Robin Conklin’s fifth-grade students continued a tradition at Circleville Elementary School reading Esperanza Rising, a historical fiction chapter book that is read by fifth grade classes at CES and across the district. In addition to the reading, students also make their own yarn dolls, which have significant meaning in the story about a young …
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There’s been a lot of reading going on and Ms. Porter at CES decided to bring a favorite story to life! So on Friday morning, March 12, she made a special breakfast for her kindergarten students – green eggs and ham! The students loved trying this unique breakfast, one they mostly only read about!
Winter is almost over but the students at CES had a tremendously fun time creating this whimsical, virtual snowball fight. Mary Sousa, the music teacher at Circleville Elementary School, said the students used choreographed motions to practice listening for form and details in this piece of music. All of her kindergarten, first and second grade …
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CES third graders in Seth VanGaasbeek’s class took on the tower challenge! Each student had 14 index cards and two feet of tape to create a tower that would ultimately hold a small stuffed bear. The added challenge: build the tallest tower in the class. This STEM activity really got the creative juices flowing for …
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Spanish | Chinese This is Kristin Slover, principal of Circleville Elementary School, with some important information regarding the next phase of our Return to Learn planning for our students this spring. As we finalize our plans about when and how we can bring our students back to school for more in-person instruction, we may need …
Lauren Casamento’s class at Circleville Elementary School did a cool experiment, combining reading and science! With March 2 being Read Across America Day, a celebration of reading on the birthday of Dr. Seuss, the class made oobleck, also known as cornstarch mud. That was after reading “Bartholomew and the Oobleck,” one of Dr. Seuss’s books, …
Our elementary schools celebrated 100 days of the 2020-2021 school year on Wednesday, Feb. 24 – and Thursday, Feb. 25 for the students who attend school on Tuesday/Thursday – with lots of counting and reading and, well, just focusing on the number 100. At CES, there was lots of counting going on, both for in-person …
Circleville Elementary School music teacher Danielle Hommel is featured in a Spectrum News story! She talks about her initial concerns with teaching music virtually and how a little thinking outside of the box and adding some new activities to class – did someone say dancing! – has made teaching in this pandemic a success!
Many of our Pine Bush administrators and staff members have volunteered to read holiday and winter stories for our children. Click here for the list of stories – and check back often because we keep adding to them. We wish everyone happy holidays! Stay safe and warm.
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused many in our community to become food insecure. While meals for school-aged children are distributed free through the district’s Food Services department each week at Circleville Middle School and Pine Bush High School, families may still have need. Here is a list of agencies that provide food to those in …
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