History is fascinating! Not only did kids back in the 1760s not have iPads and Google, houses were a bit different than the ones we have as well – think plumbing and electricity. PBE’s third grade classes visited Huguenot Street in New Paltz recently, to visit and get an idea of what life was …
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Pine Bush Elementary School celebrated Diversity Rocks week with many activities for all to learn about different cultures and traditions, people with different abilities, as well as the origins of American music. The week started with all students and staff encouraged to wear as many colors and patterns as they could to show just …
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This past weekend all four elementary schools and our two middle schools had students perform in the OCMEA Elementary All-County Music Festival at Twin Towers Middle School. Pine Bush had 29 students participate in the festival in band and chorus. An extra special honor was having three students from our district selected to do solos …
Fourth-grade students in Stacey Venzel’s class at Pine Bush Elementary rounded out their celebration of Earth Week with some awesome work. The class picked up litter around the school and weeded the courtyard at PBE as part of their unit on understanding processes that shape the earth. This tied in with their Positivity Project this …
Staff and students at Pine Bush Elementary dressed as their favorite storybook characters in honor of Drop Everything And Read (DEAR) day on Wednesday, April 12. DEAR day falls each year on legendary author, Beverly Cleary’s birthday. Cleary would have been 106 this year but passed away in 2021. Organized by …
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Brenda Stack’s first grade class at Pine Bush Elementary had a great learning experience recently, programming Cubetto, a wooden robot that helps children learn the basics of computer programming. The students were right on target, programming Cubetto to turn left, go straight, make a right, bringing it to the place they had intended! …
Let’s get Virtually Speaking! Superintendent Brian Dunn starts his next round of online presentations with parents and guardians on Monday, March 27, kicking off with Circleville Elementary School families. Families signed up with School Messenger will receive the link to the presentation the day before their scheduled date (see below). Please look for it in …
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 …
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There is always excitement at the beginning of March here in Pine Bush. Why? It’s Read Across America Day and Week! March 2 is a day to celebrate – it is Theodor Seuss Geisel’s birthday (aka Dr. Seuss), who wrote more than 60 children’s books, including many classics. The tradition at Pine Bush …
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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. …
