Big Welcome 2017-2018 & Week 1 Schedule

I am just getting ridiculously excited for the school year to begin. My focus this year is on helping each student reach their full potential and succeed--whether they are coming to me with learning disabilities or need advanced instruction. I've had the opportunity to learn a lot this summer and I'm so excited to share it with my students and put what I know into practice! This will be the first blog post this year, so I wanted to include some basic information from the first week of school.

Sign up for Remind 101! An easy way for me to text out important reminders to you! I encourage all parents and students to sign-up, these will be occasional reminders:)

Click here if you are in 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 5th periods

Click here if you are in 2nd period Honors

The following is a letter to be sent to parents. You may view here or watch for a nicer copy to come home. Letter to Parents

Student Disclosures  

I'll see you on Monday, August 14th! It will be a great first week. Back-to-School night, when we can formally meet, will be Tuesday, August 22nd.

Week 1 Schedule
August 14-August 18

Monday, August 14th

Welcome! 

"I AM" cards

Procedures

Disclosures/Remind 101

Tuesday, August 15th

Letter from last year's 7th graders

Procedure Centers

Students Information Sheet/3 Things I Wish My Teacher Knew

Wednesday, August 16th

Roll-the-Dice Game

Class Jobs/Effort Grade

Multiple Intelligence Activity: What Kind of Smart Are You?

Thursday, August 17th

Disclosures Due: Winning class earns donuts 

Procedures

Class Library

Genre Centers

Friday, August 18th

Procedures

Escape Room Team Building Activity

Honors: Writing Blog/Writing Contests/Spectrum

Week 40: I Guess This Is Goodbye:)

It's been a wonderful year. A challenging year for me in a lot of ways, but a fantastic year of teaching some pretty amazing students. I know you won't remember everything I've taught you, but I hope you'll remember how you felt in my classroom: valued, empowered and loved. I'm so proud of all of you as you stretched yourself, grew and really did your best in my classroom. I'll never forget the tremendous outpouring of support from students and parents alike in December when I was hospitalized with my MS diagnosis. I'm forever grateful. So, I just wanted to say thank you. Thank you for trying when it was hard, thank you for reading more than you ever have, thank you for writing essays until you wanted to throw your Chromebook at me. Thanks for your laughs, smiles, kind words and respect. Thank you for making me love coming to school every day! Now, go forth to middle school with confidence! Please believe in yourself, push yourself and look forward with your eyes on your future hopes and dreams. Say hi when you see me around town and forgive me if it takes a minute to recall your name (heck, I've taught 750 of you now), but I'll never forget your face and I won't forget the impact you've had on my life!
Love,
Mrs. Robins

The Sentimental Goodbye...

The Funny Goodbye...

The Final Countdown...

Monday, May 22nd

• Mrs. Robins's Farewell Speech
• End-of-the-Year Drawing (must be present to win!)
• Final Random Student Spotlights
• Class Clean-up, Round 1
• 4:30-6:30pm 7th grade Party!!! (must have a ticket to enter)

Tuesday, May 23rd

• School dismissed at 11:45am
• Class Clean-up, Round 2
• Take your pictures home
• Reports given out today in 6th period
• Sign yearbooks

Wednesday, May 24th

• School dismissed at 11:00am
• Sign yearbooks
• NO BACKPACKS TODAY!

If you read this blog post, tell me the code word (hello summer) for 2 Robins's Rewards Tickets for the Monday drawing!!

"The Lottery" Film to Short Story Assignment

If you missed Wednesday, May 17th (1, 2, 4, 5) or Thursday: please do this assignment by Friday, May 19th! You'll need the yellow paper from class to complete the assignment.

Read "The Lottery" on Google Classroom (if you haven't already)

Watch "The Lottery" Short Film 

Now, get the yellow sheet. Write the main parts of the plot from the story on the story side and the main points of the plot from the film on the film side. I'll want to see 7 or 8 main plot points. Then, turn paper to the back and write a paragraph or two about which is better, the story or film? Thanks!

Week 39...the End is Nigh!

The end of the school year is almost here! It's been such an amazing year: I'll do my farewell next week. I will miss these guys!

Lots of fun stuff this week and LOTS of deadlines. Please carefully read through the schedule and let me know if you have questions.

Every year I have students fill out a Random Student form. I spotlight them and take a silly picture that they can keep to remember their 7th grade year. See the photos here: Click Here I then send an email to parents and students telling them specifically what I loved about them! Please keep an eye on your email. It's a fun tradition I have to let all my 160 students know what an impact they've had on my life.

Thanks again for the ongoing support. Let's finish strong!

Week 39 Schedule

May 15-May 19

Monday, May 15th

iRead Party! (2nd lunch-6th period)

Letter to Yourself (to be mailed in 2022)

Last Chance Extra Credit Work

Tuesday, May 16th

Qualifying Date for Gold Gecko Day

Short Story: The Lottery

Wednesday, May 17th

The Lottery short film

Film/Short Story Comparison

All Summer in a Day film (if time)

Last Day to Hand in Mrs. Robins's Book

Thursday, May 18th

Gold Gecko Day!!

The Most Dangerous Game

The Vedlt 

Friday, May 19th

Last Day to Turn in iRead Books

Last Day to Hand in ANY WORK!

Persuasive Letter to Local Business

School Talent Show (assembly schedule)

7th grade party will be on Monday, May 22nd 4:30-6:30pm

Welcome to the iRead 40 Club!!

Alivia E., Anna H., Kirsten C.

Kevin H., Savannah B., Aubrey M., Abby M., Elyssa M.

Kylie B.

Boston E.

Sammy S. and Lexi M.

Jesse M.

SURVEY TO TAKE IN CLASS ON MONDAY, MAY 8TH

Please fill this out in class on Monday. Please be honest and give me good feedback so I can improve next year. Thanks!!

END OF THE YEAR SURVEY: CLICK HERE!

Week 38: Celebrate Good Times!

Whew! It's been a long stretch of SAGE testing and I am so proud of students for their hard work and good attitudes. Students who met their goal will receive a candy bar. I'm also sending home a detailed report to show you how they did on SAGE. I want to thank all my students for their efforts so we will have the Robins Annual-End-of-Testing Waffle Party. Students have signed up to bring supplies, please remind them to bring them Tuesday.

Just a reminder to get grades up to be able to participate in our Gold Gecko Day and 7th grade party! These are amazing events to reward hardworking students. An iRead reminder too...

iRead 40 Club Qualification Date: May 9th

Permissions Slips will be due May 12th

iRead Party will be held on May 15th @ Gubler Park

I'm excited to launch into some of my favorite short stories and writing assignments to finish the year strong. I will also be doing Random Student Spotlights and taking pictures of students with a personal message from me about what I enjoyed about them this year. Thanks for the ongoing support--let's finish strong and enjoy the last couple weeks of school!!

Week 38 Schedule

May 8-May 12

Monday, May 8th

Free Reading

End-of-Year Survey (link will be on blog)

Tuesday, May 9th

End-of-Testing Waffle Party!
Bring the supplies you volunteered to bring

Ray Bradbury's A Sound of Thunder
Book #8 DUE

Wednesday, May 10th

LAST Library Day!

Library Deal or No Deal Game

All fines must be paid to participate

Thursday, May 11th

Free Reading 

A Sound of Thunder Film

Friday, May 12th

Free Reading 

"A Sound of Thunder" Film/Book Comparison
*For each short story, I will give students an opportunity to do additional work to earn an iRead book from it if they are willing. Watch for this to come home.

A HUGE congrats to these amazing readers who have qualified for the iRead 40 Club!

Well done guys!!

Hallie K.

Brooklyn R.

Jordan C.

Emily W.

Zach B.

Auri D.

More testing shirts to make students smile as they SAGE test! 

SAGE Writing Test Study Guide

Please review this every day over the next 2 weeks to help you during the SAGE Writing Test. If you can memorize and be familiar with these tips, you'll be in great shape! I'm including our Jeopardy Review Game as well if you want to practice. Thanks! You guys are going to rock this test:)

SAGE Writing Test Tips



Jeopardy Game



Socrative Game
Log In As A Student
Code = Robins5665


Explanatory Writing Practice


Foldables

Purple = Argumentative

Yellow = Explanatory