October 26 - October 30

This week Ms. Poz's classes came in library to finish up their Country projects.  It was amazing to see the creative ideas the students incorporated into their projects, and they did a great job working together.

Mrs. Murphy's Spanish class worked on creating an acrostic using their name and words that describe them in Spanish using Google Docs and Google Drawings.  This was a great chance to install the Add-on Open Clip Art as well as discuss when it's beneficial to use a drawing in your document.  The students found out that the drawing tool saved them a great deal of frustration!  Some great examples of this project are below:

Español Example One
Español Example Two


Wednesday and Thursday I spent working with Mrs. Honn's class doing a Mysery Vox with another 7th grade class from an unknown location.  The students from both classes asked questions to try and figure out the location of the other.  I was impressed with the mental mapping and deduction skills used by the House 7C students. We were able to figure out their location early on Thursday, it was San Jose, California!  They figure our location out shortly after we did, so we then shared information about our cities and were able to ask and answer questions together.  A big thank you to Ms. Kirwin's class in California!

Friday we had some visitors from the fifth grade classes at Clarendon.  They presented their speeches on Famous American.  They did a great job and our students had fun learning from them.  Since it's the day before Halloween students were able to dress up.  It was fun to see the creative students.

Tellagami Examples

 The students have finished using the Tellegami App to showcase their Spanish speaking skills.  Below are a couple of great examples.

October 19 - October 23

This week started off with Mrs. Honn's Geography classes coming in the library to learn about how to use QR codes for their Around the World project that will be starting shortly.  Some students have used QR codes in the past and some haven't, so this was a great opportunity for students to get on the same page.  When they were done learning about QR codes they began working a project where they create a country.

A House 7C student trying out a QR Code

Mr. Rixmann's students from WLEX came in if they needed materials for their Spanish reports.  They students used Destiny and accessed the resource lists to complete this task.  Mrs. Lynch also came in with her Read 180 students to choose picture books to read to some of their fellow students.

Mrs. Murphy's Spanish class used the iPad app Tellegami to make avatars, or gami's of themselves.  Once their Gami's were created they used their Spanish speaking skills to describe themselves. The students have had a blast learning this new app.

The end of the week I had the chance to work with Ms. Pozolinski's Geography students.  They are working in small groups and creating a country.  They're using  Google Slides to create a collaborative presentation with the different cultural, political, and economic traits of their countries.  These presentations will then be shared with their classmates.

Ms. Horne's sent small groups of students to do book studies, and what an amazing job they did discussing their books and being on task.

Ms. Horne's students completing book studies 

Students hard at work on their book studies

Math Smores

Ms. Boushley's Algebra class created Smores, which are online flyers. They were able to choose a topic of their choice, but it needed to relate to math, so it could be a person, a job, a math tool, or something else of their choice.  Some examples of their flyers are below.

Teen Read Week!

Teen Read is being celebrated in the Park View library, not only this week, but through the end of the month.  We are challenging students to participate in a reading scavenger hunt.  There are many options of what students can do to participate including reading books, magazine, and newspapers. They can also listen to audio books, take a shelfie, create Halloween poetry, find interesting facts, check-out ebooks, and use Destiny to search for an author with their first or last name.  Below is a link that shows some of the different activities the students are participating in.

Teen Read Week Scavenger Hunt

Storybird Student Samples

Mrs. Murphy's Spanish students created incredible picture books showcasing their knowledge of Spanish vocabulary and sentence structure.  Below are a view great examples of their work.

Mis Amigos y Yo - Sample One
Mis Amigos y Yo - Sample Two
Mis Amigos y Yo - Sample Three

October 12 - October 16

It's hard to believe that it's already been six weeks since school started and the end of our first grading period is over!   To mark the end of the grading period conferences were on Wednesday.  The students had the day off of school for conferences and hopefully were able to enjoy the beautiful fall weather.  Since this was the end of the grading period that library wasn't busy with as many classes, but the study hall students have been working hard on completeing assignments and chekcing our our Maker Room.

Mrs. Grau's class was in on Friday.  They experiemented with QR codes since they will be starting their Around the World project shortly.  Students downloaded a QR app if they needed and they were able to test our how QR codes work.  They also found out their group for Around the World and used Google Slides to make a flag for their team.

Battle of the Books kicked off this week as well. I hope students are excited to have the opportunity to work with their friends and read some awesome books.  To view the books on this year's list take a look at the video below.

October 5th - October 9th

Students in Ms. Boushley's algebra class learned some research strategies and databases to use in doing research on a math topic, anything from a famous mathematician to a math product, to pi.  Students also made an account with the web tool Smore so that they can begin creating an online flyer on their topic.

Mrs. Murphy's Spanish class will be in the majority of the week using the web tool Storybird to create a story in Spanish that shows he daily activities of themselves and their friends using a variety of vocabulary, conjugating verbs, and adding detail to sentences.

September 28 - October 2

It's homecoming week so that means Park View starts up spirit points!  Students came in Monday with their Packer wear, Tuesday they were superheros, On Wednesday yellow was everyone to showcase our character theme of respect, Thursday was the always fun neon, and Friday ended with super blue and gold for our rooftop pictures.

Monday students from House 7A were in the library and were able to visit with the Germany students that were in town visiting.  They learned about different cultural aspects of Germany by meeting with the students in small groups.  The students learned a great deal and had a blast.

Ms. Horne's classes visited the library on Tuesday and Wednesday.  Students were working on their poetry using the app Haiku Deck to create beautiful presentations.  They also began doing research on Cambodia to help the understand the background of the book The Clay Marble which they'll begin reading next week.  Students used CultureGrams, WebPath Express, and Encyclopedia Britannica to help them research.

Thursday Mrs. Capen's students from Academic Support came in the library.  They received an in-depth tour, searched for books, learned about the databases available for research, and got any question they had about the library answered.

Friday I went and visited Mrs. Serkowski's classes in her classroom.  Our focus was e-mail.  Making sure students could send an e-mail with an attachment and understand what CC and BC mean, the difference between reply and replay all.  Students left with a better understand of how e-mail works and when they should use e-mail.