Pakanasink Elementary School celebrated No Name-Calling Week from Jan. 18-21 as part of its No Place for Hate program. The theme for the week was diversity and unity. Librarian Aubrey Zamonsky selected books for the different grades focusing on what makes us the same and what makes us different. (See the links at the bottom …

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The PAK team makes learning fun! The week before winter break, they created some winter and holiday-themed activities to improve and reinforce students’ math, literacy, matching, prediction and motor skills. Not to mention it’s lots of fun for the students to ice fish and skate to get to their next activity! The students used tweezers …

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Enjoy this recorded version of the PAK Winter Concert 2021. Happy holidays to all!

Tara Baccello’s kindergarten class celebrated the completion of learning all 26 letters of the alphabet! A to Z – how to write them, the sounds they make and examples of words that begin with them. Students decorated vests with the letters, drew pictures of things that begin with their respective letter, and hosted a little …

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Nov. 16 is SRP Recognition Day! The district honored all our school-related professionals, which includes behavioral aides, school monitors, teacher aides and teaching assistants, with a small token of appreciation – some sweets! Executive Director of Human Resources Angela Wise-Landman visited each school in the district handing out the bags of sweets that included the …

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Halloween was fun and educational at Pakanasink! Teachers created an obstacle course where students had to do math problems, solve Halloween-themed riddles, choose correct punctuation and create a story all before taking part in the individual parts of the course. Students got to play hopscotch, cornhole, heel/toe stepping and put together a puzzle when they …

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The Wallkill East Rotary Club continued its tradition of helping our students on their road to greater literacy by presenting all third-grade students with dictionaries of their very own. It’s a tradition that goes back to the spring of 2008. Dr. William Bassett, a member of the Rotary and a former superintendent of Pine Bush …

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Pakanasink held its Start With Hello week Sept. 27-Oct. 1 with many different activities to help get kids to look out for each other and welcome others. There were posters throughout the building where students wrote their suggestions to scenarios such as “What would you do if you saw someone playing alone?” or “How can …

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There are new procedures for parents who drop off their students at Pakanasink. Please review them below. They are also posted on the Pakanasink Elementary Schedule page under PAK School Links. Kiss and Go Procedures 2021-2022 Parents enter Kiss and Go from Renton Road only. Parents must pull all the way up to the cone …

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