A big thank you to Dr. Shazim Farooq, Kelsey Mooly and Jordan Lewis of the Pine Bush Dental Group who spent the entire day Wednesday, Jan. 18, with our pre-K, kindergarten, first and second-grade students at Pakanasink, teaching them good dental health habits. The students learned the importance of brushing for two minutes each time …
Here’s the challenge: take 20 index cards and 18 inches of tape and create a tower as tall as you can that will be sturdy enough to hold a stuffed animal. Seth VanGaasbeek’s third grade students at Circleville Elementary School took that challenge and created some pretty interesting towers that were able to hold that …
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This was probably the best turnout ever for Lisa Ruyack’s winter break reading challenge. The Pine Bush Elementary School library media specialist has been encouraging kids to read and helping them to love reading for many years. So this year’s reading challenge over the winter break was similar to previous years’ challenges except for one …
The eighth-grade Living Environment students at Crispell on the gold team completed a debate recently in class. The topic to debate: which cellular process is more important – mitosis or meiosis. Students were split into debate teams and assigned their debate topic. They then had to introduce their topic, research a minimum of four supporting …
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Let the games begin! Crispell’s annual multi-week Olympic event kicked off Friday, Jan. 13, with the opening ceremonies and the parade of nations. The parade of nations was a highlight for the spectators, as those representing the many nations carried the country’s flag and even dressed the part, in some cases. Interesting fact: Greece led …
Tara Baccello’s kindergarten class at PAK certainly has something to celebrate – they know all of their letters and sounds! To celebrate, the students made vests with letters on them and drew pictures of things that begin with that letter sound. Then, they shared this great accomplishment with the first and second grade classes by …
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!
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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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, …
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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