CES celebrated World Kindness Day Thursday! Kindness superheroes were spotted throughout the building and lessons of kindness reverberated. The culmination of World Kindness Day at CES was the cereal box domino event! They have been collecting boxes of cereal to donate to local food pantries for a bit. Staff members lined up the …
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Sewing is a practical and creative skills to learn! At Crispell, Jennifer Muniz’s students in Family and Consumer Science took it step by step. First they learned the basics – how to measure their thread, thread the needle, knot it, and do basic stitches. Then they moved on to their project – making a …
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Congratulations to Ava and Emma Boffalo! These two young women signed their national letters of intent Thursday to attend and play soccer for Manhattan University – go Jaspers! Athletic Director Jen Evans thanked Ava and Emma for all they’ve done for the community and our soccer program here in Pine Bush. Their coach, Dan …
The Pine Bush English as a New Language (ENL) international dinner brought out so many of our families last week as our ENL program celebrated our district’s diversity and cultures. David Miele and Maureen Curtain, ENL team leaders for elementary and secondary respectively, welcomed everyone to the event. Some students dressed in beautiful …
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The Pakanasink Elementary School Pumpkin Run was a terrific event! Held on Thursday, Nov. 6 (it was rained out from the week before), chilly weather didn’t dampen the spirits of the students participating. Students from grades 3, 4 and 5 were invited to participate in the four-lap race around the soccer field. Students were …
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Fifth-graders at CES had some serious studying to do on Halloween: they learned about owls, how they adapt, and reconstructed the owl’s meal. Students learned all about owls and the way they adapt to their environment. Owls have no teeth and must swallow their prey whole. They fly silently – they’re the only birds …
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Twenty-six students from the Skilled Trades Academy at Pine Bush High School participated in the Youth Workforce Development Program for the Trades, alongside students from John S. Burke Catholic High School and Warwick Valley High School. Dale Hammond, board of directors for the Mid-Hudson Northeastern Retail Lumber Association, was tasked with a youth …
The Pine Bush Elementary School November newsletter is now available! Have a look.
Stacey Venzel’s fourth-graders at PBE are working on a book called “The Adventures of Tofu the Guinea Pig.” The students are each writing a story about Tofu. Those stories will be compiled together and published in a book. But first, there is a lot of work to do. The students reviewed capitalization, punctuation, …
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Circleville Middle School students recently celebrated Unity Day! They were given the prompt: What can we do to build a better school community and how can we build each other up? The students each took a paper ‘brick’ to help build their school community. On it, they …
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