STEAM coach Alyson Callahan went to each of our four elementary schools to teach about and do activities surrounding the solar eclipse that’s happening today, Monday, April 8. At PAK, she visited several classes, including Kathryn Dowling and Emily Byrne’s combined third and fourth grade classes, then made her way to Kim White’s …
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It’s March Madness in Suzanne Parker’s second grade class at PAK! But it has nothing to do with college basketball. Ms. Parker, her co-teacher Lisa Donohue, teaching assistant Jodi Martin and the students have been reading Caldecott Medal winning books during the month of March (and into April). Caldecott Medals are awarded annually to the …
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Pine Bush High School gridiron stars made their way back to elementary school to help celebrate National Reading Month with our younger students, giving the message that reading is important throughout your life. The high school students broke into teams and headed to the four elementary schools. Many of the players were returning …
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Lisa Andryshak’s kindergarten class was 100 days brighter as they celebrated the 100th day of school. Students counted to 100 by ones and tens, built a 100 cup structure, wrote about the number 100, did 100 piece puzzles, and found out that it takes more than 100 licks to get to the center of …
Jessica Torres is highlighting Black artists in her art room at Pakanasink to mark Black History Month. She has a display of influential artists’ portraits and their art. Each week, Ms. Torres is highlighting a new artist with a video and technique. This week she showed second-grade students the art of Alma Thomas. They …
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Equality – what does it mean to fifth graders? Caroline Prydal, a fifth-grade teacher at Pakanasink, got her students talking about it after they watched the video of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. giving his 1963 “I Have A Dream” speech. The students listened intently to the speech. Their ideas of equality included …
Author and psychotherapist Tom Kersting will be speaking here in Pine Bush to students, parents and staff about technology and how it is impacting teaching, learning and our kids’ mental health. It is an important message all should consider. Kersting, who is based in New Jersey and lectures throughout the country on raising …
Not only are breakfast and lunch free to all students at all schools here in Pine Bush, there are some new offerings available as well as grab and go breakfast carts coming to all elementary and middle schools! That’s right, students in our elementary and middle schools won’t have to go to the cafeteria for …
STEM coaches Alyson Callahan and Leilani Howard worked with PAK fifth-graders for a fun and informative science lab investigation – Cloud in a Bottle. The focus is for students to be able to describe how water cycle processes and weather variables affect cloud formation. Students worked in pairs to compress and release pressure from …
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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 …
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