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With Van Gogh as inspiration, EJR students weave their own starry night project

Art students at EJR are focusing on the artist of the year – Vincent Van Gogh. Visual arts teacher Heidi Meier said the students learn about a different artist each year. Recently, fourth-graders worked on a fiber arts project – specifically weaving – complete with recycled CDs, all influenced by Van Gogh’s Starry Night. Ms. …

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Creating word walls helps ENL students perfect their parts of speech

Katie Cavallucci’s English as a New Language (ENL) class at CVMS made a word wall with some common vocabulary to reference. The students have been working on parts of speech, and Ms. Cavallucci broke them into groups and assigned a specific part of speech to each group – nouns, adjectives and prepositions. They worked together …

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Pine Bush High School to begin extended day program for students to recover credits

Beginning Feb. 3, Pine Bush High School will launch an extended day program geared toward helping students recover credits from the first half of the school year. PBHS Principal Aaron Hopmayer and Assistant Principal Denise Tzouganatos presented the idea to the board of education, explaining that it may replace summer school, which is a model …

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Pre-K students learn about Dr. King with a telling eggs-periment

This eggs-periment surely got the attention of the pre-K students in Kathleen Murray’s class at Circleville Elementary School. Ms. Murray’s lesson Friday morning was about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose birthday we celebrate on Monday, Jan. 20. Ms. Murray read the book “Martin Luther King Jr. Day” by Margaret McNamara. The students in the …

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Achieving in academics and sports, the board recognizes our fall scholar athletes

The board of education recognized the scholar athletes from the fall season on Jan. 14. A total of 104 athletes achieved the criteria, which requires a varsity athlete to maintain a grade point average of 90 or above during the fall athletic season. In addition, there were eight scholar athlete teams this fall. To be …

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Kindergartners experience holiday celebrations from around the world

EJR kindergarten students got to experience holidays from around the world without even leaving their building! The students made their own passports and had them stamped as they explored from one classroom to the next. Ellie Cassidy welcomed each class into her classroom where they learned about the holiday traditions of Mexico. A special guest …

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Learning how to take tests peacefully

Taking tests can be anxiety-inducing events to many students and adults. Pine Bush High School Spanish teacher Kristin Raucci has been helping alleviate that anxiety for several years now with her presentation “Taking Tests Peacefully.” Ms. Raucci has been giving this presentation since 2018. She’s gotten much feedback from students that the techniques she prescribes …

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Youth in Government students volunteer with Wreaths Across America

On cold Saturday morning in December, members of the Pine Bush High School Youth in Government attended and participated in a Wreaths Across America ceremony at the cemetery in Modena. This is an annual event that happens across the country and other parts of the world on the second Saturday of December. This event allows …

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Board approves capital improvement project to go to voters on March 4

The Pine Bush Central School District Board of Education has given its approval for a two-part capital improvement project to be brought to district voters on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. The proposed project will repair and replace vital infrastructure at all school buildings in the district. Click here for more information about the project. At …

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