Jessica Torres is highlighting Black artists in her art room at Pakanasink to mark Black History Month. She has a display of influential artists’ portraits and their art. Each week, Ms. Torres is highlighting a new artist with a video and technique. This week she showed second-grade students the art of Alma Thomas. They …
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Equality – what does it mean to fifth graders? Caroline Prydal, a fifth-grade teacher at Pakanasink, got her students talking about it after they watched the video of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. giving his 1963 “I Have A Dream” speech. The students listened intently to the speech. Their ideas of equality included …
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 …
Not only are breakfast and lunch free to all students at all schools here in Pine Bush, there are some new offerings available as well as grab and go breakfast carts coming to all elementary and middle schools! That’s right, students in our elementary and middle schools won’t have to go to the cafeteria for …
STEM coaches Alyson Callahan and Leilani Howard worked with PAK fifth-graders for a fun and informative science lab investigation – Cloud in a Bottle. The focus is for students to be able to describe how water cycle processes and weather variables affect cloud formation. Students worked in pairs to compress and release pressure from …
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Dr. Bill Bassett and members of the Wallkill East Rotary Club brought smiles to the faces of many Pine Bush third-graders recently as they distributed dictionaries to each one of them. Dr. Bassett handed out dictionaries to all third-grade student at all four of our elementary schools: EJ Russell, Pakanasink, Circleville and Pine Bush …
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All students in the Pine Bush Central School District will be eligible for both breakfast and lunch meals at no cost to families starting Wednesday, Nov. 1. Assistant Superintendent for Business Joseph Lenz announced the news at the board meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 24. “All students in the district will be eligible for no-cost meals …
This week our elementary schools are marking Start With Hello, a week-long initiative from Sandy Hook Promise to create new connections and a sense of belonging among kids in three easy steps. At Pakanasink, students and staff have different events each day and wear a specific color each day. On Monday, the color …
The Pine Bush Central School District is offering parents/guardians the opportunity to purchase insurance for their child’s Chromebook for the 2023-2024 school year. The portal will be open for parents to purchase insurance for the month of September. Parents have the option of purchasing insurance with or without coverage for the charger. If parents have more …
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FAME (Families Assisting Music Education) held its annual awards ceremony and senior recital back in May. This was the first time in three years FAME was able to hold the entire event in person. The students in grades 4 through 12 were honored for participating in all-county festivals, area all-state festivals, NYSBDA …
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