Fun and learning are a great combination! Suzanne Parker’s second-grade students at Pakanasink recently had a STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, math) day! The students went from one activity to another, in teams, creating, building, collaborating and communicating. The activities included: Create a maze with Legos that has a start and finish point for a …

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Second grade students in Carol Weller’s class at PAK were quite busy the week before break. They read Easter Bunny Assistant and their activities were based on the book! The students wrote five jobs for the assistant, applied for them, designed and colored a unique Easter house for the bunny and wrote to him to …

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Happy Pi Day! Yes today, March 14, is the celebration of the mathematical symbol pi, which of course is written as 3.14 for short. Pi Day was first celebrated in 1988 at San Francisco’s Exploratorium, a museum of science and technology. It was physicist Larry Shaw, an employee of the museum, who decided Pi Day …

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The students in Suzanne Parker’s second grade class at Pakanasink sharpened their research and presentation skills while creating a project to mark Black History Month. The students each chose an African American in our country’s history and then went to Pebble Go to do some research. They took copious notes and then turned those notes …

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Did you know that Black History Month is celebrated in Canada and the United Kingdom, in addition to the United States? February was chosen as Black History Month in part because it is the birth month of both Frederick Douglas and Abraham Lincoln, two people who were instrumental in Black history in our country. Fifth-grade …

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Students in Kimberly White’s second-grade class at Pakanasink had some fun while testing materials for their insulation properties. Using the Mystery Science program, the students had a cold water bottle and a hot one. They touched the bottles with aluminum foil, Styrofoam and socks on their hands to see how the hot and cold bottles …

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Pakanasink Elementary School celebrated No Name-Calling Week from Jan. 18-21 as part of its No Place for Hate program. The theme for the week was diversity and unity. Librarian Aubrey Zamonsky selected books for the different grades focusing on what makes us the same and what makes us different. (See the links at the bottom …

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The PAK team makes learning fun! The week before winter break, they created some winter and holiday-themed activities to improve and reinforce students’ math, literacy, matching, prediction and motor skills. Not to mention it’s lots of fun for the students to ice fish and skate to get to their next activity! The students used tweezers …

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Enjoy this recorded version of the PAK Winter Concert 2021. Happy holidays to all!

Tara Baccello’s kindergarten class celebrated the completion of learning all 26 letters of the alphabet! A to Z – how to write them, the sounds they make and examples of words that begin with them. Students decorated vests with the letters, drew pictures of things that begin with their respective letter, and hosted a little …

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