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PIB Weekly News J A N U A R Y 1 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:
January 20: NO
School
January 21: ASP
Begins for 2nd Se-
mester
January 21: Il Vici-
no Night (E. Doug-
las)
January 22: Year-
book Group Photos
January 22: Bas-
ketball at SEHS
January 23: Kona
Ice at Lunch
January 23: NAL
Game at Robinson
January 23: PIB
Informational Night
(Volunteers Need-
ed)
January 25: PIB
Testing
January 27: Bas-
ketball at Robinson
January 30: NAL
Game at Brooks
February 1 PIB
Testing
Just a reminder there is no school on
Monday, January 20. Enjoy your long
weekend!
Thank you to the students who
volunteered on Tuesday at our PIB
Informational Night. We will be
looking for student volunteers to
help us at or next info night on
January 23 from 6:00-7:00. They will
share what activities they are
involved in, give their favorite thing
about PIB, and answer student
related questions to prospective
parents and students. If you are
interested in earning community
service hours, sign up at
http://bit.ly/pibinfo2020
8th Graders, I have sent out the links
for testing volunteers today (Friday,
January 17). I will open the forms at
6:00 pm to sign up to volunteer
during our testing on January 25 and
February 1.
Pre-IB Applications for the 2020-
2021 school year will be available
on October 22 on our website! If you
are currently in the program and in
good standing, you do not need to
apply again.
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.
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
Our focus this week is on reviewing the rational
number system for a test on Thursday. Students
need to review the material on Mathia so that they
can be at about 70% by the end of Janu-
ary. Thank you for your support.
This week we will wrap up the introductory study
of the atom on Tuesday with a short test on which
they will not use notes. It will focus on the parts
of the atom and charges of each as well as posi-
tions in the atom. To prepare they need to be
able to look at a box on the periodic table and
find the number of each particle as well as under-
standing the ideas in the last sentence. I will
check pages 32-33 this week, so they need their
Mandelbaum—Language Arts Mandelbaum—Social Studies
Polson—Spanish Taylor—Math
We will be preparing for our PBA (Performance
Based Assessment) next week. We will read one
more short story and then students will write a
persuasive essay on technology. They will be citing
information from the three selections in the text
and from the novel Z for Zachariah.
Using the Student Referenced Grading rubric we
will be completing our first assessment over Spar-
ta and Athens. This will cover information from
our textbook, centers, class discussion and re-
search. This will be written in class only and
should reflect what has been learned over the
past two weeks.
Students are doing a good job on their websites featur-
ing their oldest living relatives. We will spend two days
per week on this project until the end of February, but
students will still need to be working at home to be
sure that their project is of the highest quality. Stu-
dents did a great job demonstrating their mastery of
the elements of plot as they completed oversized plot
charts for Armstrong Perry’s exciting short story “The
Ghost of the Lagoon.” Next week we will be working on
Wordly Wise Lesson 11.
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 29th. 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-0114 and jcd-0115.
Students have been working on vocabulary mas-
tery, and next week we will hone our grammar by
looking at word order and subject/adjective agree-
ment. There is no quiz this week. Keep an eye out
for info on our novel study that we begin February
10th.
In this module, students learn the properties of similar
figures, dilating figures, and recognizing when figures
are similar or distorted. From similarity, students in-
vestigate the proportionality of side lengths of right
triangles and discover the sine, cosine, and tangent
ratios along with the related cosecant, secant, and
cotangent ratios. They use these ratios to solve prob-
lems for unknown side lengths and angles. Math Prac-
tices: Logic & Reasoning
Flores—Spanish Jenney—Science
Lavacek—Language Arts Rowley—Social Studies
Sims—Language Arts Sinsel—Math
Van Horn—Math
We will finish Module 1 Topic 3: Line and Angle Relationships in Module 1 Topic 3 with our test on
Thursday, January 23. 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.
Students will poke, prod, and peruse their way
through our poetry unit. We will finish examining
the unique style of e.e. cummings and move on to
the narrative poetry of Tennyson, Noyes, and oth-
ers. Students will also spend time researching for
their second component of their research project.
Next week, the seventh graders will continue our
poetry unit, including our annual Poetry Café per-
formances.
7th grade Math 7+:
Math students will start a new unit on Line and
Angle relationships next week. Don’t forget to
keep up with Mathia!
7th Grade Algebra:
Math students will continue their study of Rational
and Radical Equations next week. Watch for a
test toward the end of the week!
Students were assigned a partner and an Eastern
Asian country today for which they will create a
“TedTalk”. They will have time in class Tuesday-
Thursday to not only gather their information, cre-
ate a slide show, but also to practice their presen-
tation. Presentations will begin on Friday next
week. The map quiz will be on Wednesday, Jan.
22. They have created a map to use as a study
guide.
P A G E 4
Seventh Grade PIB
Students will take the test over Chapter 3A on
Thursday and Friday of next week. The listening
and reading sections are on Thursday and the
writing section is on Friday.
Seventh-grade scientists will be continuing their
studies of natural hazards and natural disasters.
P A G E 5
Eighth Grade PIB Flores—Spanish Jenney—Science
Lavacek—Language Arts Rowley—Social Studies
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 26th and 27th.
Eighth-grade scientists will be continuing their
studies of natural resources and human impact.
Sims—Language Arts Sinsel—Math
Taylor—Math Van Horn—Math
This coming week, the eighth graders will begin
working on the Personal Project. Please talk to
your student about their topic and their progress.
Math students will continue their study of Ration-
al and Radical Equations next week. Watch for a
test toward the end of the week!
In small groups, students will teach their sections
of Part II of Fahrenheit. We will move quickly
through Part III this week as well. Students will al-
so work on their research projects.
Students are working on a political cartoon that
demonstrates the political parties and an event
form Chapter 8. This serves as their assessment
for Chapter 8 and is due on Tuesday. We will
begin Chapter 9 next week.
In this module, students extend their understand-
ing of numbers and the number line to include
negative numbers. They will use a number line to
represent, make sense of, and order negative
numbers. Students will build on your knowledge of
the coordinate plane to construct a four-quadrant
graph. Throughout the module, students will ana-
lyze and solve a variety of real-world problems.
Math Practices: Model with Mathematics
We will be finish working on Module 2 Topic 4.
The topic test is scheduled for Friday, January 24.
Reminder that 75% of Mathia is due by Monday,
March 9. If you need additional help, ZAP is avail-
able 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
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