Kristin Raucci had a special guest at the most recent Wellness Club gathering. Retired Crispell math teacher and craft aficionado Betsy Byrnes joined her and a large group of students for some holiday crafts and self-care. The students made hand warmers, relaxing reindeer bath, hot chocolate packets and stamped gift tags. The room smelled amazing …
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The CVMS Media Club, led by advisor Anna Stroynick, produced a video as a result of this year’s Start With Hello and Unity Day activities. The group did some research and found that there are 13 different languages spoken by student in CVMS! The school’s Unity Day project delved into how to create unity here …
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Thanks to the generosity of the Pine Bush community, along with coordinated efforts among the social workers in all of our Pine Bush schools, the Pine Bush High School Food Pantry is providing 116 food baskets for families in our community this holiday season. That is much-needed help to 116 local families. The Positivity Project …
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UPDATE: WHMT is having signal issues and recommends we watch on the live linear stream – https://www.wmht.org/live/ Back in November, PBS producer Catherine Rafferty and videographer Kyle Miller of WMHT in Troy, N.Y., worked out of Dan Edwards’ classroom at Pine Bush High School. The media professionals were producing a story about artificial intelligence – …
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Students Making A Difference Club and select chorus members from Crispell volunteered at Over the Moon Enrichment Center in Pine Bush to teach the message of kindness in the holiday season. Our volunteers planned, prepared and implemented lessons to teach core values of the season accompanied with a book and craft activity. The petite pioneers …
Fourth-graders in Patricia Van Leuven’s class at EJR run an amazing project during the month of December. It’s called Meters of Mittens – and it benefits everyone involved! The students put the word out via a flyer that is distributed to all students and staff that they are collecting mittens, gloves, hats and scarves for …
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Pine Bush Elementary School partnered with Bethel Woods Center for the Arts for an eight-week program bringing mindful art into three of its classes, including Sue Johnson and Leanna Ponsolle’s kindergarten class. Each 30-minute session had Candace Rovela, lead teaching artist and senior program manager of Museum Education and Creative Programs at Bethel Woods, talk …
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Caitlin Lazarski stepped into the role of director of school nutrition here in Pine Bush back on Oct. 10. One of her first duties was to submit an application to the state, requesting that all students in Pine Bush schools receive breakfast and lunch meals at no cost. The federal government had just lowered the …
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EJR physical education teacher Chris Curnan recently had an eager group of second graders discussing bones and muscles and basketball! He and fellow EJR physical education teacher Barbara Hostetter have a bone and muscle of the month that the students learn about. The kids learn where in the body the bone and muscle are located …
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What’s happening during these busy months of December and January at CVMS? Find out right here in the newsletter!
