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I N T OUCH 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: Leer from Principal, Tobacco is Changing Page 2: Snow Make Up Days, The Addams Family Jr. Page 3: Inclusion Revoluon, Youth Art Month, City Strings Fesval, Naonal 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 arcle 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 arcle is a great resource for parents and provides great ps 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 conversaon. hps://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/tobaccoischanging/index.htm Welcome to Spring and we wish everyone well! Some reminders and general communicaon from HMMS - We will be Forward Exam Tesng April 15-18th, 3rd Quarter will begin aſter Spring Break, and we will connue to keep our students safe and healthy with different presentaons and drills. We will send out more reminders as we near Forward Exam Tesng and invite any quesons or concerns with tesng - to help us beer 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 meeng our student needs. However, we sll have 3 months of school leſt and there are many opportunies 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 presentaons to wrap up the year to keep our students safe and health. We will have a presentaon the week before Spring Break on mental health and making good decisions. We will connue 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 arcle and informaon 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 potenal! Nic Collins and Brian Hinn

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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

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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.

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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

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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!

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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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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

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Release 1:45

Spring Break Early Release

March 22 @ 1 p.m.

No School * March 23-31

School Resumes * April 1