Snowball fights and spelling bees

Have you ever wanted to have a snowball fight in the classroom? Well, if you were in Matt Alessandrini’s third grade spelling class, you could do just that! Alessandrini’s class uses formative assessment to track student learning. After papers are crumpled up and thrown, they are then collected randomly and checked for accuracy and then returned to the original person. This assures the students that their tests will never be graded by the same person twice and that they know how they are doing at that exact moment. Ready. Aim. Fire!

The Lincolnview Junior High School recently completed its Spelling Bee selecting representatives for the Van Wert County Spelling Bee. Braxten Robey won the Spelling Bee for the eighth grade and for the junior high. Carly Wendel won the Spelling Bee for seventh grade and was runner-up for the junior high. Both students will represent Lincolnview at the Van Wert County Spelling Bee on Feb. 3.

As part of fifth grade guidance curriculum, students were asked to create a poster using a quotation about caring, friendship, or kindness.  The results are:

SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD – Alex Rossbaugh

LANCER WAY AWARD – Dylann Carey

COUNSELOR’S CHOICE – Xander Pence, Kacey Stewart, and Kenna Mason

BEST HOLIDAY THEME – Sami Sellers

PRINCIPAL’S AWARD – Izabell Donnelly

ART TEACHER’S CHOICE – Ariel Pruden

BEST USE OF COLOR – Kassidy Ringwald

BEST USE OF QUOTE – Madison Langdon

FROM THE HEART AWARD – Anna Lamb

MOST RESPECTFUL – Arin Williams

MOST TALENTED DAD – Caleb Price

MOST INSPIRING – Brice Pruden

BEST OVERALL – ARIEL PRUDEN

Special recognition goes to Ellen Waterman’s class for having the most student participation.

Attention senior parents: there is information concerning the senior class trip on the Lincolnview website. Please look at it and follow the directions. The registration deadline is Jan. 27. If you have any questions, please feel free to email Deb Stetler at dstetler@lincolnview.k12.oh.us. The senior class is selling discount cards for $10 in an effort to raise money for the trip. Information about the cards can be found on the Lincolnview website.