Our EJR students spent the month of February learning all about keeping their hearts healthy by exercising and eating right. It was all part of the Kids Heart Challenge, an event sponsored each February by the American Heart Association. Students learn about their heart health and raise money for the organization. In addition to going …
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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 and …
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The Pine Bush Central School District has much to celebrate as the two schools within the district that were identified for improvement have officially been removed from the state’s list. Both Crispell Middle School and Edward J. Russell Elementary School had been cited by New York State as schools in need of improvement. This week, …
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EJR families – have a look at what’s happening during the month of February! It’s a busy one for sure!
Author and psychotherapist Tom Kersting will be speaking here in Pine Bush to students, parents and staff about technology and how it is impacting teaching, learning and our kids’ mental health. It is an important message all should consider. Kersting, who is based in New Jersey and lectures throughout the country on raising kids and …
Third graders at EJR had an amazing experience learning about the water cycle and weather. In addition to their regular lessons, they had five weekly lessons from conservation educators Ashley Hickey and Sarah Archbald to support their classroom learning. During week one, Ms. Hickey and Ms. Archbald had them look at the important ecological processes …
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Happy New Year EJR families! Have a look at all that’s happening in this first month of the 2024 year!
STEM coaches Alyson Callahan and Leilani Howard worked with students at all four of our elementary schools on the cloud in a bottle experiment, ultimately giving them a better understanding of air pressure, temperature, clouds and their effects on each other. The students worked in pairs, all with their safety goggles intact. They each had …
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Fourth-graders in Patricia Van Leuven’s class at EJR run an amazing project during the month of December. It’s called Meters of Mittens – and it benefits everyone involved! The students put the word out via a flyer that is distributed to all students and staff that they are collecting mittens, gloves, hats and scarves for …
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EJR physical education teacher Chris Curnan recently had an eager group of second graders discussing bones and muscles and basketball! He and fellow EJR physical education teacher Barbara Hostetter have a bone and muscle of the month that the students learn about. The kids learn where in the body the bone and muscle are located …
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