District sixth-graders were treated to a special assembly which ties into the work they’re doing in their science classes: Seeing how science is all around us as they continue to investigate, experiment with and observe how our universe works.
Pathology Manager Lisa Everle spoke to students on Sept. 25 about the field of clinical pathology and how a clinical pathology laboratory works!
A clinical pathology laboratory performs tests on bodily fluids, tissues and cells to help diagnose and/or monitor diseases. Laboratory specialty areas can include: Blood bank, clinical chemistry and biology, toxicology, hematology, immunology and serology and microbiology.
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!
Rich Budd’s sixth-grade technology students are constructing models rockets….which they will launch once complete! Each student received a kit which explains what they need to do, with Mr. Budd demonstrating each step along the way. Students are just about at a point where it’s time to paint their rockets. There will be two launch blast-off days coming up soon!
The seventh-grade science team of Jen Zaro, Bailey Riley, Paul John DeStefano and Rebecca Foster-Faith led their students in a recent “Color Changing Volume” lab where students were tasked with following a series of instructions to make precise measurements. When the measurements leading to chemical reactions to create color changes are done correctly, the result was students created rainbows via their test tubes of color!
Students have been practicing measuring mass, length, volume and using measurements of mass and volume to calculate density. Students are getting hands on experiences with triple beam balances, graduates cylinders, metric rulers, digital temperature probes and electric balances.
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
Middle School Grade 7 and 8 families....Reminder: Tonight is your student's Open House! We look forward to seeing you there!
Use this handy QR code to download the district's new app!
Nicole Lee’s sixth-grade science students have quickly jumped into the world of science! In their recent density layers lab, students compared different substances density and made our own density jars!
Plus, students also participated in some “getting to know you” activities via a Science Motivates board, where students picked a word and placed it on a paper heart with their name. Their selected word is intended to motivate them to do well in school this upcoming year. Their Skittles activity invited students to pick one candy color which represents a fact about them, such as the color orange (which could be someone’s favorite food or color). They used jumbo-sized Post-it notes and put their name on any of the character categories that reflects them.
Kristine Ostensen’s eighth-grade science students had some sweet fun in their recent triple beam balance lab using candy! Students needed to find the mass of each individual candy using the triple beam balance (TBB). They added up their masses and compared it to the total measured mass of all the candy. When their work was done, what else could they do but eat the candy?
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.
Middle School Grade 6 families... Reminder: Tonight is your student's Open House! We look forward to seeing you there!
Say “hello” to two-way messaging and classroom announcements in the Minisink Valley app! With the addition of Rooms, our district app keeps getting better. Parents and Guardians, check your email or text messages for instructions to sign up and access Rooms today!
Know what the color of the lights mean!
Use this handy QR code to download the district's new app!
Reminder to families/students in all school buildings: To access daily/weekly breakfast/lunch menus via the FDMeal Planner by school building, click on the "dining' icon on each school's website/app home page; or download the free FDMealPlanner app to your mobile device:
Google Play (for Android devices): FDMealPlanner
App Store (for Apple devices) FDMealPlanner
Important note: The new menu platform is also connected to the Minisink Valley website and app!
Reminder:.Tomorrow, Sept. 4 is the Transportation Department's "Meet and Greet" Day at the district's Transportation Center at 179 South Centerville Road!
K-2 students and new district students and their families will have the opportunity meet their bus drivers and see the bus which will be transporting them to and from school! We invite you to stop by!
Just a few more days until the first day of the 2024-25 school year! We invite you to share your student's "First Day of School" photo!
Orientation for our new faculty in all our buildings is taking place today, Aug. 29, and tomorrow, Aug. 30! They're a talented group of dedicated educators and we can't wait to see them working with our students!
