Dear CCSD Families,
This week, our school community is focusing on the character strength of Humor. Humor means you like to laugh and bring smiles to other people.
Humor is a sense of playfulness and lightness. It is a way of looking at and describing the world that brings people laughter. A person with a strong sense of humor is skilled at seeing the funny side of things, bringing smiles and laughter to others, and identifying and communicating the absurdities in life. People with this strength don’t specifically need to be joke-tellers, although many are.
Humor plays an important role in helping groups of people rise above difficult circumstances and boost morale. It removes us from our present difficulties by easing tension and making life more fun. This is why athletic teams often need a jokester to help them get through tough losses and early morning fitness sessions. On a larger societal level, humor often helps downtrodden groups to find cohesion and strength. This is why Simon Wiesenthal said, “Humor is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed smile at the situation that pains them.”
To practice and encourage the character strength of humor with your child, please visit the Positivity Project’s P2 for Families, where together you can watch a video, read a quote and talk about the answers to three questions.
We hope that you will consider asking your students about their Positivity Project SEL daily lessons, discussions and activities!
This week, our school community is focusing on the character strength of Humor. Humor means you like to laugh and bring smiles to other people.
Humor is a sense of playfulness and lightness. It is a way of looking at and describing the world that brings people laughter. A person with a strong sense of humor is skilled at seeing the funny side of things, bringing smiles and laughter to others, and identifying and communicating the absurdities in life. People with this strength don’t specifically need to be joke-tellers, although many are.
Humor plays an important role in helping groups of people rise above difficult circumstances and boost morale. It removes us from our present difficulties by easing tension and making life more fun. This is why athletic teams often need a jokester to help them get through tough losses and early morning fitness sessions. On a larger societal level, humor often helps downtrodden groups to find cohesion and strength. This is why Simon Wiesenthal said, “Humor is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed smile at the situation that pains them.”
To practice and encourage the character strength of humor with your child, please visit the Positivity Project’s P2 for Families, where together you can watch a video, read a quote and talk about the answers to three questions.
We hope that you will consider asking your students about their Positivity Project SEL daily lessons, discussions and activities!
A big shout out to the students in Mrs. Fay's Sports Marketing Class and Mrs. Graham's Foods Class for a successful interdisciplinary unit with real world applications!
Six teams of students in the Sports Marketing Class were charged with the task of creating a new energy bar product for a leading foods company. Each team developed the marketing mix depicting their product. The Foods Class was given the ingredients and vision for what each team wanted and created each team's bar.
Students from the Achievement Zone were invited to judge the competition by tasting the finished energy bars and asking questions during the presentations. What a great real-world business venture experience for our students!! We have some future entrepreneurs in our high school ready to take on the business world!
Six teams of students in the Sports Marketing Class were charged with the task of creating a new energy bar product for a leading foods company. Each team developed the marketing mix depicting their product. The Foods Class was given the ingredients and vision for what each team wanted and created each team's bar.
Students from the Achievement Zone were invited to judge the competition by tasting the finished energy bars and asking questions during the presentations. What a great real-world business venture experience for our students!! We have some future entrepreneurs in our high school ready to take on the business world!
CHS has 3 teams competing in post season sectionals this week! We wish our Riverhawks and Mountaineers much success! See the flier for day, times and locations of the contests!
We are proud to announce that senior, Emily Dingmon, earned recognition as a "Student Making a Difference" and shared the positive impact that CHS teacher, Mrs. Terry, had on her as a student. Read more about this esteemed recognition: https://www.casdany.org/2024-recognition
Our district formally recognized our Adirondack United Girls Hockey state champions this week. Congratulations to Aubrey Lozier, Jessica Freebern and Coach Lawrence!
Congratulations to all of our performers at the CMS Grades 7-8 Concert last Thursday! It was the first concert to be held in our new auditorium!
Guests were treated to the talented hand bells ensemble, choir and 7-8 band! We are so proud of our middle school musicians!
A tip of the hat to our music department for a fantastic performance!!!
Next up on the concert calendar is the CMS 5-6 band next Tuesday!
CHS and CES concerts will follow!
Guests were treated to the talented hand bells ensemble, choir and 7-8 band! We are so proud of our middle school musicians!
A tip of the hat to our music department for a fantastic performance!!!
Next up on the concert calendar is the CMS 5-6 band next Tuesday!
CHS and CES concerts will follow!
Our Boys Varsity Baseball team will head to Coxsackie-Athens on Thursday for the first sectional game at 4PM! We wish our Riverhawks much success in the post-season!
(More photos on Facebook)
The JV softball earned the "W" to close out last week. Coach Parker shared game highlights:
"The JV softball team won against Whitehall on Friday by a score of 24-4. The team was led by Raegan Hickey who pitched a great game only letting up five hits. Jess Freebern had 3 hits including two doubles and five RBIs. Jullianna French, Brooke Curry, and Megan Smolinski all added doubles as well. The entire lineup helped contribute to a big win."
Congratulations to our JV Riverhawks!
"The JV softball team won against Whitehall on Friday by a score of 24-4. The team was led by Raegan Hickey who pitched a great game only letting up five hits. Jess Freebern had 3 hits including two doubles and five RBIs. Jullianna French, Brooke Curry, and Megan Smolinski all added doubles as well. The entire lineup helped contribute to a big win."
Congratulations to our JV Riverhawks!
Closing out our week on leadership in our Positivity Project SEL curriculum, we want to give a shout out to our CHS Student Senate! Students are elected by their peers and meet monthly. They have accomplished so much this school year.
Student Senate members serve on the CCSD Shared Decision Making Team and the Board of Education, representing the student body.
They meet monthly to discuss and plan how to improve the school and community. This year, CHS Student Senate were in charge of the vending machines in the Oak Street building. They are allocating the profits to school improvements! They are making improvements to our school courtyard and are also donating to Corinth's Agriculture Club to help defray the cost of their projects.
In an endeavor to be more inclusive to all students, the Student Senate helped to launch a CHS Book Club open to all students. This initiative supports our district literacy goal and has had much interest and engagement from students!
We are so proud of the CHS Student Senate, true role models and leaders in our school community!
Student Senate members serve on the CCSD Shared Decision Making Team and the Board of Education, representing the student body.
They meet monthly to discuss and plan how to improve the school and community. This year, CHS Student Senate were in charge of the vending machines in the Oak Street building. They are allocating the profits to school improvements! They are making improvements to our school courtyard and are also donating to Corinth's Agriculture Club to help defray the cost of their projects.
In an endeavor to be more inclusive to all students, the Student Senate helped to launch a CHS Book Club open to all students. This initiative supports our district literacy goal and has had much interest and engagement from students!
We are so proud of the CHS Student Senate, true role models and leaders in our school community!
Our Modified Softball Team earned a big WIN on Thursday vs. North Warren. Coach Roberts shared game highlights:
"Our Modified Riverhawks are on fire, taking another win against North Warren. The score was 13-5.
Kirana Ellis had a great out at 2nd base. Jennifer Ives was quick to throw at third base to Samantha Phillips to keep the runner on. Our catchers Annabell and Darrian were throwing down to first. Everyone had great hits and beautiful RBI’s. Every player had a great game. I am so proud of how well this team works together. Congratulations Riverhawks!! Keep it up." We are proud of our modified Riverhawks! Check out a few photos from the game (more on Facebook).
"Our Modified Riverhawks are on fire, taking another win against North Warren. The score was 13-5.
Kirana Ellis had a great out at 2nd base. Jennifer Ives was quick to throw at third base to Samantha Phillips to keep the runner on. Our catchers Annabell and Darrian were throwing down to first. Everyone had great hits and beautiful RBI’s. Every player had a great game. I am so proud of how well this team works together. Congratulations Riverhawks!! Keep it up." We are proud of our modified Riverhawks! Check out a few photos from the game (more on Facebook).
In support of our Positivity Project week-long SEL curriculum topic of leadership, we continue to feature student leaders in our school.
The CHS chapter of the National Honor Society has truly modeled leadership and service to our school and community with a variety of projects! In addition to facilitating a very successful Red Cross Bloodmobile (exceeding their goal of pints of blood), individual members coordinated their own service projects to give back to the school and community. Some of the projects benefitted: The American Legion, Saratoga County Animal Shelter, the C.A.R.E. Committee, the Community Food Pantry, Code Blue Shelter, Gateway Oasis Youth Camp, Veteran and Community Housing Coalition, Alliance 180 (Horse Adoption program), Corinth Elementary School, Corinth Music Program, Adirondack Center Stage, Toys for Tots and many other worthy causes/organizations.
We are so proud of our students for modeling our Positivity Project mantra: Other People Matter! A shout out to all of the NHS students and our community members who supported their efforts.
The CHS chapter of the National Honor Society has truly modeled leadership and service to our school and community with a variety of projects! In addition to facilitating a very successful Red Cross Bloodmobile (exceeding their goal of pints of blood), individual members coordinated their own service projects to give back to the school and community. Some of the projects benefitted: The American Legion, Saratoga County Animal Shelter, the C.A.R.E. Committee, the Community Food Pantry, Code Blue Shelter, Gateway Oasis Youth Camp, Veteran and Community Housing Coalition, Alliance 180 (Horse Adoption program), Corinth Elementary School, Corinth Music Program, Adirondack Center Stage, Toys for Tots and many other worthy causes/organizations.
We are so proud of our students for modeling our Positivity Project mantra: Other People Matter! A shout out to all of the NHS students and our community members who supported their efforts.
A big shout out to 2 - 8th grade modified baseball players who had home runs in last Thursday's game vs North Warren: Camdyn Moors and Haydon Heil!!!
Although it was not a win, our team had a lot to be proud of in the game!
Keep up the great work!! Go, Riverhawks
The CARE Committee wants to share an extra shout out of appreciation to the Food For Thought / O'Brien's Angels program who gifted us Walmart gift cards to shop for snacks for students. Our high school Job Skills class ordered and then packed up Snack Goodie bags to pass along to teachers to share with their students in the final couple months of the school year.
We have been so fortunate with our connection to the Food for Thought program! Thank you for your generosity and making Corinth a recipient!
We have been so fortunate with our connection to the Food for Thought program! Thank you for your generosity and making Corinth a recipient!
Our 7th grade Social Studies students are studying Westward Expansion as part of their American History curriculum. Students asked their teacher, Mr. Vila, if they could recreate some of the photos from the time period. They were very engaged and motivated during this unit!
Congratulations to the 4th and 8th grade students who were selected as recipients of the Sandra G. Morley Physical Education Leadership Award. Students were selected by the physical education teachers for demonstrating skills in class and in school that made them stand out. The award recipients:
1. Demonstrate responsible personal and social behavior, sportsmanship and citizenship
2. Desire to learn and improve
3. Exhibit a physically active lifestyle
4. Demonstrate leadership and is a positive influence on peers
Students were recognized at an event held at Hudson Valley Community College last week and will be recognized again at their grade level awards ceremonies in June.
Congratulations to 4th graders:
Abigail A., Lacy B., Levi B., Brayden F., RosaLee H., Duke H., Makinlee M., Brynn S., Grayson W., Jackson Y.
Congratulations to 8th graders:
Alex B., David B., Mariah D., Khadin D., Jullianna F., Haydon H., Sophia H., Piper H., William M. Samantha W.
Thank you to Coach Fabian who represented our PE staff at the event and shared a few photos!
1. Demonstrate responsible personal and social behavior, sportsmanship and citizenship
2. Desire to learn and improve
3. Exhibit a physically active lifestyle
4. Demonstrate leadership and is a positive influence on peers
Students were recognized at an event held at Hudson Valley Community College last week and will be recognized again at their grade level awards ceremonies in June.
Congratulations to 4th graders:
Abigail A., Lacy B., Levi B., Brayden F., RosaLee H., Duke H., Makinlee M., Brynn S., Grayson W., Jackson Y.
Congratulations to 8th graders:
Alex B., David B., Mariah D., Khadin D., Jullianna F., Haydon H., Sophia H., Piper H., William M. Samantha W.
Thank you to Coach Fabian who represented our PE staff at the event and shared a few photos!
Our 1st graders had a ball on their visit to the Saratoga Corinth and Hudson Railway last week too! They were excited to have lunch at the train depot and see our region. The engineer was very kind to our young Riverhawks! Thank you to the amazing railway staff!
Continuing our recognition of our student leaders as part of our Positivity Project, today we give a shout out to our CMS National Junior Honor Society. Our NJHS students are selected for showing character, leadership, citizenship, scholarship and service.
While maintaining their high academic standards, they committed to personal service projects as well as chapter service to our school and community. NJHS held a food drive for the community and school food pantries, served as guides for open house, served and cleaned up for the Senior Dinner and a Show and many other projects that modeled their understanding of our P2 core pillar: Other People Matter! Great job, NJHS!
We look forward to the induction of new members and seeing what our rising 8th graders will bring to the organization next year!
While maintaining their high academic standards, they committed to personal service projects as well as chapter service to our school and community. NJHS held a food drive for the community and school food pantries, served as guides for open house, served and cleaned up for the Senior Dinner and a Show and many other projects that modeled their understanding of our P2 core pillar: Other People Matter! Great job, NJHS!
We look forward to the induction of new members and seeing what our rising 8th graders will bring to the organization next year!
We wish all of our students a safe and memorable Junior Prom 2024 this evening.
The prom review in the auditorium is a ticket-only event, but can be seen on the livestream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e7GrA4TCy4
Have a great night, Riverhawks!
Congratulations to our Senior Varsity Mountaineer track athletes at this week's meet. Congratulations, Isaiah B., Sydney C., Maddie B., Cooper H., Kayden B., Aidan C., Degan R. and Alex W! Thank you for your leadership and commitment to the sport of track and field!
Our Varsity Mountaineer Track team had a big week in the final regular season meet. Coach Flint shared highlights:
"Congratulations to the Boys and Girls Varsity Track team on their victory against Salem. The girls finished 2nd in the League in our League Dual Meets. Highlights for the meet were 1st place finishes for Kayden Beaver (100, 200, and 4x100), other girls in the 4 x 100 relay were Arieanna Shannon, Erika McGuire, and Abby Proctor. Sam Savage took 1st in the (800, 1500). Haley Potavin took 1st in the (400 and 4 x 400). Others in the 4 x 400 were: Lila Riihimaki, Erika McGuire, and Maddie Baldes; Lila Riihimaki in the 400 Hurdles; Abby Proctor (Long Jump), Sydney Crombach (Triple Jump) and Kittery VanGuilder (Shot and Discus).
The Boys finished their dual meet season in 3rd place. Two events saw more people going to State Qualifiers: Alex Wiseman in the 200 (also came in first in the 100, 4 x 100, and Triple Jump); also our 4 x 100 team of (Jase Brunnell, Dylan Haynes, Mike Petteys, and Alex Wiseman). Tyler Smolinski was 1st in the 110 Hurdles and 4 x 400 relay; Mike Petteys: 1st in 400 Hurdles, 4 x100, and 4 x 400; Hunter Shanahan (800, 1600, 4 x 400 Relay); Dan Hunt in the High Jump; Will Murray in the Discus and Cooper Philo in Shot."
More photos on Facebook and our senior recognition post coming soon...
"Congratulations to the Boys and Girls Varsity Track team on their victory against Salem. The girls finished 2nd in the League in our League Dual Meets. Highlights for the meet were 1st place finishes for Kayden Beaver (100, 200, and 4x100), other girls in the 4 x 100 relay were Arieanna Shannon, Erika McGuire, and Abby Proctor. Sam Savage took 1st in the (800, 1500). Haley Potavin took 1st in the (400 and 4 x 400). Others in the 4 x 400 were: Lila Riihimaki, Erika McGuire, and Maddie Baldes; Lila Riihimaki in the 400 Hurdles; Abby Proctor (Long Jump), Sydney Crombach (Triple Jump) and Kittery VanGuilder (Shot and Discus).
The Boys finished their dual meet season in 3rd place. Two events saw more people going to State Qualifiers: Alex Wiseman in the 200 (also came in first in the 100, 4 x 100, and Triple Jump); also our 4 x 100 team of (Jase Brunnell, Dylan Haynes, Mike Petteys, and Alex Wiseman). Tyler Smolinski was 1st in the 110 Hurdles and 4 x 400 relay; Mike Petteys: 1st in 400 Hurdles, 4 x100, and 4 x 400; Hunter Shanahan (800, 1600, 4 x 400 Relay); Dan Hunt in the High Jump; Will Murray in the Discus and Cooper Philo in Shot."
More photos on Facebook and our senior recognition post coming soon...
