Valley View Middle School

🎄✨ Mark your calendars — we’ve got some fun and festive dress-up days coming your way in December! ✨🎄

Mrs. Watkins’ and Ms. Heard’s homerooms enjoyed a pizza party for winning the Words Read Homeroom Competition! 🍕📚 Watkins’ class read 4,000,643 words in 1st Quarter, and Heard’s class read 4,112,710 words! Incredible! Keep turning those pages! 💙💛 #BlazerPride🔥

😴Our middle school teachers are officially tired of 6️⃣7️⃣ on this 67th day of school — so tired, in fact, that they launched a surprise pajama-day protest! 💤

Over the past few days, Ms. Thompson’s science class has been growing and observing green onions to explore the process of photosynthesis! 🌱🔬 Our Blazers loved watching their plants change and learning how sunlight fuels growth. 🌞💙 #BlazerPride🔥

Today our 6th grade Valley View students took part in the Small Business Leadership Conference at ASU! 🎉 Students were challenged to design a brand-new (or greatly improved) toy and bring it to life through a full business plan booklet, an advertisement, a 60-second commercial, and an elevator pitch. Their creativity, teamwork, and problem-solving skills were on full display—and we couldn’t be prouder! 💙💛 Congratulations to: 🏅 Triston Ohlson, Samantha Ruiz, Nguyen Ho, and Raymond Ye — 3rd Place in Business Plans 🏆 Gabriel Woodside, Colton Chester, and Zyad Ragab — 1st Place in Commercials Way to represent Valley View! #BlazerPride

✨ Here’s your quick reminder of all the dates happening this week. Don’t miss a thing! 💙💛

Big congratulations to our Lions International Peace Poster Contest winners! 🕊️✨ 🎨 Kallie Sparks — 2nd Place 🎨 Avery Schwarz — 1st Place and advancing to the state competition! We’re so proud of their creativity and hard work! 💙💛

Mrs. Sandlin & Mrs. Leible’s math classes teamed up this week to put their rate skills to the test! Students explored real-world rates, and it looks like a few might have a future with the Valley View Jr. High basketball and track teams 😉 Even Principal Davis dusted off his basketball shoes and joined the fun! Afterward, students practiced converting unit rates per second, writing ordered pairs, and graphing their data. Who says math can’t be a blast? 💙💛

💜🐉 We are rocking purple today to celebrate our own house of kindness and World Kindness Day! 🐉💜 #Nukemori #BlazerPride🔥

💜🐉 Wear Purple Tomorrow to Celebrate World Kindness Day & Our Own House of Kindness! #Nukemori #WorldKindnessDay

🦃✨ Our students are putting their math skills to the test by planning a Thanksgiving dinner! They’re using ratios, unit rates, and proportional reasoning to budget ingredients, scale recipes, and make sure there’s enough food for everyone. Real-world math in action—and it’s deliciously fun! 🥧📊

💙💛A huge shoutout to our Valley View Middle School Dance Team for an amazing performance at their exhibition this weekend! 💙💛 ✨The future of Valley View Dance is shining bright — we’re so proud of these talented Blazers! ✨ #BlazerPride🔥

⚽️ 6th Grade Students Only ⚽️ Mark your calendars for soccer tryouts December 2 and 4th!

🎉Today’s House Party was a blast! 🖤🧡❤️💚💙🩵💜💛 We kicked things off with an awesome performance from our 6th grade percussionists, celebrated our Students and Teachers of the Month, and wrapped it up with a big congratulations to Onraka for taking home this month’s Spirit Stick!🧡 ✨What a perfect way to close out the Month of Unity! #BlazerPride🔥 #EightHousesOneFamily

We’re so proud of our VV students who represented our school at the “Handshake Competition” at ASU this week! 💙💛 Carter Steel, Ava Imboden, Emma Thompson, and Nora Best took on real-world challenges that tested their communication, teamwork, and problem-solving skills — and they crushed it! 🙌 A huge shoutout to Nora Best for earning 2nd place with an incredible 149/150 score! 🌟👏

Students are diving into history through novels in Mrs. Watkins reading class! 📚 ✨ In small group literature circles, students are exploring different historical fiction stories — discussing characters, key events, and themes to bring each time period to life. 💙 #BlazerPride🔥

🥞🔬 Science is better with pancakes!

Mrs. Thompson’s 5th grade science class wrapped up their unit on matter with a hands-on (and delicious!) experiment. Students explored properties of matter, types of mixtures, physical and chemical changes, and states of matter — all while making pancakes! 💙💛

💙💛 Our Valley View Intermediate & Middle School Cheer Teams killed it this weekend! 💛💙 They brought home trophy after trophy: 🏆 Overall High Point Grand Champs 🏆 12U Rec Champs 🏆 High Point Tumbling 🏆 High Point Stunts 🏆 High Point Pyramid We’re so proud of these talented Blazers and all their hard work! 💃✨ #BlazerPride🔥

🖤🎃👻 Happy Halloween from Valley View Middle School!! 👻🎃🖤

What better way to celebrate learning about Lyric Poetry than with a little friendly competition? 🎤✨ Our 6th graders had an absolute blast playing “Finish the Lyrics” in Mrs. Stuart’s and Mrs. Tomlinson’s language classrooms — and even Principal Davis joined the fun! 🎶👏 There were big laughs, surprise stars, and some serious musical talent on display! 🌟🎵💙