PIB Weekly News A P R I L 1 2 , 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:

April 15: State Sen-

ate Hearing (KSU)

April 15: Robinson

Battle of the Books

April 16-17: 6th

Math Assessment

April 16: Il Vicino

Night (E Douglas)

April 17: Kona Ice

on Bleckley Field at

Lunch

April 17: Track at

Brooks

April 19: No

School Conference

Release Day

April 22: No

School Teacher In-

service

April 23: Kona Ice

on Bleckley Field at

Lunch

April 23: Track at

Stucky

April 24: 8th Grade

Panoramic Picture

April 26: PTSO

Bingo Night

Our Library has lots of missing and

overdue books. Students can login to

Destiny to see if they have any books

missing. Please

help us by returning

your books or paying

for any lost books.

Thank you for your

help!

We are in the process of enrollment for

next year. If you do not plan on

returning to Robinson next year, could

you please let us know so that we know

how many spots we have available to

offer to those students who applied for

7th and 8th grade positions.

8th Graders: We present numerous

awards to outstanding eighth grade

students each year at Celebration. We

know many of you are involved in

activities outside of school. Therefore,

we are asking that you let us know what

you are involved in. The form is

available at: http://bit.ly/8PIBBio. We

would like to thank you for your

contributions to Robinson in the past

year(s). Please complete by Friday, April

19.

You have 3 more weeks, until all

community service hours are due! Turn

in all hours for community service as you

finish. 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. If you have any

questions please see Ms. Mandelbaum

(6th Grade) and Ms. Rowley (7th and

8th Grade). If the hours are not

completed Social Studies grades will be

lowered 10%.

Congratulations to the Robinson

Science Olympiad team, who placed

3rd at state competition on Saturday,

April 5! The kids worked very hard,

and we won quite a few medals.

Earning bronze medals were:

Auggie Au & Ethan Wessley for

Dynamic Planet

Sameeha Rashid, Auggie Au, &

Daniel Oloronfemi for

Experimental Design

Paige Killingsworth & Morgan

Sinsel for Write It, Do It

Ayaan Parikh & Rahul Madhaven

for Thermodynamics

Earning silver medals were:

Nithish Aravinthan & Will Porcaro

for Circuit Lab

Kate Halabi & Evalynn Reynolds

for Crime Busters

Daniel Oloronfemi & Micah Reese

for Mystery Architecture

Ethan Wessley & Auggie Au for

Herpetology

Earning gold medals were:

Morgan Sinsel & Micah Reese for

Game On

Morgan Sinsel & Paige

Killingsworth for Fossils

Paige Killingsworth & Ethan

Wessley for Water Quality

Evalynn Reynolds & Kate Halabi

for Disease Detectives

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/ .

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 volun-

teers play with children during the meeting, super-

vised by two adults. Meetings are from 6:30-7:30

PM at Price-Harris on the following dates: April

16; May 14. If interested in volunteer, please con-

tact Ellen Rife at president@priceharrispto.org.

Wichita Public Library Will you be in grades 8-12 next year? Want to

help your community, but don't know how? Volun-

teer at the Library this summer! You'll meet other

teens, help kids sign up for the Summer Reading

Program, and assist staff with important tasks. It's

a fun way to get experience that looks good on a

college application or resume! If your school or

club requires community service hours, volunteer-

ing at the Library could help you meet your goals.

For more information visit:

http://wichitalibrary.org/teenvolunteer

ALL Community Service Hours are due

Friday, May 3!

Bonding Through Board Games Bonding thru Board Games is an evidence-

based K-State Research & Extension program

helping strengthening family/ friends relation-

ship through board games on April 13. There’s

a plethora of benefits when family/friends play

board games. Participants will find information

of those benefits in our booth at the event. Our

event is getting closer and we are in need of

volunteers. Volunteers will learn and teach a

simple board game at a table to participants.

Volunteer time requirement: 2 hrs. minimum.

Register at: https://doodle.com/poll/

bah32z6q72d7ii48.

Log sheets available on our the PIB page on the Robinson website.

P A G E 3

Sixth Grade PIB Berry—Math Berry—Science

Callard—Language Arts Flores—Spanish

We will begin work on the final topic of Module 1, Pro-

portional Relationships. This week we will complete

the first three lessons. Look for a copy of the pages

from the book and our class slides on Google Class-

room each day. With these pages available at home,

students do not need to carry the book. Also, help stu-

dents to remember that they need 60 minutes of Ma-

thia each week. Out Mathia goal is to finish the first

eight work spaces by Friday.

This week’s focus is photosynthesis and its oppositional

process, respiration. Our labs and notes should lead up to

an escape room activity by Thursday. Depending upon time

constraints, we will test at the end of this week or at the

beginning of the following week. I will check pages 68-69

this week in the Science journals. These pages both con-

tain simulation labs that we completed in class; therefore,

there are no additional summaries or conclusions for either

of these pages. Students just need to give thorough an-

swers for the questions shown.

Mandelbaum—Language Arts Mandelbaum—Social Studies

Polson—Spanish Sinsel—Math

We will be watching a video about the life of Gerda

Weisman Klein who survived the holocaust and the

Death March. We will then be working on a Blended

Poem using her memories and the memories of each

student. We will be doing a philosophical chairs on

Shultz’ dilemma, trying to decide what paths teach of

us would have taken if faced with the Holocaust. We

will also do some reading reflections and share with

one another what we are learning from our own self-

selected Holocaust books.

Students will complete a study guide over Chap-

ter 12 in class on Tuesday in preparation for the

test on Wednesday. We will be working on our

Build-A-Book on Thursday.

Room 224 kids are reading a lengthy New York Times

article on the dangers of teenage smoking and vaping

as we analyze the writing style of journalists as com-

pared to fiction writers. Our focus will be on the way

that writers weave data, scientific evidence, and per-

sonal anecdotes to create a gripping article and to en-

gage their readers. Wordly Wise lesson 15 is on deck

to be finished before the long weekend. We will also

announce the winning teams in our “Nicky Carver” writ-

ing contest next week!

On Tuesday, April 16th, students will take a quiz

that will require them to know how to correctly

spell all of the vocabulary words from Chapter 2A

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 2A.

We will be learning about subject pronouns and –

ar verb conjugations this week! Expect to hear a

lot of silly grammar songs! The next schedule quiz

is on Friday, April 26th.

6th Grade Math 6+: Math students will continue to work on

Proportionality next week. We probably won’t test on this

topic until the following week, as math state assessments

may take longer than one class period. Make sure your

child gets a good night’s sleep!

6th Grade Math 7+: Math students have recently started

Pythagorean Theorem, and we will continue with this topic

all of next week. Make sure your child is well rested for

math state assessments coming up!

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 grammar quizzes over Ch. 4A on Tues-

day, April 16th. They 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-0403 and jcd-

0404. We will spend the rest of next week practicing and

beginning oral presentations.

Seventh graders will be studying body systems

next week. After that they will be transitioning into

a study of stimulus and response.

The time has arrived! We start SHAKESPEARE.

Students should have their copies of A Midsum-

mer Night’s Dream in class on Monday.

The time has arrived! We start SHAKESPEARE.

Students should have their copies of A Midsum-

mer Night’s Dream in class on Monday.

We are moving the grammar quiz that was sched-

uled for April 12 to Tuesday, April 16th over Ir and

interrogatives. We will spend the second half of

the week working on oral presentation prep.

We will finish Chapter 5 (the statehood and the Civil War) and

work our way through Chapter 6 (homesteading and immigrants to

Kansas). The DBQ final draft was due today, so you will see a turn

in grade on Parent Vue. That isn’t the final grade, it is just a mark-

er that the paper was submitted. I have noticed several students

low on notebook paper; please check with your student that they

have all the supplies they need to finish out the year.

Sims—Language Arts Sinsel—Math

This coming week, 7th graders will continue our

study of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s

Dream. We’ll focus on character and plot devel-

opment.

Math students will continue their study of Pythag-

orean Theorem next week. We won’t test over

this topic until the following week.

Stroot—4th Hour Algebra Stroot—6th Hour Math

Algebra students will add, subtract, and multiply

polynomials this week. A quiz is scheduled for

Thursday.

7+ students will take a quiz on the Real Number

System, Monday. Next, we will study the Pythago-

rean Theorem.

Van Horn—Math

We will finish working on Module 4 Topic 1: Real Number System, with a test on Thursday, April 18. 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 then begin working on Module 5 Topic 2: Solving Quadratic Equations. This unit will take us to

the end of the year. Watch for a couple of pop quizzes throughout the unit. 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.

The time has arrived! We start SHAKESPEARE.

Students should have their copies of Much Ado

About Nothing in class on Monday.

This coming week, 8th graders will continue our

unit on Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Noth-

ing, focusing on character and plot development.

Algebra students will add, subtract, and multiply

polynomials this week. A quiz is scheduled for

Thursday.

We are finishing Chapter 14, Reform Move-

ments. Students will be asked to write a Brief Bio

of one reformer. This will be an out-of-class as-

signment, given on Tuesday and submitted on

Tuesday, April 23rd. We will begin Chapter 15

midweek. We only have two more chapters in our

curriculum, but as both of those chapters are

dealing with the Civil War, our pace will slow on

Chapters 15 and 16.

On Tuesday of next week students will finish the

Chapter 6B test and then begin a novel called El

Viaje de su Vida. It tells the story of a boy from

Cincinnati, Ohio, who is the only witness to the

theft of a valuable necklace while he and his fami-

ly are on a cruise to Mexico. What a fun way to

wrap up the school year!

Eighth Graders will be studying asexual and sexual

reproduction this next week. They will then transi-

tion into a study on gene traits and mutations

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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: kberry@usd259.net

Callard, Tracy 6th and 8th Grade Language Arts

Spanish for Native Speakers Email: tcallard@usd259.net

Flores, Tara 6th, 7th, 8th Grade Spanish Email: tflores@usd259.net

Jenney, Charles 7th and 8th Grade Science

Email: cjenney@usd259.net

Lavacek, Molly 7th and 8th Grade Language Arts

Email: mlavacek@usd259.net

Mandelbaum, Susan 6th Gr. Language Arts & Social Studies Email: smandelbaum@usd259.net

Polson, Elizabeth 6th, 7th, 8th Grade Spanish

Email: epolson@usd259.net

Rowley, Michele 7th and 8th Grade Social Studies

Email: mrowley@usd259.net

Sims, Katherine 7th and 8th Grade Language Arts

Email: ksims@usd259.net

Sinsel, Jennifer 6th and 7th Grade Math

Email: jsinsel@usd259.net

Stroot, Mary 7th and 8th Grade Math

Email: mstroot@usd259.net

Van Horn. Denise Team Leader

7th and 8th Grade Math Email: dvanhorn@usd259.net

Website http://www.usd259.org/robinson/pib

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