YESS (Youth Empowerment and Sustainability Skills) students from Pine Bush High School volunteered their time to help support New York State parks by visiting Sam’s Point at Minnewaska State Park. The students were given three volunteer project options: build a bog bridge on the High Point Trail, pull invasive species around the Loop Trail, or …
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EJR third-grade students became authors recently! Students chose a “small moment” in their lives to write about. They even drew illustrations. There was a birthday, a trip to a water park, and a soccer ball that was never to be seen again. There was even the story of a chicken attack! Students learned about personal …
Kara Sprague’s forensic science class recently had a very informative visit from Detective John Peters of the Westchester County Police Department and Acorn, an arson detection dog. Acorn is a black Labrador Retriever. Labs are known for their great dispositions and outgoing personalities. But they also have the superior ability to discriminate scents at a …
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The Pine Bush Continuing Education catalog is now available! The program offers health and wellness classes for adults, STEM, sports and LEGO classes for students, as well as lifeguard certification and pre-licensing classes. Click here for the Winter 2021-2022 catalog and have some fun this winter!
Pine Bush High School STARS students celebrated Thanksgiving in style. During a project-based-learning class, students had a team-building activity –making tie-dye shirts. Many of the students wore these awesome creations the next day when they celebrated a STARS-giving breakfast! Great teamwork STARS!
CVMS ELA teacher Nicole Bobby and library media specialist Robin Renahan recently hosted a book tasting for students. What, you might ask, is a book tasting? Well, just like with food, some students have a more finicky palate for reading materials. They like what they like and are apprehensive to try new authors or subjects. …
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Students are tinkering in the Crispell Library! Our maker space has just added a new station. One week they have a “Breaker Space” in which students take apart a piece of donated electronics. They use tools and work together to disassemble the item and explore what is inside making this gadget work. The following week, …
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Andrea Urmston’s fourth grade class recently learned about the dreidel game, one of Hanukkah’s favorite traditions for children. The class read the book “I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Dreidel” by Caryn Yacowitz to go along with the game. On each of the dreidel’s four sides is inscribed a Hebrew letter—nun, gimel, he, …
Students at Circleville Elementary School took part in the annual “Trick or Treat for STEAM” with activities that involved science, technology, engineering, art and math. Fourth-grade classes participated in three experiments throughout the afternoon on Friday, Oct. 29. They built structures with toothpicks and marshmallows, hypothesized about the results of putting a jelly candy in …
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Mrs. Manzi’s second/third grade class at PBE designed and built bird feeders as part of a Mystery Science activity. The students in Mrs. Manzi’s class creatively used common materials, like cups, plates, sticks and clothespins to make the birdfeeders. Then they went outside and placed the feeders to help feed their feathered friends this fall. …
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