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 …
Pakanasink Elementary School Library Media Specialist Aubrey Zamonsky challenged her students in grades pre-k through five to participate in the winter reading challenge over the winter break. The challenge was to read for 20 minutes daily and participate in at least 10 of the reading tasks provided. Students could choose from more than 30 different …
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PAK teachers recently hosted a winter wonderland where students had some fun indoor wintry activities while doing math, spelling, matching and much more! They matched math facts with paper snow shoes on and hopped on letters and had to come up with words that start or end with those letters – like qu, ck, ch, …
Third grade students in Emily Byrne’s class at Pakanasink recently did a project emphasizing the positivity project theme of teamwork. Each team was tasked with stacking their cups in a pyramid form. There was a catch – they could only use string and a rubber band. Their hands were not allowed to touch the cups. …
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