It’s not over yet, Yankee fans! Think positive….and as part of that positivity, the Intermediate School presented students with their Aaron Judge ALL RISE Summer Reading Programs certificate received earlier in the week!
Congratulations and well-done to Callan D'Antono, Nico Santiago, Rehan Usman and Mariah Carrion Castenada!
The Aaron Judge ALL RISE Foundation, founder of this group and the Yankees’ captain, is a nonprofit that aims to inspire children and youth to become responsible citizens. Its summer reading program is a literacy initiative that encourages children and youth to read. This past summer, Minisink Valley invited all students to participate in this summer reading initiative, organized by Physical Education Teacher Theresa Uhelsky.
Every Intermediate School student was invited to pick a pumpkin from the "IS Pumpkin Patch" on the way to their buses today, Oct. 29!
The Intermediate School’s annual GREAT PUMPKIN Decorating Contest, sponsored by the IS PTO, was a grand success and great time for all! All classes, under the guidance of IS Art Joan Giardina, designed and decorated a unique class pumpkin. All were on display and everyone voted on their favorite (Note: they could not vote on their own pumpkin). Take a look at these very creative pumpkins! The votes were tallied and the winners are:
•Fifth-grade: “Devil Bat,” created by Briana Barrett/Nicole Vanderdrift/ Kendra Soule’s class
•Fourth-grade: “King Bob,” created by Jessica Venettozzi’s class
•Third-grade: “Hot Chocolate,” created by Andrew Fenner’s class
Mrs. Giardina delivered the coveted GOLDEN PUMPKIN trophies to the first-place winners for each grade level, who will now proudly display them in their classes. THANK YOU to the IS PTO for providing these very awesome trophies!
Leyla Johnson’s IS fourth-grade physical education students are learning the basics about controlling a soccer ball as they begin their soccer unit. Maybe here’s some future World Cup players in this group!
Tomorrow's the big day! The Intermediate School PTO’s Halloween-themed "Fun Run" at 12 noon. Be sure you're registered!
The “Monster Dash” is open to all district students. The course measures just over a mile and will flow along the fields below the Slate Hill campus’ tennis courts. Runners, who are invited to run in costume, will “dash” from station to station through the course collecting prizes in their supplied tote bags.
The registration fee is $15 per runner and includes a “Minisink Valley Monster Dash” reusable tote bag.
Following the run’s conclusion, a “Trunk or Treat” will be held in the tennis court parking lot.
To register, donate to a participating student or become a local business sponsor, visit: visit myfunrun.com/monsterdash.
The PTO will use all proceeds to fiancé school assemblies, fifth-grade “Class of 2032” t-shirts and “Minisink Valley spirit t-shirts” for third and fourth-grade students.
To learn more, email to: chair.is@minisinkvalleypto.com
Registration is open for the Intermediate School PTO’s Halloween-themed "Fun Run" which will take place Saturday, Oct. 26 beginning at 12 noon. PLEASE SHARE!
The “Monster Dash” is open to all district students. The course measures just over a mile and will flow along the fields below the Slate Hill campus’ tennis courts. Runners, who are invited to run in costume, will “dash” from station to station through the course collecting prizes in their supplied tote bags.
The registration fee is $15 per runner and includes a “Minisink Valley Monster Dash” reusable tote bag.
Following the run’s conclusion, a “Trunk or Treat” will be held in the tennis court parking lot.
To register, donate to a participating student or become a local business sponsor, visit: visit myfunrun.com/monsterdash.
The PTO will use all proceeds to fiancé school assemblies, fifth-grade “Class of 2032” t-shirts and “Minisink Valley spirit t-shirts” for third and fourth-grade students.
To learn more, email to: chair.is@minisinkvalleypto.com
Kudos to fourth-graders Tyler Sturge and Kathleen Sanchez, who gave a preview of the movie “Wonder” on the morning announcements today, Oct. 21. Intermediate School students will be watching the movie on Oct. 30 in a special assembly!
“Wonder” is the story of August, a 10-year-old with facial differences, who goes to a traditional school for the first time in fifth-grade. In school, August makes new friends, has conflicts with friends and deals with a bully. The experiences help August to see that he is capable of being independent.
THINK PINK! The district is "going pink" on Thursday, Oct. 24 to support National Breast Cancer Awareness Month efforts!
Be part of the district's KINDNESS movement!
Support the good work of the Middle School's "Minisink Motivates" Club and by getting yourself some great KINDNESS apparel! The club will earn $6 from every order and will use it to spread kindness around the district!
District fourth-graders, like Jen Kemmerer and Cheryl Wilson’s IS fourth-graders, are working on their personal narratives as part of the ELA work. A personal narrative is a true story about a person's life, and is a common writing assignment for fourth graders.
Their students are now focusing on the use of transition words in their writing and were reminded they can pick words from their “transition word bank” to use as they continue with their assignment of writing details about their personal topic of choice in chronological order.
Deanna Feuerbach’s IS fifth-grade music students have been studying the “science of sound” in a very creative way!
Sound is vibration that is measured in waves. All instruments create sound through vibrations. Students can sort the way instruments vibrate to make sound into five sound families:
•Aerophones are instruments that vibrate when air is blown into them.
•Chordophones are instruments that vibrate when strings are plucked.
• Membranophones are instruments that vibrate when a stretched surface is hit (all drums).
•Idiophones are instruments that vibrate themselves (rain sticks, maracas, jingle bells, shakers, etc.).
•Electrophones are instruments that vibrate through electricity.
As part of this lesson, five-graders were tasked with creating their own instrument made out of recycled materials. They identified which sound family their instrument belongs to and what recycled materials were used when they presented their instrument project to the class. Take a peek at a sampling of their creative work! Well done to all! This
Registration is open for the Intermediate School PTO’s Halloween-themed "Fun Run" which will take place Saturday, Oct. 26 beginning at 12 noon. PLEASE SHARE!
The “Monster Dash” is open to all district students. The course measures just over a mile and will flow along the fields below the Slate Hill campus’ tennis courts. Runners, who are invited to run in costume, will “dash” from station to station through the course collecting prizes in their supplied tote bags.
The registration fee is $15 per runner and includes a “Minisink Valley Monster Dash” reusable tote bag.
Following the run’s conclusion, a “Trunk or Treat” will be held in the tennis court parking lot.
To register, donate to a participating student or become a local business sponsor, visit: visit myfunrun.com/monsterdash.
The PTO will use all proceeds to fiancé school assemblies, fifth-grade “Class of 2032” t-shirts and “Minisink Valley spirit t-shirts” for third and fourth-grade students.
To learn more, email to: chair.is@minisinkvalleypto.com
Did you know that each morning a group of students, like Karen Nicholson and Tara Guyette's IS fifth-graders, are invited to the main office to lead the school in the Pledge of Allegiance?
A gorgeous, collaborative mural has been installed in the Intermediate School, thanks to IS art teacher Joan Giardina and her creative art students!
All Grade 3- 5 students were tasked with creating a piece of art following the four key characteristics pf Bauhaus Design: Geometric shapes, primary colors, clean lines and balanced asymmetry. Bauhaus is a minimalist, functional and modern design style that originated in Germany in the early 20th century. The Bauhaus style has had a profound impact on modern design, inspiring architecture, furniture, and fashion.
District fourth-graders, like Kim Marasco’s IS fourth-graders, are working on place value up to the millions place. After finding the value of each digit, students learned how to write the numbers in different forms such as expanded form, word form and unit form.
The expanded form splits the number, and it represents the number in units, tens, hundreds and thousands form….for fourth-graders, this extends to the millions place! Word form is the number name written in words, just like you'd read it. Unit form is writing the digit in each place with the name of the place. Numbers in unit form are written with a comma between each place.
School photo season continues! It’s PHOTO DAY at the Intermediate School today, Oct. Here's another peek at how keepsake school photos are created!
In-school instrument lessons are in full swing in all our buildings! They are important role in increasing skills and aptitude in the playing of a particular instrument. Take a peek these Intermediate School fifth-grade trombonists, who, under the guidance of band teacher Andrew Hulle, are using software called MusicFirst. Mr. Hulle uses this all-inclusive music platform with all instruments.
In this instance, students were working with the PracticeFirst tool. It allows students to play along with sheet music and the program listens to them and assigns them scores based on their performance. They are scored on pitch accuracy and rhythmic accuracy. The better they score the more stars they receive and students are holding a friendly competition to see who can collect the most stars!
Thank you to fifth-grader Isabella Pollock, who shared a message about Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, today to everyone during the morning announcements. Remember, school is closed tomorrow, Oct. 3 in observance of Rosh Hashanah.
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
A beautiful and majestic bald eagle watched drop-off students arrive to the Intermediate School campus today! Bald eagles can be found in New York year-round, with large numbers often congregating in winter. In the 1970s, there were believed to be just two bald eagles left in the entire state of New York. Now, there are close to 1,000, and they're no longer considered endangered.
