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PIB Weekly News J A N U A R Y 1 1 , 2 0 1 9 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:
January 21: NO
SCHOOL
January 22, 24,
29, 31: PIB Shad-
owing and Tours
January 23: Bas-
ketball at Stucky
January 25: Magnet
Applications Due
January 26: PIB
Testing
January 28: Bas-
ketball at Robinson
January 29: PIB
Information
January 30: Bas-
ketball at Brooks
January 31: NAL
Game at Robinson
February 2: PIB
Testing
February 4: PIB
Applications Due
February 4: Bas-
ketball at Robinson
February 6-8:
Parent/Student/
Teacher Confer-
ences
Thank you for all of the students who
came to help with our informational
night on January 17. We have
another PIB Informational Night on
January 29 from 6:00-7:00. If you
are interested in earning community
service hours, sign up at http://
bit.ly/pibinfonight
Parent, Student,
Teacher Conferences
are right around the
corner. Conference
sign up notes will be
coming home with your student.
Please return the note with several
times that work for you to hold a
parent, student, teacher conference.
Our goal is to meet with 100% of our
families
Do you know someone who is
interested in applying for Pre-IB next
year? Pre-IB Applications for next
year will be available on our website!
Students currently in Pre-IB do not
need to apply again unless they are
removed from the program.
Applications are due on Monday,
February 4, 2019.
Just a reminder, if you are planning
on being absent please let the
teachers know so we can give you
the work ahead of time. Remember
for school excused absences
(athletics, music, NAL, IB shadowing,
etc) all work is due the day you
return.
Turn in all hours for community
service as you finish. This way you
don’t forget to turn them in or lose
your community service forms.
Remember, all hours are due by
the first Friday of May. Make sure
you write your reflection and turn in
your community service forms to
your CHARGE Teacher. Google
classroom will be updated by
Tuesday, November 20 with
current hours turned in. 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. If
the hours are not completed Social
Studies grades will be lowered
10%. Turn in hours as you
complete them, please do not wait
until May to turn in your hours.
Please make sure you are checking
Parent/Student Vue for the most
up to date grades. Thank you for
your support! Please contact us if
you have any questions or
concerns.
6th, 7th, 8th PIB
Cultural Showcase
February
26, 2019
6:00 to
7:30
P A G E 2
Volunteers Needed
Have a picture of you completing community service hours? Send it to Ms.
Van Horn ([email protected]) to include in our presentation out PIB.
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.
Kansas Humane
Society See information on website: https://
www.kshumane.org/how-to-help/volunteer.html
Price Harris Elementary Price-Harris PTO needs volunteers to help take care of children
so their parents can attend PTO meetings. Middle-school or
high-school age volunteers play with children during the meet-
ing, supervised by two adults. Meetings are from 6:30-7:30 PM
at Price-Harris on the following dates: December 11; January
15; February 12; March 19; April 16; May 14. E-mail Anne
Lewis, [email protected] to sign up!
College Hill Elementary College Hill Elementary is looking for
some responsible students who can
read with some of our students. Volun-
teers will help encourage our readers.
This will be a fun and easy way to get
some service hours! E-mail Ms. Porter,
[email protected] to sign up!
Do you know of a community service op-
portunity? Email details to Ms. Van
Horn at [email protected]
Half of your hours are due by the first Friday in December. If you do not
have the required hours, Social Studies grades will be lowered 10%
P A G E 3
Sixth Grade PIB Berry—Math Berry—Science
Callard—Language Arts Flores—Spanish
Students will begin the 2nd Topic in the 4th Module
entitled, “The Four Quadrants.” We will use our
time Tuesday to go through last Friday’s test and
practice on Mathia. Wednesday through Friday
we will work our way through Graphing Geometric
Figures and Problem Solving on the Coordinate
Plane. I will continue to post the lessons online
with a sample of notes if students need them.
This week we begin working with states of matter
and chemical reactions. Students will take notes,
use an online simulator, and engage in a couple
of different labs to learn about molecular move-
ment and behavior as well as the proper way to
document quantitative and qualitative data. I will
be checking pages 50-51 this week. We will have
shadows on Tuesday and Thursday!
Mandelbaum—Language Arts Mandelbaum—Social Studies
Polson—Spanish Sinsel—Math
We will continue reviewing skills covered on the
state assessment and reading Black Cowboy, Wild
Horses in our Pearson Reader.
Next week we will be completing the second part
of lesson 7-4, reviewing for the test and starting
our China Build-A Book chapter.
Next week's focus will be on grammar, specifically
on adjectives, definite/indefinite articles and
word order. The quizzes over all three grammar
points will be on Wednesday, January 30th. Stu-
dents 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 jcd-
0113, jcd-1114 and jcd-0115.
We will be focusing on grammar this week with
lessons and practice on subject/adjective agree-
ment and definite and indefinite articles. There
will be no quiz this week.
6th Grade Math 6+: Math students have started a
new unit on signed numbers. We’ll likely have a
quiz toward the end of the week!
6th Grade Math 7+: Math students are nearly fin-
ished with the final unit of 7th grade. We’ll test
toward the middle of next week and start the first
unit in 8th grade – Transformations – later in the
week!
P A G E 4
Seventh Grade PIB Flores—Spanish Jenney—Science
Lavacek—4th Hour Language Arts Lavacek—6th Hour Language Arts
Polson—Spanish Rowley—Social Studies
Students will take the test over Chapter 3A on Thursday and
Friday of next week. The multiple choice and writing sec-
tions are on Wednesday and the listening and reading sec-
tions are on Thursday. There is a practice multiple choice
test available at www.phschool.com. The web code to ac-
cess the test is jcd-0306.
Students are switching over from plate tectonics
to natural disasters this week.
Students will visiting a number of planets with the
Little Prince this week as we discuss allegory and
symbolism in the novel. Students will also be
working on presentations of these planets in
which they teach the class about the allegorical
aspects of one of the planets.
Students will visiting a number of planets with the
Little Prince this week as we discuss allegory and
symbolism in the novel. Students will also be
working on presentations of these planets in
which they teach the class about the allegorical
aspects of one of the planets.
Tuesday and Wednesday of this short week will
be spent playing vocabulary and grammar review
games. Students will complete a listening and
reading assessment on Thursday and a writing
and grammar assessment on Friday. Chapter 3B
flashcards are due January 28th.
Students have had 3 class periods to work on
their infographic assignment, and from what I
have seen, these projects look fantastic. Stu-
dents will not have additional class time to work
on these; they should be completed at home by
next Wednesday.
Sims—Language Arts Sinsel—Math
Next week, the seventh graders will continue
working with The Little Prince, focusing on the
“life lessons” that have made the book a classic.
Math 7+ students will continue line-angle rela-
tionships next week. Watch for a test toward the
end of the week!
Stroot—4th Hour Algebra Stroot—6th Hour Math
This week we will continue to work with exponen-
tial growth and decay. A quiz is scheduled for
Thursday.
This week, we will finish the topic on lines and
angle relationships. A quiz is scheduled for
Thursday.
Van Horn—Math
We will begin working on Module 2 Topic 1: From Proportions to Linear Relationships. I will let students
know if Mathia this week will be completed during class. If you need additional help, ZAP is available on
Monday and Tuesday at lunch in my classroom.
P A G E 5
Eighth Grade PIB
Flores—Spanish Jenney—Science
Lavacek—Language Arts Rowley—Social Studies
Sims—Language Arts Stroot—Math
Van Horn—Math We will also finish working on Module 2 Topic 4: Functions Derived from Linear Relationships. This unit
will also have a supplemental packet of rational expressions. Our test will be Tuesday, January 22. We
will then study exponents with a supplemental packet. I will let students know if Mathia this week will
be completed during class. If you need additional help, ZAP is available on Monday and Tuesday at
lunch in my classroom.
Students will be wrapping up their study of Fahr-
enheit 451 this week. We will work through Part
III of the novel, looking for continued conflict de-
velopment and theme. Students will also be cre-
ating propaganda posters that they imagine
might be present in this society. Dr. Lisa Parcell
from Wichita State’s Elliott School of Communica-
tion talked to them about propaganda techniques
and purposes, so they should be prepared to cre-
ate!
Next week is the final week for our To Kill a Mock-
ingbird unit. The students will take the final on
Jan. 23, and the culminating project is due Jan.
24. In addition, the novel annotations and read-
ing logs are due Wednesday, Jan. 23 (these were
assigned Oct. 29). Please check in with your stu-
dent about their progress on these assignments.
This week we will continue to work with exponen-
tial growth and decay. A quiz is scheduled for
Thursday.
Students will be working in to create election ma-
terials to demonstrate their understanding of the
issues in the election of 1800. We will have a
quest (less than a test, but more than a quiz) over
chapter 8 on Friday.
On Tuesday and Wednesday of next week stu-
dents will see the results of their Ch. 5B test and
begin learning new vocabulary for Ch. 6A. Thurs-
day and Friday will be spent practicing for the Na-
tional Spanish Exam, which is scheduled for
March 28th and 29th.
Eighth graders will be switching over from human
impact to the environment due to natural resource
consumption to climate change.
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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
Spanish for Native Speakers 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]
Polson, 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.
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