Students at Pakanasink Elementary School had an amazing new event happen last week. On Thursday, Oct. 31, their first ever Pumpkin Run took place! It was a beautiful warm day for it, too. Students from grades 3, 4 and 5 were invited to participate in the four-lap race around the soccer field. Students were advised …

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Building bridges! Second-graders in Suzanne Parker’s class at Pakanasink had a great learning opportunity recently. It was a fall STEM activity with math/science coach Maria Gabrell. The challenge: work within a group to design and build a bridge that holds as many “spiders” as possible.     Each group chose its own supplies and used …

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The students in Sarah St. Lawrence’s first-grade class at Pakanasink had a fall fun day recently! They learned about fall and pumpkins. With the help of ENL teacher Debora Hansen, they used all five senses to describe pumpkins and even brought some ELA into it by coming up with adjectives about pumpkins that they’ll use …

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Pakanasink Elementary students had a visit from the Circleville and  Silver Lake Fire Districts during National Fire Prevention Week, which was celebrated Oct. 7-11.   Students in each grade had a demonstration by the fire fighters, showing them the equipment on each fire truck and what it is used for, as well as getting instruction …

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PAK is celebrating reading with the Scholastic Book Fair! Classes have the opportunity to come to the fair, check out the large array of books and buy them for their very own library. They can choose from biographies, fiction, non-fiction, graphic novels, pens and pencils, diaries and much more.     Children love to choose …

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