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.
District fifth-graders, like Mike Conklin’s IS fifth-graders, are practicing how to round numbers in math. Rounding in fifth-grade math is important because it teaches students how to estimate answers quickly and accurately in real-life situations where exact precision isn't always necessary, making calculations simpler and helping them understand the relative size of numbers, especially when dealing with large numbers or complex problems. Rounding also serves as a valuable tool for students because it allows them to check and see if their final answer is reasonable
Our Intermediate School team is simply the best! What better way to remind them of this on Security Appreciation Day than with coffee and doughnuts!
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!
Looking for a place for your children to go during the school breaks this year?
Our long-time Middletown YMCA partner ---who runs our terrific onsite Club Kid before and after school program at our Slate Hill and Otisville campuses --- offers a great option when schools are closed.
During Vacation Camp days, campers spend time in active play, group games, arts and crafts, teambuilding activities, and even swim when possible! The first set of Vacation Camp days are on Oct. 3 and 4. Registration deadline is Sept. 30! Space is limited! Note: Minisink Valley schools are closed on Oct. 3 in observance of Rosh Hashanah; but other districts are closed Oct. 3 and 4.
Click here for more registration information: https://middletownymca.org/vacation-camps/
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!
District third-graders, like Andrew Fenner’s IS third-graders, are learning about the commutative properties of multiplication and practicing this knowledge in their word problem work.
The commutative property of multiplication states that the order of numbers in a multiplication problem does not change the result. The formula for is (A×B) = (B×A). By the way, the same is true for addition operations (A+B) = (B+A).
The commutative property is a well-known and basic property used in most branches of mathematics. Its official use began at the end of the 18th century. The first recorded use of the term "commutative" was in a memoir by mathematician François Servois in 1814. The word “commutative” originated from the French word “commute” or “commuter,” which means to "switch" or "move around," combined with the suffix “-ative” means “tend to.”
Can you answer these crossword challenges about a school library?
•Fiction books are organized in alphabetical order by whose last name
•Type of books organized by the Dewey Decimal System
•What part of the book should be facing out on the bookshelf
•And more!
Aimee Hardy’s fourth-grade library students can! Ask them about their crossword puzzle fun!
Intermediate School students are celebrating the International Day of Peace in style with their tie dye attire!! The International Day of Peace (which is tomorrow, Sept. 21, but being marked today) celebrates the power of global solidarity for building a peaceful and sustainable world.
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!
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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
Shari Cannone’s third-graders are reading portions of the text from “Aladdin” to each other as part of their partner reading work. This is a cooperative learning strategy in which two students work together to read an assigned text.
Partner reading can be used with a variety of content and in different circumstances. It can help students improve their literacy skills and also provides authentic reading practice and a model of fluent reading.
