Fifth-grade students at Circleville Elementary School engineered bone bridges on Halloween! Here’s how it went: They broke into groups and had 45 minutes to create their bridges using Q-Tips, four popsicle sticks, one foot of string, four clothes pins, one pipe cleaner and marshmallows. Of course the marshmallows were used as an adhesive to help …
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American Legion Post 1181 members Barry Schnipper, Tom Nosworthy, Jim Scali and Paul Eurich paid a visit to Circleville Elementary School earlier this week to talk with fourth-graders about freedom and patriotism, and the responsibilities that come with them. Each of the men talked about their time in the service as the students listened attentively. …
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Dr. Bill Bassett and members of the Wallkill East Rotary Club brought smiles to the faces of many Pine Bush third-graders recently as they distributed dictionaries to each one of them. Dr. Bassett handed out dictionaries to all third-grade student at all four of our elementary schools: EJ Russell, Pakanasink, Circleville and Pine Bush Elementary …
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Students and teachers celebrated Halloween at Circleville Elementary School this week, with some pretty creative costumes! The main office and nurse’s office went with the Grease theme, with Principal Kristin Slover and Assistant Principal Joe Prestianni as the team of Sandy and Danny, with the pink ladies – Kerrie Guitierrez, Cathy Spotomo, Kathleen Chamberlain and …
Fourth-grade students at Circleville Elementary School took part in the 10th annual “Trick or Treat for STEM” on Halloween, with activities that involved science, technology, engineering and math. Students in Andrea Urmston, Kaylin Bourke, and Lisa Quick and Jaclyn Krauss’s classes rotated through the three classrooms and completed a different activity in each: Bone Bridges …
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All students in the Pine Bush Central School District will be eligible for both breakfast and lunch meals at no cost to families starting Wednesday, Nov. 1. Assistant Superintendent for Business Joseph Lenz announced the news at the board meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 24. “All students in the district will be eligible for no-cost meals …
Students in Maria Gabrell’s first grade class recently worked on “The Floor Is Lava” STEM challenge with wonderful results! The students learned about the engineering design process. Then, our little engineers worked together in groups to design and build a structure to save as many bears as they could from the lava. They were given …
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It’s Fire Safety Week! Our wonderful volunteer firefighters from throughout the area presented to our elementary students and emphasized the importance of knowing what to do in case of a fire emergency at their home. Members of the Bloomingburg and Circleville Fire Departments showed the students at Circleville Elementary School some of the unique equipment …
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Susan Corcoran’s fifth-grade class at Circleville Elementary School completed a “Start With Hello” week activity that showed them just how alike they actually are. The activity had the students asking questions of each other to learn about their classmates and to see what they have in common. The kids didn’t realize how much they actually …
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Denise Hansen’s kindergarten students are working hard in many ways, including getting to know about each other. One of their recent projects was to make a large cut-out of themselves where they included information about their favorite things – foods, activities, colors! It is just another way to get to know each other and find …
