Our 7th grade boys’ basketball team travels to Hoopeston Area Middle School for a Regional Championship match-up with St. Joseph tonight at 6:00! Good Luck, PBL Panthers!! 🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾
Congratulations to Coach Palmer and the 7th grade boys’ basketball team on advancing to Thursday night’s Regional Championship at Hoopeston Area Middle School. Game time is 6:00. Go, Panthers!! 🐾
Last night on January 24th the PBL JH Student Council hosted a Winter Dance from 5:30-7:30pm in the JH Commons. Students had a great time and a wonderful start to their weekend.
8th Grade Students in ELA with Mrs. Williams & Mrs. Grice were working on Peer Editing. The students were reviewing literary essays on Chromebooks and reviewing their peers paper on rubric to provide student feedback.
7th Grade Students in our Speech Enrichment with Mrs. Mauck put on a practice performance with short comedy skits. There were performances about the first day of school, the movie, and more.
No Morning Practice on Friday the 24th - Due to inclement weather. Be safe Panthers-
In 8th Grade ELA students are sharing book talks. In our ELA classes this year we are using a Balanced Literacy Approach with different workshops that consist of reading, writing, & language. See the attached pictures from two book talks with Leah Eyre and Cadien Riecks.
Good luck this week to our Boys 7th & 8th Grade Basketball Teams as they play their final regular season game on Thursday at St. Joe Middle School starting at 6pm. Attached is a picture from our 8th Grade Boys final home game last week.
6th, 7th and 8th grade boys’ basketball practices for this evening (Jan 17) have been cancelled due to the forecasted weather conditions. Be safe out there, Panthers! 🐾
The One Word Challenge is up & running at PBL JH. In Advisory Classes students are coming up with their Advisory Classes "One Word" for the new year. The next step will be students picking their own "One Word" for the new year.
Today 7th Grade Students in Design & Modeling with Mr. Rubarts were collaborating & brainstorming ideas for the Therapeutic Toy Design Challenge. PBL JH is implementing Project Lead The Way courses to further enhance the rigor & relevance of our curriculum.
8th Grade Volleyball defeats Ridgeview in two sets to go (4-0) on the season. Both teams back in action at home against Buckley St Johns on January 23rd at 5:30.
Our 7th and 8th grade volleyball teams both won tonight at St. Malachy in Rantoul. Both teams will be in action against Ridgeview Tuesday night at home beginning at 5:30.
The 7th & 8th Grade Boys Basketball Teams were in action against Iroquois West on January 9th. We had two close games and a great turn out by families. 7th Grade won 34-32.
Our first 6th grade basketball tournament game tomorrow has been forfeited by the other team. We now play at 6 PM. Bus leaves at 4 PM. Good Luck, Panthers!!🐾🐾🐾🏀
PBL 8th Grade VB wins in 2 sets at Hoopeston Area. (2-0)
Our 7th & 8th Grade Girls Volleyball Teams began the 2020 volleyball season against Gifford on Tuesday night. 8th Grade won in 2 sets. Way to go Lady Panthers!
Welcome back from winter break. Today students are in session for a full day with a 3:14pm dismissal time. Have a great week back and here we go Panthers with a brand new year and a brand new start.
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In Advisory Classes our Student Council put together a Door Decorating Contest. The overall winner for the JH was Mrs. Ping's Advisory and they have earned a pizza party sponsored by our Student Council for when we return from Winter Break.
