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 …

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. …

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 …

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, …

Lighting the way to pre-K

There is so much we all have in common. When we look at our holiday traditions, we can see many similarities. Pre-K students in Kathleen Murray’s class at Circleville Elementary School did just that over the past few weeks. They learned how light is an integral part of many holiday traditions. Ms. Murray read the …

Crispell students use science, coding and art to educate about endangered animals

Students are using STEAM to help spread the word about our environment and endangered animals! The sixth-grade students in Michael Sabini’s science class have come to the library to work with Lisa Metz and Education Technology Specialist Hope Schaumburg to research biomes and identify endangered animals in these biomes. Research indicates animal habitats are increasingly …

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