Another example of great inter-school collaboration and creativity!
The Eighth-Grade Band was invited to play with the High School Marching Band during last evening's varsity football game!
The eighth-graders had the opportunity to experience what awaits them in high school; and marching band members were great mentors and hosts! Thank you to all for making this memorable experience possible! It was a great evening, which included a BIG varsity win!
Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept.15 through Oct. 15. The High School’s Spanish 5 class recently presented a Google slide presentation on individuals whom are recognized for their contributions and achievements through Hispanic culture and history. ¡Bien hecho a todos!
Join us on Wednesday, Oct. 16 at 7 p.m. for the High School's Chorus Harvest Concert! You'll be amazing by our talented students!
Photo retake and makeup reminder! Don't miss out!
The Cross Country team continues to be amazing! At the recent XC Saratoga Invitational, the Freshmen boys team took second place! The Varsity girls team came in seventh-place, and the Varsity Boys team took sixth-place!
Thank you to our colleagues at ACT Through Music in Glen Spey for their recent donation of 100 kits to the High Sc hool's Counseling Center! These kits are filled with mental health resources and goodies that our counselors will be able to use throughout the year.
These unique “ACT Kits” include stress balls, journals/pens, and words of encouragement that focus on mental health. We appreciate your kindness! To learn more, visit: https://www.actthroughmusic.com/
MARK YOUR CALENDAR! ONE WEEK FROM TONIGHT! The High School will hold a College Fair and Financial Aid night on Tuesday, Oct. 15. The financial aid presentation will begin at 6 p.m. Participating colleges and universities are listed below. To learn more, contact the High School's Guidance/Counseling Department at 845-355-5161.
Danielle Zamorski's high school health classes have been working on building their stress management skills. Students have been learning different techniques such as guided imagery, sticker painting, progressive muscle relaxation, time management, adult coloring, journaling, meditation, and other calming activities to help them practice and prioritize self-care.
Stress management is important because it can help you maintain your mental and physical health and even improve your quality of life:
•Prevent health problems: Chronic stress can lead to serious health issues like diabetes and heart disease. Stress management can help you prevent or ease stress-induced symptoms.
•Improve mood: Stress management can help you feel better and get along better with others.
•Improve sleep: Stress management can help you sleep better and rebalance your emotions.
•Improve concentration: Stress management can help you improve your concentration.
•Improve resilience: Stress management can help your mind and body adapt to stress, so you're not always on high alert.
GOING GOLD! Thank you to everyone for bringing awareness to the need for more research dollars to fund research for cures to pediatric cancer. The district glowed in various shades of yellow and gold!
Visit our Facebook page to see photo galleries of our students, faculty and staff in their gold/yellow attire! https://www.facebook.com/MinisinkValleyCSD
MARK YOUR CALENDAR! TWO WEEKS FROM TONIGHT! The High School will hold a College Fair and Financial Aid night on Tuesday, Oct. 15.
The financial aid presentation will begin at 6 p.m.
Participating colleges and universities are listed below. To learn more, contact the High School's Guidance/Counseling Department at 845-355-5161.
Why does belly flopping into a pool hurt while diving gracefully pierce the surface?
The answer is cohesion... water molecules stick together! Carolyn Russell’s freshman Biology class began the year exploring the Scientific Method, hypothesizing which side of a penny would hold more water: Heads or tails? Students discovered the properties of cohesion allow water molecules to be attracted to one another allowing them to deliver an impressive 260 drops of water to the tails side of a penny.
Cohesion refers to the property of molecules of the same substance sticking together due to attractive forces between them, essentially meaning "the ability to stick to itself." This is primarily caused by the polarity of the molecules, where positive and negative charges within a molecule attract opposite charges on neighboring molecules, creating a bond like in water where hydrogen bonds are responsible for its strong cohesive properties.
When they added a surfactant, a substance that lowers the surface tension of water and limits cohesion, they observed those numbers drop dramatically. Some students were only able to deliver 13 or 14 drops of water after adding a surfactant. It was an impressive exploration into the properties of water and steps required to carry out the Scientific Method.
Cayla Tangney’s “Studio Arts” class students are working in the concept of perspective in their pencil drawings. In art, perspective lines, or linear perspective, is a technique used to create the illusion of depth on a flat surface, such as a painting or drawing. This technique is based on the observation that parallel lines appear to converge as they recede into the distance. The point where the lines appear to meet is called the vanishing point.
The High School’s Career Achievement Program (CAP) students provide weekly assistance to teachers and educators in various buildings throughout the Slate Hill campus. It’s a great inter-school collaboration! Students recently helped ES reading teacher Valerie Zubikowski prepare for her lesson by gathering, organizing and cutting letter sounds cards. Using these letter sound cards, students will be practicing being able to fluently say the sounds of letters to help build their phonics skills!
Letter sound cards are a tool used to help students learn the relationship between letters and the sounds they make. They can be used to help children learn to automatically associate letters with sounds; to review letters and sounds to help students become more fluent; support phonological awareness by helping students sound out letters and combinations of letters; and support spelling through the review spelling sounds!
Reminder: We're GOING GOLD on Monday, Sept. 30! Please join our efforts to bring awareness of the need for new treatments and hopeful cures for pediatric cancer. Thank you to the High School's Youth Against Cancer Club for spearheading this initiative.
CALL FOR PHOTOS: Share photos of your student's gold/yellow attire! Email to communications@minisink.com to be included in a forthcoming photo gallery!
DON’T LET THIS TROPHY LEAVE THE DISTRICT!
We invite you to be part of the Orange County “Cool School Challenge! ” Join the team representing Minisink Valley and participating in the Nov. 9 Polar Bear Challenge at the Rez in Highland Mills! We want to retain our title as the “Cool School Challenge” winner!
The “Cool School Challenge” is a friendly competition between local schools as part of the 2024 Orange County Polar Plunge. Students, staff and community members are encouraged to create a team of “Plungers” to support the good work of Special Olympics New York. Because of your efforts, Minisink Valley won the 2023 Cool School Challenge, and we're proudly displaying this trophy in Central Office!
Director of PPS Jeff Finton is overseeing Minisink Valley’s efforts to create a team. Join Minisink Valley’s team by clicking on the QR code in this flyer or email Mr. Finton at jfinton@minisink.com If. If you know of community members, families or students or student clubs who’d like to represent Minisink Valley, please share this flyer.
We hope you can join our team!
Cheers to the Cross-Country boys freshman team, which took second-place honors (out of 24 teams) at the Sept. 21 Suffern Invitational held at Bear Mountain! There were 244 freshman at this event, with “Top 25” performances coming from Santiago Martinez (7th), Landon Straw (11th), Matthew Milby (18th) and Rylan Young (23rd). The varsity boys team also fared well, placing 7th out of 23 teams, with “Top 25” performances by Ryan Capo (8th) and Carter Rossi (12th) who were among 178 varsity runners in the event. There were extremely solid efforts by all members of the Varsity and Junior Varsity boys and girls teams!
As part of the High School's ongoing character education curriculum, all students have attended DASA and Title IX assemblies.
DASA was enacted in July 2010 to promote a safe and supportive learning environment in all public and charter schools, free from harassment and discrimination for students. Under DASA, no student shall be subjected to harassment or discrimination by employees or students on school property, or at a school function, based on their actual or perceived race, color, weight, national origin, ethnic group, religion, religious practice, disability, sexual orientation, gender or other related categories.
Title IX is a Federal civil rights law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs and activities.
These conversations are important and will continue through the school year. Students were also provided with information as well as resources on how and where they can go to get help if needed. Please ask your student about these important topics!
CAN YOU HELP? Senior Vanessa Tepper has been nominated by the New York Giants as a finalist for USA Football’s “Heart of Giant Award," presented by Hospital for Special Surgery and the New York Giants!
This prestigious award recognizes tri-state area high school student-athletes, team mascots, team managers and other designated team members who have an unparalleled work ethic and passion for the game. Team members with a “Heart of a Giant” also demonstrate five main characteristics on and off the field: Commitment, character, teamwork, dedication and will!
Vanessa is in a race to be one of the six finalists who will receive a $1,000 equipment grant for the Varsity Flag Football team! The grand prize winner will receive an additional $9,000 equipment grant for their team! BUT, YOU MUST VOTE!
PLEASE SHARE! Voting runs through Oct. 6. VOTE TODAY by clicking onto www. https://usafootball.com/heart-of-a-giant
(Be sure to scroll all the way down this page to find Vanessa and you can vote more than once!)
REMINDER: The Executive PTO's annual apparel sale is taking place now through Sept. 30. There's something for everyone in every school building. Looking for gift ideas? You'll find great school swag! Please share!
To order: https://bsnteamsports.com/shop/saLRszxGDf
or use the QR code below👇👇👇
September is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month!
Join us and wear gold/yellow attire on Monday, Sept. 30 to help bring awareness to the need for new treatments and hopeful cures for pediatric cancer, the leading cause of death by disease for children under the age of 14.
Please join the efforts of the high school's Youth Against Cancer Club
to create awareness! Call for photos: Share your student's gold/yellow attire for a planned
photo gallery by emailing to communications@minisink.com by 3 p.m. on Monday. Sept. 30
