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IN TOUCH
March 2019 — Vol. 23, No. 5
Horace Mann Middle School Parent Newsletter
In Touch is regularly
published for the parents of
Horace Mann Middle School
2820 Union Avenue
Sheboygan, WI 53081
www.sheboygan.k12.wi.us/hmann
Nic Collins, Principal, 459-3697
Brian Hinn, Assistant Principal, 459-3666
Inside This Issue
Page 1: Letter from Principal,
Tobacco is Changing
Page 2: Snow Make Up Days,
The Addams Family Jr.
Page 3: Inclusion Revolution, Youth Art
Month, City Strings Festival, National
History Day
Page 4: Family Fun Night,
Orchestra Night
Page 5: Team 6-1
Page 6: Team 6-2
Page 7: Team 7-1
Page 8: Team 7-2
Page 9: Team 8-1
Page 10: Team 8-2
Page 11: Calendar, Spring Break
Tobacco is Changing!
Are you up-to-date on understanding the new tobacco products trending among youth today? Below is a link to an article called TOBACCO IS CHANGING that will help you learn about the newest tobacco products, understand the issues with tobacco usage, and learn what you can do to encourage others to be tobacco-free.
The article is a great resource for parents and provides great tips for talking with kids about tobacco, including a video called Tobacco is Changing - The Talk to help guide parents through what can be a difficult conversation. https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/tobaccoischanging/index.htm
Welcome to Spring and we wish everyone well!
Some reminders and general communication from HMMS - We will be Forward Exam
Testing April 15-18th, 3rd Quarter will begin after Spring Break, and we will continue
to keep our students safe and healthy with different presentations and drills.
We will send out more reminders as we near Forward Exam Testing and invite any
questions or concerns with testing - to help us better prepare for this important test
that shows much of the hard work that our students do each day. As we move to-
wards 4th Quarter we start thinking to the next year with scheduling and meeting our
student needs. However, we still have 3 months of school left and there are many
opportunities to start good habits at school and home for our students. Please con-
sider summer school for your students and developing working with our teachers to
finish the year strong. Lastly we will have presentations to wrap up the year to keep
our students safe and health. We will have a presentation the week before Spring
Break on mental health and making good decisions. We will continue our ALICE safety
drills and reminding our students if you see something, say something. We also want
to encourage healthy and safe decisions inside and outside of school - especially
related to Alcohol, Tobacco, and other drugs that can put our students and learning
community at risk. There is an article and information sent out from the district on
some of these topics and risks.
Thanks for being a community that wants the best for our students and working to-
gether to reach our highest potential!
Nic Collins and Brian Hinn
This Year’s
School Musical
Public Performances Thursday, April 11 &
Friday, April 12 7:00 p.m.
Horace Mann Auditorium $1 Reserved Seats will go on
sale in the Main Office in April
Calling all Parents of
The Addams Family, Jr
Musical Participants! Please take notice of how you can volunteer your time and talent (or if you would rather) your donation. There are numerous opportu-nities for you to help make our musical suc-cessful. Please visit our two Signup genius links below to see how you can help! Please don't hesitate to call if you have questions or want to have a discussion. Thank you for supporting your school! Call the school to leave a message and receive a call back from Mrs. Plautz or Mrs. Anderson at 920-459-3666. Follow the below links.
Volunteers:
https://www.signupgenius.com/
go/4090E4EAEAC29AB9-parent4
Bake Sale Donations:
https://www.signupgenius.com/
go/4090E4EAEAC29AB9-bake4
Wisconsin school districts have a required number of instruc-
tional minutes for students in grades 4K-12. Due to the number
of snow days, the Sheboygan Area School District will need to
make modifications to our schedule to meet the required
minutes of instruction. The calendar and schedule changes out-
lined below were approved by the Board of Education on Tues-
day, February 26. The following changes will be in effect for
the remainder of the 2018-19 school year:
1. School will be in session on Monday, April 22 (Emergency
Make-up Day)
2. Beginning Monday, March 4, thirteen (13) minutes will be
added to the end of each day (not including the scheduled
2-hour early release days on March 22 or June 12)
3. We will have full school days:
Wednesday, May 15
Wednesday, May 22
Wednesday, May 29
Wednesday, June 5
With the above calendar and schedule adjustments, Wednesday,
June 12 will remain as our last day of school with a 2 -hour ear-
ly release.
Given the changes to the schedule, Friday, May 24 will now
revert back to an Emergency Snow Make -Up Day, meaning
there will be NO SCHOOL unless there is another school
closure due to inclement weather.
Please note, the above changes do not apply to our charter
schools or our 4K community partnerships. ELC also has an
alternate plan. Any schedule changes will be communicated
directly with families at those schools. The SASD online calen-
dar has been updated to reflect these changes as well as a print-
able calendar that can be found on our website.
School Hours have been updated on the SASD website.
Students who receive yellow school bus transportation can
expect their after-school drop off times to be about 13 minutes
later.
Please contact your child’s school with any specific ques-
tions about the schedule changes.
National History
Day Congrats Congratulations to the 8th grade students who
have moved on to the regional and state competi-
tions for National History Day. It is wonderful to
see the pride in the students for all of the hard
work they have done in preparation for this day
of presentations/performances and media de-
buts. Students participated in the regional com-
petition at UW-Green Bay on March 2nd. The
state competition will be April 13th in Madison.
End the R-Word What’s in a word? A lot. The words we choose matter, sometimes beyond how we may have considered. We are all bet-ter off without the R-word, which is de-meaning and degrading regardless of intent. Horace Mann joined the Inclusion Revolution to Spread the Word to End the Word by purchasing and wearing T-shirts. Our all school Pledge day to be-come a Unified Champion School and support students with differences was March 6th. For more information visit R-word.org
Youth Art Month
Come and celebrate Youth Art Month at the John Michael
Kohler Art Center. The 32nd annual YAM exhibition show-
cases works of art done by hundreds of students through-
out the Sheboygan area. Ten students from Horace Mann
will be part of the exhibition. Show opens March 3rd and
runs to March 31st. Experience beautiful art by our tal-
ented artists at this exciting event.
All City
Strings Festival
for 5th-12th Grade
Strings Students
April 25th at 7pm
at North High
Family Fun Night Feb. 2019
Orchestra Night
On Thursday, February 21st, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade Strings stu-
dents gathered together for an exciting Orchestra Night held at
Urban Middle School. Students had fun meeting other middle
school musicians, having a pizza party, and extended their
knowledge by learning a lot of new and exciting techniques from
the professional clinicians they worked with!
Science:
In Science we will:
Provide evidence to show how resource use impacts Earth’s systems
Be able to model and discuss similarities and differ-ences between transverse and longitudinal waves you encounter everyday.
Learn how energy is involved in changing water’s state and how water is constantly moving and cycling all over Earth.
Social Studies:
Students in Mrs Bahr's class will be digging into Mexico's past in-cluding the Aztecs, Ma-yans, and Incas. They will then move into Modern Mexico. Stu-dent's in Mrs. Mertz's class will be learning about the land and history of Canada. Students in Mrs. Navis's class will study the history, culture, and geography of South Ameri-ca and the Caribbean Islands.
Math:
In math class we will focus on some basic algebra, solving equations and inequalities. We will also work on finding the surface area and volume of prisms and pyramids, and then we will learn about statistics.
The advanced math class will study data displays, before digging a little deeper into integers, rational numbers, and equations and inequalities.
ELA: Students will continue to study grammar and conven-tions. Weekly, students will read and write inde-pendently. We will finish third quarter by analyzing and writing arguments. During fourth quarter, we will ana-lyze and write poetry.
Team 6-1
Mrs. Navis: ELA/Social Studies
Mrs. Bahr: Science/Social Studies
Mrs. Mertz: Math/Social Studies
GETTING THINGS DONE…
ON TEAM 6-1 (4TH QUARTER)
Team Activities:
Celebrate all things circular with us on Monday, March 14 (3.14), pi day. Some of the activities we have planned for the afternoon include a “digits of pi” contest (How many digits of pi can you recite from memory?), pi-related scavenger hunt, pi performances, Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader –Pi Day edition, count-down to pi minute, and a 3.14 km relay (weather permitting). You may even choose to wear something pi- or Einstein-related. (It’s also Einstein’s birthday.) And Stemfest at Lakeland University is on April 12th.
Stay Tuned for more information about sixth grade’s field trip to the Waste Water Treatment
Plant and the Water Intake Plant.
Looking Forward To: Academic Game Show
Wastewater Field Trip
Field Day
Cancer Walk
Bay Beach Mind Trekkers STEM Activities
ELA: Ms. Legemaat For the remainder of the third quarter, we will be analyzing and writing argu-ments. During the fourth quarter, we will move on to poetry, analyzing the themes and lan-guage in poems and then writing some of our own poetry.
Math: Mr. Brunner In Math we will work with integers and the coor-dinate plane followed by equations and inequali-ties. In Advanced Math we will work on surface area. In addition, we will do a unit on statistical measures.
Science: Mrs. Selk
In Science we will:
Provide evidence to show how resource use impacts Earth’s systems
Be able to model and discuss similarities and differences between transverse and longitudinal waves you encounter everyday.
Learn how energy is involved in changing water’s state and how water is constantly moving and cycling all over Earth.
Social Studies: Mrs. Sixel “Aruba, Jamaica, ooh, I wanna take you”... After we finish our Mexico unit, we are heading to the beautiful islands of the Caribbean where we will study the geogra-phy and rich culture. We will then head to the continent of South America to finish up the year.
Team 6-2: 4th Quarter Happenings
Homework Club is open to any 6-2 students who would like to get homework done before they go home or get extra help on any assign-ment. It is open every Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday until 3:45 p.m.
Looking Forward To: Academic Game Show
Mindtrekkers STEM Activities
Wastewater Field Trip
Field Day
Cancer Walk
Bay Beach
Math Classes-Mrs. Jurss
In our first section of our Probability and Statistics unit the students will investigate the chance of an event occurring. The students will then use the chance to evaluate proba-bility of an event. After probability, the students will move to statis-tics. Students will be working on how to use random sam-pling in order to draw inferences about a population. After making these inferences the students will be able to com-pare and contract two populations.
Advanced 2 Math *Advanced we will be working on the following standards in our Geometry Unit
*Calculating circumference of a circle
*Calculating area of a circle
*Calculating the surface area of 2D and 3D figures
*Calculating the volume of 3D figures
*Finding the shape of a cross section
ELA-Mrs. Damrow
English Language Arts ROCKS! We have switched our focus from memoir writing to reading non-fiction. Students will read non-fiction articles as they un-derstand how to write an objective summary. They will also be analyzing text structures and author’s purpose and point of view, in addition to finding evidence to support responses to text-dependent questions about the articles. Our grammar/language focus will be on Greek and Latin roots/affixes, vocabulary usage, antonyms, and comma rules. This quarter, students have been reading a novel inde-pendently from my classroom collection for our Readers Work-shop. They set weekly goals for their reading and are logging in their reading on bookmark calendars. After March 1st, stu-dents will continue reading books of their choice and are ex-pected to log in their independent reading on index cards to monitor their own reading progress. Reading regularly outside of school is an ongoing expectation for ELA. Please continue to support your child by encouraging reading at home!
Social Studies-Mrs. Robeson
Our 7th grade students have just finished analyzing the geographic, political, eco-nomic, religious, and social structures of civilizations of Islam in medieval times. A few of the essential questions of the unit are how did the Islamic Empire expand, how did religion shape society, and what happened when cultures collided during the Crusades? We will now be directly our focus towards analysis of the Crusades. This will involve students applying their RACER writing skills as well as inquir-ing about commonalities between the past and present.
Science-Mr. McCabe
7th grade science students have started
digging into our third book this year: Mod-
ule K Forces. The first Unit includes basic
understandings of motion, forces, and
Newton’s laws. Students will be creating
models and performing hands on activities
to lead them to a better understanding of their everyday inter-
actions with objects and the world around them.
Team 7-1
4th Qtr.
7th Grade Celebrated
Dr. Seuss’ Birthday with
Green Eggs & Ham,
activities and a book read by
Mr. Hinn.
ELA—Mrs. Thone
English Language Arts ROCKS! We have switched our focus from memoir writing to reading non-fiction. Stu-dents will continue to close read nonfiction articles as they understand how to write an objective summary. They will also be analyzing text structures and au-thor’s purpose and point of view, in addition to find-ing evidence to support responses to text-dependent questions about the articles. Our grammar/language focus will be on Greek and Latin roots/affixes, vocabulary usage, antonyms, and com-ma rules. We will continue building a sense of community through our PDSA cycles and data collecting along with our re-sponding to prompts, reading reflec-tions, and stems. Students will continue to be expected to log in their independent reading on index cards to monitor their own reading progress. Please continue to sup-port your child by encouraging independent reading at home.
Math—Mrs. Tipple In our first section of our Probability and Statistics unit the students will investigate the chance of an event occurring. The students will then use the chance to evaluate probability of an event. After probability, the students will move to statis-tics. Students will be working on how to use random sampling in order to draw inferences about a popula-tion. After making these inferences the students will be able to compare and contract two populations.
Advanced 2 Math *Advanced we will be working on the following standards in our Geometry Unit
*Calculating circumference of a circle
*Calculating area of a circle
*Calculating the surface area of 2D and 3D figures
*Calculating the volume of 3D figures
*Finding the shape of a cross section
Social Studies—Mrs. Machut
Our 7th grade students have just fin-ished analyzing the geographic, politi-cal, economic, religious, and social structures of civilizations of Islam in medieval times. A few of the essential questions of the unit are how did the Islamic Empire expand, how did reli-gion shape society, and what hap-
pened when cultures collided during the Crusades? We will soon turn our attention to the Renaissance, Refor-mation, and Scientific Revolution. In addition, we will continue to monitor current events.
Science—Mr. Milbrath 7th grade science students have started digging into our third book this year: Module K Forces. The first Unit includes basic understandings of motion, forces, and Newton’s laws. Students will be creating models and performing hands on activi-ties to lead them to a better understanding of their every-day interactions with objects and the world around them.
Team 7-2
News to View
for 4th Quarter
Team 7-2 ELA Classes
took part in a Book Tast-
ing Party yesterday host-
ed by their teacher Mrs.
Thone. Thanks to all the
students and parents who
sent in treats for the day.
ELA: Mrs. Renzelmann
We can hardly believe that 4th quar-ter is here already! We will be ending the year continuing some of the activ-ities we have done all year, and we will incorporate several exciting pro-jects. As always, the emphasis will be on reading a variety of literature and creating quality writing.
This quarter’s activities include:
Greek and Latin stems
Reader’s Workshop
The Giver novel
Dystopian literature
Make a Difference Project
Science: Mr. Kasberger
In the third quarter, we completed our Geologic Time Eras and will be moving into the topic of Chemistry.
Social Studies: Mr. Thorpe During the 4th quarter in social studies we will be fo-cusing our attention on three units. The first will be centered around the theme of REVOLUTION. This will include the early industrial, transportation and agricul-tural revolutions. Next we will examine the concept of MANIFEST DESTINY and WESTWARD EXPAN-
SION. Finally, we will end the year with a unit on the CIVIL
WAR. This will include our fa-mous reenactment of Picket’s Charge at Cemetery Ridge (Otherwise known as the largest Horace Mann water balloon fight ever!).
Math: Ms. Berchem
During the 4th quarter, the math 8 students will be working with properties of exponents, scientific notation, and will learn how to calculate the vol-umes of cylinders, cones, and spheres. If time al-lows at the end of the school year, students will then analyze data displays and trends of data.
Algebra: Ms. Berchem
The students have just fin-
ished up graphing quadratic
equations. Next, the students
will learn how to solve quad-
ratic equations, utilizing what
they have learned about solv-
ing polynomial equations. To
end the year, the students will
look at solving and graphing
square root and rational functions.
Team 8-1
4th Quarter
ELA: Mrs. Doll
We can hardly believe that 4th quarter is here already! We will be ending the year continuing some of the activities we have done all year, and we will incorporate several exciting projects. As always, the em-phasis will be on reading a variety of literature and cre-ating quality writing. This quarter’s activities include:
Greek and Latin stems
Reader’s Workshop
The Giver novel
Dystopian literature
Make a Difference Project
Science: Mr. Thomas
The students just finished their unit on “The Geologic Time Scale” and did a wonderful job on their projects. As we move into March we will be starting chemistry. Students will soon be learning about chemical bonds, reactions, and balancing chemical equations.
Social Studies: Mrs. Doll, Mr. Traas, Mr. Thomas During 3rd and 4th quarters in social studies, we will be focusing our attention on three units. The first will be centered around the theme of REVOLUTION. This will include the early industrial, transportation and agricultural revolutions. Next, we will examine the concept of MANIFEST DESTINY and WESTWARD EXPANSION. Finally, we will end the year with a unit on the Civil War. This will include our famous reenactment of Picket's Charge at
Cemetery Ridge (otherwise known as the largest Horace Mann water balloon fight ever!).
Math: Mr. Traas
During the 4th quarter, the math 8 students will be working with properties of exponents, scientific notation, and will learn how to calculate the volumes of cylinders, cones, and spheres. If time allows at the end of the school year, stu-dents will then analyze data dis-plays and trends of data.
Algebra: Mr. Traas
The students have just finished up graphing quadratic
equations. Next, the students will learn how to solve
quadratic equations, utilizing what they have learned
about solving polynomial equations. To end the year,
the students will look at solving and graphing square
root and rational functions.
Team 8-2
4th Quarter
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The Addams Family Jr. Rehearsals are taking place. Stage Crew nights are Tuesdays & Thursdays.
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No School * Spring Break March 23-31 * School Resumes April 1
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3rd Quarter
Ends
School hours are 7:40 a.m.-
3 p.m. except Wednesdays which
are 7:40 a.m.-1:45 p.m.
Please call 459-3667 before 9 a.m.
whenever a student is going to be
absent from school.
If you need homework for an
absent student, check Haiku for
each class. If you don’t have a
computer at home, let the office
know when you call in your child’s
absence. We will put the home-
work request on a list for teachers
in the morning. Homework will be
ready after 3 p.m. (Wednesdays at
2 p.m.) The office is open until
4:30 p.m. (Wednesdays until
4 p.m.)
Please check your child’s lunch account
regularly at myschoolbucks.com. Lunch is
$3.05, breakfast is $1.40, and milk is 40
cents. Call the school nutrition office
(803-7904) if you would like to find out a
lunch balance.
Events
April 1 School Reconvenes
Track & Field Begins
Tennis Begins
April 8 Fourth Quarter Begins
April 9 Musical Elementary
Performance
April 10 Musical Student Body
Performance
April 11-12 Musical Public
Performance
April 25 All City String Festival
April 26 Middle School Mixer
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Fitness Center
Fitness Center
Early
Release 1:45
Early
Release 1:45
Spring Break Early Release
March 22 @ 1 p.m.
No School * March 23-31
School Resumes * April 1