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PIB Weekly News M A R C H 6 , 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

UPCOMING

EVENTS:

March 3-8: Or-

chestra Orlando

Trip

March 7: Math

Counts State Com-

petition

March 8: Spring

Forward—Daylight

Savings Time

March 10: Founda-

tion and PTSO

Meeting

March 12: Band

and Orchestra Con-

cert

March 13-22: NO

SCHOOL

March 13: End of

3rd Nine Weeks

and Grades Posted

March 23: Track

Practice Begins

March 30: Robin-

son and Jardine

DCA Choir Con-

cert Preview

March 31: 8th

Grade Reality U

Good luck to the Mathleates competing

in the state Math Counts competition on

Saturday in Topeka. Competing will be:

Ben Allen, Ben Lee, Bo Lu, and Renton

Smartt,

Congratulations to our Robinson Science

Olympiad team for taking 3rd place at

the regional competition February 29!

In 23 events, Robinson won gold in 8,

silver in 2 and bronze in 1. Great job

team, your hard work paid off in gold.

The top 3 finishers in each event are:

1st place Circuit Lab – Will Porcaro

and Nithish Aravinthan

1st place Food Science – Will

Porcaro and Nithish Aravinthan

1st place Fossils – Paige

Killingsworth and Ethan Wessley

1st place Ornithology – Paige

Killingsworth and Ethan Wessley

1st place Water Quality – Paige

Killingsworth and Ethan Wessley

1st place Reach for the Stars – Bo Lu

and Grant Parcell

1st place Road Scholar – Ayaan

Parikh and Ryan Son

1st place Game On – Renton Smartt

and Omkar Mysur-Gokhale

2nd place Dynamic Planet – Ayaan

Parikh and Ryan Son

2nd place Experimental Design –

Torrin Stebbins, Paige Killingsworth

and Will Porcaro

3rd place Heredity – Sharon Son and

Pandora Freeman

Good luck at State competition April 4!

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.

8th Grade Parents/Guardians, We

Need You! The 8th grade dance is on

Friday, May 15. This is the one event

your 8th graders have waited for ALL

year. To make this anticipated night

fun for your student we need you. If

you are willing to help, please email

Mini at minirashed@gmail.com. We

need Volunteers for: Dance

Coordinator (or co-coordinators 1-2

volunteers); Decorations Chair (1

volunteer); Food Chair (1 volunteer);

Volunteer Chair (1 volunteer); Formal

activities chair (1 volunteer); Helpers

to help the Chairs (1 to 2 per

committee)

State Assessment Tests

6th Grade

March 31-April 1: ELA April 21-22: Math

7th Grade

March 31-April 1: ELA March 26-27: National Spanish

April 21-22: Math

8th Grade

March 24-25: Science March 26-27: National Spanish

April 2-3: ELA April 15-16: Math

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 the test over circumference and area

of circles. Students will use the formulas we’ve derived to

solve various real world problems. Students will decide on

Monday as they are reviewing if they want to test as a group

on Tuesday or Wednesday. The end of the week will be

math puzzles, and there won’t be any formal homework over

the break. Since we need to finish the Mathia work spaces

by the end of the year, I’d like to see 85% completion by the

end of March, 90% by the end of April, and 100% by year’s

end. Thank you for your support!

This week we will further investigate our phe-

noma question: What food do plants eat for ener-

gy? We will chart photosynthesis in an elodea

plant and find out more about the relationship

between photosynthesis and cellular respira-

tion. I will be checking pages 58-59 as the final

grade for this quarter.

Mandelbaum—Language Arts Mandelbaum—Social Studies

Polson—Spanish Taylor—Math

The classes will continue working on our Fairy Tale

Unit, specifically comparing and contrasting differ-

ent versions of the Little Mermaid.

On Monday classes will be presenting a poster

about the leader they have been researching in

class. Then they will be voting on who they deter-

mine to be the best leader for the Roman Empire.

The last two days of the week we will be going

over documents for our Spring DBQ.

Next week 6th graders will review critical language

arts concepts to ensure that we are prepared for

the Kansas State Assessment in three weeks. We

will also have the quiz on Wordly Wise Lesson 14.

Please keep reading for the 25 Books Campaign

to meet your spring target!

During our four days together next week before

reaching a long-awaited spring break, students

will read chapters six and seven in the novel

Pobre Ana and perform a variety of activities to

aid in their comprehension.

2nd and 6th hour Spanish classes have been soak-

ing up the action in Pobre Ana! Next week we will

read Cap. 6 and 7 on Monday and Tuesday, cre-

ate a storyboard of both chapters on Wednesday,

and get in one day of Sr. Wooly madness before

leaving on spring recess. There will be no quiz

next week.

With the completion of course 1, students are be-

ginning course 2 with an investigation into the

properties of circles, including circumference and

area. Math Practice: Model with Mathematics and

Understand & Persevere. Students should be

reaching 75% on Mathia for the end of the quar-

ter.

Flores—Spanish Jenney—Science

Lavacek—Language Arts Rowley—Social Studies

Sims—Language Arts Sinsel—Math

Van Horn—Math

We will work on Module 2 Topic 3: Introduction to Functions. Ask the students what the three forms of

a linear equation are and how you graph the lines. 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 class-

room.

Students will be completing their travel logs for

Chapters 10-15—in these they will examine the

human trait that each of the strange inhabitants

of the planets represent. After completing these,

they will follow the little prince to planet Earth. All

late work is due Tuesday, March 10.

The seventh graders will continue our novel study

of The Little Prince this coming week, continuing

to focus on the “life lessons” that have made the

book a classic.

7th Grade Math 7+: Math students will complete

the Linear Relationships unit next week and test

on Tuesday or Wednesday. Mathia is due on Mon-

day!

7th Grade Algebra: Math students will complete

the Statistics unit next week and test on Wednes-

day or Thursday. Mathia is due on Monday!

We finish geography this week with an Africa con-

cepts test on Wednesday. As always, the world is

bigger than the time allotted to teach it. We will

begin Kansas History when we return from spring

break.

P A G E 4

Seventh Grade PIB

We had lots of fun and learned so much Spanish

through comprehensible input during Wooly

Week! Students will take the test over Chapter 3B

in their textbook on Wednesday and Thursday of

next week. The listening and reading sections are

on Wednesday and the writing section is on Thurs-

day.

Seventh grade scientists will be studying cell

structure and function. There will be a protein syn-

thesis test on Wednesday 3/11.

P A G E 5

Eighth Grade PIB Flores—Spanish Jenney—Science

Lavacek—Language Arts Rowley—Social Studies

We had lots of fun and learned so much Spanish

through comprehensible input during Wooly Week

that we’re going to extend it for one more

week! Our new hilarious story is about a group of

friends on a boat who encounter problem after

problem .

Eighth grade scientists will be studying genetic

variation and natural selection next week, with a

test on natural selection on Wednesday 3/11.

Sims—Language Arts Sinsel—Math

Taylor—Math Van Horn—Math

The eighth graders wrap up their Small Group Novel Studies

this next week. Students will take the final test over their nov-

els on March 11, and groups will work on their on their final

projects. After Spring Break, we will start Shakespeare’s Much

Ado About Nothing. Students were asked to purchase (or print)

a copy of the play so they can annotate it. They may use any

edition of the basic script of the play (except the Barnes & No-

ble edition), or one of two translation editions: No Fear Shake-

speare or Shakespeare Made Easy. If you have not already

done so, please make sure your student has his/her copy no

later than Wednesday, March 25.

Math students will complete the Statistics unit

next week and test on Wednesday or Thurs-

day. Mathia is due on Monday!

Students will finish their small group novel discus-

sions this week and begin planning their final pro-

jects. For these students will be writing and film-

ing trailers for their books. All late work is due

Tuesday, March 10.

The spring DBQ essay is due on Monday. This will

be shown as a turn in grade for the third nine

weeks, but the final grade will be posted to fourth

nine weeks. We will finish with the Mexican

American War before break, and we are going to

try to complete the rest of Chapter 12, but that is

a very tight time line with only four days.

With the understanding that all circles are similar,

students will be utilizing the formula for arc length

to solve for measures of degrees and radians.

Math Practice: Logic & Reasoning and Justify &

Critique. Students should be reaching 75% on Ma-

thia for the end of the quarter.

We will continue working on M4 T2: Two Variable

Categorical Data. Our topic test will be on Thurs-

day, March 12. 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.

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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 Grade Language Arts

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 7th and 8th Grade Math

Email: jsinsel@usd259.net

Taylor, Mike 6th and 8th Grade Math

Email: mtaylor4@usd259.net

Van Horn. Denise Team Leader

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

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.