February is heart health month and our elementary schools are driving that message home. At CES, Cara Donohoe from the American Heart Association talked to students about how to keep their hearts healthy – drink water to stay hydrated, eat smart with lots of lean protein, fruits and vegetables, sleep 9-12 hours each day, move …
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Art teacher Kelsey Skudder is turning Circleville Elementary into a giant masterpiece. In a school-wide “puzzle project,” every student—from pre-K to 5th grade—is creating a unique piece of a larger story. While Pre-K masters the traditional self-portrait, older grades are diving a little deeper: Kindergarten is mapping emotions through color. Grade 1 is …
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Let’s eat well! February provides some great choices for breakfast and lunch for all our students at no charge! Have a look at your child’s school menu here and plan on some delicious and nutritious school meals all month long!
Fourth-graders at CES have been learning about Native Americans, including those who lived here in our local area. They have been learning about the way the native Americans walked on snow – by creating snow shoes, how they took care of the earth with their respect for nature, how they made their homemade shoes – …
The kindergarten students in Lindsay Brooks’s class learned all about Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights. They learned how to play the dreidel game and even colored and made their own dreidels! They had so much fun and loved sharing their creations. The class also made Christmas trees and menorahs, which are lining their …
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Each month, Circleville Elementary School celebrates all they’ve accomplished and look ahead to all that’s happening in the upcoming month. For the November gathering, they sang the National Anthem and recited their No Place For Hate promise. Looking back, they mentioned the celebration of our veterans on Veterans Day and how they marked National …
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The district shined blue on Nov. 14 as we proudly recognized World Diabetes Day! This day holds special meaning for us as we stand in support of everyone living with the challenges of diabetes—including our own Circleville Elementary School nurse, Kathleen Chamberlain. Ms. Chamberlain was the driving force behind this districtwide effort. She …
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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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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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Each October, representatives from the Wallkill East Rotary pay a visit to each of our four elementary schools here in the Pine Bush Central School District and distribute dictionaries to every third-grade student in the district. Have a look at our slide show from the dictionary presentations. Dr. William Bassett, a …
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