Eighth-grade students at CVMS are learning real-life skills in Alexa Price’s family and consumer science classes, including kitchen safety. “We take kitchen safety seriously,” said Ms. Price, as her students were recently performing a walking lab to identify kitchen hazards. The kitchens looked like crime scenes, complete with yellow caution tape. There were 10 different …
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Pine Bush welcomed representatives from NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Wednesday morning as the federal agency recognized the accomplishments of Pine Bush High School students who developed and produced hardware for the International Space Station (ISS) and looked forward to this year’s project. Students at the Haas Innovation Center at PBHS were chosen last …
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Let’s congratulate our Crispell Middle School students who earned spots on the second quarter honor roll, high honor roll and principal’s list! Your hard work has paid off!
The second academic quarter ended at the end of January. Here are the students who earned honor roll, high honor roll and principal’s list. Congratulations to all who achieved these honors! Keep up the good work.
February is the month celebrating love and your students will absolutely love what’s being served at our school cafeterias. So many delicious, homemade meals! Click here to check your school’s menu. And remember – meals are free to all students in the district. Let them give it a try!
Many of our district students will have artwork showcased this Saturday, Feb. 1, at the Galleria Mall, for the “Arts Builds Confidence” exhibition. It’s sponsored by the Orange County Arts Council and runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sixteen students from Pine Bush High School will have their work on display, while many middle …
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Have a taste! Our school nutrition department was at PBE Thursday to give students a taste of that day’s hot lunch – it was homemade nachos. Yes, homemade, with fresh New York State beef, cooked and seasoned here in our kitchens from scratch. Whole grain corn chips, real shredded cheddar cheese, brown rice and black …
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Families of the students in Stacey Venzel’s fourth-grade class at PBE were in for a treat recently. They visited the classroom as their kids finished their nonfiction reading and writing unit. It was a special unit for the students as they spent a month analyzing Ms. Venzel’s memoir, My Life in the Amazon, a collection …
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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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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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