Our district-wide art show was one for the books! Our students displayed incredible works, from painting to sculpture to pottery and more. Set up in the high school, all elementary schools displayed their work in the cafeteria. So many of the students searched the walls for their artwork, smiles coming over their faces as they …
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Odyssey of the Mind teams from Pine Bush High School, Crispell Middle School and Pakanasink Elementary School finished first in their respective regional divisions and are now moving on to the state competition in Syracuse! The PAK team is coached by Terri Hatfield and worked on Problem 5 – The Most Dramatic Problem Ever. The …
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What better way to encourage reading in our younger students than to have some of the people they admire read to them! That happened on Thursday here in Pine Bush, which was Read Across America Day, a day schools across the nation celebrate reading and the adventures it brings to students. This year in Pine …
It’s all about inspiration! Jessica Torres provides inspiration to her art students at Pakanasink through exposing them to many different artists, art mediums, types of art and art styles. In her binders, she has a vast array of artists and their works. She encourages her students to look through them, as well as the examples …
It’s wonderful to see our younger students respond so amazingly to music! Mary Sousa, music teacher at Pakanasink, brings an infectious enthusiasm to her students. Throughout the school year she introduces them to different types of music and artists, instruments and styles. In February, she focused on music by influential Black musicians. in some cases, …
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February is American Heart Month, bringing attention to strengthening our hearts through exercise and eating healthy. Pakanasink has been marking heart month each year by participating in the Kids Heart Challenge. During physical education classes, students learn why it’s important to stay healthy and active, from their teachers and a video. They learn activities that …
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Communication is key to success. And that’s why Pakanasink Elementary School Principal Brian Breheny and Assistant Principal Colleen Delles invited their bus drivers from Birnie Bus to join them for a discussion about what’s expected of students on their buses. Ms. Delles gave each driver a copy of the school’s bus expectations – behavior that …
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Students at Pakanasink Elementary are working on a No Place for Hate activity with library specialist Aubrey Zamonsky. Ms. Zamonsky went over with students in each grade the things we see about each other just from looking and the things we can’t see but get to know over time. What we see is just the …
A big thank you to Dr. Shazim Farooq, Kelsey Mooly and Jordan Lewis of the Pine Bush Dental Group who spent the entire day Wednesday, Jan. 18, with our pre-K, kindergarten, first and second-grade students at Pakanasink, teaching them good dental health habits. The students learned the importance of brushing for two minutes each time …
Tara Baccello’s kindergarten class at PAK certainly has something to celebrate – they know all of their letters and sounds! To celebrate, the students made vests with letters on them and drew pictures of things that begin with that letter sound. Then, they shared this great accomplishment with the first and second grade classes by …
