Crispell Middle School first quarter honor roll is posted
Congratulations to our honor roll and high honor roll students from Crispell Middle School for the first quarter of the school year. Keep up the great work!
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Challenge accepted! PAK students ace the winter reading challenge
Pakanasink Elementary School Library Media Specialist Aubrey Zamonsky challenged her students in grades pre-k through five to participate in the winter reading challenge over the winter break. The challenge was to read for 20 minutes daily and participate in at least 10 of the reading tasks provided. Students could choose from more than 30 different …
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A winter theme makes learning fun
PAK teachers recently hosted a winter wonderland where students had some fun indoor wintry activities while doing math, spelling, matching and much more! They matched math facts with paper snow shoes on and hopped on letters and had to come up with words that start or end with those letters – like qu, ck, ch, …
PBHS gingerbread houses were incredible pieces of art
The holidays are over but we just have to showcase the incredibly beautiful work done by our high school students in Leeann Noonan’s Family and Consumer Science classes. These bakers and creators made gingerbread from scratch, cut out their building elements with precision and decorated them so creatively. Along the way, they worked in groups …
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Youth in Government students chosen for Wreaths Across America ceremony
Members of the Pine Bush High School Youth in Government organization were chosen to participate in the Wreaths Across America ceremony in Goshen, at the Orange County Veterans Memorial Cemetery. Students Kyle O’Brien and Riley Kool, along with their Youth in Government adviser Charlene Webster, participated in the wreath-laying ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 17. “It …
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Anna-Marissa Estep named assistant principal at Pine Bush High School
Anna-Marissa Estep began her tenure as assistant principal at Pine Bush High School this week. Her road in education started with a passion. As a mom raising her four children, Ms. Estep was a constant volunteer presence in her children’s schools. It was there that she was moved to teach, following in her mother’s footsteps. …
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Students build Native American villages as they learn of New York’s history
Stacey Venzel and Jessica Fobert’s fourth-grade students at PBE spent a week before the winter break building wigwams and longhouses in villages that represented the environments of the Algonquins and Iroquois, two Native American tribes that battled for territory in New York. For this social studies STEM project, students included rivers and farmland in their …
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The January/February newsletter for CVMS is available!
Happy New Year CVMS family! Check out all that’s happening at CVMS for the months of January and February.
The Crispell newsletter for January is here!
Happy New Year everyone! Check out the January newsletter for all the important Crispell information for the month.
Students create far-from-ugly sweaters after reading biographies
Students in Leilah Austin-Draitser’s fifth-grade class at PBE delved into biographies of many historical and popular figures recently. They learned of the discipline and nonviolence of Mahatma Gandhi, the trailblazing of Jackie Robinson, Rosa Parks and Amelia Earhart, the bravery of Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, and Malala Yousafzai, the brilliance of Albert Einstein, …
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