What a wonderful weekend for our Odyssey of the Mind teams that headed to Syracuse for the state competition on Friday. Our Crispell Middle School team finished third in its division of 11 teams. Pakanasink Elementary School and Pine Bush High School finished fourth in their respective divisions of 20 and 17 teams. We won’t …
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At the conclusion of their unit on non-fiction books, Lisa Andryshak’s kindergarten students wrote their very own books! On Friday, April 14, they held an author celebration. Each student read their own informational book around the room to the many families that visited. Students earned stickers after each read. After everyone read their book, the …
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Pine Bush High School senior Kiera Masci spent this past weekend at the National Association for Music Education (NAfME) All Eastern Festival where she participated in the Honors Treble Choir. She was accompanied by Music Department Chairperson Robin Evans. This year’s festival was held in Rochester with students performing in the Eastman Theater. There were …
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Superintendent Brian Dunn, along with Circleville Middle School Principal Lisa Hankinson, Assistant Principal Seth Siegel and several teachers surprised Susan Erickson this morning with the news that she will receive a Mid-Hudson School Study Council Teaching Excellence Award! Ms. Erickson, a special education teacher, was nominated by several of her colleagues, who were thrilled to …
Odyssey of the Mind teams from Pakanasink, Crispell and Pine Bush High School are on their way to Syracuse today, ready to take on competitors from throughout the state. There was a pretty remarkable send-off for the Pakanasink team (who doesn’t love a parade!), and a police escort for the Crispell Middle School and PBHS …
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SUNY Orange honored 83 Pine Bush middle school students with Sojourner Truth Awards. The Pine Bush students are among 735 students honored throughout the area. The College’s Sojourner Truth Awards Program honors students who have been nominated by school guidance counselors and principals for having demonstrated excellence in areas such as athletics, citizenship, creative arts, …
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Brenda Stack’s first grade class at Pine Bush Elementary had a great learning experience recently, programming Cubetto, a wooden robot that helps children learn the basics of computer programming. The students were right on target, programming Cubetto to turn left, go straight, make a right, bringing it to the place they had intended! Technology Integration …
Pakanasink second graders recently published a book about the things they love. To celebrate this wonderful accomplishment, family members came to school to hear these budding authors read their passage about what they love. Families are the number one love in Suzanne Parker’s glass, followed by friends, cooking, soccer, skateboarding and being at the beach! …
“We are the OGs!” That’s how Annaliesa Elor, a player on the newly-formed Pine Bush High School flag football team described herself and her teammates. Pine Bush played its first-ever flag football game Wednesday, kicking off the inaugural season of girls varsity flag football here in Section IX. It was a 21-19 loss for Pine …
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In mid-March, students in Tara Klink’s math enrichment class at CVMS celebrated Pi Week! It was a week all about pi. Pi is the ratio of the circumference of any circle to the diameter of that same circle. Regardless of the circle’s size, this ratio will always equal pi, which is 3.14 in decimal form. …
