Minisink Valley Central School District
As a result of unused snow days, the Minisink Valley Central School District has declared Tuesday, April 23, and Thursday, May 23 as “give back” days. School will now be closed for students on these two additional days. The long Memorial Day observance weekend now runs Thursday, May 23, through Monday, May 27. This important holiday commemorates …
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Holly Pason’s Otisville Elementary third-grade class recently completed extremely creative biography research projects by creating posters portraying the person they researched. This fun project allowed students to be creative while still learning about famous inventors, artists, African Americans and women in history!
Cynthia Careccia and Debra Schifano’s Otisville Elementary students were feeling lucky when they recently celebrated St. Patrick’s Day with some special math exercises and treats. It was an opportunity to align math lessons with the luck of the Irish to make the day’s math work even more fun. Students sorted “marshmallow charms” from Lucky Charms …
The 2019 Region 5 Odyssey of the Mind Tournament is tomorrow, March 9, at Orange-Ulster BOCES! GOOD LUCK to the teams representing Minisink Valley High School, Minisink Valley Middle School, Minisink Valley Intermediate School and Otisville Elementary School. Teams of up to seven students compete in five different problems which encompass vehicle, technical, classics, structure …
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The “A” in STEAM was apparent in Otisville Elementary Art Teacher Kara Welsh’s art class this week when students used a computer program to make short animations. STEAM (Science-Technology-Engineering-Arts-Mathematics) projects like hers are commonplace in Minisink Valley classrooms. 50 pictures to make about 10 seconds of video “Student animations will be about 50 frames long, …
The halls are alive with the sounds of music at Minisink Valley schools, and often times there’s even a STEAM component to students’ melodious work. For example, Otisville Elementary fifth-grade students have been working on a STEAM (Science-Technology-Engineering-Art-Mathematics) unit using Makey Makeys and Chromebooks in Maria Fenfert’s music classes. Makey Makey learning fun Makey Makeys …
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Ten Minisink Valley High School students and dozens of students representing Otisville and Minisink Valley elementary schools will be participating in the Feb. 23 Orange County Arts Council’s (OCAC) “Arts Build Confidence” student art celebration at the Galleria at Crystal Run in Middletown. The high school students will be part of a display of over 120 works of …
Otisville Elementary Assistant Principal Julia Downey’s January enrichment program, “LEGO Simple Machines” engaged students in investigating and understanding the operation of simple and compound machines found in everyday life using basic LEGO machine parts such as levers, axles, gears and pulleys. LEGO comes from the Danish phrase “leg godt” which means “play well.” But, there’s …
Otisville Elementary Assistant Principal Julia Downey’s January enrichment program, “LEGO Simple Machines” engaged students in investigating and understanding the operation of simple and compound machines found in everyday life using basic LEGO machine parts such as levers, axles, gears and pulleys. LEGO comes from the Danish phrase “leg godt” which means “play well.” But, there’s …
All schools in the Minisink Valley School Central District have been labeled as schools in “good standing” by the New York State Education Department (NYSED), as required by the state’s Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). ESSA is the state’s new school accountability system that replaced “No Child Left Behind.” NYSED announced the new school accountability …