Dear River Springs Middle School Community: Happy New Year! I trust everyone had a restful and enjoyable winter break. We are looking forward to a great 2013! The school year is rapidly moving along. We are now in our second semester. FCAT testing will begin on Tuesday, February 26 with FCAT Writes Testing. Please be sure students are rested and eat a healthy breakfast before school. The Volusia County High School Showcase will take place at the Volusia County Fair Grounds on Tuesday, January 15, 2013. This is a great opportunity for our 8th graders to see what is offered in our high schools. The event is from 5:00 PM until 7:30 PM. Congratulations to RSMS Teacher of the Year, Mrs. Tamara Neusch. Mrs. Neusch teaches 8th Grade math. Mrs. Neusch, along with other Volusia County nominees will be recognized at a Teacher of the Year Banquet on Friday, January 25, 2013. Now that school is back in full session, it is imperative that we stay focused on academics. We encourage parents to stay updated on your child’s progress via the Pinnacle system. As always, thank you for your continued support. Go Gators! Sincerely,

Stacy Gotlib-Principal Sjgotlib@volusia.k12.fl.us

River Springs Middle School 900 West Ohio Avenue Orange City, FL 32763 Office (386) 968-0011 FAX (386) 968-0018

Principal, Mrs. S. Gotlib

Asst. Principal, Ms A. Wiles Asst. Principal, Mr. S. Mallory Asst. Principal, Mrs. J. Hinson

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You can move to the front of the line in the cafeteria by bringing in 3 cans of non-perishable food! Thank you to everyone who sent in food for our RSMS Gator Grub Food Pantry! Food from our pantry is used exclusively for our RSMS families. Contact your Guidance Counselor if you need assistance with food. Donations of non-perishable foods are accepted year round. Donations of non-perishable food needs to be dropped off in the front office and will be exchanged for a front of line lunchroom pass. Passes are one time use only. One pass per student per day. PLEASE DO NOT BRING YOUR DONATIONS TO THE CAFETERIA!

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR CONTINUED DONATIONS!

DOING THE RIGHT THINGS FOR THE RIGHT REASONS!

2012-2013 SAC (School Advisory Councils)

Remaining Meeting Dates

01/24/13 02/28/13 04/25/13 05/23/13

Congratulations to RSMS 2013-2014

Teacher of the Year

Ms. Tamara Neusch

8th Grade Math Teacher!

Congratulations Christina Oostwouder

Congratulations to 8th grader Christina Oostwouder, who won the

Award of Excellence for the Middle School division at the Deland Fall Festival of the Arts.

WTG Christina!

Here’s how … We can earn free money for our school through the Box Tops for Education Program! From October 1, 2012 through January 31, 2013 we are having a contest to see which 1st period class can bring in the most box tops! It’s that simple!

The winning class earns free breakfast on 2/14/13 with our very own Mrs. Gotlib!

KEEP COLLECTING! GOOD LUCK!

Would you like to win breakfast with our Principal

on Valentine’s Day?

RSMS welcomes Mr. Weston to our Gator Family. Mr. Weston is our

new 7th grade Guidance Counselor.

Congratulations to Mrs. Roberts on winning an iPad from PD360! Pictured with Principal, Mrs. S. Gotlib.

PTSA GO TAKE A HIKE WALK-A-THON FUNDRAISER

Thank you to everyone who participated in the PTSA Go Take A Hike Walk-a-thon Fundraiser on Thursday, December 6, 2012 to raise money for our school! A special thanks to the PTSA Board for all their work and to the following school volunteers: Heather Doucas, Bonnie Hartmann, Terri Hoag, Serena Lapp, Dixie Larsen, Joanna Oostwouder, Ken Parker, Becca Perdue, Hermia Guilliams-Reid and Danielle Stafford.

RSMS would like to thank

Domino’s Pizza 386-775-7575

Four Townes Florist 386-775-8223

for partnering with our school again!

Student vs. Teacher

Dodgeball Game

Benefiting the American Heart Association

January 31st BE THERE !!

See your Coach for details.

Thank you Business Partners for your generous donations of prizes to support our student incentive programs. McDonald’s—Enterprise Road— Orange City and Howland Blvd. Deltona Woody’s Bar-B-Q—Enterprise Road— Orange City

RSMS would like to thank Warm Heart Sanctuary of Volusia Inc. for their generous donation to the Gator Grub Food Pantry! Your donations are very much appreciated!

Thank you anonymous donor! RSMS would like to thank the anonymous donor for the generous monetary donation to our Gator Grub Food Pantry. Your donation will allow us to assist our RSMS families with assistance towards perishable foods! Thank you so much!

RSMS would like to thank Barnett Memorial UMC, Community UMC and Orange City UMC for the delicious homemade cookies that they gave to our staff!

RSMS would like to thank volunteer, Jessica Herbold for organizing our Gator Grub Food Pantry every day after school! What a difference you have made!

RSMS and RSMS SGA would like to thank student Jessica Gentry and her family for the VERY GENEROUS donation of toys for the SGA Toy Drive! The toys will be donated to the Arnold Palmer Children’s Hospital! We can’t thank you enough! A special thanks goes out to everyone who participated in the SGA Toy Drive.

Because of each and every one of you our school had a very successful Magazine Fundraiser. We can’t thank you enough!

100 students earned the Extreme Games party!

22 students earned the VIP pass to the Extreme Games party! 14 students earned the Limo Ride!

9 students earned 25 seconds in the Giant Money Machine!

A great time was had by all!

Thank you

once again for your support!

Thank you Mr. Lee, grandfather

of 6th grade student, Harrison

Ryll for your monetary donation.

It was very much appreciated!

A special thanks to the following volunteers who helped with our magazine fundraiser: Hamp Arendale, Sharon Brown, Phyllis Butlien, Heather Doucas,

Dixie Larsen, Joanna Oostwoulder, Ken Parker and Elise Ross.

RSMS and SGA (Student Government Association), under the direction of teacher, Ms. Gluz would like to thank everyone who came out to support our spirit night at Texas Roadhouse on Tuesday, 10/23/12. The SGA students escorted customers to their tables and served yummy yeast rolls all night. A special thanks to volunteer, Dixie Larsen for your help as well. Great job SGA students!!.

Red Ribbon Week was celebrated the week of October 22nd.

The theme was, ” The Best Me is Drug Free! “

Each day students and faculty dressed up.

“Drugs Turn You Inside Out”

Wear clothing inside out. “Wear Red Day”

Wear red clothing. “Sock & Stomp it to Drugs”

Wear crazy socks and mismatched shoes. “Double Up to Fight Drugs”

Wear twin clothing. “I’m building my FUTURE Drug Free”

Wear college clothing.

In addition there was a door decorating contest! Congratulations to our top three winners: Ms. French Ms. Sullivan Ms. Hernandez Photo of Ms. French’s door.

Jessica Stancil and Delayney Larsen dressed up for twin day.

River Springs Middle school students have talent! Our 3rd annual Gator Talent Showcase took place on Friday, 11/09/12

with an encore performance on Wednesday, 11/15/12. We had a great turn out for both shows.

A special thanks goes out to Mr. and Mrs. Figueroa for organizing the event. We also thank the following Talent show judges: Sharon Brown, Julie Miller, and Joanna Oostwouder.

Emily Osborne—guitarist Emily Oostwouder and Jessica Forst—singers

Sam Hilderbrandt—singer Kiera Garcia—singer

Amanda Rodriguez—singer Johnathan Sivits—pianist

Shawna Riera—singer Ashlyn Weidmiller—singer Bianca Victoria—guitarist Bianca Victoria—guitarist

Caleb Lodge—pianist Brooke Adams—singer w/guitarist

Abby Smith and Jordan Kelly—dancers Kymber Sivits—violinst Jeffrey Smith—dancer

Victoria Agustin—singer w/ukulele Jaimy Ramos—singer

SVW ( Jay Umlauf, Daniel; Connor & Jeffrey Hunt) - band

Field Studies in American History

We are fortunate at River Springs to have a companion course in American

History that takes students on five field studies during the school year. Some of

our brightest and most talented students are able to experience history by visiting

the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Daytona Beach, or later in the year a slave

plantation and a Civil War fort. The first of those five field studies was to New

Smyrna Beach, a town with a rich colonial history. Victoria Favorit is one of 26

Humanities students and in the article below she describes her experience on the

field study. New Smyrna Humanities Field Trip

By: Victoria Favorit

During our humanities field trip (this fall) we traveled to New Smyrna Old Fort Park,

New Smyrna Sugar Mill Ruins, Mosquito Lagoon, and The New Smyrna Museum of History.

New Smyrna is believed to be the second oldest city in North America. The Timucuan Native

Americans were the first inhabitants of New Smyrna. Visitors continue to visit the cities’ more

than thirty historical sites. New Smyrna captures the attention of tourists making them want to

come back year after year.

At the New Smyrna Sugar Mill Ruins I learned that

it was built in 1830 by Henry Cruger, and William

Depeyster. The mill was run by slaves. The area

around the sugar mill was once a beautiful field of

sugar cane. The fields were destroyed by Seminole

Indians. Some of the mills architecture includes its

beautiful arches. The New Smyrna Sugar Mill sits on

600 acres of land.

Another stop we made on the field trip was New

Smyrna Old Fort Park. Most people believe the ruins are an

old Spanish fort but the true purpose of the structure is still

unknown. The ruins are rumored to be the Turnball Mansion;

the residency of Andrew Turnball, a physician from Scotland.

It was interesting to see the beautiful architecture, and the

intricate design of the ruins. The New Smyrna Old Fort Park

was my favorite part of the field trip because we got to climb

on and explore the ruins hands on.

A special thanks goes out to Science Teacher, Mrs. Laura French for all her hard work and school volunteers and teachers who helped with set up and judging — Hamp Arendale, Fred Birnie, John Darby, Julie Miller, Cris Mitchell, Stan Mitchell, Ken Parker, Hermia Guilliams-Reid, David Rivera and Jessica Vergara. Also thanks to PTSA for providing snacks for our volunteers and Business Partner, Dileo's Italian Deli for the discount and free delivery on their lunch. The District Science Fair Event will take place on Saturday, January 19th. Good luck to our students as they move on in the competition.

Category Student Name Grade Place District

chemistry Kaitlin Danzig 8 1st Yes

chemistry Anna Weston 6 2nd

chemistry Allyson Murdock 7 2nd

chemistry Taylor Langworthy 8 3rd

chemistry Landen Richards 7 3rd

chemistry Connor Darby 6 HM

chemistry Bianca Victoria 7 HM

Engineering Abby Smith 7 1st Yes

Engineering Brandon Boies 7 1st Yes

Engineering Abby Thompson 6 2nd Yes

Engineering Bryce Parry 8 2nd Yes

Engineering Kade Mahoney 8 3rd Yes

Engineering Matthew Brislenn 6 3rd Yes

Engineering Kaleb Blair 6 HM Yes

Engineering Jamie Partlow 6 HM Yes

Engineering Tyler Grabowiecki 7 HM

Physics Caleb Lodge 8 1st Yes

Physics Kaley Urban 8 2nd Yes

Physics Jackie Messoure 7 2nd

Physics Chistrina Oosterwowder 8 3rd Yes

Physics Darren Peeples 6 HM

Physics Ethan Werblo 6 HM

Environmental Victoria Favorit 8 1st Yes

Environmental Gavin Arnold 6 2nd Yes

Environmental Delayney Larsen 8 3rd Yes

Environmental Cameron Riddle 6 HM

Environmental Madison Soladky 6 HM

Botany

Botany Naeyma Ahmed 7 1st Yes

Botany Haaniya Ahmed 8 2nd Yes

Botany Autumn Smith 6 3rd

Botany Jennifer Castelli 7 HM

Botany David Duong 7 HM

Biochemistry/Behorioral/Medicine/Zoology/Space

Biochemistry Ethan Spinner 6 1st Yes

Biochemistry Sydney Maybaum 7 2nd

Biochemistry Eehman Ahmeed-Ahktar 7 HM

There are MANY ways YOU can contribute $ to River Springs Middle School and it won’t cost you a cent!

BOX TOPS FOR EDUCATION— The Box Tops has helped America's schools earn over $250 million in the

past 12 years. Our school can earn up to $60,000 every year – $20,000 from each of these three easy ways

to earn!

1) Clip Box Tops from hundreds of your favorite products and bring them in to our school.

2) At the Box Tops Marketplace, you can shop at over 70 online stores. A percentage of your

purchase goes back to your school! Visit http://www.boxtops4education.com to learn more.

3) You can earn cash for your school just by buying the books that you love! Begin your shopping at the

Box Tops Reading Room to earn up to 6% on qualified purchases made at Barnes & Noble.

CAMPBELL’S SOUP LABELS—Campbell’s Soup has been funding schools for more than 30 years, Labels

for Education has been awarding free educational equipment to schools in exchange for proofs of purchase

from the Campbell family of brands. It’s a fun, easy program where students, families and members of the

community work together for a common goal. All you need to do is bring the labels to our school.

OFFICE DEPOT—When you make a purchase at Office Depot, simply let the cashier know you want to

designate your purchase to River Springs Middle School. Our school will receive 5% of your qualifying

purchases to use for free supplies! This is a year-round nationwide program. Qualifying phone purchases

and on-line purchases are included. Ask your work-place to also designate our school.

TARGET Debit Card— Take charge of education—$1 Billion for reading & education. Another way of

helping our school is to enroll at Target and use your Target Debit Card. Simply designate River Springs Mid-

dle School as your designated school by calling 1-800-316-6142. Our school can begin receiving 1% of your

Target purchases.

TYSON A+ PROJECT— Clip and save Tyson A+ Project labels (entire top strip of bag is needed) and bring

them to our school.

Together, we CAN make a difference! Remember our children are our future. Thank you for your support!

FREE MONEY FOR OUR SCHOOL

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