May 21, 2012
970 Route 146, Clifton Park, NY 12065
518-881-0450
Posted 5/10/12
Six Acadia Middle School
Students on Team 7-2 have been selected as semi-finalists in the
2012 Invention Convention. Seventh grade students Sydney Brown,
Marissa Borini, Kerstyn O’Brien, Justin Page, Rachel Sohn and
Caiti-Erin Talty were among 100 students selected out of 1,428
entries into the regional competition. All the students will have
their projects on display at the Schenectady Museum & Suits-Bueche
Planetarium from May 3-May 24, 2012.
Brown, Borini, O’Brien, Page, Sohn and Talty were among 125
students in Mrs. Laura Picardi’s seventh grade science classes to
submit designs for inventions. Invention Convention 2012 is a
statewide invention competition open to upstate New York students
from grades K-8. The goal is to stimulate the development of
students’ problem solving skills, thereby building 21st century
skills.
A total of 25 inventions will be selected as finalists by a panel
of judges. The finalists will be announced at the IC 2012 regional
ceremony on May 24th at the Schenectady Museum and Suits-Bueche
Planetarium.
Posted 4/16/12
The Middle School Ambassador Select Singers (Eve Kenyon, Director) and the Koda Jazz Band (Mike Silvagnoli, Director) performed on Tues., March 27, 2012 in Albany at the South Concourse to celebrate Music In Our Schools Month.
Posted 3/30/12
In PE an Acadia class enjoys a hip hop dance lesson by guest instructor Juan Soler from Salsalvation Dance.
Posted 3/27/12
In March the Middle School Drama Club performed Seussical Jr, the musical.
Posted 3/27/12
Students are playing a Canadian game called “Crokinole” as an introduction to a lab involving measuring friction of moving objects on different surfaces. The game involves flicking wooden discs around a board of concentric circles. to try to score points.
Posted 3/23/12
Students from Gowana, Acadia and Arongen won the Americanism Essay Contest sponsored by the Clifton Park Elks Club. This year's topic was "Why I am pround to pledge the allegiance to our flag. Essays from Marcos Melendez, Matthew Timpanaro and Meg Ritter were selected as the top three out of 38 essays that were received. Their essays were forwarded to the District Americanism Chairman and will be judged against essays from other lodges, the state and ultimately the nation.
Posted 3/23/12
Second quarter Student Recognition
recipients holding their certificates. They are recognized
for good citizenship: trustworthy, honest, responsible,
volunteerism, fairness, and courtesous, for instance.
Students names are: Aidan Kaufman, Alicia Sala, Amelia
Rusiecki, Brandon Smith, Bryan Gillies, Byron
Steward-Drysdale, Caiti-Erin Talty,
Emily Albanese, Jennifer Powers, Jessica Salmon,
Jon-Michael Street, Kaitlin Dickerson, Kate Horan, Kayla
Ludwigsen, Marissa Esposito, Melisa Torres, Mitchell
DeBortoli, Paige Ratsep, Rani Kannan, Rich McCarthy,
Shilpa Priyadarsini, Steven Thomas and Vincent Vacarro.
Posted 3/16/12
Select students receiving the "Royal
Treatment" today during lunch for their positive behavior and role
modeling during lunchtime. Recipients' tables were decorated with
table cloth, flowers and a platter of what else - Oreo Cookies!
Just another student centered initiative from Acadia's Environment
Team, which strives to make Acadia an more enjoyable atmosphere
for our students!
Posted 2/8/12
On Martin Luther King day, middle school students from FACS classes and Sewing Club joined teachers and members of the community to sew lap quilts. Approximately 100 quilts were sewn and will be donated to Wave Riders, Hospice, Domestic Violence, Cystic Fibrosis and Ronald McDonald House just to name a few. The quilts are donated to children who have had to work through difficult situations in their lives.
Posted 2/8/12
On Friday, January 27th, Acadia’s Team 7-2
enjoyed an Invention Day. Our kick-off started in the auditorium
with a visit from John Bowler, the host of the National Geographic
T.V. show MAD SCIENTIST:
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/mad-scientists/
Mr. Bowler shared clips from a few episodes and talked to students
about the thrill of problem-solving. Throughout the remainder of
the half-day, students created a tri-board to display their
inventions. Whether working independently or collaborating as a
group, students identified a problem, explained a solution and
then sketched their invention. Tri-boards will be displayed at the
Shen Inventors Program on Saturday, February 11th at the Clifton
Park Commons (Cotton Market Space).
Posted 2/7/12
Acadia's Mentor-Mentee Program staff and students enjoy a fun bowling outing at Sparetime Bowling Alley. The Mentor program hosts a different outing each month, as well as individual activities throughout the course of the year.
Posted 1/23/11
These students won their grade-level competitions and then moved on to compete in the Semi-final round of the National Geographic Geography Bee on Tuesday January 10th.
Grade 8: Luis Prata-Silva, Sean Marie Mahar,
Kelly Quinn and Jerri Qu
Grade 7: Alec Herbert, John Serbalik, Hyseonseon Choi, Richie
DiMaria & Derek Hoffman (3-way tie)
Grade 6: Shruthi Nattanmai, Nicole Vadney & Abdallah Elmi
The students competed in typical “bee” fashion and after seven rounds of questions, and a tie-breaking round, the following students received the highest scores and will be moving on to the Tri-Building Competition on January 12th: Kelly Quinn, Alec Herbert and Derek Hoffman.
Posted 1/23/12
At the Capital District Future City competition, Shenendehowa was represented by three middle school teams. Both Koda, coached by Joseph Sliwinski and Gowana coached by Scott Clark received awards. However the Acadia team coached by Diane Wheeler received first place over all. The coach and the three student presenters are now getting a trip to Virginia close to Washington DC complements of the engineers to compete at the national level in February.
Posted 1/13/12
Acadia students on Team 6-1 adopted local families to provide wonderful holiday gifts. The students raised money by doing extra chores and Gave the gifts from the Heart.
Posted 1/13/12
Acadia eighth-grader Julia Smith came in first in the girls’ event at the Queensbury Invitational Giant Slalom at West Mountain. This was her first high school competition. She’s been skiing since age 3, and racing since age 9 on the West Mountain team.
Posted 1/13/12
The winner of this year’s Spelling Bee at Acadia is Rithika Raj Kumar Pradeep and the runner-up is Dean Kuhne! Congratulations!
Posted 1/13/12
Acadia grade 8 students design and build innovative business card holders in Mr. Symond's tecnology class.
Posted 1/13/12
During the holiday season, Team 8-1 held a
food drive to support local families in the community. All food
collected was donated to the Jonesville Food Pantry.
Posted 12/23/11
Randy Symonds, Eric Lewicki, and Paul Whitley
presented their classes with pizza and prizes: of free ice cream
passes, and roller skating passes, extra credit points and
certificates for decoding the Word Wall vocabulary puzzle. It was
a three week activity and the students worked very hard figuring
out the code....It was a great way to get them to want to learn.
Price Chopper donated all of the party food.
Posted 12/23/11
Acadia Team 6-2 students enjoy a holiday cookie exchange, after writing expository essays in English class.
Posted 12/23/11
On Wednesday December 7th, teachers from Acadia Team 7-2 invited students and their families to an ice cream social held in the Acadia Cafeteria. The students were asked to make a minimum $5.00 donation and bring in one non-perishable item, with all donations going to Captain Youth and Family Services. The students raised over $540 and collected over 10 boxes of food and other necessities for local families in need this holiday season.
Posted 12/16/11
Acadia honors its first quarter Student Recognition Program recipients with Certificates of Achievement. Students are nominated by teachers and teams for such qualities of good citizenship, honesty, trustworthiness, helpfulness, kindness, fairness, and volunteerism.
Posted 12/16/11
Acadia Team 8-1 students have been making snowflakes in math class to benefit the Jonesville food pantry . For each canned good they bring in, they can hang up a snowflake in their homeroom. All goods collected will be donated to the Jonesville food pantry.
Posted 12/16/11
Acadia team 6-2 dropped off several baskets of food to Captain's Karyn's Cupboard on Friday. The entire team walked to Captain Friday morning! This activity ended our Kindness Revolution week!
Posted 12/14/11
Colors of Kindness Week at Acadia: Blue for “True Blue: Be True to Yourself and Others!” Monday was Yellow for “The Golden Rule,” Tuesday was Blue, Wednesday was Red for “Range of Positive Emotions,” Thursday was “White for Peace,” and Friday was Green for “Shen Pride!”
Posted 12/14/11
Acadia Team 6-2 students get their read on during DEAR (Drop Everything And Read).
Posted 12/14/11
Students from Acadia’s Team 6-2 enjoy
breakfast with their families while remembering to give
thanks.They showed their team pride in their originally designed
t-shirt following their Family Harvest Celebration.
Posted 12/7/11
Students from the Functional Skills Development program, working in Mr. Symond’s Technology class, honing their measuring, constructing and finishing skills!
Posted 12/7/11
Students in Mrs. Wheeler’s 7th grade art class seen in picture with Ann Schwanda, the “quilt lady”. Ann does a fabulous presentation on small acts of kindness represented in quilting that ties in beautifully with the message for Dec 5-9: Wearing Colors of Kindness.
Posted 12/7/11
Congratulations to Shen middle school students
who were r
ecent
winners in the VFW's Patriots' Pen Essay contest, sponsored by VFW
Post #1498. 346 Shen students wrote essays and of these 23 were
winners in the local contest, winning a certificate and $75. Their
essays will now be judged by VFW District 3 for possible
additional awards and honors. Thanks to VFW Post #1498 for
recognizing so many of our students!
Winners:
Acadia: Zachary Dahoda
Koda: Emma Greenberg, John Yang, Luke Korff, Natalia Jurczynska,
Gillian Lutz, Gabriel Cagara, Brianna Hurysz, Jordan Marr
Gowana :Sarah Whitbeck, Shannon Murphy, Kelly O'Gorman, Brianna
Jimenez, Carly Hildenbrandt, Colin Graves, Stephen Lightner,
Brendan Trump, Alicia Rocha, Chad Kupec, Morgan DiNoto, Kyle
McGork, Iain Methe
Posted 12/2/11
The three Shenendehowa Middle schools will be
having our "The Colors of Kindness" week beginning on Monday
December 5th- 9th.
During this week we are encouraging our teachers to discuss or
incorporate the theme of kindness into their classes with a
different focus and color theme for each day.
"Colors of Kindness": As part of our week's activities we are
asking students and staff to wear certain colors each day of the
week to help us focus on that day's theme. In addition we will be
having a daily announcement over the PA system to help promote a
culture of kindness in our school.
Monday: WEAR YELLOW to represent the "Golden Rule". Treat others
the way you would like to be treated.
Tuesday: WEAR BLUE to show that you are "true blue". You are a
honest and trustworthy person.
Wednesday: Red can represent emotions from love to anger. Today,
WEAR RED to represent your range of emotions. It's how you respond
to your emotions that counts.
Thursday: WEAR WHITE to show that you support peace.
Friday: WEAR GREEN to show your Shen pride. We are one community!
This is our first attempt to bring about a "Kindness Revolution"
in our middle schools. As we move forward, we will have to compete
with a lot of negativity in our world that we have no control
over. We don't always have the time to address kindness in our
instruction, but empathy can be taught. It can be modeled by the
way we address it with our students and by the way you address
situations with your children. So please help us promote the
"Kindness Revolution" this coming week and every day!
Posted 11/30/11
On Wednesday, November 23rd, Team 7-2 enjoyed a “Cellebration” during each science class. Each student created a plant or animal cell at home. Parents were welcomed into the classroom as students voted for Most Accurate and Most Creative cell. During the “cellebration” a group of students performed a cell rap and all enjoyed a piece of cell cake created by students in each class.
Posted 11/30/11
Students in Mrs. Haluska’s team 6-2 math class in Acadia explore equivalent fractions using manipulatives.
Posted 11/22/11
Auditions for the middle school musical theater production of Seussical, Jr. will be held on Tuesday, November 29, Wednesday, November 30 and Thursday, December 2. Auditions will be held from 3:35-5:30 in room 915 in the middle school music hallway. Audition Applications and rehearsal information are available now outside room 915. Students must attend only 1 day of the auditions and will need to bring a completed form to their audition. Students will not be able to take the late bus home and must arrange for transportation. Please contact Mrs. Feeny or Mr. Pangburn with questions.
Posted 11/16/11
Students in Acadia's Math Olympiads club come in before school to try and solve a logic puzzle – what a beautiful thing that kids want to come to school early to challenge themselves in mathematics!!!
Posted 11/16/11
Mr. Symonds, Acadia
8th-grade Tech teacher, highlights his Word Wall for students
outside his tech room.
Posted 11/9/11
Mrs. Jura’s 7th grade students attend the Revolutionary War Encampment outside the Acadia Middle School.
Posted 11/9/11
Acadia students make some decent sized bubbles with the help of the CO2 sublimation as part of their lab experiment.
Posted 11/9/11
Students at the middle schools participate in mummy wrapping at the library's Halloween morning madness party.
Posted 11/9/11
The student council
officers are:
President: Samantha Moruzzi
Vice President: Brittany Hopp
Secretary: Mia Badalucco
Treasurer: Anne Moruzzi
Posted 11/9/11
Acadia’s Black and Orange Dance was a Spooktacular success!
Posted 10/26/11
The 7th-grade students in Acadia went to the Bronx Zoo in October.
Posted 10/20/11
Acadia's Mentor group enjoyed a trip to Ellm's Farm.
Posted 10/20/11
Approximately 500 middle school choral students were thrilled to participate in an event with the University of Rochester Yellow Jackets--an acclaimed A cappella group who are on NBC’s “Sing-Off”. One of the Yellow Jackets is former Shen graduate Nicholas Wiggins.
Posted 10/7/11
Acadia students from team 7-1 go outside to study plant insect habitats in Ron Renoni's life science class.
Posted 10/7/11
Acadia yearbook club prepares posters to promote sales.
Posted 10/4/11
The Acadia Mentor program prepares for their canoeing field trip on Round Lake.
Posted 10/4/11
Students reunite with friends at The Acadia Welcome Back Dance.
Posted 10/4/11
Acadia had another successful Open House, thanks to the support of the Acadia families and staff.
Posted 9/22/11
Students in Randy Symond's
Technology Class are implementing the six basic problem solving
steps during a challege to create and build a self supporting
shelf that can hold one can of food using very limited materials.
They have multiple limitations and are required to each have
original designs. What’s truly unique with this project is the
students are not allowed to test them until the end to encourage
more thought during the design phase, and they are allowed to put
them wherever they wish within the room. The students chose some
wild designs and uncommon places in the room the place them. When
finished these students will develop critical questions for next
semester’s classes.
Posted 9/16/11
Mrs. Dale’s 6th grade class participate in a scavenger hunt orientation in the Acadia library.
Posted 9/16/11
Acadia students enjoy lunch time!
Posted 8/1/11
