West Robinwood Lane, Franklin, WI, USA
Phone: 414-529-8255
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