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!
Otisville Elementary Grades 3 to 5 families....Reminder: Tonight is your student's Open House! We look forward to seeing you there!
Please note times:
6 to 6:30 p.m.: Fifth-Grade
6:35 to 7:05 p.m.: Fourth- Grade
7:10 to 7:40 p.m.: Third Grade
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/
OTISVILLE: What are you missing? Remind your student to stop by the "Lost and Found" station in the lobby!
Otisville Elementary Grades K to 2 families....Reminder: Tonight is your student's Open House! We look forward to seeing you there!
Please note times:
6 to 6:30 .pm.: Kindergarten
6:35 to 7:05 p.m.: First-Grade
7:10 to 7:40 p.m.: Second Grade
Students continue to learn the procedures to ensure a safe and orderly school day by visiting different areas of the school on their daily travels throughout the building. Students reviewed the rules for lunch, recess and bathroom usage and they're doing a great job understanding everything!
Settling into a new school year also means working together and using cooperative skills for a common purpose!
Stephanie Giufre’s Grades 2-3-4-5 students recently launched the school year with cooperative games! They were tasked with building “King Kong Skyscrapers,” where they worked together to build a free-standing structure. This activity is a great example of physical fitness fun, teamwork and cooperation combined the STEM components of physics and engineering!
It's Peace Day at Otisville Elementary! Students are sporting tie dye attire to mark the day, although the official International Day of Peace is tomorrow, Sept. 21. This year's international theme is “Cultivating a Culture of Peace” and draws inspiration from UNESCO's foundational belief that “wars begin in the minds of men, so it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed."
District third-graders, like Stephanie Gove and Kirsten Reid’s third-graders, are increasing their proficiency in knowing the standard form, word form and expanded form in math! It’s an important skill.
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
Use this handy QR code to download the district's new app!
District second-graders, like Lisa Grazino’s second-graders, are learning about fairy tales as part of the initial ELA work. Fairy tales and “tall” tales are taught in order to teach story elements such as setting, characters, beginning, middle, end --- and more --- in a way that young students find relatable. As part of their reading of “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” they are taking some time for writing practice and illustrating what they’re writing!
Maria Fenfert's fifth-grade music classes are starting off the school year with a fun game of "Musical Hot Potato!" When the musical hot potato lands on a student, he/she needs to name their favorite musical artist. It's a great "getting to know you" game!
Our cutie-pie kindergarteners at Otisville Elementary and the Elementary School are learning so much in these opening weeks of school, including how to navigate the lunch line! And, they quickly became really good at doing this, too!
Thanks to the help of the Minisink Kiwanis and The Otisville Presbyterian Church, Otisville Elementary has reached its goal of collecting 1000 pounds of recyclable plastic and will be rewarded for its efforts by receiving a TREX bench for the school community via the NexTrex Community Recycling Program!
The items were collected in the building from students and faculty in addition to from the Minisink Kiwanis and the Otisville Presbyterian church.
Thank you to teacher aide Shannon Barbone and art teacher Kara Welsh more making many trips to Hannaford in Middletown this past summer to deliver the recycled plastic material for recycling.
The school will still be recycling any plastic collected on the campus!
Thank you to Otisville Fire Department Chief Rob Coppola, who visited Jessica Kahn and Julia Ferguson’s kindergarten class yesterday, Sept. 11, to talk about the important role of first responders had on Patriot Day. Chief Coppola spoke to the class about what firefighters do. and the little students presented him with thank you cards to share with all of the Otisville firefighters. They also read Tedd Arnold’s “Fly Guy Presents Firefighters,” where they learned all about firefighters, fire trucks, and fire safety and saw how that tied into Chief Coppola’s presentation.
Who doesn't love having a story read to them? Lisa Anglemyer’s second-graders are paying close attention to her reading of Rachel Isadora’s “The Fisherman and his Wife,” a story about dissatisfaction and greed. It’s the story of the kind fisherman who catches an enchanted fish, and his greedy wife who always wants more.
We will never forget.
“No Day Shall Erase You From the Memory of Time”
---- from "Book IX of The Aeneid" by Roman poet Virgil, which is inscribed on the wall of the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City.
