Congratulations to our second quarter honor roll students
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!
Author: linda.smith
Congratulations to our second quarter honor roll students
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.
A delicious February is in store at our Pine Bush cafeterias
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!
District students to participate in county-wide art show Saturday, Feb. 1
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 of our delicious, homemade lunch!
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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An Amazon experience makes nonfiction a true adventure for fourth graders
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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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 …
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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