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PIB Weekly News F E B R U A R Y 7 , 2 0 2 0 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:
February 10: We
the People State
Senate Hearings
February 10: Bas-
ketball at Robinson
February 11:
Foundation and
PTSO Meeting
February 12-14:
Student, Parent,
Teacher Confer-
ences
February 14: Ear-
ly Release for Stu-
dents at 12:00
February 17: No
School
February 18: No
School
February 20: Bas-
ketball at Robinson
February 21:
Spring Dance 6:00-
8:00
February 24: Bas-
ketball at Allison
February 24: PIB
Family Night
Parent, Student,
Teacher Conferences
are NEXT week
(February 12, 13,
14). Progress
Reports will be
posted Monday morning. They will be
handed out during conferences.
Please check Parent/Student Vue for
the most up to date grades. We look
forward to meeting with everyone on
Wednesday, Thursday or Friday. At
conferences you will receive an letter
an envelope asking you to write a
positive note to your student to
receive during state assessments.
Those notes are due by Friday,
February 28. Our goal is to meet
with 100% of our families. On Friday
students will be dismissed from
school at 12:00.
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.
Students need to have all hours of
community service hours turned in
on the first Friday of May. 6th: 15
hours; 7th: 20 hours, and 8th: 25
hours. If the hours are not
completed CHARGE grades will be
lowered a letter grade. Check http://
bit.ly/pibcommunityservice or google
classroom or for the amount of hours
they have turned in. Log sheets
are available on our team page on
the Robinson Website.
Also, remember that students are
allowed to earn up to a maximum
of 5 community service hours for
participating or supporting the
Robinson Community through
organized activities. There are
several NAL and Basketball games
in January that students can
attend.
You can earn 1 hour for each
Robinson event you attend. No
matter how long the event, it
counts for 1 hour.
Practice does not qualify for
community service.
Any event happening during the
school day does not qualify for
community service.
If attendance is required for a
class, it does not qualify for
community service.
You must still document on the
community service sheet with a
signature and a reflection.
6th, 7th, 8th PIB
Project Showcase
February
24, 2020
5:00 to
7:00
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/ .
Have a picture of you volunteering?
Send it to Denise Van Horn to include in our PIB Presentations and Newsletters.
P A G E 3
Sixth Grade PIB Berry—Math Berry—Science
Callard—Language Arts Flores—Spanish
This week’s lessons are all about understanding the
vocabulary associated with the statistical process. We
will ask statistical questions, display and analyze data,
and come to conclusions based upon the data. Our
test over the first topic will be on Wednesday, after
which we will begin the second topic. This unit focuses
on using the five number summary and mean absolute
deviation to summarize data. The student goal for Ma-
thia is 75% completion by the end of February, please.
Our week will be filled with experiments over
properties of matter and physical v. chemical re-
action. There will be a test over these two ideas
(pgs. 36-49 in the spiral) on Thursday or Friday. I
will only check two pages this week (44-45) due
to the extra hours worked to accommodate par-
ent-teacher-student conferences. See you there!
Mandelbaum—Language Arts Mandelbaum—Social Studies
Polson—Spanish Taylor—Math
We will be reading the Phantom Tollbooth play in
class. We will be working with vocabulary and
grammar directly from the play.
We will be moving into the founding of Rome,
their republic government and the Punic Wars.
Students are reading the award-winning short story “The Cat and
the Coffee Drinkers,” by Max Steele, first published in The New
Yorker in 1963. We will be focusing on characterization in fiction,
first person point of view, and making inferences. Next week stu-
dents will begin to share their family interview websites in class.
Students should be close to finishing, editing their work and adding
photos and text features. Please utilize the graphic organizer with
suggestions for the ten required topics and to add as much detail
as possible to websites. Again, please gather the decorative arti-
facts for your presentation table so that you are not in a panic on
February 24, PIB Family Night.
Next week students will see their results from the
Ch. 1B test and read the first chapter in the novel
Pobre Ana. If you have not yet obtained a copy of
the novel for your student, please check
ParentVue for a message from me about how to
purchase the novel online or print it at no charge
as a pdf file.
We will begin reading our mini-novel, Pobre Ana,
this week! If your student prefers to read with a
pencil in their hand and wants to take notes in the
text, then they will need to bring their own copy of
the novel with them beginning on Monday. There
will be no formal quiz this week.
In this topic, students are introduced to the statis-
tical problem-solving process: formulate ques-
tions, collect data, analyze data, and interpret the
results. Students will use this process throughout
their studies of statistics, increasing the complex-
ity of each step of the process as they develop
their statistical literacy. Math Practice: Under-
stand and persevere.
Flores—Spanish Jenney—Science
Lavacek—Language Arts Rowley—Social Studies
Sims—Language Arts Sinsel—Math
Van Horn—Math
We will continue working on Module 2 Topic 2: Linear Relationships where we will continue working on
writing equations of lines. Reminder that 75% of Mathia is due by Monday, March 9. If you need addi-
tional help, ZAP is available on Tuesday and Thursday at lunch in my classroom.
Students will be beginning our journey with The
Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. This
novel will allow us to work on annotating text for
character development, motif, and theme. Stu-
dents can purchase the correct translation from
me for $1.50; otherwise, they will need to pur-
chase the Katherine Woods translation.
This coming week, the seventh graders will con-
tinue our study of The Little Prince by Antoine de
Saint-Exupery. In addition, the second compo-
nent of the personal project will be due Monday,
Feb. 24. Please talk to your student about their
project and their progress.
7th Grade Math 7+: Math students will test over
proportionality on Tuesday. We’ll then start our
next unit on linear relationships!
7th grade Algebra: Math students will test over
exponents and scientific notation on Wednes-
day. We’ll then start our next unit on statistics!
We will finish our South Asia unit on Friday. Sev-
eral students of South Asia descent have asked if
we could have a chance for them to share parts
of their culture. As Friday already a half day, that
seems like the perfect time. If students what to
bring South Asia food (India, Bangladesh, Paki-
stan, Afghanistan, Nepal or Bhutan), each class
has around 30 students. I will provide plates and
silverware. This is completely optional and just
for fun.
P A G E 4
Seventh Grade PIB
On Thursday 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 3B
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 3B.
Seventh grade will be studying the cell next week.
P A G E 5
Eighth Grade PIB Flores—Spanish Jenney—Science
Lavacek—Language Arts Rowley—Social Studies
Next week's focus will be on grammar, specifically
on comparisons and superlatives. The quizzes
over both grammar points will be on Friday, Febru-
ary 21st. Students can go online to
www.phschool.com to practice for the quizzes. The
web codes that they will need to access the prac-
tice activities are jcd-0603 and jcd-0604.
Eighth grade will be studying human impact to
the environment next week.
Sims—Language Arts Sinsel—Math
Taylor—Math Van Horn—Math
Next week, the eighth graders will move into their
small group novel study. Students must provide their
own books (though they may check them out from the
library since we are not annotating them). They should
have them in class on Monday, Feb. 10. In addition,
the final copy of the personal project research paper is
due Monday, Feb. 10. The second component of the
personal project will be due Monday, Feb. 24. Please
talk to your student about their project and their pro-
gress.
Math students will test over exponents and scien-
tific notation on Wednesday. We’ll then start our
next unit on statistics!
Students will be starting their Small Group Novel Study
this week. Each student has chosen a book to read
with a small group. Students will be in charge of deter-
mining reading schedule, organizing discussions, cre-
ating projects, and writing tests. This unit gives them
the opportunity to demonstrate their ability to apply
and synthesize their understanding of literary elements
and devices. All students should have a copy of their
book in class on Monday.
We have finish chapter 10 this week which ends
the Launching the Republic unit. We will begin
the 4th (of 5) units, Nationalism and Sectionalism,
and specifically the Jacksonian Era on Tuesday.
Trigonometry provides an important bridge be-
tween geometry and algebra. Understanding the
trigonometric ratios in terms of side length ratios
prepares students to study trigonometric func-
tions in the next course. Students experience a
concrete representation of the trigonometric rati-
os using triangles in this course, beginning with
utilizing the tangent, cotangent and the inverse.
Math Practice: Model with Mathematics.
We will finish our supplemental exponents unit on
Wednesday with our unit test. Students will be
given a packet to work from. We will test over
this unit next Friday, February 7. Reminder that
75% of Mathia is due by Monday, March 9. If you
need additional help, ZAP is available on Tuesday
and Thursday at lunch in my classroom.
PIB
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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 Grade Language Arts
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 7th and 8th Grade Math
Email: [email protected]
Taylor, Mike 6th 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.
