The Pine Bush girls varsity basketball team has had quite the season so far. With one game left today, Thursday, Feb. 22, Michelle Bouffard’s team is 15-1 and eyeing sections just around the corner. Their motto this year is “Us-We-Together-Family.” And that is exactly how they’ve played. “We have really built a culture …
Stacey Venzel’s fourth graders at PBE enjoyed some cozy fireplace reading for World Read Aloud Day! World Read Aloud Day is celebrated on the first Wednesday in February. This year it was Feb. 7. LitWorld founded World Read Aloud Day in 2010 to celebrate the power of reading aloud to create community and amplify …
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There is so much science in baking. Leeann Noonan’s students recently made chocolate chip scones and while the finished product was absolutely delicious, they learned so much in the process. Scones should be flaky! Ms. Noonan explained that the secret to flakiness in baked goods is that the butter must be very cold from …
Pine Bush Elementary School partnered with Bethel Woods Center for the Arts for an eight-week program bringing mindful art to three of its classes – Kindergarten ICT, CASTLE grades 3-5 and CASTLE grades K-2. The Mindful Art program introduced students in these classes to the world of expressive art making while teaching mindfulness skills …
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It takes practice, but students in Julie Facciolla’s STEAM class at Circleville Middle School were able to move their elements, change color of objects, rotate them and ultimately create their own customized bookmarks using Tinkercad, an app for 3D design, electronics and coding. Ms. Facciolla demonstrated for her students how to manipulate their …
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Moira Roberts and Laura Bronson’s third-graders celebrated their writing and drawing with an author’s day! The students’ writing was about small moments in their lives – they wrote about cookies, a crazy afternoon, a trip to the hospital, getting stitches, a fun Thursday, and much more! The students shared their stories with their classmates …
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Tri-County Prevention Coalition, one of our most trusted partners here in the Pine Bush Central School District, was on-hand at Pine Bush High School last week garnering the support of students for their current project. Along with POW’R (Putnam, Orange, Westchester, Rockland) Against Tobacco, Tri-County Prevention Coalition is working to get local municipalities …
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Each month, Circleville Elementary School students in four classrooms have some special visitors: Mocha and Jack, certified therapy dogs, along with their humans, Samantha and Wendy. In February, Mocha and Jack visited Jamie Bennett and Beverlyann Feuerstack’s first grade classrooms as well as Lisa Quick and Kaylin Bourke’s in fourth grade. The students in …
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PBE celebrates the 100th day of school in style! Students in grades kindergarten through 2 participate in so many activities all centered around the number 100. One of the activities for students in kindergarten was bowling, knocking down 10 pins at a time and counting them each time a student bowled, with the goal of …
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Voters in the Pine Bush Central School District will have new polling sites for the upcoming budget vote and board of education election in May. The board of education approved combining voting districts 1 and 2 together into district 1, and districts 3 and 4 together into district 2. Residents of the towns …
