October was a busy month at Valleyview.
Our Builders Club collected approximately 40 coats for the Market Street Mission for distribution to the homeless. We are currently collecting food for our Thanksgiving baskets to be donated to Denville Social Services. Please have your student bring in their food item next week. Our deadline to complete and deliver the baskets is November 19.
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Annual Battle of the Books kick-off was held on Friday, October 25, 2019. The reading incentive program was explained in ELA classes. Book trailers and details of the program were provided. Teams will be formed in the next several weeks and reading will begin.
Preliminary grade level battles will be held in early April. The final battles to determine the winning team for 6th-grade competition and the winning team for 7th/8th-grade competition will be the week before spring break.
Booklists can be found on the library website as well as on students' ELA teacher websites. Happy reading!!
Congratulations to the Valleyview Girls Cross Country Team. They placed 2nd in Group 2 of the Greater Morris County Championships held at Central Park of Morris. Emma Weldon turned in a phenomenal performance with a 2nd place finish. Karolina Kedzierska was 6th, Olivia Capala 9th, Lily Pacconi 16th, Gabby Billeci 39th, Mackenzie Comprelli 47th, and Gabby Roelli 49th. Way to go girls!!! In the boys championship race Hogan Hyatt finished 9th, Devin Gaglione placed 21st, Timmy Plumb was 23rd, Noah Billeci 31st, Michael DeCongelio 42nd, Anthony Angelos 47th, and Ben Zollers 49th. Congratulations to all runners from both the girls and boys teams on a great season!!
Our girls soccer team reached the finals of the GMCJSCA tournament and will play on Saturday, November 2nd at 10:30 am.
This week is National Red Ribbon Week. Red Ribbon Week was created to help promote healthy, drug-free lifestyles. Our mission is to lead and support in nurturing the full potential of healthy, drug-free youth. Valleyview has celebrated Red Ribbon Week by having themed days at school. The school counselors spoke to students during their lunch periods about peer pressure, stress management, and healthy living. Students signed the Red Ribbon Week Pledge, pledging to grow up safe, healthy, and drug-free.
During October, Valleyview launched the new STEAM Challenge-of-the-Month with Catapults! Students put their engineering skills to the test, preparing and testing designs that could propel candy-sized and mini-pumpkins. Although rain forced the event indoors, over a dozen students participated as competitors or assistants. We're proud of their efforts, and appreciate the support of parents who helped with supplies and transporting the larger catapults to school. The November STEAM Challenge is the Crime Scene Escape Room, which is a one-hour race to solve a mystery, using powers of observation, collecting and analyzing clues, and eventually eliminating suspects based on the evidence. Students in all grades are encouraged to sign-up and should check with their Science Teachers for more information.
Thanks to a grant from the MCMUA, Valleyview has four new demo composters in the Student Garden. A limited amount of food waste is placed into the compost barrels each day and allowed to naturally breakdown. Student volunteers literally get this process rolling each week, with a few laps through the garden. For the time being, the composting program only allows banana and orange peels in the cafeteria, coffee grinds and select food scraps from our Life Skills classes. This has been a great introduction to reducing waste in our school!
