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PIB Weekly News M A Y 1 0 , 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:
May 14: Orchestra
BBQ and Concert
May 15: Kona Ice
on Bleckley Field at
Lunch
May 16: 8th Grade
PIB Field Trip
May 16: Band Con-
cert
May 17: Textbook
Check In
May 17: 8th Grade
Dance
May 21: 6th Grade
Awards
May 21: Il Vicino
Night
May 21: Shindig
Concert
May 22: No Tardy
Party
May 23: Last Day of
School
May 23: 8th Grade
Celebration
May 23: 7th Grade
Awards Ceremony
May 24: Summer
Begins
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.
Found a library book
at home? Make
sure it is returned to
the library by May
10. Otherwise you will be charged
for the book. Overdues have been
handed out through language arts
classes. Students who owe library
fines or other school fees will not be
allowed to participate in the End of
Year Celebration on the last day of
school. Please remind your student
to return any library books that they
may have checked out and take care
of any financial obligations.
Summer homework and school
supply list will be included in the
students packets that they receive at
their award celebration. They are
also on our website under
documents.
Please make sure you are checking
Parent/Student Vue for the most up
to date grades. Thank you for your
support! Please contact us if you
have any questions or concerns.
8th Grade Promotion ceremony will
be held on Thursday, May 23, in the
Robinson Gym beginning promptly at
9:00 a.m. Students are
encouraged to dress nicely for this
event. Following the ceremony,
PTSO will host a reception on
Bleckley Field. Students are free to
leave with their parents/guardians
following the reception. Students
who remain at school will attend
their scheduled classes for the
remainder of the day.
We will be turning in textbooks on
Friday, May 17 and cleaning out
lockers on Tuesday, May 21.
Please make sure all textbooks are
returned on the 17th. If they are
not turned in, you will
be charged for the cost
of the book. Also, next
week might be a great
time to start cleaning
out the lockers. They
will have to carry all of
their items after we
clean out lockers on the
21st, and no backpacks
should be brought to
school.
Mark Your Calendar
End of Year Dates 6th Grade Awards: May 21;
2:36; South Patio 7th Grade Awards: May 23;
12:50; Gym 8th Grade Celebration: May
23; 9:00 am Competition Gym Last day of School: May 23
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
Youth Volunteer Corps (YVC) YVC projects engage teams of 8-10 youth ages 11-18
volunteering their time and service to help local non-
profits and learn more about real issues in their com-
munities. YVC's summer programming is offered at a
subsidized rate of $49/week with full scholarships
availability to anyone demonstrating need. The youth
scholarship application is available after clicking
"Register" and submitting your waiver. A flyer of this
summers opportunities is on page 8. For more infor-
mation visit: https://www.yvcwichita.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!
Log sheets available on our the PIB page on the Robinson website.
As of May 2, 2019 our students have completed 5954.1 community service
hours!
You may start your community service hours for next year at
3:10 pm on May 23.
P A G E 3
Sixth Grade PIB Berry—Math Berry—Science
Callard—Language Arts Flores—Spanish
This week we will complete the unit over multipli-
cation and division of rational numbers. This
means that we will finish our last unit of the
year! It looks like the test will be either Friday
(May 6) or Monday (May 13), so help your child
prepare. For the final week students will not carry
their books. They will store them in Ms. Van
Horn’s room over the summer so that they are
ready for
This week we will continue our work with weather maps and
forecasting. Our other focus will be creating our Weather
Widgets. Students got the directions and rubric on Friday,
May 3 so please refer to it for the basic idea. The devices
will be created in class. Parent support with contributing
household recyclables is appreciated, but students cannot
take them home to work on them so send a camera if you
want to see your child’s genius. You do not need to buys
supplies for this, so please don’t let them convince you oth-
erwise.
Mandelbaum—Language Arts Mandelbaum—Social Studies
Polson—Spanish Sinsel—Math
We will be reading the play Phantom Tollbooth in
our Pearson books. We will be discussing lan-
guage and literary methods used in this classic
play.
We will test over Chapter 14 (Islam) on Wednes-
day, May 15. We will then be working on our final
project which covers what we have learned about
world religions.
6th hour has finished Nothing But the Truth, Avi’s
acclaimed documentary novel, and will do an ab-
breviated novel study of Catherine Called Birdy
during our last week. 8th hour will finish Catherine
Called Birdy next week. Both classes will work on
helping verbs during our last two weeks, and we
will be on vocabulary lesson 13. Congrats to the
28 Room 224 kids who participated in the 25
Books Campaign this year. Great reading!
This last full week of 6th grade Spanish is going
to be busy. The final project is due on Monday.
Those who chose not to do a project will take the
cumulative final exam that day. We will spend the
rest of the week with project presentations and
seeing the results of the Ch. 2A test that students
took last week. Thank you for helping to make
this such a wonderful school year!
Final projects are due on Monday, May 13. Any
student without a project to submit will be taking
the final exam on Monday in class. The remainder
of the week will be spent playing the games and
watching the presentations of the final projects.
6th Grade Math 6+: Math students will finish up our Pro-
portional Relationships unit next week and test Thurs-
day or Friday. We’ll then complete a quick review of op-
erations with negative integers to finish out the year!
6th Grade Math 7+: Math students will start the Toy
Company Project, which will provide a culmination of all
the volume and surface area study we’ve completed this
year. Students will need to provide materials such as
paint, boxes, cans, etc. to create their projects!
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
These last nine days of 7th grade Spanish are jam-packed
with hands-on activities to strengthen students' abilities to
communicate in Spanish. They will visit a "crime scene" and
make predictions about what happened, try out some new
technology that we may use next year and learn a new song
from a well-know Dominican recording artist.
Seventh graders will be studying human growth
and development next week.
We will come to the end of our journey through the
woods and find ourselves back in the city of order,
Athens. Students will begin work on their final pro-
jects for A Midsummer Night’s Dream and will be
presenting these the final week of school.
We will come to the end of our journey through the
woods and find ourselves back in the city of order,
Athens. Students will begin work on their final pro-
jects for A Midsummer Night’s Dream and will be
presenting these the final week of school.
We will spend this week reviewing vocabulary and
grammar from the past two years. Students will
play some familiar games and pilot some new
technology as well.
On Monday, students will find out the details of their last project in
Kansas History. They will be working with self-selected partners to
complete a research and presentation. On Tuesday, the kids will
take the Kansas History Final. They can use their notebook, which
should contain all of their assignments from Kansas History, on
the test. Students must have their notebooks organized or they
will run out of time to complete the test.
Sims—Language Arts Sinsel—Math
The seventh graders will wrap up reading reading
A Midsummer Night’s Dream and will begin inter-
preting scenes for performance. Students will
perform their scenes beginning Tue., May 21.
Math students will complete a quick unit on expo-
nents and scientific notation next week, with a
test likely on Monday or Tuesday. We’ll then start
working on a culminating project to end the year!
Stroot—4th Hour Algebra Stroot—6th Hour Math
Algebra students will work with the quadratic
function and point-slope form of a linear equa-
tion.
7+ students will study the Laws of Exponents.
Van Horn—Math
We will continue working on Module 5 Topic 2: Volume of Curved Figures Our test over this unit will be
the last week of school. 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 continue working on Module 5 Topic 2: Solving Quadratic Equations by covering lesson 5,
this unit will take us until the end of the year. Our last test will be late next week or early the following
week. 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.
All will finally sort, and everyone will finally have
their match as we finish Much Ado About Noth-
ing. Students will begin work on their final pro-
jects for Much Ado About Nothing and will be pre-
senting these the final week of school.
This coming week, the 8th graders will continue
working on their Much Ado about Nothing
scenes. Students will perform their scenes begin-
ning Mon., May 20.
Algebra students will work with the quadratic func-
tion and point-slope form of a linear equation.
We will continue through the Civil War this
week. We are working to the test on Monday, the
20th, assuming that our field trip does not get
rained out. If that happens, we will readjust our
schedule. I still have three 2018-19 eighth grade
PIB t-shirts, all size medium, if anyone would still
like to have a t-shirt for the memory and the field
trip.
Students will finish reading the novel El Viaje de
su Vida next week and take a quiz over the entire
book on Friday, May 17th. I can hardly believe
that this is my last full week with these wonderful
young people. They are completely prepared to
confidently take on Spanish 2 next year as fresh-
men in high school!
Eighth graders will be studying human growth and
development next week.
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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
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