pib weekly news - usd 259
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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 11: Hon-
or Roll Celebration
January 14: Girls
Basketball at Robin-
son
January 15: Il Vici-
no Night
January 16: YPC
Concert
January 16: Bas-
ketball at Robinson
January 17: PIB
Information Night
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
Informational Night
We are looking for student volunteers
to help us at our PIB Informational
Night on January 17 and January 29
from 6:00-7:00. If you are interested
in earning community service hours,
sign up at http://bit.ly/pibinfonight
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.
Have questions
about
homework? The
Homework
Hotline is here to help! Students and
Parents 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.
Homework Hotline is open Monday
through Thursday from 3:30 – 7:30
p.m. Call for help: 973-4411 or
email your questions to
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.
You are allowed to earn up to a
maximum of 5 community service
hours for participating or supporting
the Robinson Community through
organized activities. Also remember
that 25 Box Tops for Education = 1
hour and 100 Pop Tabs = 1 hours
maximum combination of Box Tops
and Pop Tabs is 5 hours.
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
This week we will begin by going over the tests we took
on Friday. Students are allowed to show you the tests
if you want to see them as long as they return them to
me within the next day or so. Please let your child
know if you want the test brought home for additional
review. Monday and Tuesday we will combine about
30 minutes of MATHIA with a lesson each day. Our
topic for the week is Signed Numbers, so, for many
students, it is review. I anticipate that we will be test-
ing on Friday if all goes according to plan.
This week we will continue to learn about the atom and its charac-
teristics. As we progress we will interact with subatomic particles
on a PHET simulator, we will create atoms from art supplies, and
we will look at the structure of various atoms on the Periodic Table
of Elements. This week I will check pages 48-49. Please check
with your child to be sure that they have completed the water lab
questions on page 48 and that they have about 20 bullet-pointed
notes, 5-6 Cornell questions on sticky notes, and a summary at
the end of the notes on page 49. I’ve stressed the importance of
every assignment being completed to the full extent if students
want to earn an “A,” so feel free to add your own encouragement
to my teaching.
Mandelbaum—Language Arts Mandelbaum—Social Studies
Polson—Spanish Sinsel—Math
We will be reading Monkey Master in our lit book
and working on unit three of our Vocabulary les-
sons.
Next week we will be completing Chapter 7
(ancient Greece lessons), but we will not be ready
for the test until a review the following week.
Students will be creating graphic organizer post-
ers showcasing the inferences they have made
about the protagonist in “The Cat and the Coffee
Drinkers.” We will be memorizing as list of helping
verbs with an oral quiz after MLK Day. Wordly
Wise Lesson 8 is up next week. Your kids should
be listening for their vocabulary words out there is
the “real world”! Thanks for sending us such a
great group!
On Friday of next week students will take a quiz
that will require them to know how to correctly
spell all of the vocabulary words from Chapter 1B
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 1B.
Students have done a wonderful job learning their
new vocabulary! This week we will focus on fluen-
cy and spelling and will end the week with a
spelling quiz on Friday. Encourage your student to
practice on the links on Google Classroom to pre-
pare.
6th Grade Math 6+: Math 6+ students will continue their
study of graphing quantitative relationships next week, with
a probable test on Wednesday or Thursday. Toward the
end of the week, we’ll start a new unit on operations with
signed numbers.
6th Grade Math 7+: Math 7+ students will continue their
study of 3-dimensional figures with volume and surface
area next week. This is the final topic in the 7th grade text-
book! Once we test over this material, students will receive
their 8th grade pre-algebra workbooks.
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 have spent the past several weeks learning vocab-
ulary and grammar to be able to communicate about differ-
ent foods and beverages that they eat and drink for break-
fast or dinner. Next week they will be paired with a random
classmate and be evaluated on their ability to sustain a two-
minute conversation that uses aspects of this vocabulary
and grammar.
Seventh graders are studying plate tectonics cur-
rently, and will be focusing on continental drift
and the evidence supporting it this week.
Students will continue their trip through the uni-
verse of The Little Prince. We will be looking at
how character development, diction, and imagery
work together to build theme.
Students will continue their trip through the uni-
verse of The Little Prince. We will be looking at
how character development, diction, and imagery
work together to build theme.
This week students will spend time preparing for
and completing an oral exam with a randomly as-
signed partner. On days in which students are not
presenting they will be working on listening and
reading comprehension, Duolingo homework, and
a new flashcard set.
Students should be completing some initial research about
a country in Africa following the 5 themes of geography this
will be due on Monday. The next step will be to create an
infographic about that country. Students will get details on
Monday, then have Tuesday and Wednesday to work on
computers during class. The infographic will be due on Jan-
uary 23rd.
Sims—Language Arts Sinsel—Math
For this coming week & next, the 7th graders will
continue our study of The Little Prince by Antoine
de Saint-Exupéry.
Math 7+ students will quiz over rigid motion
transformation and similarity early next
week. We’ll then begin Topic 3: Line and Angle
Relationships.
Stroot—4th Hour Algebra Stroot—6th Hour Math
Students will take a quiz on Monday, covering the
Laws of Exponents and Scientific Notation. The
rest of the week, we will study the exponential
function.
Students will take a quiz on Monday, covering
transformations. Next, we will study line, angle,
and triangle relationships.
Van Horn—Math
We will begin working on Module 1 Topic 3: Line and Angle Relationships. We will take a test on Tuesday, January
22. 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 continue 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.
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 begin and finish Part II of Fahren-
heit 451. We will examine the role external con-
flict plays on the development of internal conflict.
We will also begin to apply the Hero’s Journey to
that of Montag.
Next week, we will wrap up our reading of To Kill
a Mockingbird. We will begin working on the cul-
minating project for the unit and take the final
over the novel. The students will take the final on
Jan. 23, and the project will be due Jan. 24. In
addition, the novel annotations and reading logs
are due Tuesday, Jan. 22 (these were assigned
Oct. 29). Please check in with your student about
their progress on these assignments.
Students will take a quiz on Monday, covering the
Laws of Exponents and Scientific Notation. The
rest of the week, we will study the exponential
function.
We will continue to work through chapter 8 this
week. This is a very information/event heavy sec-
tion, so it will take us the entire week.
Students will take the test over Chapter 5B on
Wednesday and Thursday of next
week. The multiple choice and writing sec-
tions are on Wednesday and the listening and
reading sections are on Thursday. There is a
practice multiple choice test available at
www.phschool.com. The web code to access the
test is jcd-0516.
Eighth graders are studying Earth and Human Im-
pact, and will be focusing on natural resources
and how human consumption of them affect
Earth’s systems.
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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.
8th Grade PIB Senate Hearings—December 2018